April Vacation, aka Spring Break, is here! One week to do whatever I want, whenever I want, as long as I have time, money, and the ability! (Checks bank accounts. Looks at energy levels). One week to do whatever I want as long as it’s sleep or things I can do at home! Whee!
Actually…that sounds kinda great.
This week has been kind of crazy as the thing I’ve been alluding to for months came to pass at work. I’m not going into it here but it’s both exciting and scary and my colleagues and I will have our work cut out for us, but a direction is before us.
That said, with vacation here I’m hoping to get some writing work done and do some art. Anyway, let’s get into things.
Welcome to the 66th installment of Gauthic Times, the newsletter about my writing, my life, and a drawing I made.
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I worked on Project: MG Space Adventure III for most of the past week. I had a meeting on Wednesday night at the school so I skipped that night, though I did a teeny bit for something else, which I’ll mention below. The editing/revising is going well. I will have to go back and fix some speech patterns for a bandit, but that’s the kind of thing that’s not uncommon for revising to a second draft.
I have a possible new title for this book. At first, G liked it, then she wasn’t sure. Pamela has liked it.
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In this spot over on Patreon, Patrons were given a look at a character sketch an idea for a comic book or graphic novel idea. The only way to see it is to become a Patron.
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While I posted this to my Instagram and Facebook Saturday, here’s a drawing I did:
I got a 22-inch drawing tablet at work and wanted to test it, so began this picture. I finished it at home on my 16-inch drawing tablet. I’m kinda proud of it.
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One of the things I’m thinking about doing this week is looking into setting up book signings/events. I’m not really sure how to go about it but I think I can figure it out. I’ll stick to places within driving distance, including the Barnes & Noble stores, in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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