mistseeker

It's been two years since my last journal entry. Pitiful. Still, I'm active. Writing as much as I can. Mostly screenwriting, that is. We'll see.

Bad title, right? Whatever.

Okay, here's a telegraphic update of my life for you still interested in it-

Work- Goes bad due to the Greek Crisis, mostly. I still earn my rents etc though.

Life- I'm living in a nice small apartment in the center of Iraklion, and I'm having a good time, mostly. Generally things are way better than last year. Plus, I'm honest with my life and people around me, which is a good thing in the long term.

Creativity- I wrote a sci-fi short for the 16th workshop of the Sci-Fi Club of Athens (A.L.E.F) taking place on November 26-27th. I've done two translations of known sci-fi stories for the Universe Pathways magazine (specifically, a story by Ray Bradbury and a Hugo Award winning one). I've been loosely researching for Aposperos #2 and the Black Ships project. I'm reading literature on writing and comics.

So- I'm okay. I'm trying to gain momentum in writing again. I'm more optimistic than before.

Take care, all.

Aposperos:Merchant of Souls is an occult/horror comic about our faith and the loss of it, about our mistakes and regrets, about correcting the errors of our ways and about sacrificing parts of ourselves to find redemption.

This is the first, 'pilot' issue, a standalone 48-pager. I wrote the story; George Martzoukos has... drawn it, Jacob Bascle has lettered it. Visionary Comics helped shape it, edited and now publishes it digitally.



Soon out for iphone/ipod touch and other mobile devices via various publishers.

You can download a sample or buy the comic at:

comics.drivethrustuff.com/prod…

Okay, I'm alone @ home. In a while I'll go upstairs and change the year with my parents and brothers. After 1 o'clock local, a few friends will come over for a few drinks, change-of-year chat and perhaps some card playing.

The last day of 2009 was like the rest of the year for me: Hectic.

I consider the year now passing, a bad year for me. Good things happened, particularly bad things didn't happen (particularly good things didn't happen either, however.)
So my main job went very very well, much better than any of the previous years'. I didn't have a money problem, thank God. The new year will probably be as good on that matter.

I remained fat, dammit. Can't get the better of my greedy mouth, it seems.

I wrote less. Way less. My stories were (I think) much better than those of the previous years', I give myself that. But I had too little time, and too little mood to write. Bad thing. Very bad. Very worrying.

Also, after seven years, as of this November, I'm living apart from my partner, for reasons out of our control. It might change soon, or it might not. Our new living-together will probably mark a painful conflict with my parents. Bad thing. If we don't live together again soon, we might split up. Even worse thing.

I really don't know what to hope. Don't get me wrong; I want to hope. I want many things to change in my life, and I must find the balls to change them.

So thank you for the ride, 2009, and go fuck yourself, by the way.

2010, welcome but don't be a bitch. Please.

Back from Syros. The Scifi convention of Ermoupolis was a blast! Let's hope next year it will happen again.

This winter I'll be mostly alone; I'll take advantage of that fact to write more.
My projects for this winter will be:

1. An illustrated novel with pirates in the Aegean, with the good illustrator and friend, Thanos Tsilis (Thanostsilis of DA).

2. A 50-pager weird steampunk-style comic with George Baritakis (Jesusgun of DA), a young comics artist with lots of potential and good ideas, and a good friend.

Other than that, perhaps a short story, or a pitch here and there. We'll see.

I'm not posting frequently, not only on DA, but in the other forums and websites I'm watching. That's not a bad thing for me, it shows I'm not procrastinating. If there are significant updates as to the abovementioned projects, however, I'll keep my watchers updated.

Take care, all!