Weekly Report 10/1 - 10/7

Dimensional Warriors: Novelization.
For my first time doing this I'd like to open up with a few things.

Mission Statement:
What I want to achieve with this piece is an intellectual novel for the common man, something that can cross all media and excel in all of them.

The Hook:
A transgendered woman has to find her friends while fighting against impossible odds.

If you want to read the first draft, you can download the completed first three parts from the link above. These are the parts I'm focusing on editing: The Gathering, Battle Before the Tower, Into the Maw


Excerpt:
This will basically be a favorite scene out of the new content to give you guys a taste of what I'm working on.

The Gathering: Neko, Vyrse, Raven, Henry and Eddy find an army bunker where Ben is hiding with lucy

Questions:
Not entirely happy with Haiden as Pahhur's family name. Suggestions?
Not 100% behind Zephos' weapon choice. Suggestions?
Situations or ordeals the characters should deal with?
Plotholes?

Notes:
-Added a LOT of scenes. Mostly to The Gathering. This includes a lot of tension building scenes, and introductions for new characters and antagonists.
-New characters:
--Henry; a self-important businessman and coward.
--Eddy; an Irish family man, companion, and spy.
--Ben; Eddy's son, a hyperactive punk that likes guns.
--Lucy; Girl who was sensitive to the Time distortion caused by the Dimension Bomb that made the whole mess. As of right now I have not decided whether to have her wake up or not.
--Beth; Punctual and realistic doctor.
--Names not set in stone, not entirely attached to any of them.
-Added several ticking clock elements to both The Gathering and Battle Beneath the Tower.
-Changed the conflict between Neko and Metudo vastly.
-Added all of Pahhur's scenes.
-Changed Zephos' weapon thinking about using chain blades ala Vivi's Peacock Slashers.
-Added conflict to practically every scene in The Gathering.

Thank you for reading!

Something New; the Week's Report.

For those of you who pay attention to the little blurbs I attach to all my blog posts it'll come as no surprise that I'm having some difficulties with my story Dimensional Warriors. The difficulty comes primarily from the fact that I've been editing the earlier chapters, and as any writer worth his ink stains and crippling arthritis will tell you; when you edit the early stuff the later stuff tends to change.

So I've got a really weird dichotomy going on with the "current" stuff becoming more invalid by the second. For instance, and part of what is making this particular point hard, I want Asuka on the ship with Metudo. I like their character dynamic and with this part of the story supposedly taking a long amount of time I need more characters to work with.

On the even further scale I've added several characters that I plan to have major payoffs not too far in the future of The Return. If I just arbitrarily add those anyone that has been following what I've been doing will be suddenly very very lost.

So what do I do?

Well I thought about it, and one of the things that keeps me writing is that I have to keep this blog updated. It doesn't account for all of my drive, but it certainly helps me get things done in a timely manner. So I have to be doing something week to week; but what?

This is why I'm going to start doing a sort of "report" where I'll post about my activities at first just on Dimensional Warriors, but if I get a good response I'll add other series and maybe even manage to convince Ted and Javi to get involved.

Now this is how I'm thinking of running this. I am going to talk a little bit about things like themes, ideas, and situations. Anything that isn't a major spoiler. So you can expect to hear blurbs about new characters, situations, things that I've changed. Furthermore there are a number of details that I either haven't decided yet or don't know at all. Questions ranging from should I go with Herm or Haidan, to what should Zephos' birthday be? And I would be grateful to anyone willing to pitch in their two cents.

So to sum up, I'm inviting the strange people living out there in the internet to join me in the editorial process. I think it could be a lot of fun, and might create an interesting new experience. The next post that will be on top of this one and make this one invisible to the public will be the first report which will basically sum up everything I've done for the past month or so. So it's gonna be huge.

Professor Astonishing Comic page 3

Here it is, Page 3!

Dimensional Warriors Fan Fiction: The Return Chapter 18

Here

Another chapter, and it's not even based on a pre-existing story! That's about all the news there, unfortunately I've been losing a lot of steam with moving forward, partially because I've been working on editing the first book and I've made changes that are pretty big game changers to the story overall. It's making a huge discrepancy between what's being updated and my perception of the story.

That aside, we finally bought Adobe Premiere  and immediately ran into a different problem. I apparently downloaded the 32-bit version of Windows 7 and now need to get the 64-bit. So that will probably take up a lot of today while I uninstall Windows and reinstall everything else.

P. Astonishing coming out tomorrow! Look forward to it!

Javier Aladren: Play On

This one is a somewhat darker melody enhanced by a minimal amount of instrumental music. It almost gains a creepy quality to it and is definitely worth a listen.

Again lyric when Javier gets them to me, he's just being destroyed by the same things that made this post late. School, school and more school.

Dimensional Warriors Comic page 36

Sorry it's up a little late, I forgot to do it in my bid to go to sleep earlier. Come back tomorrow, we will see a song from Javier!

Dimensional Warriors: The Return Chapter 23

Gere, Finally

School. Zombie. Brains.

That's my only excuse.

Don't take your tasty brains too far, we have a comic page coming up tomorrow, followed by one of Javier's songs, followed by a Fan Fic chapter before ending the week on P. Astonishing.

Remember to wash your brains this week. P: