This was an idea of a co-worker. One afternoon he mentioned he'd really like to see a bumper sticker of "Palpatine / Vader...for a darker future." I only threw together the image. A print resolution image is attached below.

It seems a wikipedia meme is going through LiveJournal. While I could use the online encyclopedia, I took an idea from someone on my friends-list and chose a different Wiki. In this case, The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Wikia:

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Band: The Legend of the Dinosaurs
Album: The Projected Man

Being a slow, doomy metal band, we only have 5 songs on Projected Man:

1. Girl's Town
2. 1954 (Much better than 1974...)
3. Rae Dawn Chong (You should see the fans when we play this!)
4. Warrior of the Lost World

   And the finale...

5. Rocket Number 9

Thank you, good night, we love you all. *waves*

Here stand the rules of Write Club:

1. Don't think, write.
2. DON'T THINK, WRITE!
3. Write now, not tomorrow, not after breakfast, now.
4. If you can't write, read.
5. If you can write, read, then write.
6. Write "with the door closed".
7. When writing something for the first time, don't look back, don't edit in place.
8. Edit when you're done writing. That's what a second draft is for.
9. Always ask what your characters would do, not what you want.
10. Story is king. Always listen to the king.

This evening I experienced a margin of success writing Paper Girl. After a terse entry in my paper journal, I realized that I was over-thinking my writing. I couldn't get started because I was always worrying if what I was writing was the "right" way to start the story. In the end, I realized it doesn't matter.

I looked over a tenuous beginning I had written some nights ago prior to going to bed. It wasn't terrible, but it could be better. I spent most of my evening expanding and refining the original concept. It feels much more natural now than it did days ago. In the process, I did come up with a few ideas of what to write next.

In On Writing, King described the difficulty had had writing The Stand. He found the beginning the easiest to write as he would focus on a specific character or set of characters each chapter. In later chapters, he'd bring all the characters together. There's much about this idea I find appealing.

My thought is to borrow this mechanic. I'll write a chapter on each character, Novella, Akisa, and then Miki. All three would be moving toward the end of a school year, and the approach of summer vacation. Telling these three separate chapters will allow me to establish some facts about each character and the setting. It will also help to get me to know the characters, and wet my feet in this new process of script writing.

Tonight I have written a portion of Novella's chapter. I have some very good ideas already for Akisa's and Miki's chapters. I'll refrain from thinking further ahead. I'm sure when I get to that point, I'll have more ideas.

...still sound hilarious in my mind: "Come on! This guy's barely a corpse!" Not to mention the hot-button issue about the "breather" problem...

I would have liked to airbrush the DOR picture last night, but by then I was so terribly exhausted I couldn't do more than read. I did manage to finish Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures Vol. 1 as visualized by Brett Booth. A friend on the east-coast sent me it and a box of other tasty books earlier this week. The artwork is incredible, but the narrative seems to have a few what-the-hell? moments. I had to reread a page several times. It could have been the fatigue.

Another book in the package was The Art of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: Watercolor Impressions. What surprised me most about it was how blunt and overworked Hayao Miyazaki sounds in his comments. Considering what Wikipedia says about his directorial style, I shouldn't be surprised.

I do hope to airbrush my latest pieces by the end of the week. It seems a shame to leave them half-finished. Then I would like to get back to writing Paper Girl.

I was beginning to work myself into a depressive funk earlier this evening. I can't draw, I thought. Then something in me refused to accept this. I started up GIMP and started drawing. Two hours later I had this.

I guess I can still draw, huh?