Howdy, folks!
Welcome back. For some reason this is my first post of 2021 – I guess I’ve been hibernating since December! I can’t really blame myself, there, after the year we’ve all had.
What am I working on?
The Dawnbreakers’ Saga – Still clunking right along. In the last post I made, I mentioned we’d just started the Civil War arc, and a few days I go I recorded the last episode of that arc. Progress! We’ve got two more major “seasons” left of this thing before I can take a break from Skyrim, and let me tell y’all, after three and a half years of working on the same story, I’m starting to feel the drag. I’m glad I’ve lasted this long though, and I am going to see this through to the end! Will there be more stories with the Dawnbreakers characters after the saga ends? Maybe. But I’m going to have to take a break first so I don’t end up hating myself and everything else.
Urien: The Dragon of Norwood – Still in pre-production, and having seen how strenuous three years of story has been in a medium I’m used to, I’m starting to doubt my abilities again. I shouldn’t, necessarily. I did a test comic (Dawnbreakers-related) over on my Patreon to see how easily and quickly I can do this kind of thing, and I can actually work a lot faster than I expected. The trick now is getting all the assets done and stop worldbuilding for five minutes. I fell into the hole of Worldbuilder’s Disease and stunted my progress on the actual story a bit. Will I need the information later if I do more stuff in that universe? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe I just handwave it. I need to work on assets and get a buffer made before I start publishing this thing, but I’m almost done with the WHOLE script, so that’s fun! It’s doable, even if it might be a slower-moving thing than I expected. (That’s just how I am – slower-moving than anyone expects.)
Salt – The Great Collaboration Novel went off to the editor and came back in the space between posts. The manuscript is back in my dad’s hands and I’m now in charge of finishing the cover. We had planned to get it out sometime in March, and while there’s still time… there probably isn’t enough time to meet that deadline. Soon, though. Soon.
One more big announcement – I now support Pleistocene Park, which is topical considering that both Skyrim and Uthir may contain Mammoths. (I’d have been supporting them before now but I didn’t realize they had a Patreon until recently.) The park is working on reintroducing the Mammoth Steppe ecosystem to a park in Russia to measure its effects on permafrost, ecology, and ultimately climate change. The badge on my blog sidebar leads to their Patreon page, and there’s a URL on it that will lead to the project’s website. I think it’s an awesome idea (obviously) and even if you don’t support them yourself, you can rest assured that in supporting my weirdness, you’re indirectly helping a crazy awesome scientist do crazy awesome science things that might one day help save the world. I hope. 😀
And now, I return to my cryptid ways. Stay safe, as always, and have a good one!