We started doing GIF animations today. Did one of a stick-figure scratching his head. Pretty nice. I think I've found my True Calling.

Again.

Nanovel's first 'episode' has ended with chapter three -- I'm quite happy with it, turned out different from what I thought it would. Savant says some semikewl things, it's nice to see he can still do that. For a few months there I thought he'd gone soft and reverted to Goofy-Sav mode -- nice to see that he too can surprise me.

Chapter one is ready. I'm happy with it, as I usually am with things I never plan out. It was going to be a long conversation ending with a ship looming out of the clouds and breaking the mood between Savant and Esfi, but suddenly I was stuck at Savant saying, "Pretty," when Efpi, completely out of the blue, said:

"I don't charge for sex."

And Savant replied: "Neither do I."

From there the story just found its way to the chapter cliffhanger. I might go back in next month and add details, but right now it -- though rushed, sucky crap -- is pretty okay.

I'm even hyped for writing chapter 2 now, and I probably will, after this. Damn, this is going to be a fun, hectic, crazy month.

Current Projects:
Bender - 6739 words
The Tale of a Thousand Savants(NaNovel) - 1,685 words
The Intangibles - 51 posts (unedited), 7647 words (edited)

It's about half an hour to go. November. I'm trying to pass the time away with Bender, but that isn't working. In fact, instead of writing, I edited some stuff out. Muse permitting I might write the entire pre-harem and harem scenes tomorrow. Of course, she might want me to go straight to The Tale of a Thousand Savants, Bender might have to be put on hold for a few days, at least to burn up the pent-up pre-nano energy.

This sucks. Bender isn't even halfway done. Tomorrow's the last free day before the NaNoWriMo starts. Tomorrow is E-Commerce. Tomorrow I have to shave. Tomorrow I have to write the juicy bits of the business proposal.

This sucks.

Oh well, at least I got the Intangibles group set up. Not ready to accept people yet, but more on that tomorrow. ^_^

Current Projects:
Bender - 6739 words
The Tale of a Thousand Savants (NaNovel) - 0 words
The Intangibles - 51 posts (unedited), 7647 words (edited)

As the title says, Bender is back and flowing, though an edit will be needed -- once it's done, once it's done. Swimming along at 5350 words, not even halfway done, maybe as little as a quarter -- and I'm loving it. Sansaarika will be starring in a lot of future things, methinks. Now if only I could draw...

...speaking of drawing, the Cube-i-fying work continues at an okay pace -- not doing a lot, but it's better than nothing. I'll probably refine single figures and stuff for the next month, then move onto cubed scenes (Roman Senates in Cubes seems like a nice thing to try).

I never thought they could do it again.

I never once thought they could actually do it again. Sure, it looked okay in the screenshots, a tad underwhelming compared to FFX, but then, that was the way with the last one too. I remember those screenshots: interesting, but not intriguing. That changed soon enough.

One of the first video clips I downloaded on the internet, 4 years ago, was from Squaresoft's website. It was tiny, pixellated, aretfacted and I couldn't make out a single detail, but damn, that single 5 second clip sold it for me.

Paradoxically, I've been doing more writing about my writing than writing. Fantasybits has been buzzing since the entire closing 'joke' pulled by El Dwarf. It feels good that all of it is out in the open and the mess has been sorted out. Not that this is an end to it by any means, but at least now we all know things in black, white and a few shades of grey I'm not so sure about.

I'm most interested in what JacLyn has to say about all this.

NaNoWrimo sure is fun. The message-board is just overwhelming sometimes, but hey, that's what you get with 2000 people participating.

One thing it has taught me even before I put pen to paper on my NaNo-vel is this: Aim Low.

For months -- heck, years -- I've been trying to go from 0 to Da Vinci in no time flat, which usually leads to a lot of badly done, half-finished drawings and tons of frustration, followed by the "I can't draw anymore!" thing.

Today has been a rough day, writing wise. I hammered a few thousand words into Bender, but even in writing them I wasn't satisfied. I have to move away from this habit of 'introducing' my characters in every story -- it's starting to annoy even me that I have to start Savant off as 'the guy in the black coat' every time. I do this with a lot of stories. I never say "John crept along" -- I say "The figure crept along" until later on someone says "Hello John" and the character is named.

So I finally went and created one of these. Hello world, I'm Vishal, and this Blog will be used for displaying the stranger excrements of my mind every few days/weeks/years.

Please, stay, and feed the beast.

¡Vb!