Here it is 1:30 am in the morning of December 1, 2004 and I’ve just published the final chapter of Rusted Halo.
I didn’t just want to hit that magical 50k mark, but I also wanted to have a complete story.
That is what I ended up with late on November 30th.
Now all that is left is to edit the beast, and get a few copies of it printed. If you are interested in a print copy, please feel free to let me know.
Here is it, like 2 AM and I have just finished posting the last bit of Rusted Halo to get me over the 50,000 word mark! The story isn’t finished, it’s close, but I’ll be finishing it within the next two days.
Amazing that this huge weight is now off of my shoulders. I’m not done yet thought, I have to write the climax yet.
As of Tuesday night, I was at 28,000+ words for my novel Rusted Halo. That is over halfway through the whole NaNoWriMo project. I’m feeling pretty good about it as a whole, and I think the detail and plot are very strong. The theme and concepts might not be appealing to everyone, but I beleive its a great read regardless.
Of course with the writing, I have been neglecting my poor video games. Halo 2 goes completely unplayed, whereas Half Life 2 has only received about 10 minutes of my time. Sorry guys. I’ll get to you eventually.
I broke the 12,000 word count this Sunday. I’m really starting to like the story I’m writing, and looking forward to the next batch of content that’s coming up. The next chapter is going to be a turning point for the protagonist, and is something I’ve been planning since the beginning. We’ll have to see if I like him after I write the chapter…
In other news, I bought a old art nouveau poster for my home office. It’s the standard Le Chat Noir by Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen. It makes the room look so much bigger, the ceiling is vaulted, and I can see getting more poster prints mounted along side of it in the future.
Well Halloween was a blast. We should have pictures and video to share of our Halloween maze in the coming days. I definitely scared a whole lot of kids and their parents. Stay tuned.
Today I started out on writing my novel. The goal is to complete a 50,000 word novel by the end of November. This idea comes via Will and is part of the NaNoWriMo competition that happens every November. My novel Rusted Halo is about the life of a bitter old warrior. I’m happy with the 3300+ words I’ve written so far. I just hope people actually get around to reading it.
Seems like the past few weeks have been nothing but stuff to do at home and continuous work on our Halloween spectacular in our garage, a Haunted maze for the kiddies. We’re almost done… we hope that kids will actually venture through the maze versus chickening out. We’ll have to see.
In other news, I finally took the time to go see Team America: World Police. It was about as funny as your standard South Park, but not quite great. The theme songs on the other hand were awesome, especially the main one, have been stuck in my head all weekend.
We started working on Halloween this weekend, putting up our hand-made tombstones from last year. This year’s project should be interesting to say the least. It’ll take a lot of man hours to finish it.
This past week I also found an illustrator who’s stuff I’ve grown very fond of: Ronnie Del Carmen. His style is a style that I’ve always wished I was proficient at, and I’m determined to at least take a couple of practice swings at it. Mr. Del Carmen has a couple of self-published books out called Paper Biscuit that I’d recommend. Did I mention that he works for Pixar?
A while back I bookmarked a site that had a very intriguing flash game with an interesting side soundtrack. With the holiday approaching, I revisited the site and found its sister sites as well. I strongly suggest that you visit theskeletonshop.com, johnnyhollow.com, and mypetskeleton.com. All the sites are a quite dark and gothic, and not quite for the kiddies.
I’d suggest if you just visit one site, visit johnnyhollow.com. They have an amazing flash based navigation with great art, haunting audio, and the best use of riddle/reward system I’ve seen yet. If you get stuck with the riddles, send me a line and I’ll help you out.
Jessica and I got back from our Hawaiian vacation Monday morning. We’ve been slowly trying to get back into the swing of things. No more humidity, no more mosquitoes, and no more sleeping in till noon.
I read the 3 books based on Halo during our trip, and so I’ve booted up the PC version of the game again and have been playing through it again. Once after I acheive victory yet again over the Covenant and the Flood, I’ll be sure to get back to working on my artwork… maybe…
No actual design work has been completed since my last update. I’ve taken some more photos (not posted), and pretty much been busy with stuff around the house. Hopefully I’ll get back to work after we get back from Hawaii. By then it’ll be time to break out the buggy whip to get myself in gear.
In other news, Will got a new blog aptly titled – American Blogger. The logo that Eric did for him looks awesome, and hopefully he won’t take this site down like he did with the last one.