Author: Laura Highcove

Poking Eyes

Laura Highcove

So as with all weeks leading up to new raiding content, our raiders have gotten downright lazy about getting on. Yet despite that we were owning Malygos up and down, only just missing out on skipping his second vortex. These failed attempts did allow us to get the entire raid their Scion achievement, so that was something at least.

Then, as always happens, everything clicked. We got got good crits, the sparks came in right behind us, we skipped the second vortex, and got the last scion down with 2:20 sec on the timer.

Article

Laura Highcove

Since my mind runs every which way, I often have ideas for scenes or other such information that doesn’t necessarily fit into the story as it’s flowing. Part of that could be a lack of skill, but I digress. I wrote a newspaper article that compliments the story where it is right now. In the future I may add in other little ‘shorts’ as I call them that are separate from the story and just add in some extra details.

Comments

Laura Highcove

In the last wordpress upgrade, they changed the entire layout of the admin pages, something they seem fond of doing every now and again. As such the link to my pending comments…well it just was out of the way. So there were tons of comments that were not approved until now. I appreciate all such comments (even ones pointing out my mistakes), and I’m sorry for the delay in their being shown.

That being said, I’m also sorry about the delay for this post. I know I said last Monday, but I didn’t have internet back until this past Thursday and even then everything was still pretty untidy. But here’s the next section. Hope you enjoy.

Moving day!

Laura Highcove

While I meant for this space to be used as notes for the story, my moving is intruppting updates, so I’m putting it here. The move is this weekend and I’m not finished packing, so I’m just going to take this week and next week off for a reasonable buffer. I’ll post again on March 2nd.

Dregin Track

Laura Highcove

Enjoy the quick updates. I already have most of this written, so it just needs tweaks and grammar check to be ready.

I had a lot more description of Dregin Track planned out, but it seemed too much like just an info dump, so it got left out. As for Dregin himself, he is a self-made millionaire. He started out with nothing, as a mercenary. He broke into gambling as a bookie for some of the other smaller tracks around the planet and eventually learned enough to open his own track. While the others kept their tracks in the slums to keep the EP from interfering, Dregin welcomed the GP, using them as his track’s guard until he was able to form one of his own. The EP presence kept the other track owners from being able to do much more than a bit of vandalism and throwing out death threats. And while everyone on the planet knows Dregin’s track isn’t exactly following the letter of the law, the EP have still found, or at least reported, no evidence that can shut him down.

Character woes

Laura Highcove

I’m sick of it. I really am. I can write. I write well but I still want to be able to draw. I want to be able to make a nice sketch of my characters that doesn’t either look like crap or has to be copied from somewhere.

I know how drawing works. I know the time and effort that has to go into learning it. I watched Ajin go through that process over the course of years. And yet I still want to be able to have a reference picture of my characters without having to find a style I like and shelling out money.

This is not the first time I’ve thought that if I’d only gotten into drawing instead of writing way back when, I could be making money with my hobby instead of just posting up a stories that no one cares about and even less people read.

I don’t understand why I have to be so ADD *and* such a perfectionist at the same time. The only reason I got as far with my writing as I did is because bad writing looks the same as good writing. It’s all letters formed into words in lines and paragraphs and pages.

All I wanted to do was put up some little sprite faces of my Silent Wings characters and even using a reference I couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t look like crap.

But then what does it even matter? No one comes here anyway.