Ari
All entries written in November, 2007
SKSG Facebook Page!
Are you a fan of School Kids SG? Might you like to be? Do you like me, despite knowing nothing about me? All of these and many more are excellent reasons to become a fan of School Kids SG on Facebook! Join and help me spread the word!
Seriously, do it soon. I’d look pretty silly as the only fan of my own project.
Also! The Facebook page contains an exclusive episode guide to School Kids SG! It’s not really that big of a deal, but it’s still the first thing you can only see by going there as opposed to here.
Sprucing Things Up
Just a brief note–lately, I’ve been trying to make the site easier to navigate, and sewing up a few unfinished seams. You may have noticed that I changed the size and position of the “School Kids SG” logo on the top bar to make the composition less lopsided, but more important is this new table of contents for The Gauntlet. The natural, newest-post-on-top system of blog archiving works well enough for my stories while they’re running, but I figured it might be easier to deal with a completed, 27-chapter book if all the links were right there. As you can see, this page will also be where you can buy the print version from, once I get the preview copy and make sure all is well.
I’m working on something similar for the Cast pages.
Oh, and a final note–I find it amusing that the Wordpress spell check system doesn’t recognize the word “blog.”
Just Now on CNN
Here is an example of why I sometimes feel resentful when I have a hard time finding proofreading work:
Part of the Autumn Experiment
I figure I’d better post this while there’s still a little autumn left. It’s part of a drawing I made just about two years ago that I referred to as “The Autumn Experiment.” It was an “experiment” because I tried coloring it with a different methodology than usual (but aiming for the same results as ever, obviously), and also because this was the first time I’d ever drawn a custom pattern to use with the pattern fill tool. If anyone has anything to say about it, please do!
Early Review of Phantom Hourglass
Phantom Hourglass is a Zelda game, and I probably would have picked it up just based on that, as Zelda games are dependably good. In this specific case, though, I was also hopeful that the game would use the unique hardware and functionality of the DS to distinguish itself from the rest of the series. I’m very happy to say that it does. I haven’t even finished it yet, and I already know that anyone with a DS should be playing this game.
Comics!
Before I say anthing else: FRIDAY’S CHAPTER WILL FEATURE A MAJOR PLOT TWIST! Does that excite you? It excites me, despite the fact that I must have read over this story fifty times by now.
Anyway, like I said on Sunday, there’s been a lot of text recently, so today I’m going to show off three pages of the comic book version of Bad Company. That’s right–back when I was a college student, I drew pictures and wrote narration to go with an excerpt from the story, as part of my Cybergraphics final. There were 12 pages total, and they covered portions of chapters 2 and 3 (both of which you can find, with the rest of Bad Company, in Blood and Brotherhood, hint hint). Frankly, I’m not in love with it…the art is old and it really showed me how much more I enjoy writing School Kids SG as straight prose. I could say more about that another time, but I’m already typing more than I should in a “picture” post, so here you go! Judge for yourselves.
Ack!
Well! I’ve been so busy writing portions of School Kids SG that you guys won’t see posted here for months, I completely missed the fact that Bad Company reached its first major revelation in chapter 3! Incidentally, here’s a bit of behind-the-scenes trivia: the first four or five chapters have gone through more chronological shuffling, splitting and re-merging than almost any other block of chapters in the whole series. So as pathetic as it is to admit that I forgot where everything fell after I finally worked it all out…well, there you have it.
So, the Incisors! A major new group of antagonists that’s already driving Mark up a wall. I should really post a profile for them, shouldn’t I? That’ll go up tomorrow, but in case you couldn’t tell, we know next to nothing about them at this point, so it’s not going to be much of an update. So, this week will be a M-W-F week, with some art on Wednesday to offset all the text-heavy posts of late, and another new chapter on Friday. I’m looking forward to it!
And now you know what the symbol that’s suddenly all over the site means.
Thank You!
I am very pleased to announce that October was a record-breaking month here at School Kids SG. In fact, the site exceeded its previous highs for almost every single visitation and access stat I’ve been tracking!
I know that I owe every bit of success I’ve had and ever will have to the people who visit my site, and especially to those who keep coming back. Thank you! Thank you very much for stopping by and letting me share my stories with you.
Now leave me some comments! Don’t be shy…I’d be happy to hear anything anyone has to say about any of the chapters and stuff I post on here, even if it’s just “I liked/didn’t like this.” And you can also email me if you want: the link is on the sidebar, under “Meta.” I promise that I will continue to sift as many of the real emails as I can out of the mountain of junk about Vicoden and my penis!
