Imryne updates; The Water and the Wild launches...
11 03 08 - 00:00
I'm over here busily working away; spring is getting close, and I'm trying to get a bunch of writing time in now because my time invariably becomes shorter when the days get longer. What's going on now:
- Imryne, of House Melrae is moving along; I'm about halfway through book three, which is called Stone Sky. I'm enjoying this series immensely, and more so as I get to the place where the everything will change. I think after Stone Sky there are two more books, or maybe one longer one.
- The Water and the Wild is also being written and posted; I'm having fun writing in a slightly younger voice and with the intention of keeping the book relatively brief. The chapters are about half the length of the chapters I write for Imryne, for example, but they take almost as long to write per chapter.
- Storm and I have just finished plotting out the first book in a nonology that will take us a year or two to write, called The Nine Secrets. This book is called Silver and Opium, and it takes place in Hong Kong in the mid-19th century.
- I recently went on a photo trip to Kauai, where I took a bunch of pictures and learned a bunch of stuff about travel photography. I have some portrait sessions scheduled soon, where I will attempt to look like I know what I'm doing and have all my models sign a release so I can use their pictures in this year's yearbook.
I'm learning a bunch of things about digital asset management and how to make pictures look like I want them to, both in camera and after processing. I have some money to spend yet on external hard drives, but other than that I've got a very sweet setup.
Travel plans at this point include San Francisco this month and probably again in June, Vancouver in May-ish, one or two of the San Juans when we start having more reliable weather up there, and possibly Victoria sometime in August.