Band Comic #2

My attempts to put together a band from my characters are not in vain! I discover an unlikely winner for my vocal lead:

I hope you can click on it to enlarge.... and sorry the bottom was cut off! (drned paper is too big for scanners).

~Silvermist

Screnzy Approaches, a Mad Dash for Sanity, and Guitars

Well folks, it's that time of year again.

Those hectic, amazing, rush-of-air-in-your-face weeks before the first of April, when NaNoWriMo's first non-November challenge runs up with a big axe to tries and kill you.

For me, the month of April means more than just 20,000-some words of 100-page screenplays or scripts. To me, it's the month of the almighty DOUBLE CHALLENGE!

*much chaos*

The Double Challenge is a self-administered addition to the Screnzy challenge. It began last year, when I realized I wanted to do more than just a screenplay.

"I need another novel," I thought, and promptly had a weird dream about sheds and flying, which prompted me to write the April novel "Flight". (LOVE THAT BOOK).

Now it's those rush-of-air-in-your-face weeks again, and I've been planning the "Flight" sequel for a while now. Not only that, but I'm also going to co-write my first screenplay with the insane Lady Elizabeth. It's going to be nutso.

Also, it appears as though I'm going to have to run in a mad dash for sanity this month. As my challenge start date approaches, my Writer's Block decided to retire for the time being, and suddenly I'm swamped with ideas, projects, and overwhelming WILL to do it all. I finished my August 'WriMo in a spurt of random awesomeness, I'm suddenly close to finishing my July 'WriMo (with an epic twist, whoa), I'm formatting my 2010 NaNo for publishing, all at the same time I have to work on studying for my AP exam and SAT!

HELP!

...that said, I'm also going to draw some hilarious pictures/comics of Me putting together a band with my characters. Here's the first one:

(I'm assuming you click to enlarge...)

Crazy in the most awesome and mind-blowingly exhausting way,

Silvermist

Pudding Makes Everything Better

I put pudding mix into a 'from-scratch' bowl of cake batter and it came out (while not so light and fluffy as a boxes mix) so fine and so moist...

Mmmmm. I wonder if I can have any for breakfast...

Three cheers for random thoughts,

Silvermist

Another picture

This one is from my NaNo '11 novel, "Jinxed". The climax happened in this dungeon, and it was very intense. This picture took me over 2 hours in all, and although it's only my first try at a dungeon, I think it's pretty good.

This is Blackmist (my nemesis) and Rozar, my best friend (who you may have met).

~Silvermist

Romanticalness

I just thought you guys would like to see the picture I drew yesterday. (Many thanks to Mark Crilley and his book 'Mastering Manga'!)

Enter: Razor and January

Romance is in the air! ...I just have to write this part. Don't kill me!

~Silvermist

Google Chrome, Noodle Updates, and ABNA Apprehension

I just downloaded Google Chrome - it's insanely fast, and it's making me very happy. Bye-bye Internet Explorer! You may have nostalgia attached to you, but you still suck!

That said, I've been noodling!

...that's code for 'editing'. And yes, it is true. I have been noodling last April's novel, "Flight" for a while now, and I'm up to the 80s pages. It's only 115 pages long, but I plan to change that after my first grammar-and-syntax check. I plan to add scenes and everything. >8) It's making me hyper.

I am also still planning the sequel for this April's Screnzy challenge (knowing me, I'm doing a double challenge - a screenplay and novel in the same month!) It's a very exciting sequel idea, and what with the same lovable characters as the last book, and the new faces, new powers, and new plot, I'm really really excited.

It's dangerous, with all this excitement!

I'm also waiting for tomorrow's Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award first round results. I NEED TO SCREAM AAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Thank you. Now, you have probably realized my novel is entered. It is. I'm scared. It's thrilling. I will die either way tomorrow, if I make it or lose it, so prepare for a funeral.

That said, I'm off before I get too crazy.

More noodling!

~Silvermist

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy day of the Valentines!

I send a very warm and hearty greeting to all my friends, regretting to have not sent you Valentines, but seeing as all my friends are girls (like me), it would be a tad awkward. Needless to say, Happy Valentine's Day all 'round, and I'm making heart-shaped cookies for it too!

For characters, this day can either be a blessing and a gift, or a horror and a curse. For many of my characters, it's both, because I'm also making PLANS FOR THE APRIL NOVEL! *CACKLE*

...ahem. At any rate, have a gorgeous day, full of love, surprises, flowers, chocolate, etc. <3

~Silvermist