I lose my paid account in two days, but I'm going to go on like normal even though I probably won't have my poor icons anymore and ads will be invading my page. lol I'm pretty sure that I can keep the layout because css codes are for plus accounts too. I saved up almost six dollars on my paypal account, so I was almost half-way there, but I'll just have to wait for a time when I've got money (this summer?) and then I can really appreciate my paid account again? XD
Anyway, it's really really weird having the freedom again to do what I please creatively. It's not that Crystal Palace was making me feel like an art slave! It's more like by the last couple illustrations, I was worn out, even though I did them all in the span of 2 months, give or take. It's really hard keeping the poster a secret, but there's no site, and that's all I've got to hold on to, to get people to visit it.
Kate's going to be coming home from a trip soon. I know this because I emailed her and asked if she'd like to do some writing with me, for anything she likes. She doesn't usually have ideas, but I do. XD I proposed we could do an AIW one-shot with the plot-bunny I had about the hot-tub, or Crystal Palace 4, part one. And honestly? I couldn't give a shit which she picks. I would be proud to produce a one-shot, and I'd be proud to start CP4. We have the first part of that completely down in our heads, so there's no doubt it'd be fantastic, and I so miss her humor... I had hoped, actually, that in the afterglow of that, she would be up for editing CP3 here and there with me, maybe together at her house or mine so we could read it aloud and act it out. I've always just completely loved acting out this family. My mom says it's interesting seeing me transform into other people, especially Akira, who has enough dramatic facial drops, mouth stretching, and hand swishing to make his impersonation very obvious. But yeah, if we could do this, it would make CP3 feel so much more complete. I could do the site later this year knowing that all the material was what it was supposed to be and we were sharing our polished treasure.
Still, there has been no luck at all with the Crystal Palace Facebook page, though. I got a couple new members from DA the other day after I whored on my account journal, but mostly I've just got charitable friends being nice and liking the page even though half don't know wtf CP really is, let alone that it's so inappropriate. XD Even still, the FB page idea seems appealing to me...
I had thought of making one for He's There when I start updating regularly, because I know it would garner fans who I didn't know who could spread it about. But then I thought... is that really something I want to do? Keep attempting to make it popular when it's not even published yet? I have a lot more fears for HT than CP about it being plagiarized. In fact, I've known from the get-go that aspiring authors don't do such stupid things as posting every full chapter of their project online in more than one place. I've been going by the naive logic that it's not good enough to be stolen, and I need too much validation from others. Really, I can't imagine having and realizing my visions into art or websites and not posting them, as I'm a naturally sharing person.
Besides, it might end up being a big tease if I made a FB page. I have kind of been thinking on this for a while, and... the plan might be that I don't post the last 5+ chapters at all, except here, under a friends cut. And, of course, I'll send them to my beta, and show them to close friends like Kate, or teachers at UO, provided it's relevant. I don't want to fuck it up and have ALL of my hard work available to who even knows, you know? Actually, this summer, I'll probably want to work on printing all the chapters out, even though they're unedited, and sending them to myself in the mail as a home-made copyright.
It's kind of weird thinking that I need to protect something long and (in my eyes) important just in case someone thinks it's "so promising" they should steal it and try to finish and publish it themselves. But it's people who succumb to the weird thought and don't protect their stuff who probably end up fucked. Normal people every day protect their work. I have to remember that it's normal and not arrogant!
Well, that's pretty much that. Any day now I will be working on the HT plot and figuring out how to save chapter 43. It's funny to think a year ago, I was working on ch36 (*cries at almost zero progress*), in my car, hot, at the dock parking lot, trying to escape my shitty house situation. I'm glad that isn't now. I'm going to have to be imagining a lot of stress in my story from here on, and it's good to know I can do it and come back to a peaceful world.
P.S. Icon luv. ♥ Giry attention; I just had to.
Anyway, it's really really weird having the freedom again to do what I please creatively. It's not that Crystal Palace was making me feel like an art slave! It's more like by the last couple illustrations, I was worn out, even though I did them all in the span of 2 months, give or take. It's really hard keeping the poster a secret, but there's no site, and that's all I've got to hold on to, to get people to visit it.
Kate's going to be coming home from a trip soon. I know this because I emailed her and asked if she'd like to do some writing with me, for anything she likes. She doesn't usually have ideas, but I do. XD I proposed we could do an AIW one-shot with the plot-bunny I had about the hot-tub, or Crystal Palace 4, part one. And honestly? I couldn't give a shit which she picks. I would be proud to produce a one-shot, and I'd be proud to start CP4. We have the first part of that completely down in our heads, so there's no doubt it'd be fantastic, and I so miss her humor... I had hoped, actually, that in the afterglow of that, she would be up for editing CP3 here and there with me, maybe together at her house or mine so we could read it aloud and act it out. I've always just completely loved acting out this family. My mom says it's interesting seeing me transform into other people, especially Akira, who has enough dramatic facial drops, mouth stretching, and hand swishing to make his impersonation very obvious. But yeah, if we could do this, it would make CP3 feel so much more complete. I could do the site later this year knowing that all the material was what it was supposed to be and we were sharing our polished treasure.
Still, there has been no luck at all with the Crystal Palace Facebook page, though. I got a couple new members from DA the other day after I whored on my account journal, but mostly I've just got charitable friends being nice and liking the page even though half don't know wtf CP really is, let alone that it's so inappropriate. XD Even still, the FB page idea seems appealing to me...
I had thought of making one for He's There when I start updating regularly, because I know it would garner fans who I didn't know who could spread it about. But then I thought... is that really something I want to do? Keep attempting to make it popular when it's not even published yet? I have a lot more fears for HT than CP about it being plagiarized. In fact, I've known from the get-go that aspiring authors don't do such stupid things as posting every full chapter of their project online in more than one place. I've been going by the naive logic that it's not good enough to be stolen, and I need too much validation from others. Really, I can't imagine having and realizing my visions into art or websites and not posting them, as I'm a naturally sharing person.
Besides, it might end up being a big tease if I made a FB page. I have kind of been thinking on this for a while, and... the plan might be that I don't post the last 5+ chapters at all, except here, under a friends cut. And, of course, I'll send them to my beta, and show them to close friends like Kate, or teachers at UO, provided it's relevant. I don't want to fuck it up and have ALL of my hard work available to who even knows, you know? Actually, this summer, I'll probably want to work on printing all the chapters out, even though they're unedited, and sending them to myself in the mail as a home-made copyright.
It's kind of weird thinking that I need to protect something long and (in my eyes) important just in case someone thinks it's "so promising" they should steal it and try to finish and publish it themselves. But it's people who succumb to the weird thought and don't protect their stuff who probably end up fucked. Normal people every day protect their work. I have to remember that it's normal and not arrogant!
Well, that's pretty much that. Any day now I will be working on the HT plot and figuring out how to save chapter 43. It's funny to think a year ago, I was working on ch36 (*cries at almost zero progress*), in my car, hot, at the dock parking lot, trying to escape my shitty house situation. I'm glad that isn't now. I'm going to have to be imagining a lot of stress in my story from here on, and it's good to know I can do it and come back to a peaceful world.
P.S. Icon luv. ♥ Giry attention; I just had to.
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