Summer sucks

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Clearly I've been a bit slack with updates lately. To be fair, the summer holidays have been filled with working to support my filthy habits for the next year (you know; eating, having a roof over my head, being warm, that kind of thing), so I've not had a lot of time spare to gather my creative thoughts. And there was me promising to fill and entire book with new stuff over the months off...

Not that I haven't been inundated with ideas. Working as a barman, people tend to get talking, and once they find out what I'm studying, and ultimately want to do for a 'living', they have a habit of pouring out their unrealised ideas to see what I think, and even if I will write it (a healthy cut of royalties going to them, naturally). Bank jobs, disillusioned police officers and Scotch warrior chiefs a little too similar to William Wallace have all cropped up!

I've also invested some time in new mediums, for both pleasure and research, and come across some nice pieces. In fact, even today I found this interesting little delve into escapism by Magic: the Gathering writer Doug Beyer. Obviously it's Magic-related, but the first bit in particular I really love; the whole opening-your-eyes-for-the-first-time thing, seeing the world as the closed-minded...thing...that it is sometimes.

The most prevalent new medium is graphic novels. Despite being of the nerdy persuasion, comic books was never something I was into, until I read Alan Moore's sublime V for Vendetta, after seeing the film of the same name. This lead onto Frank Miller's 300, again after watching the film, and the companion graphic novel for NBC's Heroes last Christmas. Since then, I've had something of a hankering, but haven't done anything about it until now. Recent weeks have seen a couple of trips to the library, finding such gems as Watchmen and Swamp Thing, both further examples of Alan Moore's work. Good stuff! I can recommend the former enough, especially as the film is out in March next year. I'm hoping for good things.