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Jared Axelrod is an author, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a sculptor, a costume designer, a podcaster and quite a few other things that he's lost track of but will no doubt remember when the situation calls for it.
He is a founding member of the daily flash-fiction website 365 TOMORROWS, and the writer and producer of two science-fiction podcasts, “The Voice Of Free Planet X” and the serial “Aliens You Will Meet.
He is not domestic, he is a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.
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Fables of the Flying City is steampunk graphic novel of airships, rayguns and how much information is too much information, illustrated by Steve Walker and Natalie Kelly. Listen to podcast to learn more about the flying city of Amperstam and the people who call it home.
An intergalactic ambassador has only the messages from his precognitive meeting planner to keep him from making a fool of himself. Aliens You Will Meet are those messages, in handy podcast form.
I am regular contributor to I Should Be Writing, providing both The News From Poughkeepsie and writing All Write!, a webcomic about writers, illustrated by Natalie Metzger.
The Promise of 2009
January 21st, 2009
We’ve got a new president now, and he’s off to a promising start. I am attempting to temper my enthusiasm with skepticism, but it’s hard. I want to believe that this is a new dawn, that things will be different and we’ll all get a chance to start over.
That ‘s the promise of every January, history-making president or not.
A few days ago, Mur Lafferty spoke on the power of daring to be stupid. That stuck with me. I wanted to do that. I wanted to follow through on every stupid idea that popped in my head. Problem is, I have quite honestly too many stupid ideas to realistically follow through with all of them. Don’t believe me? Here’s a list:
And I’ve labored on it since taking that photo, too. I’ll have to add another sheet by February, just watch.
These are mostly projects I’ve started and never finished. Some are last year’s. Some the year before. One goes as far back as 2002. And I put them on this list because I want to finish them. I’m tired of them lurking around in the back of my head, waiting to be completed. I don’t know how many will get done before the end of the year, but now with this list, I’ll be able to see which ones have and which ones haven’t.
The Dream is that by 2010, I start with a clean slate. I’m not sure if that feasible, but there’s no reason not to try.
After all, I have a whole year, don’t I? That’s the promise of 2009.
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January 21st, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Good luck! I suppose it’s not really a luck thing though, huh? In that case, good ambition and happy motivation for a year full of finished projects (stupid and non-stupid alike)!