Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Enforced breaks.... well, semi-breaks

I have been talking for quite some time now about the need to take a break.... and actually, the break was forced on me rather sooner than I wanted to.

Truth is, for the last two weeks, I have been doing nothing on The Afflicted, haven't taken much part in the community (no listening to TMOA, no chatroom, next to no watching films)... simply because I have been slapped down by the worst cold I've had in ages. Maybe it wouldn't have come out this bad if I had done the sensible thing and stayed away from work, but it's just typical me to refuse to go see a doctor... and crawl to work no matter what.

Well, I've got what I deserved - I'm still not feeling my usual self, my nose and voice still don't sound good (after two weeks!); though it's getting better slowly now, and I'm starting to pick up where I left off. And of course it was only a semi-break - I'm just not able to stay away from my computer totally, so I redesigned the look of this blog last weekend (using a template by Our blog templates - I really want to learn to do them myself - another thing on my list... ), and... (enough whining now)
... wrote the largest part of the script to the idea the Muse hit me with - after long consideration (I'm lying) I couldn't really make myself believe that to be "work" .... :p

Strange thing about that script - it wrote itself almost by itself so far, which is kind of spooky - because it's so very different from the sripts I wrote before - I had to go the 'Matt Way' with this, because of the story being..... (no, I won't tell :p).
Right now it's in the hands of Norrie, and I'm anxiously awaiting his feedback and suggestions.

In other news; a whole bunch of people are waiting for me to do urgently needed vo's for them... and I will do them this week, stuffed nose or not. I'm very sorry for the hassle I caused!

Work on The Afflicted will be taken up again after Easter - man, am I glad the deadline for the competition was taken off....

Oh, and while you're still here, I highly recommend you'll watch this - I just did this morning, and was totally blown away:

Lizards Coming Home

I can't embed it here, because it's in the 18+ category. It's a sci-fi dystopia with a wonderful story, inspiring visuals, vo's, music - I've never seen iClone look this good! Go watch it now! :)

3 Kommentare:

Dulci said...

I have noticed your absence and missed you! Good to hear you're taking care of yourself.

And I agree - Coming Home is simply amazing!

Killian said...

Well, it had to come... all work and no play make Sisch's whip droop :P

An enforced break is probably exactly what you needed (whether you wanted it or not!) to refresh the batteries; your health is the most important thing you have, so you should be taking decent care of yourself.

Glad to hear you're feeling better and pfft on the voices; if people can't understand that you're a human being and there are more important things than running yourself ragged to provide VOs for others, then bad on them, says I....

...now, where are my VOs?!

;)

Norrie said...

Ah, working comments :)
I read this yesterday (with working script in cyber hand), and felt as guilty as a really guilty thing who's quite guilty (I'm rubbish at metaphors. It's like I'm...
...
...
see what I mean)

Can't wait to read it: need full brain capacity though. At the moment it feels like my brain is trying to escape via my sinuses.

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