the dualist : Chapter Four is done.

posted 2009.07.04 at 18:42

Recon has four new pages and new CG. What used to be suction has been split into Light (a bit of new stuff) and Suction (minor new stuff).

Right, that took long enough.

Recon was the bottleneck - while all the formatting on everything was done awhile back, the new CG and the new illustrations just kind of sat there on the "to do" list for a good long time while I worked the kinks out of everything else. The new linework and new panels of recon -3- - the biggest whack of new art for the chapter - didn't manifest until last weekend. This past week was spent working on a commission and doing the final once-over, with recon -9- finally succumbing late wednesday.

186 pages complete, with at least 158 remaining. I say "at least," as that's the number of first edition pages that still need to be reformatted. There's still the introduction to the second half ("Expulsion"), which will be 6-10 pages, and I may yet decide to add a couple of pages to what'll be chapter Seven (was six) to clear up some storytelling problems. So 158 + 6-14 == 164-172 pages remaining.

Either way, the second edition is over the hump for page count, but not for drama - not by a long shot. While grinding out the first half was a matter of "nose to the grindstone" with a move thrown in for flavor, the second half has some serious crazy lurking on the horizon. More on that when it breaks - things are a strained status quo at the moment, and I intend to make the most of it.

To that end, it's on to covers, editing, assembley, a new version of the website, and population of that new version - then some CG work - before I get back to pages.

It's quite a workload!