Had a good evening, despite illness
Mar. 11th, 2005 01:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demiurgentDespite being sick, I had a good evening. Got my Comixpedia column in for the month, and got an article in for The Webcomics Examiner, and the editor liked it.
Do you know how that feels? To have an editor you've never submitted for before write back and say he liked your work? It's a rush the likes of which I can't easily describe. It's a moment in time when you feel like a baseball player who throws a strike down the middle, or a basketball player who nails a free throw. Or a chess champion who sees exactly how he's going to win in six more moves.
The article is one I'm proud of. It's about my friend Dominic White, and the online comic he started before there was a World Wide Web, and the course it took (it was picked up for a mass market computer book in 1995). And how close it came to being one of the seminal online comics in digital history, but for a technological course of development and a death.
I called him tonight, just to say hi, and to make sure he was cool with his comic, fallow for years, getting some attention. He sounded great -- happy, cheerful... so totally Dominic. I told him when the article would appear, and where. I hope he likes it.
Though really, I hope everyone likes it. The other side of moving into a new venue, with a new editor and a new set of expectations is the ever present danger of absolutely falling on your face.
I still have a bit of a fever, and I did some coughing tonight, but I think I'm close to kicking this thing. We'll see how tomorrow feels.
Do you know how that feels? To have an editor you've never submitted for before write back and say he liked your work? It's a rush the likes of which I can't easily describe. It's a moment in time when you feel like a baseball player who throws a strike down the middle, or a basketball player who nails a free throw. Or a chess champion who sees exactly how he's going to win in six more moves.
The article is one I'm proud of. It's about my friend Dominic White, and the online comic he started before there was a World Wide Web, and the course it took (it was picked up for a mass market computer book in 1995). And how close it came to being one of the seminal online comics in digital history, but for a technological course of development and a death.
I called him tonight, just to say hi, and to make sure he was cool with his comic, fallow for years, getting some attention. He sounded great -- happy, cheerful... so totally Dominic. I told him when the article would appear, and where. I hope he likes it.
Though really, I hope everyone likes it. The other side of moving into a new venue, with a new editor and a new set of expectations is the ever present danger of absolutely falling on your face.
I still have a bit of a fever, and I did some coughing tonight, but I think I'm close to kicking this thing. We'll see how tomorrow feels.
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Date: 2005-03-11 12:11 pm (UTC)I'm sure I have no idea what you mean.
The thing nominally under my jurisdiction is go, BTW. Whee!
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Date: 2005-03-11 02:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-11 05:12 pm (UTC)Rag on him for me, will you? He'd never even heard of Websnark. ;)
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Date: 2005-03-11 04:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-12 12:24 am (UTC)2) get well soon!