Editing on SOTM 15 and puzzling out how I want the next “of the wood” story to go. Have Lowborn and the next VR:DQ going as well. Just a matter of what strikes me when I have time/peace to work.
New video up. This one is less tips n’ tricks and more me playing through the game making silly comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6NZ6px2h7E
Okay, back to editing Ch. 15. At least that’s the plan for the moment *laugh*
They boy’s been a pain, so haven’t accomplished much. I did make it through Ch. 14. I’ll probably give it one more read in a different font size and face with an extra keen eye for unnecessary proper names, but it’s more or less ready to go.
I started on 15, but I’m only a few paragraphs in so far. I keep getting caught up in reading and forgetting to edit. I can only hope that translates over to y’all when it comes out *laugh*
Probably be all that I do tonight, because my eyes are getting heavy. Stayed up late last night working on that edit and putting together most of my fourth LP video.
The boy’s been a pain, but I’ve found some time to do some editing on Ch. 14. There’s plenty of color in that one so far, so I haven’t had to set the scene like I will in later chapters ( and probably near the end of this one ) I’m mainly taking out umpteen proper names and cleaning up awkward phrasing.
Seems like he’s winding down now, so I’ll probably go hit the bath once he’s been out for an hour or so, and then do some more editing. Might even write a little, if I can turn off the t.v. or move him from the couch to the bed so I can get some quiet.
Probably take the time to record a little more for my Let’s Play series, too. I’ll try to use as much time as possible for my writing, though. The LP is just a goof off thing, more or less. Having some variety in projects is just helping me stay motivated and keeping everything moving forward. Whenever I feel a little burned, I just turn my attention to something else. The LP, the website, SOTM, Lowborn, Les stories…
You get the picture.
Doing the LP also gives me doses of gaming in there, which seems to help keep my spirits up and my juices flowing.
Time to turn the dryer back on and put another load into the washer.
If you check out the Preview Pages, you’ll find a new link. This one demonstrates how the “Latest Stories” page is going to look.
On a similar note, there’s a reason that most of those say “Work in Progress”. After looking at it several times, I’ve decided that the Story Listing page really needs some sort of background color thrown into the individual stories and category headings to set them off. I’ll be experimenting with that at some point in the near future.
I’ve created the database organization for the Latest Releases page, so now I’m going to start digging through my old PHP files for what data type each table row should be. I want to keep it minimized, even though this table will have a pretty finite size. It’s never going to have more than 10 entries, because old ones are dropped when new ones are added.
Good practice for the future larger tables, though.
Once I’ve figured that out, I’ll probably load up a couple of rows with manual data and practice retrieving it with PHP pages. It’s been a while, and I’m willing to bet that little operation will take some time for me to get right *laugh*
Once I can retrieve it with a test page, then I’ll practice writing it with yet another test page. Then, once that’s working, I can actually write the admin interface to do it for real.
With any luck, I’ll have something to enter into it for real before too long. I’m writing when I can, and things are moving.
As I said before — getting this working will be the major threshold for moving the website redesign forward. This one widget will require nearly every sort of coding element that any other page will require. I should have everything down pretty well by the time I finish this.
Okay, break time for a few. Then I’m going to pop open a few files and see what’s striking me to write/edit. I’m leaning toward editing the unpublished chapters of SOTM at the moment, getting them fully ready for posting… Even if they won’t get posted for some time. That takes less concentration than actually visualizing scenes, and thus is much easier to do with tornado boy awake and up to about F-3 level.
No, I wasn’t watching it — My sister was *laugh* I gave up on all sports with the 80’s Cardinals having 80% of the highlights reels for amazing plays, and still managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at every turn.
Thus, I still don’t have that drive enclosure. We’ll see what happens next week.
I did manage to write a bit this morning. I went back to that scene I skipped in SOTM and finished it, getting something important about Meckataur in there. Then, I went to the next scene with Danica and Celes, and fixed a little nagging point that was bothering me about the whole thing. I also cleaned up a scene with Zoraster, and made a few other little changes to get the flow going right.
All in all, I ended up with about the same word count that I had before making the changes, but I’m much happier with those two-thousand-some-odd words.
I was up early as hell, though. Thus, I’m going to take myself to bed, now that the young one is down for the night. With any luck, this week will actually prove to be short, as last week was supposed to be, allowing me to get my drive enclosure and write a little after work.
