Didn’t get out of work anywhere near as early as I expected, so I decided to put off the drive to pick up the enclosure for my hard drive today.  I’ll pick it up tomorrow when I should get out much earlier.

Did a bit more writing on the stuff I’m working on.  A little SOTM, a little VR:DQ…  Things are moving, and I’m feeling good when I have some quiet time to write.

May work on the website a little once I get that drive hooked up to the system.  Now I have all of my old stuff, but I need my new stuff that’s on that drive *laugh*  I could have pulled everything back off the server, but I decided just to wait until I hooked up the drive.

Once I get everything back within easy access, I should be able to move a lot of stuff forward.  Figured I’d drop a line, and let everyone know that I’m plugging away.  With the ease of updating through the blog, it’s probably something I’ll do quite often any time I’m feeling motivated enough to work on something that those who read me would be interested in.

Finally got around to creating the “preview pages” page to link all the stuff I’ll present as I work on the new site.  This leaves that section of the index page open to also potentially link new stories when I release them.

:: Crosses Fingers ::

There’s nothing new as far as previews, but all the previews will be linked from that one page from now on.

I have more images on hand for new pages — courtesy of RejectReality.  Just need to make new pages to use them on *laugh*

I’ve also opened up both Lowborn and Sisters of the Mists in recent days, reading back through existing chapters in preparation to work on them again.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that I’m going to have to edit the last couple of published chapters of SOTM to get the story rolling correctly again.  I just haven’t shown enough of the “bad guys” part of the plot.  That needs to be in there, and I don’t think I can put it in the unpublished chapters completely and keep the flow smooth.

I could be wrong, though.  It’ll be up to when I really knuckle down to determine that.

Likewise, I have some ideas floating around for Les Lumens stories.  I really need to be thinking about the next story in the “Of the Wood” series, since I’ve put one of those out for every Earth Day, even when I was barely writing at all.  I’d like to keep that tradition up.

We’ll see how my motivation goes today.  I might just get some more done on the website.  Writing isn’t likely today.  I think it best if I not try that until I’m on vacation and I have the whole house to myself with no distractions.  Once I’m rolling, I might just be able to keep the momentum up.

Speaking of vacation:  I’m going to power down the computer and do some maintainence ( blowing out the dust, new power strip, etc. ) and that will be the perfect opportunity to also boot up the old computer to transfer over my programming stuff from it.  That’s what I really need to get the site updates rolling.

At this point, I need to start creating the databases that will let me add information to the website from an admin panel.  For that, I need all my old programming stuff to refresh my memory.  I’ll do a few tests — and perhaps previews — using dummy information entered into the new database manually, and then start coding the admin panel to actually enter stuff into the database to use.