Upon the Wings of Greater Things
The creative endeavours of Starla Huchton
Okay, I can officially officially say it now! Dr. James D. Priest, author and narrator of Kirins: The Spell of No’an is a part of The Dreamer’s Thread cast! I have thusly added him to the links list to the left there, under CAST WEBSITES. Some of the folks involved here don’t have websites as yet, but when they do, rest assured, they will also be included here.
I am so thankful for the wonderful people who are stepping up to help me out. I sincerely thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
So, yours truly was quite productive today. This morning I obtained coffee in a timely manner and immediately set to work…and was then ordered to put on real clothes and make myself presentable…but then I got right back to work.
Okies, so, I am SUPER excited right now.
After hemming and hawing over asking someone to create the cover art for The Dreamer’s Thread, I sat down last night in a fit of inspiration and started drawing.
Yes, you read that right. I drew something.
Haven’t really put pencil to paper since circa fall ’06 when I took Perspective and Drawing I from Art Institute Online. I thought then maybe I was okay at it, but any other passing attempts since then deflated the small bit of confidence I had there.
So imagine my overwhelming feeling of WIN when I churned out a bit of hand-drawn awesome in about an hour and a half or so last night. I scanned the awesome, worked my digital design magic and just finished what I think might be something good enough to call the official cover art of The Dreamer’s Thread Podcast.
Okay, so there’s folks out there that will take a look at this and go “uh, it’s fine I guess”, but to them I say “so show me something better ***hole”. LOL. Well, maybe not quite that way, but if you think you can do better I challenge thee! If you are full of more awesome than I am, by all means feel free to one-up me.
Without further ado, I hereby present to you…
THE OFFICIAL ARTWORK FOR THE DREAMER’S THREAD PODCAST!
Alright, you may now bow down in the pressence of my awesome and bask in the glow of my WIN.
And did I mention… SQUUUUEEEEEEEE!!!!!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
*ahem*
So yes, I twittered yesterday about the great news I had about TDT, and said I would blog about it today. I hate to be called a liar, so here’s my news of WIN:
First, the biggest news…
THE DREAMER’S THREAD PROMO IS LIVE!
That’s right, the first ever promo is hot and ready for your consumption on the novel website. Grab it, play it, share it, make everyone you know listen to it.
One bad thing about being a procrastinating overachiever is that your ideas often are much, much larger than what you are actually capable of doing. This is especially true when you have grand ideas of a collaborative project that requires the compliance of other people. The hardest thing to do is ask someone who knows nothing about you for help in furthering your dreams. More so when those strangers are already leagues ahead of you on the road to success. You want their name attached to your project to help promote it, but since you’re nobody, it’s very very hard to convince them they should acquiesce to your request. Thus, you end up feeling like it’s a very private club that they won’t let you in. Sort of like high school, only actually important.
Time to celebrate! Yay! It’s been a fantastically productive day and I have an incredible word count to post here.
Total Word Count Today….
(drum roll please)
94,016!!!!!
Hoo!
*collapses into an exhausted heap*
LOL
Okay, so I’ve been a bit lacking in the creative department lately, but I am making it a priority to schedule time every day to write. This afternoon I am taking my laptop to the park and I am going to write until it either starts to rain or the battery starts to die. I did do a good chunk of writing the other day but forgot to post my current word count, so here it is:
Total word count as of this moment: 91.659 words.
Today’s lack luster word count: 89,250 words.
But at least I’m writing! LOL
Well, I’ve been quite the slacker in regards to the novel lately, but I have gotten a few things accomplished. Last week I finished the second draft of part 2, but I’ve not made much headway on part 4. It’s not all bad though.
Total Word count as of today: 88,479.