Long long illness. But between
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gfitz holding my hand and basic stubbornness, I updated Passages. I did it backwards. It's been a long time since I took shots and then wrote, but it was easier for me. Passages 9
- Updating Despite Myself
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- eshuff
- December 7th, 19:25
sick
Long long illness. But betweengfitz holding my hand and basic stubbornness, I updated Passages. I did it backwards. It's been a long time since I took shots and then wrote, but it was easier for me.
Passages 9
- Cruz's Garage - Passages Update
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- eshuff
- November 27th, 21:56
grateful
Thanks to so many people who encouraged me this year - your wonderful lots, coaching, suggestions, all of it. Thank you.
Passages 8
- Passages Update
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- eshuff
- November 22nd, 8:39
tired
I posted this in the middle of the night, somewhere between 2 and 3 AM, which was kind of a good thing since I was so tired I didn't care if I'd reused a sitting pose. It should be read in conjunction with Chameleon 5 - Strangers which was just posted bygfitz.
Passages 7
- Sessions Update
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- eshuff
- November 16th, 12:11
aggravated
After major crashing and lot problems, we posted an update to Sessions, called, amusingly enough (ok amusing to me), It Only Hurts.
It was painful to try to finish it, and I could not get the shots I wanted, but it's up there.
- The Sessions/Dark December/South Beach Story Recap Summary Thing - Finally
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- eshuff
- November 8th, 13:52
- hopeful
I spent the last several days messing around with headers and stuff, and, while I was at it, I created a story summary. Highlights of the series Gayl and I have been working on for 3 years now.
Why? Because it is too freaking long now. It's intimidating. It's huge and scary. I'd be scared off.
In contrast, the summary isn't long at all, just a few paragraphs. There are pictures. I hope someone who hasn't read our work, or much of it, will read the summary and let me know if it works.
Story Recap
And this is just a shot of our world.
- Knowing When to Give Up - Passages Update
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- eshuff
- November 6th, 5:40
embarrassed
This is one of those pieces I really don't like, which is why it took me two weeks to force myself to put out something so short with only one set. No drama, but I had to set it up before I could move on. I was calling it Parking Lot Wars but I think I'm the one who lost the battle here.
On top of problems with the writing and the concept, the lot drove me insane. Crashed and crashed and crashed again.
Passages 6
- Feeding Frenzy
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- eshuff
- November 3rd, 1:31
- cheerful
In between fixating on obscure genealogical problems, we did manage to get out another Sessions update. Ok Gayl did. I helped by trying to make everything worse.
Blood on the water - Sessions 18-Hangnail
- OCD Behavior
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- eshuff
- November 2nd, 19:42
intimidated
A couple of weeks ago Xtina asked me about a family tree for our monstrous complicated tangled work.
I spent a day staring at templates and spreadsheets and text boxes and realized there was no way I was going to be able to do it that way. So I did it another way, using the tribalpages website (thank youmaonaoand phoenixfg!).
And I am still at it. Two days later. Filling in blanks I didn't remember were there and fussing with relationships and grabbing names off the sides of boxes sitting around in the basement. (There's a reason for the surnames Roget and Belkin...) This is insane. I mean who the hell cares what the mother of some minor character looks like? Why do I need a shot? Why does the blank square bug me so much? When am I going to STOP?
- meme
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- eshuff
- October 28th, 13:51
okay
Ok, I'm going to take a shot at this since it looked like fun, if I can figure out the LJ cut, which I probably can't. ( Read more.... )
- No Surprises - Sessions Update
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- eshuff
- October 27th, 14:19
contemplative
Gayl and I posted Sessions 17 - No Surprises.
It's hard to believe that we're up to 17 chapters. It is almost incredible to look back almost 3 years now. We've been working together almost that long. And it is still a great joy.
- Baby Work - Another Update
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- eshuff
- October 18th, 13:52
- grateful
I can't believe I've punched out 5 chapters in less than a month with this.
I want to thank everyone who has been so supportive, reading and leaving me encouraging comments. It truly is wonderful and has kept me going. Attempting something new has been nerve-wracking and second-guessing and hair-pulling and so on. Thank you.
Passages 5
- Not a very pretty rabbithole
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- eshuff
- October 14th, 19:48
I posted another Passages update, and didn't edit the shots because I was so freaked about the whole thing in general. I am not going to take all of this stuff so seriously though.
Passages 4
- Loving Short Updates
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- eshuff
- October 8th, 18:38
I mean my own of course. It is such a relief, particularly when I'm dealing with community lots all the time, to keep the damned things SHORT.
So here's a SHORT update. Passages 3.
Yeah, I'm not naming them either. Three is going to do it.
- By the Way - Sessions Update
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- eshuff
- October 6th, 3:16
- cranky
I don't know how to resize the shot or how to center it, but at least I'm getting shots up here...
Gayl and I posted a Sessions update yesterday. It's going to be a long long long time before I attempt a sit/talk scene again. My frustration with the overlays threw me into a screaming tantrum. It still feels like algebra.
Our usual warning: language etc.
Sessions 16 - By the Way
- Passages Update - Beautiful and Ugly Things
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- eshuff
- October 1st, 9:16
- cheerful
I was able to get another update out on the storyline I've been working on, and I got the shots in one day. That has to be a record for me.
My biggest problem is, of course, with the freaking pose boxes. When I can identify the one in the catalog that I want, sometimes the pose does not look like I thought it was going to look. Not at all! Weird arms and leg action, doesn't sit right in a chair like it's supposed to (at least, if it says 'chair' pose, I am assuming it is actually a chair pose). These things are wonderful, wonderful tools but they make life very difficult at the same time.
Anyway, here is the second chapter:Passages 2
I really appreciate all the support I've received. It's been scary doing this.
- Something a Little Different
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- eshuff
- September 27th, 20:58
- nervous
After a lot of false starts and technical difficulties, and a lot of help from a lot of great people (thank you Gayl, Phoenix, and S@ndy), I was able to get up a new blog to cover another second generation character from our long-running collaborative work Sessions.
So here's Passages. I am completely unable to figure out how to insert a link in a post (why does LJ hide everything??), so I'm putting in the whole url.
http://ddpassages.blogspot.com/
- Thank you...again
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- eshuff
- September 27th, 14:24
- grateful
Thanks to Phoenix - I could never have managed to put up this site without her. And to Gayl, for sharing the link to the template. Both of you rock!!!!
I'll keep playing with it. I'm a slow learner.
- Update and Thanks!
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- eshuff
- September 14th, 10:50
- anxious
I'm going to try to put this up, both for gfitz and to thank Phoenix for helping me with the LJ site, in many ways. Thank you girl!!!!
Not sure what I'm going to be working on while my collaborator is down for surgery, but I'll try to keep up with things for her. Like she said, we have an update. We particularly wanted to get it out before her surgery, and managed only because it's not very long and used only one set.
She's already provided the link but here it is again. Because I need to practice doing this.
Sessions 15 - Sacrifice
- Weather Report - Partly Muggy
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- eshuff
- August 29th, 12:01
- anxious
It's been so long since I posted anything here. I have problems with LJ - never can figure out how to put up a shot.
So what's going on? I'm fighting with Photoshop because I have a weird flaw at the bottom of my shots when I use a specific type of lighting. We're still updating (most recent was Far Away) although never on any regular schedule. That's just too hard.
And I'm trying to keep up with writers I've recently discovered. The variety and creativity are always astonishing. A lot of people have moved on and quit, so it's great to see how many are still here.
- Light Effects
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- eshuff
- December 4th, 2008
- aggravated
Starting with those in my car...just went out in the dark and the slick rain to go buy cat food and discovered my battery is dead. I never leave the lights on...I even manually turn off the one in the roof. Whatever, it's dead.
But I'm having a strange problem with some shots. NB shots taken in the dark result in what looks like streetlights on every single square. They're not. If I'm in a lot and take a shot down the street, the lights line up properly. Not that big a deal since I rarely use NB shots but it's odd and I don't like it.
