Sow An Action, Reap A Habit.

Sow an action, reap a habit.

@the-wip-project Day 7

Do you have a writing day? Or a writing hour? When do you get most of your writing done?

I'm a firm believer in schedules and planning; they just fit my personality.

Since all my leisure activities take place at home, they could easily be drowned under other tasks, such as school work for one if I'm not careful. So planning them is my way not to forget that they're as important as the rest and that I should not neglect them. My mental health needs them; I feel nourished from them; they keep my daily life balanced. To me, they're part of healthy habits, just like drinking water, 8h-sleep, or clay masks.

Writing falls into these habits of course, made even more enjoyable with the presence and help from my writing buddy @stankris 🥰 We met two years ago (Kris, can you believe it?) during a BigBang and bonded over our respective stories and more. Once the event was over, we remained in contact and have been organizing writing sessions, twice a week now, making do of our time zones, during which we chat, discuss plots, character development, share ideas, feedback, support... And write of course!

They've become a dear friend and these sessions are moments I've been looking forward to every week since we started. We hardly ever missed any, just postponed a few of them for exceptional reasons. And it's a blast every week!

My wips and I owe them a lot! 💜

power couple!!! 🥰

Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show Week

I was rewatching the amazing videos from BTS week on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last September. I noticed - humor me here, because maybe this is delulu - Jikook paired up in little ways in every video. Check it out:

Home

Goodnight Jikook...

Black Swan

Standing next to each other...

Mikrokosmos

Started the video as a pair...

Idol

Once again standing together with their arms around each other...

Dynamite

Of course they have their choreography moment, but also they are both wearing matching clothing - jeans and yellow shirts...

Thoughts On Having a Writing Partner

The first time I was published in the New Yorker was the most amazing thrill. A career highlight. Nothing will beat that feeling of seeing my drawing and idea printed in the pages of a magazine I’d been reading since I stole copies from my Dentist’s office in Perth. (Sorry, Dr Farrugia).

But there is an aspect to our trade with which every cartoonist or stand-up comic is intimately familiar:  and that is the solitude of being a ‘one-man-band’. For the highest of highs (rare) and the lowest of lows (frequent), there is nobody to share it with, outside of an on-looking spouse or a flatulent dog at your feet.

This week’s issue of the New Yorker prompted me to write this post about teaming-up with a fellow comedy writer for writing cartoons, since it may well be the record for the most publicly acknowledged* cartoonist duos in an issue of the New Yorker. *(Gag writers never used to be credited. I’ll explain below**.)

In 2018, after 15 years of freelancing as a cartoonist and having been published many times flying solo, I started collaborating with my friend and fellow comic, Scott Dooley to share the frequent anxiety (and sporadic joy) of submitting New Yorker cartoons.

I hadn’t done this before and immediately found it so enlightening. Watching one of my own ideas go through the filter of somebody else’s comedy brain-wiring and come out the other end with a lateral tag or alt. punch  I’d never have considered myself was addictive, and it suddenly clicked as to why there were such things as ‘writers rooms’. (I’m slow on the uptake.)

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A good partner is an editor, audience, fan and favorite author rolled into one. This goes for all business partners - not just writing partners. ~ eP

Wow wow wow! 대박!

JKs ombré suit is beautiful. His purple ponytail looks so good. I can’t wait to see how long it really is.

JMs pastel hair and gray suit with those sunglasses. He is so cool. I love that they are both in gray as well. It balances the picture so well.

Hobi!!! Is he trying to kill me? He looks so fine. The way the shirt highlights his collar bone. I’m drooling over a collar bone?! He looks uber sexy. His stare. Stops my heart.

I can’t wait for this drop.

Sneak Peek

@the-wip-project Day 6

I couldn't seem to find an appropriate answer to today's question, but since I've been working on my wip tonight, here's a sneak peek 😊

"It had been an interesting night spent by his mother's side, drawing a short family tree on one of the pieces of paper lying around on the kitchen shelves, scribbling names, dates, ages, places. Jungkook feels warmth spread all over his body at the memory, a smile naturally stretching on his face. He had not felt so connected to his mother in so long that he couldn’t get enough of her invigorating excitement. They hadn’t delved into the sensitive topics that night, and Jungkook hadn’t felt the need to. He never expressed it yet, but he’s been jittery with anticipation at his mother’s idea since then. Obviously, the idea of showing up there without informing them beforehand wasn’t exactly his idea of a first meeting, and the risk of their visit being bothersome was a probability to take into consideration. But he wasn’t going to tell her that. Instead, he had prayed, crossed all the fingers he could and sacrificed his sleep on the Fate altar for her initiative to be rewarded with a positive outcome."

How Magazines Helped Shape American History

Explore 300 years of the periodical in an encyclopedic exhibition opening at the Grolier Club in New York City

On a whim in 1972 while enrolled in medical school, Steven Lomazow began collecting magazines. Nearly 50 years later, the 73-year-old doctor-turned-collector has amassed a personal archive of more than 83,000 issues and 7,000 titles, chronicling subjects as wide-ranging as the Revolutionary War, abolition, modern art, satire, baseball, beekeeping and much more.

Now this rare archive, spanning three centuries from the early 1700s to the present, is on view through April 24 in a new exhibition, “Magazines and the American Experience,” at New York City’s Grolier Club, renowned for its stewardship of antiquarian books and works on paper. Covid-19 restrictions are in place with visitors asked to reserve appointments 48 hours in advance. For national audiences, Lomazow and librarian Julie Carlsen have curated an extensive online exhibition, chronicling the magazine experience against the backdrop of American history on subjects ranging from the birth of democracy, to emancipation and the Civil War, the mid-century information age and the battle for civil rights, as well as a host of niche publications on celebrity, humor, art and baseball.

Reports the New York Times’ Jennifer Schuessler: “Cumulatively, the titles on display give a window into broad themes of American history, including the emergence of political parties (which, back in the early 19th century, had their own magazines), the coming of the Civil War, the evolution of the Black freedom movement and the rise of new technologies like television and computers.”

The archive pays homage to the printed word and the experience magazine readers cherish in turning pages to delight in discovery across a range of essays, poetry, illustration, photography and the graphic arts. “‘Magazine,’ which comes from the word for ‘storehouse,’ shares an etymology with the French magasin, or ‘shop’: the concept was to bring different offerings together, and accordingly they became venues where key dramas of the early nation played out,” writes Nathan Heller for the New Yorker.

Highlights of the show include issues from the early 1700s of The American Magazine, the first successful American magazine that was sold by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia; and the early 18th century The Ladies’ Magazine, where Sarah Josepha Hale became the first female editor in the country. She hoped the publication would serve as a vehicle for the education of women.

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