So far, my brainstorm on Lowborn seems to be working. I just took a quick break from writing on it, in preparation for writing a critical reveal. If this one works, then it’s a matter of whether the next scene plays out correctly once I start writing it.
If that works, I’ll have the first draft done very soon.
I also added “Kindled in Fiction” as Les Lumens to the downloads section. Like other multi-chapter works, both chapters are included in each download. In addition, I added “Summer’s Heat” as Reject Reality when I discovered that it had been awarded as a recommended read at Lushstories.
More to come, of course.
With regards to Lushstories, I’m speaking with the mods there, and may be releasing more of my stories — including some of the longer ones — there as well. It appears their content restrictions have eased recently, and the sword-swinging might just be possible. Odds are that Merchant Princess will go up first if it’s within bounds.
Behind the scenes, the “My Worlds” section is getting close to gold. I’m going to finish the rough placeholders I have for the current character listings, and add a few more before launch. I’ll also add a couple more of the cleaned-up maps, and probably a few more documents. The only section that is bare-bones is the miscellaneous section, which will only have one audio file on it for the time being. Just need to get new ink cartridges for my printer in order to finish the main page image, and I can crank that out pretty quickly.
May look into embedded plug-ins to have that play directly on the page.
Even further behind the scenes, there’s going to be something special and useful for me in the “characters” section. I’m going to add several fields that only I can see, which will give me access to information I might need while writing that I’ve been having to dig back through manuscripts to find when I forget it.
What is Danica’s father’s name? Did I give Brandon an eye color? ( that will be public, actually ) I’ll be posting descriptions and information from previous stories to these hidden fields, in order to speed up the writing process.
It will be especially useful for characters in Danica, because that’s half a million words I have to scan through when I need to dig up some information. Bringing up a character sheet on my website will make that a lot quicker, and my background tools will let me add new stuff that I’ve had to dig up the old way quite easily, so I never have to do it again.
I’m going to add a public/private toggle field as well, so I can put some peripheral characters in the database that don’t really need a public entry, but who might be useful to me in writing.
I’m still working on “Friend of the Wood” as well, but right now, Lowborn has priority while it’s moving. I want to finish it, dammit! The new wood story will be horribly late, but I still want to post it if I finish it in the relatively near future.
That’s enough for now. Back to writing on Lowborn.
