2) creation, 3) community

(today) Split ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... on-line version back into the two books I originally intended.  Added back in link to book 2 on website and did slight revision on www.timcoalman.com.

4) housekeeping

(today) Cleaning and organizing garage to create space for piano that has been precariously balanced atop a horizontal furniture dolly. Placed and playing, especially vivid moment with my oldest son, playing off of each other in note progressions and rhythmic patterns.

2) creation

(last few days) Illustration work on fowl in pond, an unfamiliar piece attempted now because of student request. Using the opportunity to experiment with brush pens I have not had much success with, but here the strokes re-present the feathering nicely. Decision to sell Zoom H4 and buy Q3HD for better video work and similar audio quality. Also, will split ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... back into two smaller books.

2) creation

(today) Finished slight revision of The Rear and created PDF copy for website. Revised website www.timcoalman.com so both ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and The Rear have links to full digital copies of each book, downloadable.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

(last few days) Editing of The Rear to create PDF and post on main website, short story idea written, tracking frustrating workplace encounters, and illustration work for students. Some file management to section off and add to stray story bits and comic strips. Notebook entry on all the recent progress being made.

2) creation, 3) community, 4) housekeeping

(today) Backing up all material from laptop, finished superhero illustration for student in class, made decision to combine book 1 and book 2 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage..., and working hours to finalize revision and create finished PDF file of chapters 1-10. Great quote from oldest son in notebook. Revised website and included new link to download ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... as a complete book, PDF, 412 pages. Planning to duplicate availability and process for The Rear.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

(today) Hours of reviewing and editing ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... book 1 and book 2 to be posted on-line. Illustrative work for kids.

1) identification, 2) creation, 4) housekeeping

(today) Extensive condensing, organizing, and streamlining of digital files. Reading Neonomicon, by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows while also dipping into fax exchanges between Dave Sim and Chester Brown. The combination of reading the graphic novel in one pleasurable and stimulating sitting while intermittently trudging the morass of Sim's bigotry and vapid religious/narcissistic worming pushed me to post my ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... books 1 and 2 in their entirety. Hours of editing and finalizing the first two books for posting and researching the best way to do so. Daily Message to Mom: "I learned the value of telling stories from you, and the highly valuable wisdom that perceived reality is highly subjective, in my writing I am trying to be a reporter for the sensory dazzle, ... all ... these ... pieces ... are ... accurate ... and ... true ...."

2) creation

(last few days) Tracked dream and daily illustration work in classroom. Daily Message to Mom: "The cover to ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... is iconic for me as it shows our life in the townhouse and the quality of our time: vinyl collection in the background, the plastic red chair from the set with table where I played with action figures, pie pans with milk, brown shoes and bowl cut, sensitive little boy enamored with puppies, and newspapers everywhere to protect the carpet."

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

(last few days) Finished editing chapter 12 of The Great Falling Away. One chapter remaining to complete, began writing in 12/1998, some dry stretches of not working on it reaching years. Printed the first 12 chapters and hand delivered to parents. Slight file management and organization. Daily Message to Mom - realizing mom is reading these frequently, if not daily, thought to write her a message each day. "I appreciate the random nature of my childhood adventures, loaded into vehicles and out on the road, stopping at caves, odd businesses, and corners of dead end places - talking, talking, and stories of who we were and who we are. Me in the back seat, listening. When reading these books, these are our stories."

2) creation

(today) Significant progress on The Great Falling Away, completing chapter 12, sorting pieces to be used in chapter 13 and those to be abandoned. Ill and off due to snow days, reading five or six hours, eyes aching.

2) creation

(today) Prismacolor pencils arrive, 132 pencil set, lush colors - will be used when doing daily illustrations for kids to become comfortable with them for other illustrative work. Editing on chapter 10 and 11 of The Great Falling Away and finishing on both. Debating whether to follow plotting I have in place for chapter 12 and 13 or return to original plans of only 12 chapters, losing some sections I want and have written. Illustration for student in class, hesitant and uneasy about superhero pose, but after starting, quickly a decent sketching. A new CD by Low, "Trust," arrives and listening now. Some outlining notes on teacher book.

2) creation

(today) Kid quote, of minor value in notebook. Yesterday napping, tracking ideas and again today idea for transition in fence posts based on conversation with mom. Tracking reporting on our conversation.

2) creation

(today) Purchased set of 132 Prismacolor pencils, reading through notebook for transitional pieces for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage..., tracking environmental sounds in home. Some editing and writing on teacher book.

1) identification, 2) creation

(over the last week) Wrote dialogue from the boys, notes for teacher book, and enjoying "Atop the Fourth Wall" with Lewis Lovhaug. Researching Prismacolor pencils to buy with funds from students. Archived internet bookmarks. Included below as a reference of sites I spend most of the two or three hours I read daily. Not included - all published books and periodicals, bookmarks on phone, links that too directly point at my public/work persona, and random links or pages visited that I have not thought to bookmark. Some of these I read daily and comment as a member, others are not visited for months at a time.

ashens.com
comixpress.com
eddiecampbell.blogspot.com
fanedit.org
firstsounds.org
foundmagazine.com
gapingvoid.com
blog.archive.org
archive.org
jocolibrary.org
lovetheliberry.blogspot.com
birbigs.com
moviefone.com
archive.org/details/PanelBordersEddieCampbell-TheLifeAndManyDeathsOfTheArtist
redlettermedia.com
patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist
socialsounddesign.com
soundworkscollection.com
srbissette.com
messageboard.tapeop.com
tcj.com
thewombforums.com
tvtropes.org
wikiversity.org
wired.com
wordplayer.com
younggodrecords.com
pandora.com
editorsguild.com
cinemaaudiosociety.org
hownottowriteanovel.com

2) creation

• (today) selecting piece from notebook for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and illustrative work for kids.

2) creation

• (last few days) hours of illustration work for kids, a few notebook pieces, and momentum reestablished on ...fence posts rotting in the acreage...

2) creation

• (today) transcribing lines from the boys into notebook, uploading and sorting photos, some illustration inking.  moved three or four hundred pound piano across cul-de-sac from neighbor, given to us for cost of moving it out of their home for new sectional couch.

1) Identification, 2) creation

• (last few days) a few good quotes captured from the boys and current obsessions detailed in notebook.  clear visions of where ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... but little motivation to make the effort.  reading approximately three hours daily.  to movies two or three nights a week.  the falling into sleep a vivid phantasmagoria.  playing with the boys, especially scorpions.  Two weeks of organizing classroom.  

1) Identification, 2) creation

• (last few days) uploaded zoom to studio computer, sounds files going back at least a year - evidence that engineering efforts are in cold storage while writing.  pleased to find that cd release show for yuck ratz tracked well, no clipping and adequate headroom.  they played the cd and then two new songs to end the set; the zoom ran out of memory after the first new song, reminding me to keep it empty of nearly so instead of allowing files to be on there for so long.
• slight work on the great falling away
• plotting changes in website to post all of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage..., enamored enough with A Moment of Cerebus daily posts to imagine emulating, but thinking better to have chapters posted, or books entirely right up to current efforts, chapter 13.
• quotes from recent reading copied into notebook -  This is Not the End of the Book; Two Great Men Discuss Our Digital Future