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Remember, new writing dev logs are happening on Mastodon now, because of Tumblr's recent and apparent hostile actions towards artists and writers. New one is here:
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For the foreseeable future, because Tumblr has betrayed my trust, I will be posting all future writing dev logs and art to my Mastodon.
If you have a Bluesky and want random updates (I'm still not sure what I want to use Bluesky for) that's here:
I hope this isn't the end, but I don't have much faith left. Just don't care much for being exploited and having my privacy invaded. Who'd have thought?
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Writing Dev Log Week 7
February 19 - Febuary 23, 2024
I spent my time this week writing out the sections I talked about last log. I finished introducing the stranger, did a couple of asides that were fun to write, especially the mythic one. Writing the meeting with the stranger was like pulling teeth but I guess I was having a bad day because I was able to fix it after a good night's rest. Then I started on the next section and soon we'll be heading to the river settlement to buy some children to raise up into mercenaries. As you do.
This next week I hope to get the mains down river and into the port city. I highly doubt we'll get past that point this week. I still need to have a long think about what happens once we get to the city. I know what needs to happen before we leave the city, and there's another mythical aside after that before we're escaping out onto the open sea. But I don't know certain specifics and now I will be forced to iron them out.
But I'm very pleased with the pacing so far. I'm saying what I need to say and then we're off to the next interesting thing. I wonder if this giant epic I've had in my head this whole time will be shorter than the unpublished 110k middle grade mess I wrote years ago. That would be really funny.
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Here's my Bluesky and my Mastodon for no particular reason.
Please give me a follow if you want to make sure that you see my future writing updates and art eventually maybe.
#I'm not terribly active in those places right now but I probably will be if the website does the thing I've heard rumors about#Let's hope not but ya know
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Writing Dev Log Week 6
February 12 - Febuary 16, 2024
I wrote about walking and did my best to hurry the pacing along. I realized I needed to introduce a character earlier than I had thought and while muddling through how that might happen while writing it all clicked together and it's like he was always supposed to be there. Which is fitting for this guy, he goes where he wants and shows up on time, at least in retrospect.
I'm still in the middle of introducing him and after that I'm going to have a little section from a god's perspective, from the past. It ended up working perfectly with the character intro too, since I've decided the location they're at are actually ruins made by the first people the god ever created, and since the first two mains will never know any of this information it will be best to bring it up here.
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Writing Dev Log Week 5
February 5 - Febuary 9, 2024
I got another scene completed. I am now somewhat lost on what I need to do next. I suspect that next week I will be thinking and picking. I need to go places, pick up people, find an Intereting Stranger, lose said Interesting Stranger, maybe do an aside bit from a god's perspective, and get to the city and be sad about it.
This ain't the part of the story I have daydreamed about much so a muddle we will go.
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Writing Dev Log Week 4
January 29-Febuary 2, 2024
We got off that mountain!
I'm having a great time so far. Things are clicking into place. We're on our way to the city now. We have some things that need to happen along the way in some order, and I don't know how long it will take to get there. I don't want to have this section go on for too long though, there's a character on a boat that I'm looking forward to getting to. But huzzah, we're on our way and stuff is working.
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Writing Dev Log Week 3
January 22-26, 2024
I only wrote one day this week. We're still not off that mountain but we will be next session. I had that interview to prep for, interview day, and then my brain was consumed by the Digimon tcg for the rest of the week.
Not much to be proud of there, but what I did write felt solid and I'm proud of how the scene went. I've written the beginning so many times now, so I can compare them and this one is the best so far. Since the story is xenofiction-ish I have a lot to explain up front, and I have to do it in an interesting way that doesn't bog the reader down. I think I might have done that this time.
And hey, I have thought of a working title! It's probably not a good final title but it does give me a star to point the ship towards. It's: Love Is The Point.
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Writing Dev Log Week 2
January 15-19, 2024
I didn't get to write as much as I would have liked. I certainly didn't get the main character off of the mountain. But I did do some solid chunks and figured out how I wanted to present the section. We're in the middle of meeting the second main character.
I remember reading that Terry Pratchett only wrote a few hundred words a day, I believe 400? I'm starting to understand the wisdom in that. It's not so much that a little bit every day goes a long way, it's that writing a small section at a time helps you to really focus on making that bit good. You can mull over what you wrote the day before in its entirety and think of better ways to write it, and fix it the next session before moving on.
I have a job interview this week, wish me luck. Might not get much done writing wise, and if I get the job it might be even slower going, but I'll figure it out. I do hope to get the main character off the mountain though.
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Writing Dev Log 1
Eh, whatever I'm doing it.
January 8-12, 2024
I started writing on that novel again. The first inklings of whatever this will be began back in 2001 when I was inspired by Rayman 2, a videogame I played on the Dreamcast. I was 14. It was an adventure story about collecting orbs to save the world, as you do.
Being a story one dreams up at 14 it's little surprise that the original incarnation no longer much resembles the story in my mind now that I'm 37. The main character changed three times, the world and focus is different, there's not an orb to be seen, but familiar names and faces, though not exactly the same, remain. Most stories don't survive that long in a person, not unless they grow up along with them. This is the rare one that did.
So this might be the culmination of myself and I really want to do a good job. There's an outline, I know where we're going though specifics along the way might surprise me. I just need to buckle down and try writing it. Again. Fifth or sixth time's the charm.
But really it does feel different this time. Like the train is moving and I'm actually on it. Like it will take a long time to get there, but that I will inevitably get there, a little bit at a time.
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Preamble out of the way, what I actually did this week was write the prologue, which was based on a half remembered thing I wrote ten plus years ago that I lost to some data not being backed up properly, and the beginning of the first chapter. Some of that was recycled from an attempt to write this thing last year.
I still don't have a name that I like for this thing, or even a working title. Nothing feels right. But I have plenty of time to think about it. I'm writing this thing for me after all, I can afford to be choosy.
Next week I hope to get my main character off of the mountain and within striking distance of the city. So far no issues.
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Still making art, still not posting. I'm thinking about making a separate blog for my head world for the novel I'm working on, just to talk about and muse, maybe throw in some inconsequential sketches. Though since this place is pretty quiet maybe I could repurpose this blog instead.
Don't know, I also think maybe this should be a lonely endeavor. Not only to motivate me to finish baking the thing, but to keep my ideas safe from scraping too. At least safe enough until I'm ready to publish it. A public journal sure would be cool though. Maybe I could keep things somewhat vague, like a game dev journal.
#I worry that the internet's vices and pitfalls are growing larger than its virtues and opportunities#And that this is all coming to an eventual end due to AI generation#And that I shouldn't sink much more time or energy into it#But I do long for the original promise that the internet symbolized#Connection and fun and innovation#But is it naive to try to grasp for that promise now?
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So because of the AI scraping/the mass art theft masquerading as progress, I have been making art and holding it back with the intent to post stuff eventually when things cool down, or there's tools available to better protect my work. However as the new year dawns I'm starting to think that's not going to happen on a timeline or in a way that works for me.
So my options are to shrug and post through it or assume I'll never post art again. And I gotta be honest, I'm leaning towards the latter right now.
I think I'll finish my comic for myself, at least up to the point I had written, and I'll write on a novel that only I will ever get to read. I'll make art to decorate my house. I'll enjoy myself and stop putting myself on hold for something that might never happen.
I'll probably post something again someday. I don't know the future. I might feel differently in a few months or years. But the internet ain't what it used to be. What I once wanted is no longer desirable, and might not have even been attainable for me anyway.
I'll also probably take a break from most social media for a spell, at the beginning of the year. Tumblr I will probably still visit since it's pretty chill and fun, but not Bluesky or Mastodon. I want to cut my internet time dramatically and read more paper books. I want to play some videogames. I want to stare out the window and think.
It might be a long time before you hear from me again. But I'm doing okay. I'm taking art back for myself. I'm finding moments of joy. I hope you are too.
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I wish Nightshade would come out so I could start posting art again.
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A couple of cool blue animal avatars I made a couple of months ago. The monkey belongs to @scowlermonkey
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I finally quit DeviantArt. 20 years and now it's over. I'm pretty tired and weary about it all, I hung on for way too long. But I can remember what it was. I miss that fun hopeful feeling, being a little artist online. When everything was pure potential.
I'll delete my link on my Carrd later.
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Looks like I didn't get that job because I got COVID at a bad time. Not sure what happens now.
Welp, I might not be able to really do much on the comic this fall after all. Need to go out and get a paying job, even if it's just minimum wage, and it appears I might have gotten one. Nobody's buying commissions from me at all. I'd love to make money drawing, but it's not in my cards.
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I forgot to mention it here but I do have a Bluesky account: link
I have slowly been uploading old work there. Come say hi if you can.
#They just got over a million users and are growing fast#If you're trying to get a code it's only a matter of time#Everyone gets one to give out about once a week or two#And you can sign up for one with the site directly#Which is how I got mine
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