short, gray, and… furry?

I wouldn’t normally link to Dave Sim’s “blog” as of those few people who read my blog, I expect even fewer would want to read anything from him. However, yesterday’s entry is, well, here’s what he has to say about it:

And every once in a while someone will say to me, “Boy, you must get a lot of weird mail.” Again, bit of a surprise, I don’t actually. So, it is something of an event when I do get a piece of mail that I would genuinely categorize as “weird”. How weird? So weird that I actually have no idea how to answer it and so choose not to.

So what is this weird bit of mail. Here are a couple of choice bits:

I am writing to you today concerning a story I have been working on for a few years now. It is the first book of what I am hoping to be a three book series. I have completed the first book and I am currently doing well upon the start of the second book.

The story is entitled Inevitable Will and is set in the future in the sear 2281 A.D. where anthropomorphic Furrs are slaves to the human race doing anything that their Masters or Mistress’ order them to do.

So far, just a random unsolicited query, though with hints of veering into weird territory. And then:

I have written the above short description, which does not do the story justice in its shortness, for I have come across this address of yours on a internet site entitled “Furry Publishers” whom said that you and your staff publishes books in the Furr genre.

Uh. Uh.

I wrote this story for all my time upon the internet searching and reading stories written of Furrs I have yet found one that appeals to my sense of action and sexual curiosity as an adult. I find that most of them are written as real life scenarios that are enjoyable to read but are so close to my daily life that they are not enjoyable to me completely for my daily life is not all that interesting.

Dave Sim just got asked to publish a sci-fi furry epic. Does this guy even know anything about Dave Sim?

My characters are diverse and there are not discrimination factors against any minorities. Seeing how that for the most part every one of my characters are bisexual there are no parts in the story where gays are talked badly of or any parts for that matter where a religion is bashed.

Ah. Clearly not. It does all bring one rather disturbing realization to my mind though. Cerebus is an anthropomorphic aardvark who does fornicate several times over the course of the story so does that make Cerebus a furry book?

how I spent my weekend

Comic: 14 pages outlined, four pages written, and I’ve got a good notion of what the big turn (60 to 80 pages down the road) will involve. Screenplay: After reading the second draft, the producer decided he wants it twice as long and wants more conflict for the protagonist. After smashing my head against the wall while cackling madly for an hour, I figured out how to do both without having to toss every word I’ve written.

learning to write… again

sunday night worked on comic >stop< was too upbeat to work on the horror film >stop< have almost nothing to show for three hours work >stop< discovered how to write it though so next time will spew many words onto disk >stop< you never sent scotch so had to buy my own >stop< the killer otters are coming for you >stop<

burning cortex

Finally made it through the large stack of graphic novels and back to the Dave Sim collected letters volume, which is now setting my brain on fire. It’s quite an intriguing mix of brilliant and questionable insights (and I’m not even halfway through). The fragments of my brain not being consumed by that are hopping into the conflagration struck alight by the collision of the two projects I’m writing.

(Started this post on the camera phone, which is probably where most of the posts will be coming from, as I have discovered the predictive text function and I am a lazy bastard who likes being able to post from wherever the hell I am. It does mean the posts will likely be shorter (this one cut off in the middle of the word “writing”), but there will be pictures to go along with the posts. Anyway, I’m off to pick up something for the girlfriend before we run off to see My Morning Jacket)

melting the keyboard

Working on the second draft of a screenplay for a friend >stop< Have begun to collaborate with a damn fine artist on what will either be a webcomic or a full blown graphic novel >stop< As a result need more scotch >stop<