Forgotten Futures progress report
Aug. 12th, 2010 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesQuick progress report
Just working on page 125 of about 150-60, I think.
Finished the framing campaign thing (the adventures of the League Patrol Ship Endeavour), which ended up as sixteen pages with seven adventure outlines.
I've made a start on With A Pinch of Salt, which is sort of a tribute to Alien, Outland, Thunderbirds, etc. That already has deck plans and some notes, and I've just done the first couple of illustrations. Here's one of them, a sand crawler / factory thingy.
After that there's A Ceres of Unfortunate Events, or "By Submarine To The Asteroid's Core", where I've again got some notes and deck plans.
Lastly there's Earth Girls Aren't Easy, which is a romantic comedy / murder mystery set on Titan. That's largely character driven and I've already designed the characters, so hopefully will be fairly quick too.
Since I've run all of them at least 2-3 times my guesstimate now is that I'll get these written up by the end of the month, or early next month, completing the first draft. After that I need to go through and look for silly mistakes etc., and get it out to beta readers. Then comes the conversion to HTML, the other contents of the distribution disk - which will include a lot of Weinbaum's fiction, more Victorian adverts and stereo photographs, etc. - and so forth. If it all goes really well I hope to send it out to registered users in October, and put it on line generally in November.
But don't shoot me if I'm being too optimistic...
Just working on page 125 of about 150-60, I think.
Finished the framing campaign thing (the adventures of the League Patrol Ship Endeavour), which ended up as sixteen pages with seven adventure outlines.
I've made a start on With A Pinch of Salt, which is sort of a tribute to Alien, Outland, Thunderbirds, etc. That already has deck plans and some notes, and I've just done the first couple of illustrations. Here's one of them, a sand crawler / factory thingy.
After that there's A Ceres of Unfortunate Events, or "By Submarine To The Asteroid's Core", where I've again got some notes and deck plans.
Lastly there's Earth Girls Aren't Easy, which is a romantic comedy / murder mystery set on Titan. That's largely character driven and I've already designed the characters, so hopefully will be fairly quick too.
Since I've run all of them at least 2-3 times my guesstimate now is that I'll get these written up by the end of the month, or early next month, completing the first draft. After that I need to go through and look for silly mistakes etc., and get it out to beta readers. Then comes the conversion to HTML, the other contents of the distribution disk - which will include a lot of Weinbaum's fiction, more Victorian adverts and stereo photographs, etc. - and so forth. If it all goes really well I hope to send it out to registered users in October, and put it on line generally in November.
But don't shoot me if I'm being too optimistic...
