Posted by bzedan on Jul 19, 2026
Image description: A screencap of the DaVinci Resolve video editing media bay, with a still of a mostly-assembled owlbear puppet on it's back in a work area. Various thumbnails with views of the puppet construction are lined up below. End ID.
My hand trouble is nearly gone hooray, the trials and limbo of resting one's dominant hand are a maddening hell but so it goes. This week was a bit nasty hot, as it is for most places, even the basking lizards are getting their heat in the shade, yet it was a pretty fruitful week, though little to show you for it.
- I've finished going through and marking up all the clips for the process video (see image for this post), next week is cobbling them all together (which hopefully this week's work will make easy).
- I'm back in the daily writing saddle, focusing on little vignettes while I let some things cook in The Brain.
- The weekly blog post was brief but has a nice old picture of the computer space I used to work in, back when I did weekly comics and all that. Twenty years ago!
- Newsletter progress, though not as much as I'd like.
- The latest bit of The Consoling Divide has landed, unless you're a Patreon or Comradery subscriber, who got this bit three weeks ago.
One shouldn't make up for the week's faults on Sunday but, despite the heat, I have the following I'll be (hopefully) getting done today:
- A bit more on the newsletter.
- A very small illustrative thing for the layout for The Consoling Divide.
- A spreadsheet for this writing project.
I've been trying something new, I think I've mentioned, with this latest longform writing project. I normally build things pretty linearly, for me everything is sculpting and I start with the skeleton or frame or blocked out shape and move to refinement from there. One, two, three. This time I'm writing bits as I damn well like--I know how they'll hang together in the end, but the connective tissue is tomorrow's problem.
I suppose, imagine more like a puzzle this go: I've got the box picture (the outline and etc.) to go off but rather than doing the edges first I'm putting together the parts of the picture I can see match up first, and all those larger bits can get joined later, or as I find the pieces for it.
It's going great, however: I do need a spreadsheet now. I'm nearing 40k in and there's enough moving bits that I need to slap the outline into some cells and separate out the ah, fifteen? individual documents I'm writing across. Spreadsheet will fix it, spreadsheet my friend.
All in all, not a bad week, if a sweaty one. Thank you, as always, for your support!
Crossposted to Patreon.