Day 26, I win at NaNoWriMo :D
Posted: November 26, 2009 Filed under: Crappy Writing | Tags: fair, nanowrimo 6 Comments »yep, I hit the 50k mark today, the story is ‘whole’ it just lacks polish.
- Total Words: 50,771
- Today’s words: 4,494
looks like today was the biggest word count jump since the first day, awesome 😀
bit trickier to say ‘new chapters start at X’ today since I wrote the end yesterday, so heres whats new:
Added chapters 5-B, 17-B, 95-B, 119-B and added extra stuff to the end of chapters 10 and 15, as well as I got started on the ‘authors notes’ section where I explain plenty of stuff I find interesting 🙂
heres the latest version: Fair_Day26
the story additions were mostly stuff that needed fixing up (such as taking the time to establish Doll and the samurai’s relationship, and Mrs Irfan’s departure before Claire set off himself) but I also added stuff that wasn’t even hinted at before such as depicting Cadence’s fight where she get’s her third glow, and also our Trio of hero’s being ambushed on their way to Koob and one of our antagonists arranging it.
oh, also today I went through the whole thing and corrected the spelling, it really wasn’t as bad as I thought. 🙂
suffice to say, I’m very pleased with myself for getting this far perhaps too pleased but I don’t care) but I’m not done yet, theres a few things I want to tidy up still before I call it ‘november complete’ and I want to make a fresh cover and a crapload of illustrations too.
anyhoo, heres some stuff and my certificate:
This shows a counter and my progress for the month 🙂
My certificate, its definately lame, but I earnt it so I don't care 🙂
anyhoo, I’m going to turn on the beatles, and head off to bed. (yep, early bedtime is the best reward I can give myself, screw chocolate! ^_^)
Day 25, finished… the story!
Posted: November 25, 2009 Filed under: Art, Crappy Writing | Tags: fair, nanowrimo, painting 4 Comments »Yep, the story is now done, I even wrote ‘end’ after it. not hit the magic 50k quite yet, but its definately within my grasp 😀
- Total Words: 46,277
- Today’s words: 3,688 (booyah!)
new chapters start at 103: Fair_Day25
From here on I’ll be going back in and adding descriptions and a few edits where they are needed to bump up the word count but as far as I’m concerned finishing the story was the milestone I was most concerned about so I’m very happy today. 😀
also I worked more on that sketch I uploaded yesterday, I kept flipping back between writing and colouring and this is where I’m up to:
Still more to do on that too but I like how it’s coming along. anyhoo I’m going off now, lots to do tommorow so I gotta be ready 🙂
Day 24, much better :)
Posted: November 24, 2009 Filed under: 3D, Art, Crappy Writing | Tags: fair, nanowrimo, sculpt, sketch Leave a comment »STAT ATTAX!
- Total words: 42,589
- Today’s words: 2,081
new chapters start at 95 (though I changed 94 a teensy bit too): Fair_Day24
writing was much better today, like Willem commented on the last post, after being stuck in a rut it builds up pressure and you work much faster afterwards, not only did I lay down a respectable wordcount I also arted plenty too. (not fair-related but meh)
first some more playing around with blender’s sculpt mode:
also I did some photoshop scribblings of a girl’s first day of training after joining cyborg operations (the first training exercise determines what parts of your body are better off mechanical):
I also heard a rumour that today the new version of blender would be released and I got all excited but its a no-show so far… apart from that though its been a pretty productive day for me 😀
Day 23, uuuuuugh -_-
Posted: November 23, 2009 Filed under: 3D, Crappy Writing | Tags: blender, fair, nanowrimo 5 Comments »Today I only wrote 903 words… and they all suck 🙁
- Total Words: 40,508
- Today’s words: 903
new chapters start… 93: Fair_Day23
Its mostly because I am writing stuff I have been building up to for ages and I’m finding that it’s difficult to get the right tone, so I’m just wading through it as best I can and once I’ve written the rest I’ll come back to this stuff.
also I started storyboarding a trailer but I doubt I’ll ever get round to making it, I dont have the time and there are other projects that will have to take priority (very exciting and cool projects) in december.
bleeeeh, I’ll go at it full steam tommorow. I need to veg out listening to music tonight I think
edit: after watching Logan in super speed I figured I’d check out this multires stuff in blender, and it turns out blender can do what I liked about z-brush but for free, so yay. this guy was made from a cube:
Day 22, lotsa writing and lotsa drawing
Posted: November 22, 2009 Filed under: Art, Crappy Writing | Tags: fair, nanowrimo, sketch Leave a comment »ok, stats first for a change:
- Total words: 39,605 (almost 40k woo)
- Today’s words: 3,011
new chapters start at 85: Fair_Day22
today includes 2 new fights (starting with the one I ducked out of yesterday so you get to see Zephyr vs. Wiynd 😀 ) and in the other fight a major character dies for the first time in ages.
anyhoo, after a good days typing whats better to do than make a crapload of drawings? I wouldnt know, I never managed both at once, but I did try today, I started making some rough sketches for all the characters today, heres some that arent the worst:
left to right: Mavis, Jasu, Doll, Cadence, Ignus
anyhoo, thats me done for today, its time to continue my gintama marathon ^__^
edit: oh yeah, I can draw because I have hijacked my dad’s wacom 😀