Slow

Once again we miss a week. I don't want to point any fingers, but... I really should be more on top of this whole blog thing. Lately things have been a little slow. I had family in town and work has been busy and I've just been trying to recover mentally after work and not doing much writing. Lio has been getting ready for school to start again and that's been difficult for him as well. Not long ago we hit one of our major story milestones, and a combination of writer's block and this being busy thing has slowed down our story writing. What it hasn't slowed down is our idea development for the game we are interested in making, which I'm pretty excited about. Sadly the game is, because of a lack of funds at the moment, a long ways off, but it is still fun to think about and plan for.

The Trick

We missed an update last week and for that I am sorry. I hate to disappoint all our loyal fans (both of you). I have family in town today to see my 2 month old baby It’s been fun seeing them, but it has cut down on the amount of writing I’ve done this past week. Not that you care so much about that, you just want to know about the story.

One of the fun things about writing a story is watching it develop in unexpected ways. Lio and I had a plan of what was going to happen in the story, but we needed (and still need) to fill in details as we go. This led to some interesting additions. My favorite has to be the addition of the Maso’s Trick and especially its crew. We had to transport Keane from one coastal city to another and the mode of transportation was most naturally by boat. I didn’t think I wanted the tension of having Keane travel with strangers, so I invented Gitano, an elven captain he had traveled with before and with whom he was good friends. Lio liked Gitano so much that he made him even more involved in the story than I had originally planned. Then we started inventing crewmembers for the journey. We suddenly had a group of people that we really liked, so we found a role for them beyond just “takes Keane from point A to point B.” It was exciting, and we hope that you all enjoy the characters as much as we do.