April is done. I survived. And after a week and a half spent hanging out with my lovely girlfriend, a number of tasty (and gust-busting) sushi dates, a Guinness, and a party with a number of my best friends, I have successfully purged any remaining good work-habits from my system. Deadlines are a distant memory.
So, let the scribbling begin.
First off, thanks to all involved in giving "Her Catalyst" a Daily Deviation! That includes the two deviants who suggested it--vespera and neurotype--my lovely girlfriend for sending me the work of art that inspired it, and Chiu Chih for creating the art in the first place. If you haven't already, find her work here:
I finally got word back from Martin Hoojimans at Story Shack Magazine--one of my stories is currently in the works for publication there. They've got an illustrator lined up, and it should be out by the first week of May. I have to turn another one into them in the next week or so if I'm going to make the deadline, but I understand that they've got a lot of submissions on the go at the moment. Will post a link once it's up.
As for "Instant Gratification", I've been working on fleshing out the outline into something that I can use--something that doesn't look like it's been scribbled on a bar napkin. Hope to have it all done in the next two weeks. Writing shall hopefully commence in the last two weeks of May. I don't know how long this one's going to take, but hopefully it doesn't stop and start like "Pit Stop" has (which, by the way, is about two-thirds done. It's going to be my side project on top of "Instant Gratification". I love the story and the characters--it's just taken me forever. More on that later.)
There's a number of other things in the works: a few short stories, a graphic novel script idea, two novellas. Oh, and an Inception-based RP I'm doing with my very lovely girlfriend! Haven't done text role-plays in a long, long time. It's a private RP, but I feel the need to shout about it from the pixalated rooftops--so, if you hear about a Brazilian drug cartel member-turned-MI6 member named Adriano and/or a sophisticated British dream-maker named Clara, this is what I'm talking about.
The blog will be getting updated more (with project updates and other things--opinion things, perhaps), and I hope to get a few stories up in my gallery before the summer is out. Perhaps the novellas, if they don't go anywhere. I might end up writing one 40K fiction piece I've been mulling over for a long time--we'll see.
Back to scribbling. More posts later this week.
So, let the scribbling begin.
First off, thanks to all involved in giving "Her Catalyst" a Daily Deviation! That includes the two deviants who suggested it--vespera and neurotype--my lovely girlfriend for sending me the work of art that inspired it, and Chiu Chih for creating the art in the first place. If you haven't already, find her work here:
I finally got word back from Martin Hoojimans at Story Shack Magazine--one of my stories is currently in the works for publication there. They've got an illustrator lined up, and it should be out by the first week of May. I have to turn another one into them in the next week or so if I'm going to make the deadline, but I understand that they've got a lot of submissions on the go at the moment. Will post a link once it's up.
As for "Instant Gratification", I've been working on fleshing out the outline into something that I can use--something that doesn't look like it's been scribbled on a bar napkin. Hope to have it all done in the next two weeks. Writing shall hopefully commence in the last two weeks of May. I don't know how long this one's going to take, but hopefully it doesn't stop and start like "Pit Stop" has (which, by the way, is about two-thirds done. It's going to be my side project on top of "Instant Gratification". I love the story and the characters--it's just taken me forever. More on that later.)
There's a number of other things in the works: a few short stories, a graphic novel script idea, two novellas. Oh, and an Inception-based RP I'm doing with my very lovely girlfriend! Haven't done text role-plays in a long, long time. It's a private RP, but I feel the need to shout about it from the pixalated rooftops--so, if you hear about a Brazilian drug cartel member-turned-MI6 member named Adriano and/or a sophisticated British dream-maker named Clara, this is what I'm talking about.
The blog will be getting updated more (with project updates and other things--opinion things, perhaps), and I hope to get a few stories up in my gallery before the summer is out. Perhaps the novellas, if they don't go anywhere. I might end up writing one 40K fiction piece I've been mulling over for a long time--we'll see.
Back to scribbling. More posts later this week.