Covers, covers and damn statistics (wait, I got that wrong). - Page 4

GeoffC · 07-01-2010, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Okay, did I miss something? Was there a post or something about a single mom? I feel like K.

there was but it seems to have gotten the heave - O ..... [even if the link was left within my post that quoted it !!!!]

omk3 · 07-01-2010, 08:48 AM

Not a bad idea to edit out the link in the quote too...

Weekend sounds good

GeoffC · 07-01-2010, 08:49 AM

Another fine suggestion duly acted upon.....

Moejoe · 07-01-2010, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by omk3

Not a bad idea to edit out the link in the quote too...

Weekend sounds good

Yves will be up tonight. The weekend is just the outside as my mind is wavering toward the writing of a novella this weekend. Here are the titles, but I can't seem to pick one:

The Burning of Castles

Year of the Teenager (this is an old title, but it's just cropped back up)

Alice in the Morning (another old title, but it's haunting me lately)

One Vampire Weekend

*shrug* I'll have to pick one soon or they'll drive me nutso

GeoffC · 07-01-2010, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Yves will be up tonight. The weekend is just the outside as my mind is wavering toward the writing of a novella this weekend. Here are the titles, but I can't seem to pick one:

The Burning of Castles

Year of the Teenager (this is an old title, but it's just cropped back up)

Alice in the Morning (another old title, but it's haunting me lately)

One Vampire Weekend

*shrug* I'll have to pick one soon or they'll drive me nutso

dat one .....

omk3 · 07-01-2010, 09:10 AM

Are these alternative titles for the same story, or different stories altogether? I like Alice in the Morning, and Vampire Weekend

Moejoe · 07-01-2010, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by omk3

Are these alternative titles for the same story, or different stories altogether? I like Alice in the Morning, and Vampire Weekend

Most definitely inspired by that band

I've recently got into them and I'm a big fan already. Oh and they will all be different stories, although I have no idea what any of them are about until I write them

omk3 · 07-01-2010, 09:33 AM

I haven't heard much else by them, but I love this song.

Funny how inspiration works. I would think that writers usually start with a plot or a character, and build around them, with the title and the cover coming last. Obviously it can work the other way around as well

Moejoe · 07-01-2010, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by omk3

I haven't heard much else by them, but I love this song.

Funny how inspiration works. I would think that writers usually start with a plot or a character, and build around them, with the title and the cover coming last. Obviously it can work the other way around as well

I never plot and only rarely will I even think about characters. Most of my inspiration comes from music, an observation of something happening, a reaction to something happening or a lyric. For instance the story I wrote the other afternoon about D. Boon started off a couple of weeks ago when I saw the trailer for a 2007 documentary called "We Jam Econo" about the Minutemen. I've been a casual fan of the Minutemen for years (you've probably heard their music if you've ever seen that horrible show, Jackass. The Minutemen's song "Corona" is used for the theme music).

So I finally got the DVD and it struck me as how great they actually were, in all ways, not just fantastic musicians, but humble people with real passions and not the crappy "Some Country Has Talent" passion to be famous. And then D. Boon died. He died in 1985 in a car accident before the Minutemen ever made it big (they were on tour with R.E.M at the time). Here's someone who made the world a better place, a true artist, not some corporate wage monkey belting out tunes for the top 40, and he's gone in a flash.

So the only intention I had was to write a story celebrating D. Boon and the Minutemen but I had no idea how I could do that, so I just started writing whatever came to mind and it was done in about half an hour or so. I called it Corona (after their famous song) and it's a short story about two members of a band coming together waiting for the third.

Here's The Minutemen performing 'Corona' acoustically. D. Boon is the singer. Mike Watt on Bass and George Hurley on Bongos.

Moejoe · 07-01-2010, 04:53 PM

And here's the preliminary cover for Corona

zelda_pinwheel · 07-01-2010, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Yves will be up tonight. The weekend is just the outside as my mind is wavering toward the writing of a novella this weekend. Here are the titles, but I can't seem to pick one:

The Burning of Castles

Year of the Teenager (this is an old title, but it's just cropped back up)

Alice in the Morning (another old title, but it's haunting me lately)

One Vampire Weekend

*shrug* I'll have to pick one soon or they'll drive me nutso

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

And here's the preliminary cover for Corona

well, these two posts are the best news i've had all day.

i can't wait.

my two votes are for Alice in the Morning and One Vampire Weekend but that's just because those two really really intrigue me. but i'm sure whatever you choose will be brilliant as always.

thanks for the clip of the minutemen ; i've never heard of them, but i see what you mean, i'll be taking a closer look at them, definitely.

oh, and i LOVE vampire weekend.

for a while i was listening to their album over and over on endless repeat. sometimes i'm a bit obsessionnelle.

Moejoe · 07-01-2010, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

well, these two posts are the best news i've had all day.

i can't wait.

thanks for the clip of the minutemen ; i've never heard of them, but i see what you mean, i'll be taking a closer look at them, definitely.

oh, and i LOVE vampire weekend.

for a while i was listening to their album over and over on endless repeat. sometimes i'm a bit obsessionnelle.

They're quite raw and they have a lot of punk to them, but they're so much more than that. The bassist, Mike Watt met D. Boon when they were 13 and they were friends from then on. When D. Boon died everything that Mike Watts did after that he dedicated to the memory of his friend, which I find incredibly touching.

Oh and yeah, Vampire Weekend are quite new to me, but I have the feeling they're going to go up there with The Shins as one of my favourite bands (they're like the musical version of Wes Anderson

) I was listening to Oxford Comma before while I was writing the beginning of One Vampire Weekend

Here is Oxford Comma for anybody who hasn't heard any other Vampire Weekend before

Oh and if anyone knows the font on this video used for the chapter titles, I'd love to know.

zelda_pinwheel · 07-01-2010, 07:10 PM

that is really touching.

here is another video of vampire weekend : not my favourite version of the songs, but by far my favourite video (series) because it was shot in the streets of paris and i keep hoping they'll come back and do it again, and one day i'll be walking down the street and come across vampire weekend playing a "takeaway concert". the last part of the video (oxford comma) was shot in my old neighborhood ; i used to cross that railway bridge practically every day. and it's only about 3 stations away from my current neighborhood. so, fingers crossed.

as for the font, hard to tell for sure but it makes me think of either DIN or maybe futura...

Moejoe · 07-01-2010, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

that is really touching.

here is another video of vampire weekend : not my favourite version of the songs, but by far my favourite video (series) because it was shot in the streets of paris and i keep hoping they'll come back and do it again, and one day i'll be walking down the street and come across vampire weekend playing a "takeaway concert". the last part of the video (oxford comma) was shot in my old neighborhood ; i used to cross that railway bridge practically every day. and it's only about 3 stations away from my current neighborhood. so, fingers crossed.

as for the font, hard to tell for sure but it makes me think of either DIN or maybe futura...

That's a great clip and now I like them even more and now the novella is set in a Paris hotel (and its surroundings), and now all I have to do is figure out what it's about, what the hotel is called and why I began it in a country house

I stil can't find a font I really like though. The attached picture is getting there, it's a Futura-like font called Florencesans. I'll try DIN next.

GeoffC · 07-02-2010, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

That's a great clip and now I like them even more and now the novella is set in a Paris hotel (and its surroundings), and now all I have to do is figure out what it's about, what the hotel is called and why I began it in a country house

I stil can't find a font I really like though. The attached picture is getting there, it's a Futura-like font called Florencesans. I'll try DIN next.

obviously an artistic font ....

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Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	And here's the preliminary cover for Corona Attached Thumbnails

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07-01-2010, 08:48 AM	#47
omk3 Wizard Posts: 1,454 Karma: 37243 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Europe Device: pocketbook 360, kindle 4	Not a bad idea to edit out the link in the quote too... Weekend sounds good

07-01-2010, 08:49 AM	#48
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,600 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Another fine suggestion duly acted upon.....

07-01-2010, 09:10 AM	#51
omk3 Wizard Posts: 1,454 Karma: 37243 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Europe Device: pocketbook 360, kindle 4	Are these alternative titles for the same story, or different stories altogether? I like Alice in the Morning, and Vampire Weekend

07-01-2010, 09:33 AM	#53
omk3 Wizard Posts: 1,454 Karma: 37243 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Europe Device: pocketbook 360, kindle 4	I haven't heard much else by them, but I love this song. Funny how inspiration works. I would think that writers usually start with a plot or a character, and build around them, with the title and the cover coming last. Obviously it can work the other way around as well

07-01-2010, 07:10 PM	#58
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	that is really touching. here is another video of vampire weekend : not my favourite version of the songs, but by far my favourite video (series) because it was shot in the streets of paris and i keep hoping they'll come back and do it again, and one day i'll be walking down the street and come across vampire weekend playing a "takeaway concert". the last part of the video (oxford comma) was shot in my old neighborhood ; i used to cross that railway bridge practically every day. and it's only about 3 stations away from my current neighborhood. so, fingers crossed. as for the font, hard to tell for sure but it makes me think of either DIN or maybe futura...

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