I remembered to post this time! I hope everyone is having a great week. Mine has been another busy week with pushing out a project. Anyway, things on the book end are slow. I've been talking to a PR company to see how I can boost my audience and hopefully share my story with more people. Hopefully I'll be able to act on that soon if my car will hold it together for a little longer.
I apologize for my short story taking so long. I've been working on two things for it: cities and voice. As I was writing the story, I realized that some cities were created after the Dragon War, therefore our hero, Junak, would not be able to go or know of those cities. I had to pour over pages of notes and mark down which were around and which were not so I didn't have any continuity errors. I've also been working on the voice of the story. I have been re-reading a lot of older stories like Gilgamesh, Iliad and Odyssey, and more recently Dante's Divine Comedy. I like how everything is so verbose and grand when writing. I think I want to experiment with that for this short story. One thing I found interesting, especially in the Iliad and Odyssey, is that everyone had a name and history. There were not a lot of non-descriptive characters.
I have been drawing some images up, but it has been placed on hold, I'm hoping to do more on it soon. I had my reasons for the style I chose to draw in the book, but for the website, I would like it to be a little more realistic. Unfortunately, a more realistic product takes a little more time to get right.
On the personal side, we carved pumpkins! I'll post some pictures. We carved three, a scary, happy...and a sad one. My 3-year old was intent on having a sad pumpkin...so we have a sad pumpkin now. Did I finish my bathroom? No...I've been trying to get my car to Maryland tags for some time now, but every time I bring it in having fixed the last problem, I get a new one. In order to save money, I do things myself. Unfortunately, that takes time. Last time I had a list of problems ranging from brakes to power steering pump. Fixed them all. Now it's down to 3 items: wipers, headlights...and power steering rack. The wipers and headlights are tivial, but the rack and pinion is a whole other story. I can do it, but should I let the shop do it and get it over with and just bite the bullet? We'll see...
I hope everyone has a great weekend!