Wednesday — December 10th, 2008
Lynn stopped a moment, the memories of the past year washing over her. The day time seemed to crawl, when she knew something had been wrong… and then he hadn’t come home. The knock at the front door to find a uniformed man on the other side. After that the memories were a fog shrouded blur. Just surviving had been challenging enough, much less feel much of anything.
Lynn shut the memories aside, saying softly as she turned back to the container, “It was better to start over.”
“Not to mention this house is paid for!” Jake said with a smile as he came up to take the next box.
“Yeah, and is a total mess.” Sienna said, as she headed down the paved walkway towards the front door.
“We’ll make it home. You’ll see.” Lynn said as she continued to pull boxes down off the top level. Mentally she shook herself, attempting to dispel the memories.
Picking up one of the larger boxes, Lynn followed the kids into the house. Once in the entryway of the house, she paused for a few moments to adjust to the abrupt change from the sunlight to the darker interior of the house. Hearing an odd noise coming from Sienna, Lynn set her box down in the middle of the living room and followed the sound into the back of the house.
November 11th, 2008
I’m in the midst of madcap writing, and hit 50K this last Sunday. Woohoo! I’m now well on my way to the triple Nano that is my goal. If I don’t catch the cold that’s been going around, I might actually reach it.
In other news, you may have noticed that this page isn’t as ‘long’ as previously. There is a really good reason for that. Namely, size. From the beginning of the relaunch I’ve been having a really big problem with the size of the graphics, in that they are just too big. Anyone with a little slower connection would immediately be put off.
So, by cutting down the literal size of the pages, I was also able to substantially cut down the KB size. As another plus, now you don’t have to scroll to read it! (At least, on most sized screens.)
Everyone have a great November! Time to go bury myself in words again…
September 13th, 2008
NaNoWriMo is just around the corner, and I’ve already started planning for it (take a look at my blog for more info). Part of this means creating a comic page buffer so that the comic continues uninterrupted. So far the work on that is going great! Octobers is already finished and I have November almost half done.
Talking about writing, I think I’ve finished editing all of Chapter 1. Now to start rewriting Chapter 2. I’m looking forward to catching up to where the old comic format left off.
Yay!
July 8th, 2008
First off, the new page is finished and will be up first thing Thursday morning.
Things learned this past month:
1. Text heavy graphics increases file sized much more than expected. I’ll do all I can to keep pages under 150K, but so far if they are compressed much below that the quality really deteriorates.
2. My style has definitely changed in the last few years. Just look at the characters in graphic 1 (from 2005) compared to graphic 2 (new).
3. Hackers are everywhere and apparently don’t have a real life. Instead of spending most of July 4th weekend working on art, instead I was piecing this website back together. Grrrrrr.
4. Monsoons have just started for the season and make me realize anew just how much I miss clouds.
May 30th, 2008
Well, it turns out Comicshout was just dropped by its creator for various reasons just as I had tweaked the theme the way I wanted. As I didn’t want to get stuck with a dead-end comic script like what happened with Istrip (which I really liked, BTW), I had to go back to researching alternatives. This has now put me at least a week behind.
In the end it came down to only one alternative, and I wasn’t really keen on it: WordPress with the ComicPress theme. To be blunt, it’s been a pain in the neck getting it to do what I want and look like I want. The pluses: Active development and a very active and helpful community to answer questions.
So, here we are, with a new site that still need work, but at least it’s starting to take shape. Now to get busy on the most important part: the relaunched comic! 
