I counted how many pages I had sketched out for Scent of Spring yesterday, and I was working on page 87. I thought there was only going to be around eighty pages in the silly thing. (Not a very good guesser, am I?) I don't think I can be that much past two thirds through the story… so much for “less than a half as long as Black Flag”.
Although Black Flag just got longer too. I posted the sketches for Flag in Flames online (http://www.lshelby.com/BlackFlag/FlagDraft/0-0.php login:guest, password: crit) in the theory that someone might be willing to look them over and make nasty comments, and if I was going to do that, I needed to make those revisions I had planned. As usual I had kind of rushed the ending, and so I ended up adding an entire new chapter. I think that puts my total pages figure up to 218.
Slightly more cheerfully, I should have no trouble finishing off my weeks' writing quota today. Yay! Progress, makes me happy. That'll put me at about 15 000 words.
(Why am I not posting word counts of this story? Well, for one thing, I have a wordcount page on my website now — http://www.lshelby.com/wordcount.php — and secondly, I'm still not sure what the title is yet. The wordcount page on my website is created dynamically from a database, where I change the name of the story once, and every word count entry for that story is updated. Here on lj that wouldn't happen. Although one disadvantage to the database thingy -> on my own computer the wordcounts on the site are automatically updated, but the copy of my website on the webserver has to wait on me getting around to doing the database datasync routine before it's up to date.)
I'm glad that the writing going well, because UV mapping my space armor is proving problematical. Apparently my 3Dmodelling program does great maps if you do them *before* splitting your object up into different pieces so that it can be made to move with the character. Afterward… no love. Each body part ends up mapped individually. Arg! I need to dig out my older not so cool mapping utility and see what it can do.
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