What's NEW
- 14-APR-2006
Book 1 (that's right, the whole book) is now in final edit. I've decided to move a lot of the fallout into Book 2, because the siege and return seem like good place to stop. I've made some real changes to the flow and feel of the book, and overall I'm very happy with it. I know I need to work on characterization more, but that's going to wait for the rewrite. Book 2 will be started shortly. Major update to the Timeline and Codex pages, moreso the timeline. The Codex is going to take a while.
- 11-APR-2006
Chapert 11 has a been written in rough draft form, no Tohri data yet, that's in progress. Chapter 12 started, some minor work done.
- 06-APR-2006
Chapter 10 has had a once-through. 10 is not particularly important to the story, but it is one of my favorite bits, and now its done.
- 04-APR-2006
Started chapter 10 and added quite a bit to 9, now in draft
- 28-MAR-2006
Rework is done on 1-9 including six metric tons of updates. It doesn't look like I've done much for the last few months, but I have! The book is essentially readable through chapter 8, all 74,000 words of it.
- 04-NOV-2005
Taking a break from 8, Chapter 9 jumps forward with a major plot point resolved to my satisfaction. There's a question on the structure of 7/8/9, it may become 2 chapters or I may break it out even further. Depends on where breaks come in as I add the other threads of the story in.
- 01-NOV-2005
Chapter 8 is coming along, cleanup on 7 and some minor tweaks
- 12-OCT-2005
Chapter 7 is in draft mode, and is now as long as chapter 2, which is the longest in the book thus far. I've done some minor rewriting of the first few chapters, mostly cleaning up and expanding descriptions. I've also done some work outlining chapters 8 and 9. Hopefully it won't take another year to get to the end of the book, but I wouldn't swear to it.
- 02-SEP-2005
Moving and new work (not a new job, just new workload) have slowed me down, but I'm not quitting. I've done some work on 6, 7 and 8, hopefully getting my block out of the way and getting back on track. I keep wanting to leave parts of the story untold and jump ahead to the interesting bits, like with a DVR... damn short attention span.
- 28-APR-2005
Work is being done, slowly. Chapter 7 has finally started to take shape, and there are some updates to 6 and 8. I've also gone over several chapters for minor spell fixes and edits.
- 09-FEB-2005
I knew GTA would kill me. Tivar has taken a back seat to work and play. Part of it is that my time is divided and part is my motivation has waned after starting Chapters 7 and 8. So much of it is poorly paced and overwritten. So I'm going to reread it all and polish it up as much as possible.
Still marshalling on.
- 27-OCT-2004
Chapter 7 is fully outlined, which gives me an idea of how the chapter flows and if I need to move anything in or out to maintain pacing.
Also, I've hit 50,000 words. This isn't an accurate count in terms of publishing, it's a direct count. I expect Book 1 to reach at least 100k words, so I'm half way done with the rough take.
- 26-OCT-2004
Chapter 6 has been updated with all of the text concerning the main party. I am considering whether or not I want to expand certain parts or add some other details.
I've also added a bit to the Codex, including 2 very rough renders of different buildings.
Finally, I'm starting Chapter 7 where I will hopefully lay the groundwork for the greater quest that exists.
On a side note, GTA: San Andreas comes out today, so there'll be yet another demand on my time.
- 25-OCT-2004
Chapter 6 is now a little less than half done. 1-5 is mostly complete, I need to clean a few things up. Minor updates to site layout and appearnace, and I'm thinking about adding some stuff to the Codex to clear my head.
Also expect a 3D render of the lookout tower from chapter 6. Its easy to do and I think it will add something to the site.
- 22-OCT-2004
Updated the Codex a bit more and did some final cleanup on 1-1 through 1-3, which are all now in final edit mode. 1-4 needs a last review and 1-5 is now in draft.
- 21-OCT-2004
Some work on 5, updated the codex. I may need to break out some of what was in 5 to become a new 6, bumping the rest of the chapters up 1. We'll see.
- 20-OCT-2004
Big addition to chapter 5, which is now roughly halfway done.
- 19-OCT-2004
Did a lot of rework on the first 4 chapters. I'm happy with the way things are, just not at how slow things are going.
Ah well, there is at least progress. Some of chapter 5 should be up shortly.
- 14-OCT-2004
Finished the last bit of chapter 4, and bumped it up to draft mode. This means the text that's nearly complete is roughly 43 pages long.
- 13-OCT-2004
Mapped out the rest of Book 1
- 12-OCT-2004
Minor updates to most of the existing chapters (1 to 4). Redid all the pages to properly use CSS formatting.
Also added the maps and codex pages, which are empty. So its more or less an advertisement for how much I don't have finished.
Ditto the new chapter names for chapters that I've sketched out in outline form but have yet to do any text on.
Yeah.
- 11-OCT-2004
The bulk of 1-3 is roughed out. Spit 'n' polish as I have time. 1-4 should be somewhere in draft today.
- 08-OCT-2004
Added quite a bit to 1-3. Revisions and updates to 1-2 and even a few minor tweaks to 1-1.
- 07-OCT-2004
Happy Tivar Day. Carve the cantilope and pass the cajun-fried lemur.
Chapters 1-1 through 1-2 are up, 1-3 has the first section up.
- 01-OCT-2004
I've started converting the first 3 chapters to HTML for web publication. One day, this will be a national holiday. For something completely unrelated.