Sitting on a cold chair in a dark room...

I worked on that story and I finished up the first chapter. It's a little short, but I plan on expanding it a little with time. In order to better work on the story I have kept working on a map with Campaign Cartographer. It's looking pretty nice so far. Lots of work though.

Looking fancy!

The hardest part is the scale. I keep trying to figure out just how long it would take my characters to be wandering around this world. The entire first book is going to happen in those 1,000 sq. miles on the middle right (where the trees are). I must really like to make maps because I spent a ton of time working on the Pyraliss map. Using this program I should remake the Pyraliss world.

I also used a different program called Fractal Terrains. That program gave me a basic idea of the landmasses. BUT the greatest thing about this program is that it gives you temperatures, climates, altitudes, and rainfall. It's like map porn. I feel like having a realistic map like that helps shape and guide your story along. It also gives the world a more realistic feel. Also, it just helps my characters not inadvertently end up in different places that are mysteriously the same exact place (my orientation skills suck, I could never just keep track of this without something physical).

Note the list of climate on the side. I can also change it to reflect rainfall and altitudes.

I can't wait to finish the map. Updates coming soon.

*The sky is over...*

I forgot to give this a title first time around...

I am experiencing hunger.

Isn't it strange how people learn coping methods? How they find ways to work around their dysfunctions? I suppose it's not really strange, it's actually quite normal. It's something that's done every day by most adults, and maybe even some children. Teaching yourself ways to function, regardless of circumstance, that's part of the human condition.

I've always had difficulty finding a happy medium so I have two modes: panic mode or lackadaisical mode. I either care too much, or I just completely lose interest. Everyone at school always comments how I'm "so relaxed" and how they wish they were nearly as relaxed about school. Little do they know that if I didn't force myself into that state I'd probably lose my mind (as I almost have some semesters before I taught myself to cope). It is a bit frustrating though, I never quite know how to give myself the proper level of motivation to get things done. If I let myself get into a panic things don't get done anyway because I just break down. To hell with it. I just have to keep teaching myself around it.

I actually got a chance to keep reading Game of Thrones last night, it was only a little while but I got a couple of chapters read. It's fascinating so far. I'm really enjoying it, but I'm looking forward to finishing it and moving on to either the second book or something else.

I am working on a story, I may have mentioned it before. It doesn't have a title yet, but it's looking quite lengthy. I got a copy of Campaign Cartographer and am using it to make a map of the world it's in. I started to lose track of where the hell the characters were while writing the outline. Decided a map was necessary.

Added a new little guy to the previous picture:

I like how fluid he looks, I don't usually get that effect very easily. 

I'm still waiting to hear back from graduate schools. No word yet. Ah, well. Soon, I hope.

*The sky is over...*

Never a Master of Photoshop...

I'm listening to Dream Theater and about to pick up some Fable II. I've played through it twice, and completed most of the quests. I'm looking forward to finishing the second expansion since I only recently purchased it with the money I don't have. It wasn't expensive, I'm just broke.

Last night I decided to work on Pyraliss for awhile. Although I had a sketch of the World Map of Pyraliss, I'd never quite finalized it so that's what I did last night. I also thought it might be nice for readers to be able to see where the characters were throughout key points of the story, so I made sprites of all the characters and will be plotting them on the map accordingly as the story progresses. Here's a little preview of what can be expected:

I think it's a nice way to keep track of their travels, but I'm also very silly. I'm going to work on pages later when Joe's family comes back from couch shopping and I'm forced to relinquish the TV.

*The sky is over...*