State of Progress of My Works Today

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.