So on my home machine I used XAMPP to install a local server so I could setup a wordpress blog behind my firewall. I am going to experiment with using the blog as my writing tool for TV GOD. This is an idea that entered my mine from my friend fyshmom. Most of my ideas come in small bits and scenes so using wordpress i can just make a blog entry of these little ideas and organize it with categories. Hopefully all these little bits will form into a nice little necklace of a story. I can also use it as a way of cataloging links to websites for references. We will see how it goes.

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I tend to have a habit of revisiting stories of mine and wanting to retell them. My main creative focus now is rewriting my Experiencing Technical Difficulties comic book, an unfinished tale I started way back in 1990, into a new tale that I am entitling TV GOD. This new title is partly a pun based on TV Guide, but it also is a more appropriate title thematically. Basically the theme being how does one find an authentic spiritual and emotional well being, when our American reality seems to be a fictional work written by the greed and desires of our corporate overlords.

I wasn't intending to do this story, but on my hour plus daily commute to work, while my left brain was asleep, the creative ideas started pouring in. I would arrive at work and hastily scribble notes into a yellow notepad, trying to recall the imaginings of my commute, as if i was journaling dreams from the night before. What started developing was the framework of a new approach to my basic story. One I am very happy with and one I want to drive myself into completing.

Heres a digital painting I did with the goal of trying to capture the mood of the first Book of my story.

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