Happy Fall, everyone! I hope you’re all staying
comfortable and enjoying the season. We’ve been busy working over some of our
fields in an attempt to clear out lots of nasty old greasewood and creosote
brush so that we can plant wheat. Long story short – hard soil bad. Tractors
good.
I’ve continued to work on what was supposed to be the
final revision of Nethbane, but the more I dig into this, the more disgusted
and disappointed I am with how sloppy some of it feels. I put a lot of time and
effort into this book when originally drafting and revising it (a LOT) and to
read through it now and think that I only wrote this about six years ago, I’ve
begun reworking it in the same fashion that Wings of Fate was subjected to –
IE, a complete re-write.
The core of everything will stay the same (with a few
extra things) but I have no choice but to overhaul Nethbane before getting it
back into print. I am a perfectionist by nature, and I will accept nothing but
the best quality that I am capable of at any given time. This means that the
revision may take longer than I’d first anticipated, but whatever. At least it
will feel better to me, and hopefully flow better for readers.
Still no sign of my large writing binder or its companion
notebook, unfortunately. And now my main sketchbook has gone missing, as well.
I’ve not seen any of them in months and the only thing I can think is that I
put all three of them somewhere very safe while moving – so safe, of course that
I can’t locate them. I’ll continue to search, but if I can’t find them
within the next little while here, I may just break down and rework some things
in the outline for Taloner: Wekthusia so that I can at least finish the first
draft. I really was hoping to have this book ready for print some time next year, and I’m not giving up on that goal. Of course, that leaves the matter of
getting myself back into digital art, which I’ve not really done for about three
years, but it has to happen at some point.
In other news, I’m still exhausted day and night, but by
this point I’ve realized that this will never go away and I’ve begun to adjust
mentally. It does create more frustration with trying to write and hold onto
all sorts of different little details, but I guess that’s why I have a bunch of
blank notebooks hoarded (and a plethora of digital notes) Time to fill everything up with work!
PS - Is there a character or creature from Legends of Destiny that you would like to see drawn? Feel free to mention it in the comments!
