Even though I haven’t been blogging, I have been muddling my way through some of my projects with varying degrees of focus and success. Here’s how these past couple weeks can be summarized:

Madame Butterfly is now officially on the backburner and may or may not come off again. While I was initially enamoured with the idea of strutting my stuff in the Vancouver Operabot contest, ultimately I wasn’t inspired with the project itself. Since I’m still pretty shaky in my animation skills–particularly in Flash–I know I need to be either working my way up to something like a full-blown short or at the very least working on something that I can really sink my teeth into and means more to me than the possibility of winning a new Wacom tablet.

I am however excited to be picking up my replacement pen for my old tablet at the post office this evening. I lost the old pen when I moved and I have high hopes of what I’ll be able to achieve once I master the tablet for Photoshop and Flash.

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I’ve spent much of the morning sorting, assembling and formatting the material for the “Adwin” section of this site. I haven’t really had a place for my fantasy novel in my previous portfolio sites, however, considering how much time and effort I’ve put into it over the years, not having it here now seemed a bit strange.

Just to give you a sense of where I am at presently in the writing process, as of this posting the outline of the first book of three consists of eighteen chapters. Of those eighteen, the first five chapters of the novel are in a working draft state and in the hands of my beta reader group. My beta reader group is doing a very good job of hounding me for more chapters, which is exactly why I started this group last year.

I am presently working on chapters 6, 7 and the first little bit of 8, however due to my ’swiss cheese’ writing style, none of these chapters are remotely readable yet. It goes without saying that I have a ways to go, but I’m actually pretty happy with the progress I’ve made on this draft in the last year or so.

And for you, good blog reader, I have the first two chapters posted to this site. I may or may not be posting more chapters to the site in the future. I figure I’ll see what kind of interest these two chapters get and move on from there.