07-26-2023, 01:53 PM
I've been working on my next storied-painting series for about a week now.
Lesson learned from this last one - no more teaser posts until AFTER the story
has been written and is DONE!
Having to conceptualize a painting, lay down the texture work, let it dry for 48 - 72 hours,
THEN paint it - all doable in a one-painting-per-week framework. But having to flesh out
and finalize the story AS WELL?? Made things a little more difficult than I thought it would
be so I won't be doing it that way again.
I've got all five plywood panels water sealed with two coats each side and two coats
of black paint on the backsides so they're ready for primer and texture - very glad that
part is done. As far as the writing part goes - I've got the story nearly mapped out to the finish,
I just need to figure out how the ending ends.
Of the five mini-stories, I've got the first four titles in place with a one or two-liner description
of each story segment and one of them is several paragraphs longs. All in, as a PDF I've got
2 1/3 pages of info, ideas and potential action scenes/dialogue. I just need to start piecing it
together with story. I'm hoping I can be a bit more thrifty with my word count this time, since
they are after all: micro-stories.
I do want to expand on this one, write in out in full short-story format. That'll be later
on though.
Lesson learned from this last one - no more teaser posts until AFTER the story
has been written and is DONE!
Having to conceptualize a painting, lay down the texture work, let it dry for 48 - 72 hours,
THEN paint it - all doable in a one-painting-per-week framework. But having to flesh out
and finalize the story AS WELL?? Made things a little more difficult than I thought it would
be so I won't be doing it that way again.
I've got all five plywood panels water sealed with two coats each side and two coats
of black paint on the backsides so they're ready for primer and texture - very glad that
part is done. As far as the writing part goes - I've got the story nearly mapped out to the finish,
I just need to figure out how the ending ends.
Of the five mini-stories, I've got the first four titles in place with a one or two-liner description
of each story segment and one of them is several paragraphs longs. All in, as a PDF I've got
2 1/3 pages of info, ideas and potential action scenes/dialogue. I just need to start piecing it
together with story. I'm hoping I can be a bit more thrifty with my word count this time, since
they are after all: micro-stories.
I do want to expand on this one, write in out in full short-story format. That'll be later
on though.
