Lazy Saturday

So my new header is up. Basically just a snapshot of my floor at the moment. Nothing but dirty laundry and books. Unfortunately the cropping removed a few of the visible books. Fortunately it also removed all of the visible underwear.

On a different note, I’ve finally installed a word processor on my desktop and have started writing. Well, sort of. I’ve had the intro for my steampunk project in my head for a while and I wrote the first page last night, but I’ve come upon an unexpected problem. I’m having trouble making it steampunk. Besides the mention of the zephyr that’s used as the main setting I can’t really think of a way to make the primarily visual genre translate into text. To be fair my story so far is more of a character introduction that an introduction and will probably not be the first part of the story once it’s all written.

Let me backtrack to the for I’m taking in the story. I’ve decided to introduce each character separately (or two at a time at the most) through mini chapters detailing each characters vacation between missions. I’ve started with the resident spy and assassin (probably because the art for the character was based on me, but also because I had some good ideas about the character). I’m thinking of writing the engineer next as a good intro to the technology and world in general or perhaps the captain, either one to be placed before the spy story.

I’m not really sure how long these intros should be. With at least 7 (perhaps 8 ) crew members, I don’t want the intro to drag on. At the same time the current intro I’m writing is one page in and I could write ten more. I’ll probably cut myself off between three and a half and four. That way the character intros can be 28 pages and then I can introduce additional characters later on.

I guess it would also be helpful to figure out how this story will be presented. I was thinking of writing it like a serial novel in terms of length, but that makes 28 pages a large investment for a book that would only be about 200. But that could be worth it if I can write a series of these books, which the story definitely lends itself to.

In any case, it’s good to finally be able to write, I’m hoping to keep myself at at least a page per day regardless of which project I’m working on. Not a lofty goal, but with my work ethic still may be difficult.

Now for some viewer participation, I need a name for my spy/assassin character. I’ve been using my own name so far, but that feels too fanfic-y. Also, I’m still having trouble coming up with my race designs for my fantasy project, so any ideas are appreciated.

~ by willdanceforideas on June 28, 2008.