*Catherine awkwardly sneaks in*

*Catherine gets tackled by anxious readers*

NO, I'M NOT DEAD (though I will be if y'all don't get off me!!).

*Catherine gets helped up*

Now, if everyone will settle down, I'll explain what *hem* happened.

*Readers sit down*

So....as you can see, I didn't work on my "project" at all for a solid week. I'm afraid I have a good reason for it. That will be coming up in a post later on.

For now, I leave you with a mile long report about what I've done in the past few days!


7/16:

WIP of the Day: Multiple ones. To be fair, I did work for over 3 hours!

Fair Winds: transferring one scene from Fallen Angel into Shaxpir.

Ancora Spei: transferring all the previously written snippets into Shaxpir

Seeds of An Orchard Invisible: All the paper notes were transcribed into Shaxpir, and 2 character sheets were started.



7/23:

WIP of the Day: Seeds of an Orchard Invisible

What I did: 

Tried (for 2 hours) making a new mock cover....but.....to be perfectly honest....


It looks a lot more like a CD cover....doesn't it?

*sigh*

My brother Matthew is probably going to cringe when he sees this mess. LOL. I still want the same graphic concept but we gotta rework this thing.....


7/24:

WIP of the Day:

What I did:

I created avatars for the side characters! To see the avatars of my main characters, click HERE.

From Left to Right: Riona Callaghan, Patrick Callaghan, and Fr. Donaldson (of Culmore)

Riona and Patrick Callaghan are John's younger siblings. Fr. Donaldson is the priest at the chapel in Culmore where most of the characters go to Mass. He acts as sort of a mentor/voice of reason to John (well, to the best of his ability anyway...).

In order to get the costuming right, I had to use the Hobbit archtype for the two children (and the women....). Hence you may notice that I've done my best to hide that particular fact by adding stuff around the feet. In Riona's case, it's two squirrels. (I mean, she does like animals a lot, so it works!)

Fr. Donaldson was also quite a challenge. I had to use the Wizard archtype in order to access robes that were similar to a Roman cassock. Although...the only glaring detail is the wristband on the sleeves (the hands should be bare....), so I guess I can't complain too much (good thing that priests wear black!!!).

Left to Right: Liam McAndrews, Colm McAndrews, and Sarah Archer

Liam and Colm McAndrews are two Scots-Irish brothers that are John Callaghan's companions and best friends. They lead the way to Culmore :).

Sarah Archer is Rose's best friend. Her family is more prosperous than most of the characters, so she is more educated. She's also well aware of the suffering of her people, so she does lots of acts of charity, including sharing food.

From doing these avatars, I've learned that this LOTR avatar builder is much more suited to fantasy characters instead of historical ones. Unfortunately for me, unless I plan to make a story about the Tudor era, I'm stuck. *shrugs*

So, I'm currently sitting at 24 hours towards my goal of 30. In the next log, I'm planning on doing Jane Maree's 7-7-7 challenge....but with which WIP, I'm not certain yet!

Scribblingly yours,

Catherine