Errant Thoughts, Nov. 15-21, 2020

Design is simply fitting too much copy and client images in too small of a space.

Corollary: copywriters don’t read job specs.

Double Corollary: show me a copywriter that doesn’t need to edit in layout and I’ll show you a master copywriter.

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The person above… *sigh* the great thing about the Internet is that everyone has a platform. The terrible thing about the Internet is that everyone has a platform. There’s no vetting process for opinions. I guess this is the exact same as the village square or the local pub. But at least in those spaces, people have faces.

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I over complicate things. I like dense prose, I like stylish prose, I strive for lush prose but often end up with overly verbose crap. This novel, I’m going to print it out fully after the first pass and read it aloud and find all the sharp bits and hard edges with my tongue.

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SEIS MANOS on Netflix. A grindhouse, kung-fu, Mexican folklore with curanderas and brujas and black magic, Blacksploitation anime series that I watched in a single day. Good stuff.

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DoroHeDoro on Netflix. A bizarre ultra-violent epicurian alternate reality urban-fantasy with sorcerers, a man with a mysterious lizard head and a mighty appetite for Gyoza. Bloody fun and weird.

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Listening to the audiobook of Tower of Fools, by Andrzej Sapkowski, the author who wrote the novels that The Witcher video game series is based off of. So far, it’s like The Decameron meets a picaresque novel, meets Don Quixote meets, well… The Witcher. Apparently it was written in 2002 and is just now being released in English, eighteen years later.

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I’m at the point where I’m wondering if this novel idea I’ve been working on for far too long in pandemic is a mistake.

That’s all for this week.