Guess I just needed the break. I’ve been writing on SOTM 18 all morning, and I’m about to hit the 1/4 mark. There’s some big things going to go down in this chapter, though they may not all be immediately obvious at the time. Other things are going to start moving, bringing things to a boil.
I also need to go back and fix the very end of the last chapter. I don’t know what the hell I was thinking when I had Ebonar openly talking about Zoraster ( if not by name ) in front of Thanatos. Brain fart is the only way I can explain it — that and something else that’s about to break that I don’t want to spoil.
Anyway, I’m working on that, and thinking about opening up Lowborn while I’m at it as well, for a little variety. Trying to finish a story in my third name as well for the Nude Day contest ( the only one of the three ideas I had that’s working for me )
I’ll likely work on mapping out my fictional location in the BWCA soon, because I’m planning a summer story in the Wood universe. I want to get the region in a visible form as I have the area around Xantina’s wood, because those two locations are the hotbeds of the universe.
Been mulling over the website as well, and there will probably be some changes to the front page and the overall navigation — primarily, there’s going to be a sidebar for everyone. For those who choose to have it on, the floating menu will remain, staying readily available no matter what part of the page you’re viewing. Otherwise, it’s going to default to a sidebar. Both menus will be the same. It will just be a matter of whether it stays in place or scrolls with the page.
The reason for this is that I’m trying to create easier navigation. Too much of the way I was planning out the pages revolved around using back links, which is just too primative. Some pages ( such as individual maps ) will still be locked into this, because I need to expand the default viewing area to handle those, but everything else will have quick links to all major sections of the site on the sidebar.
How many links are there will be determined by how many I can fit on my default resolution ( which seems to be equal to or lower than 99% of visitors ) I’ll get as much easy linking as possible in that space.
That’s what’s been bothering me and keeping me from moving forward with the maps and character sections of the websites. Once I have that fully roughed out, I should be in a position to start cranking out more content.
Going to grab something to eat and get back to the scene I was working on in SOTM. There are still quite a few chapters to go, but a lot of things are going to come to a head in the near future.
