Circle of Eights
The book has arrived this morning! It’s a compilation of the stories we’ve started to write about a year ago (Sept. 12 2007 to be accurate) at 8 hands (Tracy’s, Lee Muir’s, Jib’s and mine). Circle of Eights the title, is a reference at the interlocking circles that brought our interests together, as symbolized by the pseudonym for the author’s name which is made by merging our nicknames. It is much more than one story actually, and quite difficult to summarize as it’s...
Read MoreDrifting stories
Sometimes, there are stories which are particularly meaningful to us. Discussing with Finn about her floating on a raft comments, and her serendipitous discovery of the book Life of Pi by Canadian author Yann Martel, I was reminded of a similar period where I found great comfort in reading such an adventure of drifting on the oceans. In my case, this adventure was that of the young prince of Enlad, Arren, in the Earthsea novel by Ursula K. Le Guin The Farthest Shore. It was particularly...
Read MoreA new bigger sandbox
With the collective story expanding that fast, navigating through it was no longer very easy… First attempt: paginate the results, on the same “old” architecture Benefit: a modicum of comfort for people posting comments who didn’t have to load the 144 long comments each time. Drawback: uneasy to find a previous piece of information, lost in the many pages. And lots of in development Second attempt: create a whole new section, and migrate the comments to that “new”...
Read MoreNaasir’s Dream, a new panorama
Just a highlight on my last painting update… I’ve been doing this painting trying to show the intricacies and intermingling of our essences and worlds views in writing our group fiction. [NB: Naasir is the name of the dragon central yet peripheral to the all group story] Then I just thought, oh, why not try to make a new panorama out of this picture, as it would better capture the sense of fullness and the “no-beginning-nor-end” of the interactions. Heck, these panoramas take quite...
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