StellarCon Sparks Something

After attending a small sci-fi and fantasy writing convention called StellarCon, I'm extra-excited about school ending soon, and hope to work on some of my short stories over the summer. I have a new short story planned, sci-fi, which is a bit unusual for me, but for the most part I hope to work on editing short stories that I have already written. Some only need minor editing, rather than conceptional and consistency changes, so I will probably be working on the stories that are closer to a final draft.

StellarCon was wonderful. Small conventions are great, but this is the first time that I've never been to a convention that had such a focus on writing. I actually attended a panel on world building that was hosted by four published authors, one of which wrote the Dresden Files which now I will have to add to my reading list.

Card Game

You may have noticed the Card Game mentioned in 3D art, which hitherto has sat without a link or any substantiating evidence as to its upcoming existence. The basis for game play-- the rules, that is-- have been more or less worked out and tested using prototype cards. My sister and a friend of mine are joining in on this project, and together we are holding that above art contest on GaiaOnline.com Click the above link to visit the thread in the forum. We plan to use the entries to create at least some actual cards, filling in with prototypes where necessary, and to have all this available for test play at Animazement, where we have bought an artist alley table.

Expect more information about Convention Madness to materialize on the Waking Dreams website as the date for the convention approaches!

PS. I still plan to do the art work for some of the cards, but there are too many for me to do all by myself and this contest was Nuri's awesome idea

Card Game

You may have noticed that under "3D Art" there is a promised card game that you can not click on nor learn any thing about. This is a project that my sister Vicki and I have been developing for a while, and that I was finally able to start working on. I'll be doing the art for it and she'll be doing all the magical computer stuff, such as scanning it in and making it look presentable. I'll probably end up doing the majority of the writing and asking her advice on it.

Over the weekend, I designed thirty cards and started the final art work on two (water color). Once I have six of the pieces ready, two for each sort of card, then we will see what magic Vicki and I can do for the writing and other things so that we will have examples to put up while we are working on the rest of it.

Look Away Looks Back

The perfect time to finish a story is the day before school starts! I have finished the first draft of Look Away at 7,141 words. It's my policy not to "look back" on a story until the newness of it has faded. So I won't be trying to edit it between classes just yet. Should I post excerpts of some of my stories? Should I post an excerpt of this one, or is it too short for that?

For now I have added the description to the prose page with the others. It is much easier to write the blurb for the story while it is all fresh in my mind!

I have also added a description for The Catechumen:
Elise is determined to find her husband and get them both to safety after they are separated by a past that she had thought long-dead. Her journey calls on all her powers of magic, mind, body, and spirit as she fights against stiff religiosity on the one hand and moral recklessness on the other.
Would this story be a good candidate for an excerpt?

Look Away

I began a story "Look Away" over vacation, and I'm 2,000 words into it. I expect it to be about, but hopefully under, 10,000 words. I've finished the introduction by setting up the problem of the story and the two main characters.

Look Away:
Kiran seeks atonement when his bad habits allow a woman, Damayanti, to be robbed in front of him. Damayanti's distress over her stolen missing purse leads Kiran to manipulate his resources to find her purse and assuage his guilt.