Chapters Five and Six are bagged.
When the current bottleneck clears, I'm sitting on a massive 70 page up{date|grade}. A stack that'll get bigger tonight. And tomorrow night.
Dig it.
Seven is rewritten and I'll be starting on the lettering tonight. I still need to create two new pages for the tweaked climax, so that could be where things Stop when updates start rolling again.
Eight is about 4/5 complete. One scene left to re-write, though the smoking crater that is my bank account means this won't be worked on until... uh...
October. :-|
This weekend is lettering and (hopefully) commission work. Xeno's in town from the 17th through the 20th or 21rst, during which time my finances will be further annihilated by the purchase of the PC brain and the usual round or three of bills. Also, food. Not entirely sure if my food supply will last until the 17th, which means a bigger than usual chunk of my paycheck will be going into restocking the pantry.*
With the PC up and running in time for the G-20 Shutdown Of Pittsburgh, I'll have something to do at home and nowhere else to go. Work on the next 10 pages will start that week.
At present the breakdown looks like this:
September : Lettering of existing rewrite.
October : Texturing and environment for the new pages, setup for the new pages, finish rewrite and lettering of the old pages.
November : Production of new pages.
November or early December : One hell of a MASSIVE update.
December : Covers and new version of website, integrating everything still missing from the previous version. Possible rewrite of TV.1 and/or DCR.1, assuming DCR.1 can be improved any further.
January : Rolling on TV.2 and DCR.1 CG. This'll happen during November and December as well, though as a back seat to finishing the second edition of The Dualist.
February or March (possibly earlier) : New pages of Transitional Voices or new DCR strips.
* "What the bloody hell does that have to do with writing?!," you ask? Plenty. I'm a big fan of per-project consistency, and while DCR and TV have been written all around town, The Dualist is strictly a Bar Project. Which means I need money for booze. A typical writing session costs about $30 and produces anywhere from Script Review to A Scene to (in the case of Chapter Six this weekend) a complete chapter rewrite. Cheap in the scheme of things, but painfully expensive at the moment. Of course, I nuked my bank account by going out and rewriting on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Combined with the sessions from early last week, I managed to rewrite about 15/16ths of The Back Four in about a week.
The problem is I was expecting lettering to take a lot longer than it has. :P
