- Festive Niceties
- To the New People!!! (clapping)
- General Goals for 2011
- - More Writing
- - Some Formatting
- - Editing
- - Art...Lots and Lots of Art
- Getting that much needed HELP!!!
- Clicky Clicky Meow Meow
Festive Niceties
Happy New Year and THANK GAWD it is all in days past. Now I do like Christmas, New Years, and my birthday all being in the same month. But at the same time a LOATH them also. This is just because I can never get anything done in December. It can be a very frustrating time as I am sure you all know.
So with that said, I am happy to have had those great days and the months festivities. But I am also ecstatic to be done with them so I can order my mental blocks and get back to writing. As short lived as that may actually be.
To the New People!!! (clapping)
Wow...I actually have some people visiting. This makes me happy because for a long time I thought I was going a little crazy. I mean I had a blog, but no one was reading it. It was like talking to my self with out a mirror. I am just glad I did not comment on my own posts...I think then something would be wrong...(Shifty looks around the room).
So thank you very much for visiting and for your continued visitation in the future. May this blog be worthy of further persons visiting, reading, commenting, clicking, etc. After all my goal with Manifest Destiny is to try and foster a community. And that community starts right here, god save us all.
Writing Goals for 2011
On to the meat and potato's of things. There is allot done, but there is allot to do still. This fact does not escape me and I know therewill be allot to do for a very long time. Well...the core book will be done in a reasonable amount of unspecified time. But then there is more...much much more. For now, I must stay focused on the task at hand.
Plus poisons, equipment, and...allot of things that escape me right now. Oh and examples and fluff also. Mmmm...love the fluff. But all in all things have not gone to bad.
The above may look daunting, but compared to the 170+ pages I have already written. What is left is really not that much. But it is just getting those portions of my mind to cooperate long enough to do them. I shall get through it though and that will be that.
Some Formatting
The book needs to be formatted. That is plane and simple. Pages need to be split, front pages need to be laid out. Spaces for charts and images need to be put in to make sure everything fit in nicely. And to do it all I will need to find some one that can consistently assist on that. That or I chop my attention into small one inch cubes...but that never works. The cubes just sprout legs and run off.
Editing
Editing is also of vital concern. I know my faults and my limitations. And one of them is that my spelling sucks and we will not even go into grammar. But fortunately I did find a willing party to do this for a price. So the editing will get done and will be good.
Art...Lots and Lots of Art
And then there is art. Art is necessary and there will need to be allot of it. Currently I am looking at needing about 120 to 150 individual images. Now that may seam like allot, but consider your average RPG book. If you look there is either a piece of art or a chart on each page.
Assuming that I have 170 pages of usable material right now and about 30-40 charts you get an approximate amount of art needed. This helps to understand how much art is actually needed. And this varies between full page images and small quarter or eighth page images that are used to help space things and break up the text walls that are present now.
This will also take the time of others. The time of my self to make sure things are right. And money, a small mountain of money. When doesn't it right? Well that or I have to deal with people doing it on the side and then things get very very iffy. So...money it is.
Fortunately I have found one person so far that is interested in the task at hand. And I am hopeful that when things progress I will be able to find others.
Getting that much needed HELP!!!
Help is an important thing right now. I have been doing this on my own for a while...several years now and it can be hard. Never underestimate how much a single person can make things better. So, if you have read the above and think you have something you can contribute...I am all eyes. I would be all ears but unless you send me a audio message...I can not hear text all that well.
If you have a thought, and idea, a musing that can assist, drop a comment. If you have an idea for a monster, poison, spell, or item power just drop a comment. My goal is not to make the game about me and mine. It is to create something bigger then what my mind can devise.
Clicky Clicky Meow Meow
For now, in lieu of a donations tag on this blog I have ads. If I get enough traffic and clicks on them I will get money. That money will be in turn used to pay for all the stuff that needs money. Now it is not as daunting as one may assume.
Right now I have $5 in add revenue sitting around. Editing is going to run me about $1 per page. So right now if I got a check in the mail, I could have five pages edited. Images are going to range between $20 to probably a couple hundred depending on what is being drawn. First are the little things and them we go up.
But the simple thing is that my efforts will be ad driven for a while. So if you feel you want to help...you know where to put your mouse. Sorry...no naked lady adds...not that kind of blog any way. But there are some good game adds...League of Legends is a particularly interesting game if you get it as an ad.
So that is that...my text wall is done and I thank you for reading it all if you did. I promise to keep these to a minimum, may be once a year. In any case thank you again for visiting and taking a little interest in this game and I hope you find it inspiring, enjoyable, and entertaining as I write it and move to release it.
