Mission: Abort

My readers and friends,

I have decided, after much consideration, to call off my NaNoWriMo attempt this year. The reasons are multiple, but being too busy with schoolwork or simply not feeling the story do NOT rank among them, I can assure you.

The problem is far simpler. It is impossible to edit a movie and write a story at the same time. One will naturally preclude the other. And seeing as I have only completed final editing on one out of three episodes for a December slated release, I'm in a pickle.

To misquote,
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve Film and novel."

Har har.

But seriously, I haven't been able to get much of anything done on either because I haven't the time or energy to work on both and be a full-time architecture student and still get sleep.  :) So I must choose.

And as the film has a considerably higher number of people waiting expectantly on its December release (as opposed to my one for the novel), it takes precedence.

So, my November will be novelless, but who knows? I might do the last three-quarters in December! Or January... Or maybe never. But I won't stop writing, that's for certain.

As soon as Ironwing shows in theaters near you (not really :P), I'll switching from iMovie back to Pages and hitting the keyboard a lot harder.

Until next we meet (or I guilt myself in posting something here),

Farjag

Equations

Hours spent at my studio desk + a beautiful sunset + a little bit of crazy =

Model pictures + a whole lot of crazy!

Nano Update to come soon!

-1.0 Hours till Launch

What does one do on a sleepless Wednesday night a few hours before NaNoWriMo begins?

Why make book covers desktop pictures of course!

So! Which of the fonts I shamelessly found on dafont.com do ya'll like? And while you're ogling at the incredible job I did of putting a text box on a black background I'll go catch a few hours sleep before November sucks me in!

Meet Ash Skarslard

When Ash Skarslard ran away to join the circus in Chicago, he knew it would change his life forever. What he didn't know was how much it would. Realizing he was deathly afraid of tigers was only the beginning.
When an accident on the main track sends the Tyrus Bros circus train on a five hour detour, they are forced to stop in Arskone to refill their coal. But the train will never leave. As the train slows to a stop at the sleepy station, hell itself erupts around them, swallowing performers and animals alike. And the creatures of darkness have plans for all of them.

Twisted and warped into his own greatest fear, Ash became one of them, no longer alive, not quite dead, eaten and hollowed out by his terror and anger. Terror at what he had become, anger at the ones who had done it to him. Terror at their retaliation, anger at the ones who had caused it all in the first place; those praying folk across the tracks.

Light fades, sundown comes; the time to strike is now

Slip across the battlelines; assassin on the prowl

Darkness will reign, chaos clutches deep

The price for life is steep

Meet Chase Forthen

*First of all, let me apologize for the apparent youth of the characters in the drawings. Apparently I can't draw age very well yet. Assume, for the present, that these were vignettes taken when they were a few years younger.

Meet Chase Forthen, a young man who had to grow up far too quickly when his hometown of Arskone became a battleground overnight. The son of the town's preacher, both his parents were killed in the first attacks, leaving Chase with the responsibility of caring for the hundred or so souls who had come to his father's chapel every Sunday. And doing so meant taking the fight to the enemy. 

For these attackers were not men of flesh and blood, but far darker things of the night and of death; foul things sent from the very bowels of hell. 

Against this undead menace Chase and the men of Arskone rose up, quickly learning the ways of a war where a blade might give more protection than a gun, and a prayer more power than a calvary charge. They became shadehunters, warriors against the night, and very real defenders of their faith and homes.

As the war drew on, quickly turning into a stalemate along the front lines of the old railroad tracks, Chase became known for his skill, fortitude, and unshaken trust in his God. But something was coming, something that would shake the already upside down Arskone to its very core, and Chase along with it. For God never forsakes His children, yet never stops teaching them. And the son of the preacher still has much to learn.

Night falls, the specters rise; the war beings once again

Hope fades, darkness sighs; who can see the end?

Stand fast, hold your ground; let them not win this night!

Be strong, listen to the sound; dawn will bring the light!

For Reals

Well, since I forgot to add the link TO my NaNo page last post, (containing the plot synopsis and characters), I'll just stop being lazy and actually do a post on that here.

So... the synopsis:

Railway-

When Ash Skarslard is saved by the shadehunter sent to hunt him down, he begins the strangest of friendships with the young Chase Forthen. Suddenly fighting on the opposite side of the war, he is faced with questions and decisions that will change his life forever. A shadow war rages around the railroad town of Arskone, and the clash of light and dark has never been so clear; except for the one scruffy weretiger who doesn't know on which side of the rails he stands.

And the link to me on the Nanowrimo site, in case any of you actually do want to buddy me, or just check my stats :)

Also, character profiles (being me making things up on the spot), to follow!