Karl session 2

Although behind in the class from having been on a fieldtrip for the actual session two, I really feel like I got a lot out of the second session for me. I learned how to cover the book. We created the covers for our book and it wound up beig a valuable experience for me because I actualy got something done. I'm not often one to get thugs finished and finishing something has been a good feeling. It built my confidence and really inspired me to push to finish something else.

This Week: What I'm doing

This week I am continuing working on the Novella I started.

What i want to tackle this week is the movement of the story towards moving out of the originating town or at the very least presenting the conflict about leaving the town and temple. I am juggling the idea of who the argument about leaving should be between. Whether it should be between my main character: Reave, and his friend Yyral or if it should be between Reave and Cyelle, or even Yyral and Cyelle. I am leaning towards the first with Cyelle supporting their leave from the town in order to forget what happened there. My goal is to cover this in less than 4000 words because I know i can be very word heavy. There may be some editing going on but for the most part I want to generate text so that I can go back and edit on a large scale with what I know about a larger majority of the story.

Workshops: April 2010: Bookmaking

Initially when I heard I was in the bookmaking workshop I was disappointed. I had thought that I was going to be bored the entire time with the monotony of sewing paper together in order to make a concisely bound book. I had thought I was in the workshop down at the community center like Luke had said on Tuesday when he talked about the guy from the Gin Blossoms coming in. From what I understood the other guy was going to be more beneficial for me. I guess that idea got changed.

I went into the workshop lackluster. I didn't really want to do the work. I kind of wanted to just float by and half-ass it because I was not interested in learning to bind my own books. This was definitely a bad attitude towards this in hindsight. Once we started ripping the paper I guess I started kind of enjoying it. I was laughing with Keren about how terrible we both were at ripping the paper correctly and getting frustrated with how it would not rip on the line of the ruler.

Then we learned what signatures were, which I found to be a cool fact, and looking back. My favorite of the books I own are the ones with the hand made paper edges. I was becoming really into it when we began stitching our signatures together and was amused at how frustrated I got when I could not pull the needle through the paper. Lizy, Keren, Leah, and I had just wound up having a good laugh and enjoying ourselves. And now I feel like I have learned a little something cool that I could do in my spare time, like a crafty Hobby.

I cant wait until next time.