Checking in

[alanajoli]

I'd love to say that the reason I've not been posting here this week is because I'm getting such a tremendous amount of writing done on that novel I said I was starting. Unfortunately, no. I'm getting other exciting work done, though! I've just finished ten short scenes for an upcoming art book that Empty Room Studios is putting together. Andrew Schneider and I are serving right now as the two main writers for ERS, so the two of us have been writing a bunch of quick scenes from different genres, using first or third person, past or present tense. I even wrote one in the style of a Norse saga today, which was a real kick. The project will be in development for awhile, but I think it'll be great fun when it's out. (Andrew also worked on Allies and Adversaries on a bunch of the Chronicles of Ramlar characters.)

I've also got a couple of reference assignments and a gig writing a modular adventure for a campaign that isn't Living Kingdoms of Kalamar--which is a first for me. (This assignment also gives me the great pleasure of working with Shawn Merwin again, which is always a treat.) I submitted "Nomi's Wish" one last time to a competition in the UK, and we'll see how that goes. That's one piece I really just want to exist somewhere outside of me, so each time I send it out somewhere, I hope that's the place that becomes its new home.

Other than that, we've been watching a bunch of Star Wars around here; we picked up Star Wars awhile ago, then watched both Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi this week. Youtube has completely ruined moments in these movies for me (courtesy of, I believe, coffeeem), and if you don't want to have giggle moments at Vader's expense, don't watch this one, and certainly not this one. Really.

I'm also working on drumming up a few more interview opportunities for Cowboys and Aliens: Worlds at War on the net. If you'd like to promote us, let me know! We'll be announcing a contest on Monday, I believe, so check back both here and on the W@W site for more details!

Comments

[tltrent.livejournal.com]

OMG. That first Darth Vader one--ROFL.

Good luck on all the opportunities! Sounds great!

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

I just couldn't help but crack up as we were watching the movies, and then had to interrupt the flow and drag my husband over to YouTube so he could figure out what was wrong with me. (One of the many things, I suppose...) *g*

Thanks! Tangentially, one of the projects I finished early in the week was writing a review of In the Serpent's Coils for flamesrising, which hopefully they'll use. If it goes up, I'll let you know (if you want to know!).

The pleasure

[smerwin29.livejournal.com]

is all mine, as they say. And thanks for the links to the Star Wars clips. I might possibly be the only "fantasy/sci-fi" geek in the entire universe who finds the Star Wars films (all of them) painful to watch, so the clips were very welcome.