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BillMeahan

Bill Meahan
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The Legend of Lady Margaret by BillMeahan, literature

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Artist // Hobbyist // Photography
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Whiskers: Submitted to the April Fools' Day category
My Bio
I like to spend my time in writing fiction, doing nature photography, typography and typesetting, orgainizational journalism and digital art.


Current Residence: Westland, Michigan USA
Favourite novel ever: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Favorite author: John LeCarre'
Favourite genre of music: Classical, Jazz, Blues, Choral, Celtic
Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams, National Geographic Staff
Favourite style of art: Traditional Materials, Photography & Sumi-e
Operating System: Xubuntu 12.04
MP3 player of choice: Creative Sansa Fuze, Gnome Media Player
Shell of choice: /usr/local/bin/ksh93
Personal Quote: Amor vincit omnia

Favourite Visual Artist
Sarah Ellerton, Alice Newberry, Tami Wicinas, Ashley Meahan, Edward Hopper, Brooke McEldowney, Diego Rivera
Favourite Movies
The Princess Bride, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Little Shop of Horrors (the musical)
Favourite TV Shows
NCIS, Criminal Minds, CSI:New York
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Angela Hewitt, Enya, The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Enigma
Favourite Books
Poetry by Tony Hoagland, Liesl Muller, Savannah Houston-McIntyre or Charles Bukowski
Favourite Writers
John Le' Carre, Sarah Ellerton (story and dialogue for The Phoenix Requiem), Tami Wicinas (story and dialogue for Wooden Rose), Savannah Houston-McIntyre (story and dialogue for Amya)
Favourite Games
Various Solitaire (OK, so I'm not a gamer, Sue me!)
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
Xubuntu, Wacom Bamboo Plus, Inkscape, The GIMP, Simple-Scan
Other Interests
Singing in choir, USCG Auxiliary, Kayaking, Writing, Ham Radio, Cats, Reading Poetry
I'm dipping my toe into the world of writing with what I refer to as a "webnovel." WTH? A webnovel? What's that? You know what a webcomic is, don't you? A serially-published comic or graphic novel made available on the Wibbly Wobbly Web, usually in one or two page installments every so many days. A webnovel is very similar in that a traditional, textual novel is made available on the WWW in installments. There's nothing new about publishing a novel in serialized installments: Charles Dickens published most of his work that way in the newspapers of the day. Only after the serial ended were the books we know so well today published. Many of t
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Finally, the ink is flowing in the veins again and I can write. At least I can do my newsletter writing and page-layout/page-design work. I can't draw worth beans but I'm pretty darn good when it comes to manipulating objects and fonts and text so I can make very nice-looking pages for newsletters, books &c. Wish I could add the newsletter design I just did to my gallery here on dA but it is for a government-related internal publication and I can't do it without a boatload of approvals. Let's just say it was deeply inspired by such publications as The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune with a lot of my own variations and ideas. The new a
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Ugh! I hate writer's block. I have newsletter articles I'm supposed to be writing and more of my story I'd like to be writing but no progress on either of them. Been going on for a week. Sad, sad, sad. :(
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merry christmas! :xmas: