Tag: Worldbuilding
Mongrel, 2
Mongrel, 1
This is it! I’ve just let Draft 2 Digital (the publisher I’ve been with for about six years) know I’ll be serializing it here on my blog. Mind you, it’s not nearly Monday yet in the northern western hemisphere, so I am jumping the starter gun a bit.
And in addition, I said I’d write a post with Ushen’s letter. That’s not happening. It isn’t hard to read her story between the lines, and the details will keep till we meet her again as a grown up woman down the track.
Giving the manuscript another edit while turning it from a print format into an online reading format, I’m laughing about the bits that are already dated. I’ll be interested to hear about you tripping over them.
Earth Fall, 22
This Lego model is something how I imagined a tiffany would look like.
What follows is a long chapter tying off most of the ends, a short final chapter will follow in the goodness of time.
Earth Fall, 20
Ushen at Ten
Basalt boulder, possibly coughed out by Wollumbin, 23 million years ago.
Lego: On the Wall
After a lot of thinking and a couple of trials, decided that pieces of base plate would work better than a whole base plate. A pair of kitchen scissors did the trick.
Pieces had to be three by seven studs to fit the velcro fastener.
These four 16 x 16 plates connected by various other plates make up the base for the first part of the scene I’m intending to display outside my unit door.
Of the three bits of green base plate at the top, only the outside two have the wall mounts. The middle one is me testing its joining capabilities. Two wall mounts together will hold 4.5 kilograms the packet tells me. Plenty for the purpose.
What I discovered a minute after I glued the velcro fasteners to the wall … the two fasteners—one gripping the other and the thickness of a bit of base plate—are nearer to two plates thick than one.
Meaning I’ll probably need to add a two by one plate to the back of all the joiner plates, for the scene to hang straight against the wall. That’s my next thing to do.
He’s got the boat stuck on a sandbank, right?
Earth Fall, 19
The action from here to the end of Earth Fall is from Ushen’s point of view. Her very early memories and experiences are glossed over somewhat, since realistic communications would’ve ranged from inchoate to difficult as she is only two years old at the beginning of the chapter.
Rather than posting up the whole lot at once, I decided on short chapters relating to the distinct phases of Ushen’s life. Plus, my thinking was that starting with very short chapters would allow me to expand where needed while editing, and that has been the case so far. Section 1 started with a bunch of notes of about 500 words, that became approx 1800.
As seems to be becoming usual these days, I’m behind on sourcing/painting imagery. The image pertaining to this installment may be added later.
Rita de Heer 