Looking back it's rather amazing how far you get when you actually commit to putting things up. I got bogged down in edit checking and r/l work - and the chapter edits still haven't gone up as much talk/with action has to be done - but the next chapter [13] is finally up!
It's still hard to tell how many chapters are left in the first volume. As mentioned before, there is a lot of juggling when other mediums are to be involved in the process. Needless to say it feels good to finally get to this action packed chapter.
Now for the even more action packed chapter to come.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Chapter 13 bones draft done going through first checks
And that's really the main thing happening right now. Hooray for the weekend~
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Not dead just working.
Summer jobs take up a lot of time which left little for this project. The experiment with time management aside, there was a lot of time spent on the Ernest Demon project, it just doesn't come up on the surface.
1) A logo is being worked on. Hopefully it'll be done this week or next.
2) The current chapters have been searched through to look for consistency errors, unintended oddities/errors, and some holes. Thankfully there weren't too many holes as the questions unanswered will be answered, it just takes a while to get to them.
3) There were a lot of sentences even with the style we're going for, which just don't work out. So they were discussed for later revision.
4) The draft for the next chapter has been painfully slow... Although the team's been looking forward to this part, a lot of questions were developed with the introduction of another character. Since the speech formats were mutated during development as the story progressed, this left a bit of an identity issue (who is talking at what time). A viewer might start getting the sensation that there are talking heads versus people talking and moving which we're trying to avoid. It's a fine line when taking this narrative style.
5) We've had to spend a lot of time talking about other important elements of publishing/company/business decisions. Most of us had gotten summer jobs to help get some money and the result was a complete breakdown of time-tables, making it nearly impossible to either meet or have the motivation to do anything. Despite that, we've been able to get a lot of important decisions made and acquire some additional equipment/software.
Progress has been made and progress continues to occur.
There is a clearer vision as to what will be done about this publishing project's first end goal. Hopefully we'll have character illustrations after the logo is developed.
With all of that overhead out of the way, I'll get the next chapter done and then there should be a few more before the entirety gets edited up and we begin the next stage of development.
1) A logo is being worked on. Hopefully it'll be done this week or next.
2) The current chapters have been searched through to look for consistency errors, unintended oddities/errors, and some holes. Thankfully there weren't too many holes as the questions unanswered will be answered, it just takes a while to get to them.
3) There were a lot of sentences even with the style we're going for, which just don't work out. So they were discussed for later revision.
4) The draft for the next chapter has been painfully slow... Although the team's been looking forward to this part, a lot of questions were developed with the introduction of another character. Since the speech formats were mutated during development as the story progressed, this left a bit of an identity issue (who is talking at what time). A viewer might start getting the sensation that there are talking heads versus people talking and moving which we're trying to avoid. It's a fine line when taking this narrative style.
5) We've had to spend a lot of time talking about other important elements of publishing/company/business decisions. Most of us had gotten summer jobs to help get some money and the result was a complete breakdown of time-tables, making it nearly impossible to either meet or have the motivation to do anything. Despite that, we've been able to get a lot of important decisions made and acquire some additional equipment/software.
Progress has been made and progress continues to occur.
There is a clearer vision as to what will be done about this publishing project's first end goal. Hopefully we'll have character illustrations after the logo is developed.
With all of that overhead out of the way, I'll get the next chapter done and then there should be a few more before the entirety gets edited up and we begin the next stage of development.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Ch 11 finally re-edited. More to come.
Hmm... They say that the longer it takes to complete a project the more likely it won't get done. Thankfully I finally sat down and told myself to do it so now we have a fully edited version of chapter 11~!
http://ernestdemon.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-11-cavernous-caverns.html
Whew. Still feels good when it gets done, and that's what I wanna feel!
One can look up article after article about efficiency in work schedules etc.. but really, often it's best to kind of sit down and do the work. Of course one must wonder whether or not it's valuable to spend time banging one's head against a wall or just to take a break. That's the real issue at the core of these kinds of problems. It's no good to work ineffectively. But it's also no good to plan and never do anything!
Anyways. As the project rolls along, other stories get advanced in the background. I even came up with a way to physically play a fictional game I created for story depth. If anyone reading this will ever remember, you'll find yourself feeling good I suppose if you catch the game being discussed in later works? I dunno.
Maybe one day I'll have a standard rule set typed up and people can determine amongst themselves how much fun it is to play.
Till then, more stories, more studies and more fiction to write. The project continues~
http://ernestdemon.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-11-cavernous-caverns.html
Whew. Still feels good when it gets done, and that's what I wanna feel!
One can look up article after article about efficiency in work schedules etc.. but really, often it's best to kind of sit down and do the work. Of course one must wonder whether or not it's valuable to spend time banging one's head against a wall or just to take a break. That's the real issue at the core of these kinds of problems. It's no good to work ineffectively. But it's also no good to plan and never do anything!
Anyways. As the project rolls along, other stories get advanced in the background. I even came up with a way to physically play a fictional game I created for story depth. If anyone reading this will ever remember, you'll find yourself feeling good I suppose if you catch the game being discussed in later works? I dunno.
Maybe one day I'll have a standard rule set typed up and people can determine amongst themselves how much fun it is to play.
Till then, more stories, more studies and more fiction to write. The project continues~
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Things moving along at their own pace.
Another bit of an update? I suppose that is to be the case.
Though the most recent chapter has been up for a while, it still actually has a few errors that need to be corrected. I'm uh... I'm on it!
Anyways >__>;
Been on the steady road of moving things along. This year, illustrations are in the plans for Ernest Demon. A bit of a spoiler, but volume 1 is coming to a close and with it, the first stage of this experiment. I'm recording it here for the sake of such info being on the internets.
The project has come a long way. This is a heads up to say that after a certain amount of time, volume 1 will be gathered up, clean edited and combined into a product. We're still working on a concept for a web-base. We're not completely sure about using Blogger vs Wordpress. We've been looking into things like tumblr, but still haven't decided on that one either. *sigh* A lot of considerations, but the preliminary stuff is just that. Bigger plans, bigger things to do.
The next chapter of Ernest Demon will be on bone development shortly. For those who actually come by this page for updates, stay tuned. LoL... hopefully with a feeder. Don't want you to miss anything in r/l.
-End of Transmission
Though the most recent chapter has been up for a while, it still actually has a few errors that need to be corrected. I'm uh... I'm on it!
Anyways >__>;
Been on the steady road of moving things along. This year, illustrations are in the plans for Ernest Demon. A bit of a spoiler, but volume 1 is coming to a close and with it, the first stage of this experiment. I'm recording it here for the sake of such info being on the internets.
The project has come a long way. This is a heads up to say that after a certain amount of time, volume 1 will be gathered up, clean edited and combined into a product. We're still working on a concept for a web-base. We're not completely sure about using Blogger vs Wordpress. We've been looking into things like tumblr, but still haven't decided on that one either. *sigh* A lot of considerations, but the preliminary stuff is just that. Bigger plans, bigger things to do.
The next chapter of Ernest Demon will be on bone development shortly. For those who actually come by this page for updates, stay tuned. LoL... hopefully with a feeder. Don't want you to miss anything in r/l.
-End of Transmission
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Text on Text off.
Finally the latest chapter of Ernest Demon is up and running. There's been some slowage due to lots of things which I won't bother you with, but the chapter is up. A surprise is coming next chapter and hopefully this arc and the volume will soon be done.
Woo~
http://ernestdemon.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-11-cavernous-caverns.html
Woo~
http://ernestdemon.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-11-cavernous-caverns.html
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A tomoto is not a potato
Okay so it's not a new chapter, but it's definitely over due. The Story and Characters page for Ernest Demon is updated. So now there's more to read. It's funny how that's the page that gets more views. Hopefully it has more substance now to please the avidly curious.
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