Slow Days, Fast Days

Slow Working Man

I’ve been trying to do school work. Progress is extremely slow, partly because sometimes I don’t actually know if I’m making any progress. There’s a sickening sense of time slipping away, but not doing so fast enough. The days are long and boring, but they also go by too fast. It’s this apparently contradictory notion that defines most of my holidays.

Edit Edit

I’m almost done with the second draft of The River. It might be complete tomorrow, but I say this with absolutely no sense of certainty. It still doesn’t look like anything great, but at least it’s significantly improved.

Meanwhile, I’m still getting ideas. Very slowly, yes, but they’re coming.

Today…

I think I’ll try to study today. I’m not really going to bother about schoolwork. Grah.

Around The Web

Steve Niles’s City Of Dust looks like it’ll be great. [via Comic Book Resources]

Google’s page for its 10th birthday. [via Google]

And this The Dark Knight spoof is just hilarious. [via YouTube] I would refrain from watching it if you’re intending to watch the film (for the first time or otherwise) though. I just don’t think I can watch it in the same way again.

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Ten Brief Things About The River

I know what I promised, so I’m going to talk very briefly about my current project today.

Actually, I’m not really going to talk about it.

I’m just going to tell you the first ten things about it that I think of.

Here they are:

1. It’s title is The River.
2. It is based in Singapore, yes, which also in some sense tells you that the river in the title is in fact the Singapore River. Here’s how a part of it looks like:



3. Central to the whole arc, there is a love story.
4. It has very few characters.
5. It’s not very realistic; but that’s kind of the point.
6. It is written in first-person.
7. The narrator’s name is Joyce.
8. It is rather experimental in nature, and uses a bunch of techniques that are probably postmodern (although I would say that some of them originate from the modernist era).
9. I’m not sure whether I should call it magical realist in nature. Perhaps mythopoeic is a more appropriate word.
10. I used intertextuality rather extensively.

Hmm, that probably doesn’t tell you very much. It’s a start.

Catch you on Monday.

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