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Gartan’s Book – A Regrouping
On Sunday 4/17/11, I took part in a Savvy Author’s chat with Larry Brooks, the author of “Story Engineering” and the http://www.storyfix.com blog. At the time, I was maybe a quarter of the way through...
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Gartan’s Book – 4/24/11
Been a crazy few days. Went to a couple of parties the past few days for my wife’s birthday and didn’t get as much writing done as I would have liked. But I did finish out fleshing out the back half...
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Gartan’s Book – 4/26/11
I know it’s not the 26th but I’ve fallen a bit behind in my updates here. I’ve joined Savvy Authors and I’ve gone a little Workshop crazy. They’re inexpensive and it’s a great way to learn. But I’ve...
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So. Hi. Status report.
The past couple of months, I’ve been really busy. I’ve taken a bunch of workshops over at Savvy Authors. I’ve learned a ton. I’ve also taken part in their May and June Bootcamp Hells. May was...
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Senses: More than Five
Hey, gang! I don’t know if anyone is still reading this blog. I’ve been head’s down the past few months. I’ve reached a new level of discipline in my writing. I’m averaging around 2500 words per day...
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A slow day
The past week, I’ve been sick. I’ve gotten better and I’ve gotten worse. I woke up not feeling good and my wife wasn’t feeling good so we went to the ER and got shots. Being a manly man, I almost...
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Getting Close to “Finito!”
The Farmer’s Boy, a high fantasy novel about a half-ogre trying to win acceptance as the first half-breed mage, is now 80570 words down. I wrote 3095 words tonight. I’ve written 31807 words so far...
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Again with the CorticoSteroids
My normal writing process on the weekends is to get an extra hour or two in during the day and then get my usual 3-4 hours at night after my wife goes to bed. Well, tonight, the corticosteroids were...
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Calling it done… One more to go
I’ve been a bad boy and I’ve got nothing but excuses. I’m a huge, huge football fan. And Monday was our first pre-season game. I ended up watching the game. I wrote 179 words and then about 1000...
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And another one bites the dust…
Ahhhh… I’ve written 52407 words this month and I have finished the rough draft of Kiss Me, I’m Irish! Tonight was just a bit of touching up. A couple of quick scenes at the end and I went back and...
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20111228 Status Report
Well, heck. It’s been a while again. I’ve been really busy. I started Devon’s Year Long Workshop (Savvy Authors) about 4 months ago. In that class, I decided to re-write my Queen of Balthazar story...
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1/1/12 Status and Stuff
As of tonight I’m sitting at 137953 words in “The Queen of Balthazar.” I’ve got 24 scenes left. So far in this book, my scenes are averaging about 1300 words. That leaves about 31,200 words and if I...
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Doomed
I’ve been slammed at work since December and I will continue to be slammed up until April or May. But I finished The Queen of Balthazar and I’ve begun on Shadowhunter’s Son, a pure science fiction...
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The Lightbringer
Here’s another picture I created. I can’t take much credit for this, though. I created the terrain in Bryce which is pretty much just hit a button and make some selections and it creates it for you....
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The past few mo…
The past few months have been hellish at work. I’ve been working 7 days a week and 10-14 hours a day. And then I strained a hamstring and spent one weekend in a morphine and hydrocodone haze. But I...
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Shadows and Daz
In my last post, Kirsten said something about the shadows and my pictures vs. hers. The thing about Daz is that you’ve got to turn the shadows on. The default setting for the light sources is that...
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Quick Lighting Discussion
Everything used in the following pictures comes standard with the Daz download. This is the Basic Female character in a Tankini (and the JS Pants). She posed with the Female Fashion 02 pose. I was...
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A Quick Status
So, I’m about 66000 words into Shadowhunter’s Son, a science fiction story about a guy just trying to get back home. I’ve also started revising the Queen of Balthazar for Devon’s Year class. I’ve got...
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20120417 – Status
The Queen of Balthazar: This is in revision but I’ve discovered a whole bunch of missing scenes that need to be written. In particular, in the first quarter of the book, I originally had my heroine...
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Artwork and Uberenvironment
Besides slaving away trying to get 500 words a day on Shadowhunter while I revise Balthazar, I’ve been experimenting more with the artwork stuff. I love doing this. And I’m figuring out how to use...
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