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Book is finished. Still needs cover, but since that cover still needs feedback, I can dedicate my time to fanart once again. I have three pages of comic to do, plus one scene that I already have mapped out in my head, and then there's still that one scene from Night Ops I want to illustrate... I've done two sketches, but it's not quite right... it's missing something. I think that one needs a large format and a totally different medium. Like pastel chalk. On the small format I can't get the expressiveness I want. I'm not an expressive kind of artist anyway; I'm a storyteller. I find it surprisingly hard to transfer my own emotions onto the paper. Usually I compartmentalize to a large degree when I illustrate a story... get in the characters' heads, not my own.

Pastel chalk on wrapping paper, that might work... hm.

I made accounts at twitter and delicious. (I'm astrid_v at both; bloody name squatters.) I don't think I'll use twitter much for posting, more to follow a few people. But the delicious thing is really handy; I was losing track of my own browser bookmarks and with added descriptions it's a lot clearer. I've started to use it for private bookmarks, too.

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I am a real convert to delicious. I didn't see the point of it at first, but these days I find it an invaluable way of keeping track of fic. (Atlhough I can't quite get myself organised enough to tag things as comprehensively as some people do.)

I resisted for the longest time because the thought of transferring all my fic recs was so daunting. (I have literally hundreds by now). But I compromised by just linking to my master lists.

Mostly I'm using it for meta so far and it's proving extreme useful! Not only the tagging and descriptions which are so very handy; it's also interesting to see who else has tagged the posts I tag, and follow their lists. It's like deviantart: you can lose yourself just browsing other people's favorites.