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Weekly Reading Schedule

For the next few weeks, I’m putting the progress of the written story on hold to launch Travel Log of a Raven up onto YouTube.  

 

Here’s my schedule:

  • April 9th - LIVE Reading on YouTube and Facebook - Day 9: A New Commission
  • April 23rd - LIVE Reading on YouTube and Facebook - Of a Bastard Line
  • April 30th - I’m busy... (I got a party to throw...)
  • May 7th - LIVE Reading on YouTube and Facebook - Day 17: The Mountains of Tarralees
  • May 14th - LIVE Reading on YouTube and Facebook - Day 18: Blastard COLD!!!
  • May 21st - LIVE Reading on YouTube and Facebook - Day 22: The Spectacle
  • May 28th - LIVE Reading on YouTube and Facebook - Day 27: My Eyes are Different

What about the Raven Story?

Getting the videos and streaming dialed in will free up my time from graphics and video logistics to polish the next episode, which has more going on in it than I have written… Once I wrap up the adventure in the Tarralees Mountains, I’m not sure where to move next. At present, the story’s about to stall on because our Raven’s next arch needs to fit into a broader picture in which other characters need further development.

Broader Picture?

The timeline of Travel Log of a Raven fits into a larger, ever-expanding, book-length tale, currently reaching 70 pages in its 1st-draft form. I’ve finally caught a glimpse of my main antagonists -- she’s a kind old woman! -- though I doubt she can be the only villain.

I sketched a topographical map of the Warrior Kingdom yesterday… I took a serious dorking adventure into geographic features and how various landscapes form certain characteristics in people living there. The formation of land holds a time arch so much longer than our own, that it’s hard for us to fathom the causes behind the wonders before them; all we can do is stare in awe at the glory of time’s masterpieces.  A once fertile land erodes as the earth’s axis slowly tilt, bringing wind to progressively blow fiercer across an overly-farmed soil for hundreds to thousands of years; the people, once proud of their wealth and progress gained by their garden they built over generations, now huddle in the foundations of the past and resilient for the future. Atawa is a crater whose impact sparked the melting of an ancient glacier tens of thousands of years before The Chosen One ever existed. Yes. I dorked out, but the Warrior Kingdom needs some way to have a bounty of naturally-formed diamonds...

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