I'll start first with my written novel, I am at 56K words and 12.5 chapters. The main character and his traveling companion are about to meet up with a bad-ass that gets his own book earlier in the time line. I can't wait. This is my 4th and hopefully final rewrite of this book before I get my panel of proofers to go over it. After that, I'm submitting for publishing. Should be another 3 months or so.
Game engine. Well, I haven't put any more progress on pulling together and arranging the elements of what I want to submit for publishing this year, but I have done a nifty bit of spreadsheet work for the rules of another D6 based game engine. It is a universal RPG like most I try to make, and also has another element of growth control that the moderator can use to keep people even without looking like they're shorting the man in front.
The system has guides for equipment, rules for combo attacks, counter attacks, critical hits, spells, special attacks, and energy assisted skills. It's all very malleable to whatever setting the player wants. Now, as always, I just need play testing.
My graphic novel. Well, we have all the main characters and their pets done up in two separate representations. We need to get the rest of the concept art and the cells for each character finished before we can start production. Problem with this graphic novel in specific, is that we're going to go through a lot of characters, none of which get prolonged screen time. This means a lot more time invested on concept art then on actual page cells.
I'm not going to bend to cheaper production though! If I do, my subconscious mind might retaliate against me. My sister asked me after I laid out the vision from my dream of Book 1 and 2 of this graphic novel, 'what if the publisher ends up wanting a Book 3 or more? And what if they're offering a LOT of money?'
I had this book in a dream, and do not wish to compromise it at all, so I simply answered: 'I'll sleep on it.'
Well, the muse is going to strike me once more, so I'm back to chapter 13 of my fantasy novel.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Internal Inspiration without Perspiration
Most of the great ideas I get for my works come from my dreams. From the earliest I can remember, I have always had vivid and colorful dreams. I began lucid dreaming (realizing I was in a dream while in a dream) at about age five. I would then control the dream world within my head and do whatever I felt like.
As I grew into middle school, I remember seeing an episode of 'Batman The Animated Series', where Batman realized he was being manipulated by the Riddler in his dreams, by the fact that he picked up a newspaper and the words were all jumbled.
Apparently, the literate part of your brain and the part you dream with are supposed to be far apart from one another. This was the reason for Batman not being able to read, and thus figuring out the Riddler was messing with him.
Well, I saw this as a challenge. In my dreams for the next year or so, every time I was lucid, I grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and began writing and signing my name, over and over again, until eventually, I could read in my dreams.
As I grew into high school I experienced a few other dream no-no's. The first was pain. I had always thought that it was lame in movies for bad guys to go down after one shot to the gut, or a stab in the back. In a dream I had where I was at some drug dealer's poker game for some reason, things went sour and a gunfight ensued. I was just a bystander with no armaments, and I ended up taking three slugs to the abdomen. I remember the pain being crippling, the hot pieces of metal draining my very will. All I wanted to do was lie down and die. Like in the movies!
As I grew into college, I had a third dream no-no. It is much more difficult for the male brain to facilitate a female voice, so most voices in dreams are male. I sharply remember hearing the voice of a girl I had known in high school in a dream of mine. Later I noticed lots of female voices in my dreams. How nice for me, it's not just a vocal sausage fest.
I enjoy every bit of creativity that comes from my subconscious, and as such, I like to recall as many of my dreams as possible. I had heard, tested, and verified, that if you want to increase your remembrance of dreams upon waking, one way to do it is to log all the dreams you do remember in a journal, or dream log.
I currently keep as many of my dreams as I can remember on a log that is actually part of a forum. If you wish to look into my night-mind, I am the most avid poster of the subject at this link: Odd Dreams?.
There are a few dreams I have had that I can't log on that site...as they are too disturbing to the outer facade of the average human, but this is the internet! So, if you wish to see my darker dreams, they will be appearing on my sister site: http://casualsurfer.myblogsite.com/
There are another select version of dreams that will simply not be posted at all. I am sorry to say to you reader, that these dreams are not private because I am shamed, they are private because I am proud. For example I had one dream where I had read an entire graphic novel from cover to cover. I woke up, checked the internet to make sure it didn't exist, and now I am having my sister, a great artist, illustrate it. Giving away dreams like these would be giving my earning potentials and publishing potential away.
So, the only dreams that will be kept from you, reader, are those I will put up on store shelves.
As I grew into middle school, I remember seeing an episode of 'Batman The Animated Series', where Batman realized he was being manipulated by the Riddler in his dreams, by the fact that he picked up a newspaper and the words were all jumbled.
Apparently, the literate part of your brain and the part you dream with are supposed to be far apart from one another. This was the reason for Batman not being able to read, and thus figuring out the Riddler was messing with him.
Well, I saw this as a challenge. In my dreams for the next year or so, every time I was lucid, I grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and began writing and signing my name, over and over again, until eventually, I could read in my dreams.
As I grew into high school I experienced a few other dream no-no's. The first was pain. I had always thought that it was lame in movies for bad guys to go down after one shot to the gut, or a stab in the back. In a dream I had where I was at some drug dealer's poker game for some reason, things went sour and a gunfight ensued. I was just a bystander with no armaments, and I ended up taking three slugs to the abdomen. I remember the pain being crippling, the hot pieces of metal draining my very will. All I wanted to do was lie down and die. Like in the movies!
As I grew into college, I had a third dream no-no. It is much more difficult for the male brain to facilitate a female voice, so most voices in dreams are male. I sharply remember hearing the voice of a girl I had known in high school in a dream of mine. Later I noticed lots of female voices in my dreams. How nice for me, it's not just a vocal sausage fest.
I enjoy every bit of creativity that comes from my subconscious, and as such, I like to recall as many of my dreams as possible. I had heard, tested, and verified, that if you want to increase your remembrance of dreams upon waking, one way to do it is to log all the dreams you do remember in a journal, or dream log.
I currently keep as many of my dreams as I can remember on a log that is actually part of a forum. If you wish to look into my night-mind, I am the most avid poster of the subject at this link: Odd Dreams?.
There are a few dreams I have had that I can't log on that site...as they are too disturbing to the outer facade of the average human, but this is the internet! So, if you wish to see my darker dreams, they will be appearing on my sister site: http://casualsurfer.myblogsite.com/
There are another select version of dreams that will simply not be posted at all. I am sorry to say to you reader, that these dreams are not private because I am shamed, they are private because I am proud. For example I had one dream where I had read an entire graphic novel from cover to cover. I woke up, checked the internet to make sure it didn't exist, and now I am having my sister, a great artist, illustrate it. Giving away dreams like these would be giving my earning potentials and publishing potential away.
So, the only dreams that will be kept from you, reader, are those I will put up on store shelves.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Casual Internet's take on N-Viro International
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N-Viro International has put forth the effort and resources to create a profitable way to recycle society's organic refuse into an alternative energy source. Whichever culture of the world you choose to look at, we all have an abundance of unusable bio-rubbish left over at the end of our day, no matter how conservative your approach may be.
With a process like N-Viro's that turns that waste to energy, our bio-refuse becomes a very important piece of the renewable energy cycle. The idea of opportunity fuels like bio-diesel and ethanol is green in the public eye, but what of the waste generated from the refining process?
Energy corporations and politicians speak heavily of clean coal, and cleaner methods of gaining energy from coal, but there is still going to be organic refuse left over.
We have our renewable sources of energy, which means we won't run out of fuels to burn for heat or electricity. N-Viro is taking the 'ash', the organic waste-product from our daily labors, pulled from our sewage and waste water by our already existing municipal water facilities, and turning it into their N-Viro Soil™ which gets added back into our commercial fertilizers to grow our corn and soy again, completing the circle of a truly renewable resource; where most municipal bio-sludge gets deposited in landfills, where it's potential is lost, and it's odor is prominent.
I could go into further detail as to their works after researching them further, but I wanted to get this out there now for your eyes. If you wish to hear it from them, again here are their links:
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My first blog is specifically for verification of a website that pays people to blog. (Hopefully myself). Anyways, they ask I add a xenophobia. How will you eat yours? into the body of my text, anywhere, before I submit it, wish me luck and fortune!
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