A big week...

So it has been a big week here in at the Livingston home. We have had three guests in the house. Judah, a friend from Elim (my old college) and two of my in-laws are here. Therefore, that is why I have not been updating as much and I honestly do not have much to add in general.

I just finished chapter 5, which I am not sure if I am happy with and I have started to work hard on my comics again which is nice. So West Street Warriors will be revived and there will be some cross over work with Judah's comic "The hoodwink Chronicles" so look for that in the future.

Update on time!

Hey, I finally get a blog in on the day I am suppose to! I have not done any writing as of right now (Monday) but I might do some more before bed. I managed to write a lot on Sunday, a total of 732 words on both the second chapter four draft and new stuff on chapter five. Overall a big couple of weeks for writing and I may have to raise my weekly word count. I may change it to 725 or 1000 words a week... I guess we will have to wait and see.

quicky

Chapter 4 is done and so is this post XD

Wednesday.... yeah no

Yet again, I have not slept yet so this is Wednesday to me still. I did a lot of writing today... well a lot for me anyways. I have five hundred words a week minimum, which goes from Wednesday to Sunday. Therefore, in one day, I got that minimum and I am pretty happy where things are going.

So some of chapter 4 is done, edits being done to the descriptions for a few characters in chapter 1, I'm getting some edits from chapter two back... its a big week. A friend of mine, Judah, will be visiting next week so writing may slow down.

Side Note: Check out Heart of the Ronin if you get the chance. A free audio book version can be found on ITUNES or Zune marketplace.

Monday... not really

Well technically this is a Tuesday update but since I have not gone to bed yet so it is still Monday for me.

Not any writing the last two days but I did some outlining and a bit of writing for chapter four. The biggest thing I plan on getting done the next few days is finishing the drawing I have for Venus, which is the other guide for the main character, and changing/adding to the descriptions to them in chapter one.

Side Note: Dropped Levitation chronicles due to it making Christians look worse then they really are.

Mana 2.0

Mana Character Concept is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at farm3.static.flickr.com.

Friday..... oh boy

This was an interesting day to say the least. I worked some more on the book, which is going well. I finished the third chapter but did not cover as much as I wanted to. It ended at what had planned to be the 1/3 waypoint but what can you do right? Sometimes the book takes a life of its own and the only thing you can do it go with it.

The down side to writing so much it that it feels like my brain has turned to mush. I am constantly forgetting things and I would lose my head if it was attached... seriously, I would. I enjoy writing but for some reason after getting to 4507 words into the book and a day off starts to look really good. Yes people that’s right... I did say that I was at 4507 which is somewhat scary due to the third chapter is roughly 1900 words.


Side notes:
While finishing this chapter is, I was listening to the Joystiq podcast which if you enjoy video games I would highly recommend. I have been also listening to the Leviathan Chronicles, which is a free audiobook that is good, a few flaws but production value is really high.

Joystiq
The Leviathan Chronicles

So I was not planning to update today but I am rather excited about my progress as of today with chapter 3. I start out writing down in my notebook and then typing them out later on my laptop. At the placee I’m at with transferring the information over should be about 798 words which doesn’t sound like a whole lot but when I typed it out I added and is now at 1319 words and still going. This makes it the longest chapter so far and I am pushing 4000 words overall which should be done by this Sunday.

The plan in the future I will be trying to update Mon., Wed. and Fri. every week until this is finished and then we will have to see. So I might see you tomorrow it all depends on how much I write or add to the work in progress

For inspiration, I normally listen to pod cast. I recommend, “I should be writing” done by Mur Lafferty and tonight I played “Bloodcast” by Scott Sigler and I will have the links below.

I Should Be Writing
Scott Sigler: Bestselling Horror Author and Failed Pimp

Second in one day

I decided to add a few notes to today... partly to help me judge how I am doing and to let people know exactly where I am.

I just hit over 3,200 words typed tonight. This does not mean that it is all I have written. I have most of the third chapter done but have only typed about a forth of that right now.

This is going to be a big chapter; I have over 1,000 words written right now and a long way to go. When I go to type out what I have written it also has things added to it. Right now about 300 words have been added or changed.

Bonus! I drew this up for one of the “guides” for the main character! Meet Mana!

Welcome!

For those of you who may not have heard... I decided to write to a book! Normally I am an artist who enjoys webcomics and I got this idea for a comic that was impossible for me to draw. I normally would not say that and to those who know me that might be a shock. I draw some weird stuff...

Americoma set inside of the mind of a comatose man, hit by a car and confronted with a completely new world, with its own set of problems.

I hope that some people find this blog and join me in this new project... I may put a few chapters online here. See you next week with an update.

Adam "Spizik" Livingston