I'm baaack!!

Hi there, boys and girls. I'm actually still alive after all that crazy amount of work I had to do to finish my degree, isn't that just awesome? And so I come back to blogger and find out everything's changed and I have to use a different template for my blog. Well, consider this a fix for now. I might make it look a bit shinier later some time.

The joys about practically having finished my course are that I have TIME. Sweet, precious time, to do what I really want to do.

So, I've been looking back over my Skeleton Duet story and umm... there's a lot of things I'd quite like to change with it, but at the same time I really want to push on and at the same time altogether I feel like I need to go back and get better groundwork before going any further. So as it stands, I'm not quite sure what's going to happen, but my plan for the summer remains to get it done. I've had friends bug me about other stories I started and never went further than a few chapters on, so ASD has to get finished so I can start back up on them.

Um, until I start being creative for myself again you can always check out my portfolio website, cuz I actually am quite proud of it: http://lizziscoones.me.uk/ There's not much of my work on it though; mainly because it takes an awful lot for me to be OK with anything I make (my reservations about ASD are fine proof of that).

However, for shits and giggles, I thought I'd upload images of my promotion material I've made for one of my projects. Click to see 'em, you know you wanna :P

Hi, I'm alive and stuff

Just wanted to make a quick post to say that I haven't died yet. It's just pretty much my motivation to do anything that has died. The two projects I've been working on that mark the end of my degree really took a dive over the last couple of weeks. Nothing really seemed to be working and my motivation hit an all-time low and I just kinda gave up with everything. Lame and stupid, I know, but I guess I'm one of those pissy creative types who wallow in self-pity when they can't seem to make anything work.

But now things are on the up and I'm slowly getting somewhere with both projects. However, I'm gonna have to be putting in heck-loads of work to make up for my dry spell, so any more Skeleton Duet chapters look a bit unlikely for a while. (That is until I decide that I'd rather be writing than earning a First in Graphic Design and let's face it, that will happen.)

A Skeleton Duet - drawings and other such things

Hi there! I've been drawing things instead of writing things. I do that sometimes. Well, actually, I'm nearly always doing things when I should be doing something else. It's the beautiful art of procrastination at its best! 

To see its fruits click below! 

Chapter 8 of Skeleton Duet

I am kinda meant to be waiting for my beta to recheck this, but I'm impatient and when I realised I hadn't posted anything since Tuesday I just had to act!

This chapter may well be one of my favourites so far. If you thought shit was going down in the previous chapter, then this one is gonna make you realise it's only just begun. In fact, I probably should've mentioned before I started posting this story, it's not really for kiddies. I wouldn't know how to rate it though, because aside from the occasional cursing and violence it probably won't seem that bad. Could go with a 15+, like they do in the movies. Yeah, let's go with that.

Anyway, without further ado, here's the chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 7 of Skeleton Duet

Hi there. I went to the gym today for the first time in ages and now my body nor my brain appear to be working. But at least I had my lovely beta Jo to give me feedback tonight. This probably wouldn't be up until tomorrow if it weren't for her. If then.

Anyway this is a fun chapter. The plot thickens :)

For those who are curious

I have drawn a map of the Kimony Isles (well, for the second time) and it may help with understanding a little more about the geography in A Skeleton Duet. I don't pretend to know a lot about maps and geography stuff, but I did once read a great tutorial by a guy who did and therefore this drawing is halfway credible.

Yeah... The general idea is that they once existed as one big island and then split into several after a big volcanic explosion or just by general sea-level rising. Take your pick, I'm not that bothered really.

Chapter 6 of Skeleton Duet

Yesterday was a busy day. I think it was the most studious I've felt so far this year. It did mean, however, that I couldn't put up chapter six as quickly as I'd wanted to. Well, that was probably the fault of me going out last night dressed as Catwoman, but you know...

Enough with the obscure life references! Here's chapter six. It's quite a short chapter (like only three and a bit pages on Word) but I think it works. My brain kinda works in scenes, so once a scene is over that's the end of the chapter as far as I'm concerned. Bit weird, but oh well.

Time to get a bit more Talon time. Yay! Click the link to find out what he's up to now.