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This is so bizzare...
Nov. 10th, 2009 08:29 pmSo, my dad calls me.
The first words out of his mouth are, "I love the blue-eyed raven."
I'm like, "... Buh?"
He goes on about the blue-eyed raven, and I'm like, 'That sounds a lot like a certain story I've been writing on the side, but how in the hell did he-?'
Then he explains that he found it on "the Z thing."
Then my Dad-to-English babelfish kicks in and I realize he's talking about this blue-eyed raven on DeviantArt.
I am not one to self-promote, really, so when I say that I'm shocked that he even found this, know this to be an understatement. My dad likes to keep tabs on my DA account, so sometimes I'll let him know if I've posted something new.
According to him, though, it came as a complete surprise that I had done something like this. He hadn't even thought it was me, until he read my bitchy artist's comments.
He was extremely excited about the story, comparing it to Harry Potter in terms of the structure, telling me that he was very interested in reading it.
I am taken aback. What I think happened is that he had no idea that I've been writing stories for years. In fact, most people don't know that I write. I'm extremely self-conscious about it, and I don't let people read a whole lot of what I write just because I don't think it's all that awesome. My forte for a long time has been drawing (and even that is mediocre).
So I think the combination of my most thought-out story concept to date and a minor revolution in my drawing style really wowed my father, given how he had no concept of everything up to this point.
He gave me good advice, too. He advised me to draw before I write. If I'm struggling with a character's personality, I should draw the scene, the action sequences, the background, whatever. He says I'm an artist first.
This is probably very true. I don't enjoy writing exercises, as they strike me as just efforts to economize vocabulary. I write all of the time, and most of it is garbage. But the good stuff comes from what I can visualize.
I'm still a little in shock, how excited he was about this. I've already decided to put some more effort into my art. Guess I'll have to finish writing the damn thing, too!
The first words out of his mouth are, "I love the blue-eyed raven."
I'm like, "... Buh?"
He goes on about the blue-eyed raven, and I'm like, 'That sounds a lot like a certain story I've been writing on the side, but how in the hell did he-?'
Then he explains that he found it on "the Z thing."
Then my Dad-to-English babelfish kicks in and I realize he's talking about this blue-eyed raven on DeviantArt.
I am not one to self-promote, really, so when I say that I'm shocked that he even found this, know this to be an understatement. My dad likes to keep tabs on my DA account, so sometimes I'll let him know if I've posted something new.
According to him, though, it came as a complete surprise that I had done something like this. He hadn't even thought it was me, until he read my bitchy artist's comments.
He was extremely excited about the story, comparing it to Harry Potter in terms of the structure, telling me that he was very interested in reading it.
I am taken aback. What I think happened is that he had no idea that I've been writing stories for years. In fact, most people don't know that I write. I'm extremely self-conscious about it, and I don't let people read a whole lot of what I write just because I don't think it's all that awesome. My forte for a long time has been drawing (and even that is mediocre).
So I think the combination of my most thought-out story concept to date and a minor revolution in my drawing style really wowed my father, given how he had no concept of everything up to this point.
He gave me good advice, too. He advised me to draw before I write. If I'm struggling with a character's personality, I should draw the scene, the action sequences, the background, whatever. He says I'm an artist first.
This is probably very true. I don't enjoy writing exercises, as they strike me as just efforts to economize vocabulary. I write all of the time, and most of it is garbage. But the good stuff comes from what I can visualize.
I'm still a little in shock, how excited he was about this. I've already decided to put some more effort into my art. Guess I'll have to finish writing the damn thing, too!
