Heir To Magic

This post is just to claim Heir To Magic on my Technorati Profile, you can ignore it.

I did some work on Heir last night, not a lot and nothing that added to the word count, but before I went to bed I turned on the laptop and located the files with all the novel in it and made sure that I had everything. Tonight I plan to dedicate an hour before bed to working on that novel, getting things sorted out the rest of the way and writing on the story some more.

I’m missing a lot of what I had write this past year, which is really annoying since it is a good chunk of the hardest part of the story to write, but I did find some things I had thought were lost for good, so I am in hopes of finding the rest of the missing material.

Once I have it all found and sorted out so that it is ready to be easily worked on, I plan to save everything to a CD and tuck it away in my fireproof safe. I had bought the safe for $30 just so I can stow away all of my novel files and other important documents.  $30 is not bad for a Honeywell safe that is guaranteed for 5 years and up to 30 minutes of protection in a house fire at up to 1,550 degrees F.

So, that’s my plan for tonight.  Get it all sorted out, backed up, and locked up.  Then I want to spend at least 30 minutes of that hour writing (or an additional 30 minutes if the work I have planned takes a full hour) .

I was tied up with Thanksgiving and working on another site and… ::shaking head sadly::: It just seemed like every time I would start to get a little caught up my day would suddenly be gone and I would be sitting here asleep at the computer. I very obviously gave up on posting here every day back around the 19th, but I have not given up on Heir to Magic — I am FAR too into that novel to ever give up on it. (We’re talking years here people, YEARS).

So anyway, I am still working at plugging away on Heir to Magic, in fact, some of what kept me from updating here was some work for that. You see, I was researching dragons, since dragons are going to play a role in the novel soon. Now, them of you that know me can put your dropped jaws back in place, I know that I should know all there is to know about dragons but there are still a few questions that even I have about the critters. Such as… their skeletal structure.

Yes, that’s right, I need to know what - realistically - a dragon’s skull would possibly have looked like. So I went looking. Do you know that there is very little information online about the skeletal structure of dragons?… you didn’t? Oh, well… there’s not much online about that, trust me on that one. So, I decided that since the only little bit I was finding was a basic body / muscular structure / skeleton structure that someone had made back in 1997, I should just go ahead and draw up my own skeletal structure for dragons. And so I did.

Yup, that’s right, I made my own dragon skeleton — see…

That is based on the skeletal structure of a dinosaur I found at the Berkeley website, paired with the wings from an Archeoptryx and given a breastbone and wishbone of my own design. His neck was made longer, to account for the long neck of a dragon, and the head is the skull of the Dracorex hogwartsia (yes hogwartsia - as in J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts. Yes, Dracorex hogwartsia is a real dinosaur, I swear.)

Anyway, there be my first effort at a dragon skeleton, I think the wings are far too small as is the overall length of the body, but I can improve on that in later works to decide just how the dragons should look.  For now, back to getting work done on not only my websites, but on my novels as well.

I’m spending the day working on my writing website, trying to get it reconfigured so that it works how I want it to work and getting the appearance of the site more in line with what I want to have it look like.   When I am finished with that site I will be moving on to other sites in an effort to get all of my sites updated and ready to be of genuine use to visitors rather than the distraction for me that most of them have been so far.

I’ve been half asleep since I got back from Las Vegas, too many nights down there out till after 2 a.m. and not sleeping until 4 a.m. then up at 7 a.m.  LOL  Not much different from how things are at home, but it seemed to have left me more worn down to have been on that cycle down in Las Vegas… I think it was all the walking I did down there.

Need to get into walking here too, don’t want to miss out on all the good that did for me.