Games are an important form of ancillary worldbuilding. They create verisimilitude by showing that characters do play games, but can also create a fundamental alien-ness. Think of the Dejarik from Star Wars or the 3D chess from Star Trek.
Emily Joseph. She's the one who will have my pony OCs on her spears. The background for this drawing is based on an old photo of my brother.
While trying to figure out what to do with the chapter 9, I continued drawing an old picture of mine. I'm kind of practicing how to draw with Inkscape. This is what I have got so far.
Do you think illustrations would enhance your reader experience with my story?
Not too terribly long ago, I explained a few of the graphical whatsits that you can see in Fullmetal Pony. While that blog did go into some detail for the common "cutie dividers" that separate scenes, it did leave out the images on the other end of the spectrum - title cards such as the one above.
First off, I've got dozens upon dozens of ideas rushing through my head. Problem is, most of the major potential money makers require a somewhat capable or competent team. Case and Point, I've come up with ideas for both a CCG and and MMORPG, the latter of which has been looked over a bit by Foxhlelm, but all in all I will still need a small team for production and maybe distribution. If anyone is interested in helping me with either
Another two to four days and I can write the third draft before starting the artwork.
I'm sure everyone has an opinion on what I should write next as we go forward into the New Year. On the one wing, I just left Firefly off on a massive cliffhanger after introducing a major new character, who will become the face of the Equestrian Army during the war. On the other, Midnight Rising remains to be updated, and I know my newest followers are anxious for news about when I'll be
Well, I've officially reached the point of the final draft where Harmonic and Atmospheric are permanently tied to Emily's spears as plush toys. Bronycon may be ending, but the pony throwdown is just beginning.
EVIL WILL FEAR THE PONIES!
BEST. FRIDAY. EVER.
1) because tomorrow is the first Saturday in forever that my husband will be off.
2) because today I reserved a hotel room for Babscon, thus reducing tons of anxiety I was having about driving there and back.
3) because I finished Chapter 15 of What They Expect to Give and I even started Chapter 16.
Yep! I went ahead and finished them. Let me know what you think. I want to do more typographic work of various sorts in the future. I used to do it every now and then, but have fallen out of the habit.
So, the images are below the break;
It’s currently coming in at just shy of 11k words and will probably end up being around 12k, once all editing passes are complete and it’s been fleshed out just a little bit more. For all the trouble writing this gave me at times—it’s the first Feathered Hearts battle scene where I wasn’t working directly from one in the original story and had to come up with it completely from scratch, including inventing a new pure Cloven form and determining how they would use corrupted
SPOILER ALERT! If you care about The Thug Life Chose Me at all, and wish for certain parts of the next few chapters to not be ruined, this is the one time I can guarantee that some form of this content will be found in future uploads, so turn away now if you hate spoilers! The warning has been relayed.
Well, folks... work is finally easing, and if all goes well, you’re going to see two chapters from me in the next two days. Firefly is nearly ready except for the songs and graphics, which I’m still working on, but I’ll share the base map of Harness Hill here:
Behold!
I have the power to put things on t-shirts!
Like here: http://www.cafepress.com/designsbyemmalee
And here: http://www.zazzle.com/thedesignzshop
And also here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/lyraalluse/shop
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
How shall I abuse this power?
Eh...I don't know.
Any suggestions?