Ialfa

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 40460

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 36409

The fan that I knew would show up (that's why I used one in the lj icon) finally did. And Kide's already putting it to good use. 🙂

I've also finished Chapter Four of the Flag in Flames layout sketches.
I think I'm going to spend some time organizing my 3D graphics toys next.

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Wordcount: 32807

I think we have passed the point of maximum confusion, and from here on in Kide actually gets to find out what is going on. (And then I sure hope he can figure out how to fix everything, because I haven't managed to do so yet.)

I've been searching the web for stuff that will help figure out what I should be doing with the layouts for Black Flag, and one of the things I found was a critique by some guy named Alex Toth of some other guy named Steve Rude. And although I have no experience and no training and know next to nothing in this field, Alex Toth's critique makes me positively eager to go and do all the things he tells Steve Rude not to — most particularly, when he goes on about Steve showing characters from the back.

In my search I have been looking at a lot of manga related sites (because they are there) and one of the comments that has been made is that in manga you are much more likely to see a main character's back. This is almost never done in American comics. Well, now I know why — if you tried to show them from the back some geezer would yell at you. I've been showing people from the back when there seemed to be a good reason to do so. And I intend to continue doing so, until I figure out a good reason not to.

One of the other things I found on the web was McCloud saying in an interview that everyone starts out in comics by wanting to imitate the style of some favorite artist. I suspect he's mostly right, but I can't possibly be the only one who has approached the field from a completely different angle than that one.

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 30151

Boyd bought me Sims2 in the hopes that it would be something that can actually hold my interest for an extended length of time. It is rare for me to maintain an interest in a computer game for more than a week, but it would be nice to have something for me to resort to when I've run out of books and don't feel well enough to visit the library.

I've also done some work on the Cantata cover. (It would go a lot faster if I wasn't so picky about getting it *right*.) I am making some hair for Bazomi, having been unable to find anything I thought truly suitable, and having decided that the hair I had made for the earlier version of her wasn't good enough. I have the hair base pretty much done, and I think it will do. I am now working on her bangs. Next I do the rolls and the loops, which will hopefully be the easy part.

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
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Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 22078

Trivia:
Although I have started a hundred stories (and finished maybe thirty, although six of those are novel lengthed)…
…I have no story titles starting with the letters J, U, X or Z.
(There's this “alphabetical fanfic” meme going round, see, and although I don't do fanfic…)

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 17693

I'm about 800 words short my week's quota if I just count what I did on Pavane, but I'm way over quota if I count the work I did on the Flag in Flames script, so I'm not sure if I should be feeling guilty or not.

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 13477

The latest 1000 or so words were written between 1:45 and 4:15 this morning.

Does that mean they are today's words or yesterday's words?

I wanted to test out some features on a journaling software demo, so last night I also I created a blog at
lshelby.blogspot.com. Ostensibly the blog is where I will post my insights and research into my hobby project of making the best evah 'value added' writer's website. The Blog's called “Webbing Worlds” and I would appreciate people hinting me towards sites with worldbuilding type stuff to help me in the research department. (I don't care if the world that has been webbed has been commercially published or not. The focus is website design.)

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 11046

I also started adding the glossary from Cantata into my database. Now my wrists hurt.

I think maybe I need to find something to do for the rest of today that doesn't involve my computer.

Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
Word Count: 7759

I started out the morning playing with the database I'm building with MySQL to hold all my writing notes instead of doing any actual writing. I had plugged in pretty much everything on the Black Flag history page into the “Events” table last night, when I was feeling too brain dead to do anything interesting, and then I had started trying to put together some PHP so I could turn the information back into a webpage again, only that had proved a little more than I could handle in that state. So I spent most of this morning gleefully creating a sample history webpage, and filling it with various combinations of 'event' data at the change of a couple lines of code. (Birthdays in, birthday's out, everything associated with any actual stories, out, story start and end dates back in, etc.) That was fun. I'm going to do a people page next, and then I'll see if I can get it set up so that I can see all the people, and anyone else would only be able to see the people born before the first story starts (bwahaha!). 🙂

My next major data entry job will probably be the Cantata glossary. The better shape I get my Ialfa notes into the better it will be for Pavane. I spend way too much time looking stuff up, when I should be writing.