50,611 words. ‘course, that means 400 more words and I’m at 51K, and that’s just a vicious cycle, but I’m stopping there because I’m in the middle of a conflict and it’ll be relatively easy to pick up again tomorrow. Plus I did 3500 words today, which is pretty good. 28K to go. I would *kill* for a 10K day, though it’d probably help if I’d get up before 9:30 in the morning if I want one. :) Hm. Ted has to get up early tomorrow (I think) to go…
chance character sketches
I *could* post the last four pages of the roughs for Chance, but instead I’m going to torture you (or something) and post some character sketches instead. :) Mostly mask ideas, but I love the va-va-va-voom! Chance striding along there. The mask we ended up using is the second/third one on the second scan (I can’t remember if I posted this before, and I’m too lazy to go look). And this is Officer Darius Murkowski, who’s more than a little in love with Frankie Kemp, and who has kind of…
eep!
My God. It is absolutely *dumping* rain out there. I hope Ted made it to the store before the rain started. I think he probably did. I hope he did. Eep! *fuss*! Wow, that’s a lot of rain. 5 seconds later, eta: Ted just called. He did get caught in the rain. Wah! Poor Ted! *fuss*! 20 minutes later, eta: He only got caught in the rain, not the absolute pissing rain. He said, when he got home, that he’d gone outside at the store and had said, “*That’s* what…
chugga chugga
Chugging along on the writing front today. Ted and I were just having an interesting discussion about the Cate Dermody titles (one of which I’m working on right now). Had you asked me, I’d have said the way to make it rich as a writer would be as a romance writer. I’d have said that was the career path to fame and fortune. I still think it’s probably true. I’d have said that probably if I was going to make a bundle writing, it would be with the Dermody books.…
more chance
An interesting conundrum has arisen. I’m trying to figure out how best to deal with the issue of inked pages. Ardian’s pencils are really tight and dark, but conventional wisdom is that you want to have your pages inked. I don’t know enough about what an inker brings to the table to be sure I can judge inks well. I know art well enough, and I have enough concept of color to recognize what’s working and what isn’t, but I just haven’t seen enough professional-quality sequential art pre-inks to have…