I started the day off with drawing, as I am wont to do, but this time, before I drew for real, I warmed up with some shapes, which is something that I haven't done too many times, which is to my detriment, though I've made do with the diving right in, these past two days where I've done some warming up have been good for the drawings.
Though I only did one warmup while I think I'm going to do warmups moire regularly, maybe even before each time, even when I'm out at one of the pubs.
If they're still going to be open that is. It's an open question again about whether they'll be closed again thanks to the Virus COVID.
And out of the first warmup of the day came what could be a cool character that under the pen of an actually talented artist could look really cool.
He already looks pretty cool and it was brought to life by me.
My talent, such as it is, is limited, I know this, but I have improved.
Yes, I will revisit these realities repeatedly, though less so the more that I write stories and not just the story of my blessed poet who is blessed because...
Have you been to Mavranyr and read the second poem where I reveal the fullness of his blessing which I think I realized as I was writing it. Or certainly not that long before, the previous day at best.
I've had many ideas before of course, as I've been writing for over twenty years since I realized this was what I wanted to do was write for a living.
I'm still trying.
The point is, fingers crossed, that Mavranyr has legs and will eventually include some prose and continue to be about the writer himself and the stories that he finds the time to write.
Yes, this is part of the realization that poetry is hardly anyone's cup of tea and that this story can surely benefit from some prose.
Oh blank on blank.
I'm listening to the lyrics that Gene Roddenberry wrote to the Star Trek theme song.
You didn't know that?
Yeah, he pulled a low down dirty move to take half the money from the composer.
And the lyrics were....
Yes, Gene Roddenberry was the driving force behind Star Trek and we wouldn't have had it without him but he didn't breathe the entirety of its life into it all by himself.
And that theme was a part of it and he straight up did a bad thing that made him money he didn't deserve.
Bad form Gene.
Yeah, we're all flawed as humans but there are doorknob moves that we can avoid doing and that was one of them.
Yes, I'm a fan of Star Trek, but that doesn't mean I can't call out the creator for his bad behaviour.
It doesn't seem right not to have no poetry for all the days until I catch up with Mavranyr.
But I don't feel like writing poetry as myself. Though doing that would involve another story.
Do I need another story?
Do you even want another one?
When will there even be a you?
There, that's better isn't it? No poetry in the first two quarters for a month or more? Not now.
And now I can do something else.