kippurbird: (Writer at work)
I started writing book two in the great forms trilogy. I don't have a title for it yet. Just as I wrote that the title "Griffin's Lands" suggested itself. This is because the main plot of the book is the retaking of the Griffin's kingdom. Well, his/her descendents. The Griffin isn't around any more, though his/her people still consider themselves belonging to the Griffin. I say his/hers because the Griffin could be either gender depending on who holds the jewel. Or who used to hold the jewel. It's gone now. But I digress.

Book titles

1. Fettered Phoenix
2. Griffin's Lands
3. ???

It's kind of odd writing book two because I keep on having to remind myself that someone might pick it up without having read book one. Out of necessity it starts a few hours after book one ends. This requires reintroducing everyone and putting in what happened in book one in some way that isn't... info-dumpy.

I suppose I could do a "previously on..." introduction, but that doesn't feel right.

Crafting! I'll have to do it.
kippurbird: (Please Stand By)
I am going to be doing something highly nerve wracking tonight. I am going to a singles event by myself.

WooOooooghoah

It takes place in a comic book store and is for geeky types which makes it somewhat better. Geekery I can do. But it will be filled with strange new people. Which is scary. Insanely anxiety producing.

And it doesn't help that my back and neck decided HEY LET'S GO ALL STIFF!!! :D :D Fffght. It's going to make the drive fun tonight.


In funner news, I just blasted by 90k in my Great Forms novel. This is currently heading to the longest thing I've ever written - and in the shortest period of time considering. The longest thing I've ever written was my Thesis which took about two years to get done fully and then another year to get edited.

I don't think I'll be picking up another book to go through until after Comic Con. With work deciding to be all up in the air I don't have the mental fortitude to do one. Hopefully by the end of July/Beginning of August it'll be all settled down and I can focus.


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kippurbird: (white tit head tilt)
While working on the Fettered Phoenix novel tonight Word gave me a message saying that the document was too long and it can't give me the little red lines or green lines to indicate spelling and grammatical errors any more.

I believe the last time this happened to me was with my Thesis which clocks in around 95k total. I'm at about 65k now and aiming for about 95-100k. I ended up making a second document and adding a bunch of names to the dictionary. I'm guessing then that this is probably going to be the longest thing I've ever written. And it's taking me much less time to do it than my Thesis which took about four years. It's been about three months since I started the Fettered Phoenix. That's a lot faster, isn't it?

In the mean time... PICTURES:

PICTURES )
kippurbird: (hee!)
So, in my Great Forms novel (series) I have three creatures, The Ice Drake, the Silver Wyrm and the Black Dragon, who in theory could be very similar looking. After all they're all dragonic 'types'. However I didn't just want them to be the same 'dragon' form with different colors or abilities. So these sketches are what I came up with:

Cut for pictures )

I think the differences work and I hope the descriptions in the book also describe what I've drawn here. Otherwise I'd be sad.

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