“No, no, no! You don’t want a basilisk as a familiar!”
“And then you can go home, and change your feet.”
“I think I’ll buy another harem.”
“You know, if you use a lawnmower, you may not even need the walnuts.”
“I unlocked the snowman!”
“No, no, no! You don’t want a basilisk as a familiar!”
“And then you can go home, and change your feet.”
“I think I’ll buy another harem.”
“You know, if you use a lawnmower, you may not even need the walnuts.”
“I unlocked the snowman!”
I made the following image to use for “Pieces of Flair” on Facebook. (It’s a virtual button collecting game.)
To my astonishment, people are actually adding the button I made to their “flair boards” (not just the people I sent it to, that wouldn’t astonish me, but other people too), and so I thought maybe some of my other writer friends might find some uses for it. Freely available for non-commercial use. You can copy it, distribute it, shrink down for avatars — whatever. 🙂
…And, speaking of me being astonished, that little recording of me singing the first verse of the Talon March that I posted for Talk Like a Pirate Day, has been downloaded 72 times this month. ?!?!?! I found the latest two downloads in my “most recent visitors list” and they were apparently made by two different people and both were “direct access” links. That seems a little odd.
Even if you count up everyone on livejournal and facebook, I still don’t think I have 72 friends who actually read this blog, and besides it was posted a while ago. So unless I have a few friends listening to it over and over, that song is loose on the net somewhere.
I made money yesterday.
It was less than two dollars, but who’s counting? I still think it’s cool.
Somebody bought one of my tshirts on Zazzle. This happens maybe once a year if I’m lucky — I’m not actually trying to sell any of that stuff, it’s mostly just things I made for me and my family.
This is the design that caught someone’s eye this time:
My youngest daughter was particularly happy to hear about the sale… that was one of the tshirts I made for her, and she helped me with it.
While I’m on the subject of my zazzle tshirts. This particular shirt gets me a lot of comments when I wear it to cons…
…is complete at 117 418 words.
When I finished working on Sails of Everwind today, I hit the wordcount function, and it told me I had 111666 words.
I hope there isn’t anything significant about that.
Sails of Everwind just passed the 100K words mark, and so is at an estimated 100+%, which breaks my progress bar.
I guess now would be a good time to remove the 8K or so words right at the beginning that I have decided I don’t want… that’ll give me a little more working room before I break my progress bar all over again.
(I’m close to the end, but not that close to the end. I’m guessing the first draft will run… 115K? Something like that.)
Since nobody actually reads these postings at my home blog, which has progress bars in the sidebar, I assume nobody noticed when, a month ago, the progress bar for Scent of Spring hit 100%. That doesn’t mean I’m done, but it does mean I’ve got a complete set of pencils (I’ve got all the lines drawn) that I would really, really like some feedback on before I start coloring everything.
The reason it took me a month to make this announcement, is that I was doing website alterations that I hoped would make beta-reading Scent of Spring a little easier. So not only does Scent of Spring now have a working website, the site also keeps track of if you are logged in or not, and will only show you the penciled pages if I’ve told it you are one of my beta readers. There is also a page tagging system that will allow you to easily find your place if you have to stop in the middle, and there are comment boxes located directly below each page, so that people can comment as they read.
Keeping in mind that I don’t pretend to be a professional artist, and that I’m very new to this whole Sequential Art storytelling gig, would anyone be willing to look over and comment on a 140 page mannerly romance (sort of Jane Austin-ish, but not set in England) webcomic?
Here’s a bit of sample art:
I guess its been a bit since I posted.
Mostly I’ve just been keeping my head down, working on stuff that I haven’t much wanted to talk about until it’s done and it isn’t yet, and dealing with life as it happens.
I did drop by OVFF on Saturday, though. I arrived around 1:30-2 and left a little after nine. During that time I didn’t manage to get into a single filk circle, but I saw lots of old friends, and spent some time talking with and getting to know some people I didn’t know before, and listened to a couple concerts. It’s all good. 🙂
I had a bit of a slow week writing-wise, but I think I had a pretty good excuse. My husband had a vacation week and decided that it was long past time that the we did something about the last room in the house that still sported the all-white paint job done by the former owners. It was time, he declared, to redo our bedroom.
I figured just having the room that I live in torn up would be hard enough on me, so I told him, “go ahead, but you’re on your own”. However, after painting a very beautiful sky on the upper walls, he began working on the lower walls, and realized he didn’t actually know what he wanted to achieve, and he didn’t like what he’d done. He asked me for advice, and in the end I pretty much took over shading the bottom half (he’d already done three layers of sponging as a base).
This was the result.
Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions of the images.
It’s not a very big room, and most of what I did will be covered with furniture. So why bother? I dunno. So we will know its there, I guess. Boyd’s sky, on the other hand, I will be seeing a lot of, as it not only covers the uppers walls, but the ceiling as well.
Sometime earlier this week I was thinking about digital paperdolls. (I think it was something someone mentioned on livejournal friends list?) So I started poking around the web to see if there were any freely available paperdoll scripts running around, and I found a hosted one, and I set it up, and wasn’t much impressed with it.
Sooooo….
I decided to build my own.
The Black Flag website now has a “Make Your Own Pirate” page in it’s extra stuff. (Or, if you prefer, there’s the even fancier “Pirate Colorizer” version.
I don’t know why I would want to have one. (It’s not a paperdoll, it’s an avatar builder!). But um, I did it all myself, and um…. it’s kinda fun?