OMD - The Misunderstanding
Too long ago at a quaint cafe just off a university campus populated by black squirrels, Project Qaos took its first breath...or something like that.
It was during my senior year at college that I finally found my groove (i.e. started getting decent grades) and took my two most enjoyable classes - Creative Writing and Art History.
The creative writing class gave me a great excuse to spend countless hours sitting at a table on the second floor of Brady's Cafe, scribbling away with an endless supply of strong coffee while watching students and locals drift in and out. Even then, my story about two artist-musicians named Dmitry and Natasha was inspired by a song (the one above) as well as artwork (oil paintings by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid).
The following semester I took an art history class, read a book or 3 on the 1974 Moscow Bulldozer Exhibition for a class paper and - boom! - Qaos was born. Actually, the story was originally called "Spilled Coffee Over Forbidden Arts," or SCOFA for short, but somewhere along the way it changed to the more reasonably titled "Qaos Ascending" and slowly morphed into six books, hence Project Qaos. :-)
Yeah, about that. I'm still on Book 1.
In two weeks, however, I'm planning on turbocharging my scribbling into high (or at least higher) gear by
Wish me the bestest. 🚀
[Update: I made a valiant effort but cranking words out is just not my style. I enjoy exploring music, exploring art, and letting the characters act out their parts in my head. I wish they'd speak a little faster, of course, but not NanoWriMo fast! 😏)
Komar and Melamid - Yalta Conference (1984)
