Well, well, hmm.

Okies, we got our second 550+ page novel done and are staring to work towards the next one along with SBRPG 2nd ed which will be most the uber fun thing. We are twenty plus year RPG addicts, and English nerds.

Goddess help us.

For the record, we promise we wont ever re-imagine our fictional characters when all is said and done. We will ultimately let the reader decide that on his/her own, as I believe once a work of fiction is done it has been submitted to the history books 'as is'.

Unless we need more publicity....*cough*

(I'm pointedly joking. Don't hit me. Even our work is representative of all the persuasions and iterations thereof. But I still think the whole scene was a bit "Who shot JR"-ish to me.)

But anywho, anyone for some coffee? Dragon Roast is good but Sumatra is always my favorite.

I am a big Shand'ara guy myself, hard worker, humanist, although I swear Bro is secretly a Shi'r lovin' mage and plots against me sometime.....

Peace and Free Love.

Of the million things I have to do updating this is 1,000,001.

But I digress. I am marveling in all the suspiciously good looking grrls wanting to be my friends...is it real or are they Matta Hari-like agents of the Matrix out to thwart my plans?

Well, at least the next book in the Proudstrider Chronicles is on track, as is SBRPG 2.0 (or second ed.? '2.0' is the tentative name anyways).

Well anyways,

Hello.

-Dark

So we are in the final "blue pages" blues of our next book and a couple other projects.

It's one of the harder times, you are continually re-reading your work for 99.9% of any errors and reviewing the remaining 0.1% to try to catch anything else. It's a bit of a downward spiral as you reach the 99.99 percent confidence mark, in which you are never 100.o% percent confident in....

The fun part comes with the cover art - yes we do our own.

I can't wait to start work on book three! So many ideas, so little opportunity to explore them.

Sorry for he lack of updates because I was wrestling with both (besides my computer processor being tied up for 3d-renders 24/7). Very similar and sometimes just as unpleasant. Although one has a shorter lifespan.

A girl-friend of mine talked me into it so I concurred.

The whole game consists of (so far):

-Empty Casinos.
-Empty Dance Clubs.
-Empty Malls.
-Empty Houses.
-Slot machines of all shapes and sizes.
-Small, partially full dance clubs with attached empty Malls, slot machines and casinos.
-Partially full casinos with people camping free $$s with attached empty clubs and Malls.
- And, lot of newbies with, really weird avatars, hovering around 'freestuff' stores.

There are some high points, such as the fascinating were-people called 'furries', oh and all the gun nuts, ever-tricking out their combat avatar with scripted weapons of mass destruction for a war that will never happen.

I feel a another wave of nausea coming on....

Goddess's Blessings,

-George

I could not post last night, but I now can wish you a Happy New Year to all my friends!

Goddess' Blessings,

-George (Darkgar) Teixeira

Where you are, whatever you celebrate,

Have a happy holidays from the Tears of Shand'ara authors and to all our amazing friends!

/salute

-George

Man O' Man!

I live in the pacific northwest.

We had the wrost three days of bad weather I have ever seen, one-hundred plus mile-per-hour winds rain and all sorts of storm damage. I even came close to getting hurt myself as well!

It was a late and stormy night. I wanted to take my mind off of all the impeding doom of the bad weather report off the TV at the time. Here I was quietly reviewing my work, a sort of candle and couch reading session, when I hear a huge crash come from out back the house. Bro' upstairs yelled pretty loud as his window was cracked open at the time of the windstorms.

A one foot thick tree had split in two, about twenty feet up, during one of those sixty to seventy mile-per-hour windgusts (one-hundred plus in the mountains) we were suffering through all night. The big thing came crashing down just behind our house thankfully falling sideways and avoiding coming through the wall where I was reading on the couch. The thirty to fourty foot tall tree was so heavy it took out several smaller trees with it and ended up in a huge pile of twisted pine.

Boy was I lucky.

But my heart goes out to all the hundred of thousands of people who are stick without power which amazingly, I avoided. After the tree fell, our whole part of town was thrown into the pitch blackness of a power failure. Lucky our streets lines were missed, but a large portion of the Seattle/Everett area was knocked out. This was a very, very nasty storm.

230,000+ people are still without power as I write this, and the weather is around thirty degrees. Again, my prayers are with all of you going through this right now. Long cold nights ahead.

They came today to clear the trees.

Goddess's Blessings,

-George

50% done my chapters, next Bro' has to do his. Then its cover art time, and final printing. Off to the printers last.

Hmm, DotA is fun needs more maps though.

Goddess's Blessings,

George

I hate myself, but right now, I forgive myself. I am my own worst critic for everything we write. Never ever satisfied, but I am in love with book ..2. You see by the time it reaches you I have read it, from cover to cover at least seven times. Rough draft, first draft, post first edit, post grammer edit, hard copy mode, blue pages mode, and then I read the whole thing, chapter by chapter aloud in a duo session with brother-editor.

Then it s candle and cozy time where I read it all alone, chapter by chapter in my private place, away from the electro-torture-CPUs. Believe me, many lit votives have given their magic to to my creativity.

More note on each page then to bro' for his cozy time and them a final grammar/post-editing final printout.

Then we meditate on the whole story and collect our notes, fights and thoughts for the next one, fitting them into the grand story arc of the whole deal.

Life begins anew and the story continues....

Then we begin to write Chapter One of book three with lots of outstanding events to handle in the next book.

I am on my cosy stage and I am getting a kick out of the book, so I hope you will too. We have a ton of notes for the third book and fourth as well.

Writing is a wonderful drug and a terrible habit all in one.

But, what else is there?

Editing our work is sometimes gives you an funny insight into the human mind.

Write a short story, about a page or so single spaced. Re-read it three times and then have someone else proof it and see the mistakes you made. You will be surprised to see what you missed, just because in your mind you have the pattern of your writing memorized. This gives you a high probability to mentally gloss over the most obvious of errors!

Things I have found to fix this is to reprint a hard copy on a sheet of paper at a different font, just so the text wraps differently and give you another prospective on what you were writing. It does wonders, trust me. I tend not to make many mistakes but its those "what was I thinking!" moments that are so, so hilarious (No, MySpace Blogs don't count!).

*goes back to proofing book ..2*

Goddess's Blessings,

George

There is an interesting discussion in the "Fantasy, Where has your respect gone?" thread on the Amazon boards(for the life of me the "ad link" MySpace function isn't working - bah).

My post:


Reminds me of adult stand-up comedians. Just because their main audience is adult, do they have to play the obscene card to be funny? When are they just milking the shock factor for cheap laughs and at what point do they turn people off?

Goddess's Blessings,

-George

Just wanted to say Allo'. Well be coming out with a sequel to book ..1 in a couple months and wanted give a couple friends of ours a heads up.

The story should get pretty interesting once the gang in the book gets back to Riverton...and yes Edward is loosing his mind.

No more mister nice guy.

He is the Son of Darkness after all.

Goddess's Blessings,

-George

Hello world! This is my MyFirst, MySpace existence on the "intarweb". TESTING! 1 2 3.

Don't worry I'll try to think of something cool and edgy to say, and get a Dolce invite and be cool like the rest of ya'll, but for now, heyas and well met.

Goddess's Blessings,

-George