I am going to throw some ideas out there, I just want to write them down and see what sticks. As readers, I really need your hep. Please comment.  These are subjects I already write about, but I want to give this site some direction. Or maybe these are other sites altogether.  This is in some ways about branding myself as a writer. What I am looking for a way to write about something other than myself . I want to create something greater than me.  

I have already eliminated any kind of nerdy site, while those things interest me greatly. There are much more committed fans of comics, video games, RPGs, gadgets and tall things media out there that are doing fine work.  I am not interested in competing in that field. 

I am also open to doing some sort of group blogging, a collective if you will like Boing Boing. So if you are reading this, and you are also writing, lets talk and make some magic. 

Spaceman: Urban Philosopher. The quest for the Philosopher’s Stone.  Giving a modern philisophical bent towards the blog, writing about the courses I’ve taken, the books I read, the magic and alchemy I practice.  This is a aspect of myself that is very important and that I am passionate about, but that I somewhat pass over when I write now.  Everything from Crowley to Landmark, from Harry Potter to Tim Leary, from Sex Magick to Echart Tolle and Oprah. I always wanted to call myself a philosopher.  

The Crasher’s Guide.  I am really seeing that we are on the cusp of some serious and challenging time. I shudder to say that we are in the midst of a total economic crash. I fear that there is no way out. This blog would be about the ways to deal with the hard times. Money saving ideas, gardening tips, basic survival, and how to have fun at the end of the world.  My thought is that whatever is going to happen with the economy is what is going to happen. The trick will be to stay afloat, stay light, bob, weave, have fun.  But, I don’t want to be a doom prophesier.  Ultimately, I want to foster the coming of a new kind of economy, one that works for everyone. 

The New Networker I know a lot of people. I like to think of myself as a natural networker of people. I have been looking at ways to help everyone in these times. So many of my friends have amazing skills, companies, things for sale, etc. I am thinking a site kind of like Craig’s List, only on a smaller scale, specific to my community here in LA. Film people, event people, performers, entrepreneurs, programmers, teachers, builders, photographers, writers, artists, coordinators…and on and on!  I want to bring all of us together to support each other. A micro social network. Again, I want to create a new kind of economic way. 

 The View From Space Already, I have named my blog this. This would be a fictional account, inspired by reality, of the world from a point of view of a dimensional traveller trapped her on our earth. It would be a view of the planet and our culture from the point of view of Spaceman, who is an outsider.  I know this could be really fun. Though, there wouldn’t be much of this “ten things I love about my life” stuff. Instead it would be more of a “why can’t you people see how messed up your world is, and here’s what you can do to fix it.”  Spaceman is an aspect of my self, my muse if you will, my genius, my daemon. It might be very very valuable to channel him.

Mini Sagas  Mini sagas only. This is the least likely. I love the mini sagas, and I intend to continue them for the year, But I want to distinguish them from these ideas. No matter what, they will probably end up somewhere else.  It is a great exercise in creativity and I look forward to collecting them.  

So those are the ideas I have now. All of them, except the networker site are also possible ways to release a book as small chunks to be collected later. Please give me some input, friends.

I have been having this new opening in creativity. It’s pretty exciting, because while I have been blogging fairly regularly, for me, I have been a really blocked creatively. I’ve had trouble focusing and working on projects important to me.  There’s been no movement on any of the fictional projects I’ve been kicking around at all. Of course, I get severely pissed off at myself around this. Obviously, this is no fun. 

Well the other week I picked up a copy of the Artist’s Way again. I did it a few years ago with Silly Billy Barker and Silly Crimefighting Kristin and we had a fantastic time, unblocked our creative inner children and became superstars overnight. So, yeah, I forgot about that.  Well, I started up on it again. I’m doing the morning pages (getting up earlier to journal for 3 pages, no matter what, ugh!) and taking the the artist dates (taking your inner child on a little date to spend some quality time alone, yay!).  And what is opening up for me are new creative outlets. 

I’ve started doing my daily mini saga. Its an awesome exercise in smallness. No longer am I trying to create these epics. My ideas have to fit on an index card. They are my little dreams I have during the day. The biggest challenge here has been creating JUST one per day! 

I wrote this raunchy and ridiculous internet movie that I will be producing.  I need to do another draft, but I will be posting the script  here soon. 

I started converting one of my cartoons into a post apocalyptic young adult novella. 

Inspired by this magazine I used to read (when it existed) Nerve, and a book about the first ten years of their website (Nerve.com, before it became the most counter-intuitive dating website ever), I went and bought a new digital camera. One with a decent lens and complete control of image. It’s cheap, but it will be a great way to learn to take pictures again. I’ll be needing subjects soon. 

I have been crating again, all kinds of things. But I think the key is that I am creating for no reason at all. I am creating again for the sake of creating. It seems like maybe I was holding in my ideas, hoping for some kind of monetary reward for all my hard work. I would not create, unless I was rewarded, or it was for something.  So, it has been really fun just creating for absolutely no reason.  I am creating to create. It’s bliss. 

Play with me. If you are interested in the Artists Way, I’d like to lead a group. I got my writing partner a copy. A once weekly meeting would be awesome. If you are interested, message me!

I was talking the other day about my writing. She asked me about how much I have been writing, to which I replied “A lot,” because I have been writing just about every day for weeks and weeks. My blogging has been often and intense. 

But when it comes to my fiction, I have been having a lot of trouble getting going and I think I may have found some of the reason. Conflict. 

Conflict is at the very heart of all fiction. Without conflict, that fucked up, things going wrong, rocks flying at your characters’ heads kind of conflict, you have no story. And my life has been going along swimmingly. My only conflicts are instantly resolved in my head when I go effortlessly with the flow. I don’t rage indignantly against reality, I ease along with it, allowing really great things to happen. I get my real conflict from other fictions (comics, movies, games, books) and I gobble it up like a good little American conflict junkie. 

I think that’s why I like Burning Man so damn much, I go there and generate some real internal conflict against the environment. Out there it is survival, and one really could die if he or she didn’t take on survival as a personal choice. Out there, the fictionsuit of Spaceman emerges and I feel more alive than ever before. 

And then there is my own personal belief in the power of metafiction and pantheistic solipsism. That is if I write it, I create it. That if I start writing conflict and real danger to characters that represent me and my life, I may suddenly end up living the dream. In that, it really s a question of courage, and my lack of it. I like my life easy and comfortable.  And then again, when I find myself on real adventures, I am giddy with joy. 

Right now, my biggest conflict is that I am fighting a head cold and really have to do my taxes when I get home.  That’s doesn’t make for good fiction. I want epic battles with intergalactic empires and the saving of space empresses from the deadly clutches of dragons. Is that so much to ask? 

I am open to assistance in getting my fiction writing going. If anyone can recommend a class or a book or a method, I will entertain it.  Better yet though, if you can recommend some solid ways to get more conflict into the adventure in my life, that I am willing to look at.

Today, my writing partner and I have a meeting to show off some of our writing projects. I have a favor to ask.

I want to do a little collective consciousness experiment. I want you at around 11am today, to think of me as a writer. This should be fairly easy considering you are reading this. But I want you to think of me as the kind of writing talent who should really be discovered. Think of me as a great writer, earning great money for putting my words on the page. Imagine me creating cartoons and shows that are loved by millions.

Imagine that I am brilliant.

Just take a minute, around 11 am, and think happy thoughts about Spaceman. Set an alarm if you want to.

Ideally, this will not be too challenging. Ideally, if you are going to participate in this experiment, you already like what I have to say with words.

I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks!

I have been thinking about dong this for a while, incorporating. A few Key Grip friends of mine have done this, and it appeals to me.  It s a way to control you financial destiny in this country, and to afford yourself certain rights afforded companies and not individuals.  According to Scotty of Big Show Industries We The People in Burbank can make incorporation happen lickety-split!  This is an interesting experiment, I invite you to play. Creating yourself as corporation is a handy way to craft a killer fictionsuit.

So what does The Spaceman Company produce you may ask?  Good question. The Spaceman Company is an ontological entertainment and marketing company. We produce a wide variety projects and act as a vendor to major studios and event production companies. Creating intellectual properties and unique original ideas is a specialty of this venture. We also do personal consultation on a wide variety of subjects relevant to everyday life. In some ways, the main product of The Spaceman Company is space.  We create space for people to be who they really are. We create space for people to love themselves unconditionally. We build and illuminate space for one’s truest self to emerge.

Notice that as soon as I become a corporation, I become a “we?”

The thing about becoming a corporation is that you suddenly become somewhat more than an individual. You have a company to run! There are financial and business plans to develop, and stick to. Marketing of your company (you) becomes necessary. Suddenly, talking about yourself with gushing praise makes a little more sense. Would you buy you?  There is also production; are you being productive today?  If my product is space, am I providing the right kind of space that will encourage brand loyalty to The Spaceman Company?  Strategic partnerships become necessary.  A network of other like minded companies, striving for profitability and cooperation become real business choices. The office is really just a laptop, and whatever chair I am sitting in.

It is really, at this point just a mental shift. But, I think I want to follow this rabbit hole as far as it goes.

The Spaceman Company loves you.