The Websafe Times: Doodles to Windows Weekly 141

Writer Statement

I agree with John Gardner that the writing of fiction is the "creation of a vivid and continuous dream." To write, one enters this dream state and allows one's characters to inhabit one's being and to speak through one.

My fiction influences are diverse and range from 19th-century traditionalists like Henry James, Edith Wharton and George Gissing to 20th-century modernists like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and postmodernists like Donald Barthelme.

The Decryption of Floriform X -- This short, illustrated fiction was written on Twitter circa 2008, each tweet numbered to keep track.

The God of Wind and Air -- Unfinished sequel to Decryption, written collaboratively on Twitter.

The Manuscript of Jacob Hall -- Why write fiction? What is it "for"?

Friday, February 05, 2010

Doodles to Windows Weekly 141

These digital pieces were drawn while tuned in to TWiT.TV's Windows Weekly, Episode 141, with Leo Laporte and Paul Thurott. Most intrigued by their discussion of Apple's new iPad. Laporte opined that people wouldn't care about a note-taking/handwriting recognition feature, but I would want to use it. Laporte soundbit the iPad as the "digital picture frame" of devices.

Titles of artwork: Pathetic Smallness, Chirping Dots, Catbug, 02-05-10, 01:02 pm, 02-05-10, 01:10 pm, 02-05-10, 01:14 pm, 02-05-10, 01:16 pm, 02-05-10, 01:24 pm.