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February 21, 2008

The next Project is chosen :)

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 7:04 am

There wasn’t much for me to post about as of late.  What wasn’t spent playing with my Tax Return present, the current model of the Playstation Portable with Final Fantasy Tactics (Ivalice is nice this time of year.  Ivalice is always nice any time of year.), I was looking for a new project to work on, and I’ve found it:

Coming in April 2008:  Scarlet PI Remix #1

Long before I started on Murder in Main Street USA, I wanted to go through the web comic from Strip #1 and give it a proper redo.  Go through the story and improve on it, get over the bumps and hazards I ran into the first time around, and actually put out some decent artwork.  My Resolution was, of course, to get the fire back in my belly when it comes to drawing comics and artwork, and this is a good enough excuse as any to get it.

SPIR #1 takes care of the introduction of Jim Goodlow and the arrival of Scarlet.  They’ll be a scene with Toni, as well as a discussion of the primary situation (the HFL case) in Scarlet’s own words.  (And since she hasn’t been installed yet, there’s no accent to get in the way.)

My primary goal in SPIR is to take the CSI/Law and Order feel that readers got from Murder in Main Street and continue it into the origin story and beyond.  It will be published in Lulu while I continue the story in the Web Comic at the usual places (including DeviantART) Wish me luck.

Topic:  Blood and Metal Name Suggestion

This bit got solved with just a IM with one of my friends.  I needed to get an alternative name to the location where most of the story takes place.  Since BAM was originally a Sonic fan fiction–my primary goal is to put it in an all-original world that became Maatla–I used “Knothole Kingdom” as a placeholder.  Of course, I needed a new name for the Open Door (Second) Draft:

I’ve got my answer while chatting with Drew Rhine, my online friend and the creator of the Scarlet character from the previous item, while we were discussing a newer idea from his head, about a race of Foxes called the Vintanii.  It was originally made for the Planeswalker series, my Magic: the Gathering themed series.  Since that is currently in the Salvage Yard–the metaphysical place where I keep the ideas that don’t fit now for the time when eventually they do–I suggested that he move the Vintanii to Maatla and make it part of the BAM world.

Hence the name “Knothole Village” became “Vintanii Village” and eventually by the time Eric showed up, the “Kingdom of Vinatos.”  And I hope by the time I get to the beta stages that there will be a decent history of Vinatos for Eric to review.

As for Acorn and Sarah Knothole?  I think it would be safe to keep them in remembrance of BAM’s not so humble origins and not catch heat by Archie.  The reason is the placement of the names:

In Archie Sonic, Knothole was the name of the Village, while in BAM it’s a family name.  Acorn is the family name of the Royal Family in Archie Sonic, while it’s relegated into the surname of King Acorn Knothole.  This jumbling should be more than enough to keep the lawyers at bay.

I only hope I can do better lawsuit proofing with the other inspiration behind the BAM remake.  Let’s just say that if I ever meet Stan Lee, I’m kicking him in the nuts.  Hard.  I don’t care if he never even touch the creation of Captain America #25 and my prescriptions keep the anger off, I’m still castrating that SOB.

November 20, 2007

Megan Meier was killed by ED-style Trolls.

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 3:09 am

Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Meier

Wikio:  http://www.wikio.com/news/Megan+Meier

…and you wonder why I’m writing “So not the Draema?”

It would be more than just an Anti-ED book.  This will be a book on Cyber Bullying in general and how to combat it, from someone who should know who he’s talking about, being one of the top ten most flamed people on the Internet.  “There’s George W Bush, there’s Chris Crocker, and then there’s Daveykins FoxFire.

And as you can expect, there’s a new meme running around thanks to their latest ‘Hero: ‘

“Bullying is Rabbit?”

Who writes this shit?  I wouldn’t even think up crap like that even if I was stoned and drunk.

October 25, 2007

Book Progress, Mim Su Sa and Blood and Metal

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 3:24 am

I’ve gotten enough edits to Murder in Main Street USA to claim that the next public beta would be the Final Edit.  That’s when I start formatting it into a book form (this time it’ll be a standard paperback version, hoping that it’ll be cheaper than the coffee table sized Lost Boy Found) and proofing it for the official release.  I’m shooting for November 18th as the deadline.

As for Blood and Metal, I’ve been taking on the plot deck and am typing away at that book in earnest now.  I’m at 165 cards to go and counting down as I speak.  It’ll probably go through November (So no NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) projects for me) and December and with luck make it to the end of January of 2008 with the Closed Door Draft.  (I think I’ll wait til next year to do a NaNoWriMo book.  With the election in that month, I’ll probably need the distraction.)  As I did before, I’ll update you all on the cards to go, both on my web site and elsewhere.

Also, I’ll still be working on Writer’s Circle challenges to help jump over writer’s blocks in B&M.  My latest challenge was the combat scene challenge which was Eric and Spectre’s first round.  People were getting interested more in the book with each passing submission which might be a big help in getting publicity with my works.  Now, if Gaia Online can release their Battle game, things will be perfect.

October 3, 2007

Mim Su Sa in 2nd Public Beta

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 5:53 am

I finally got to the second beta release of “Murder in Main Street USA,” my Scarlet PI novel.  I’m already getting the response I needed out of the book, a story that’s one part CSI: Orlando, and one part light-hearted romp.  The scene with Captain Jack Sparrow along must be read to believed.

I won’t say that all that’s needed to do is hunt for those stray spelling and grammar errors; the jot and tittle work as I call them.  There’s still one more chapter to put in here, and then it’s to decide whatever or not to add in a serialized origin story at the end of each main story:  I have a young Dexter-like mad scientist named Joseph who has dreams of being an Imagineer, and he lives in Aria’s castle (I’ll tell you more about it, but that would be telling) and I need a part where he’s introduced better than he currently is.  Fortunately, the Writer’s Circle has given me a perfect way to get the ball rolling on this one.

Once that is out of the way, as well as the other minor details, this book is all but ready to be released to the public.  I’m planning “Murder in Main Street USA,” the first book in my Scarlet PI novel series, to be released on lulu at November 18, 2007.  Watch for it then. :)

August 6, 2007

Getting out of Emo Mode and an Mim Su Sa Update

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 2:54 am

It took me a while to feel better after the discovery earlier this week. Finding out that your wiki
was hacked over ten days prior could lower anybody’s spirits. It also could show who’s got your
back. While I do have more web page visits from trolls than patrons that could actually pay,
unless it’s actually one person who’s been sending me troll puke into Word Press’s spam filter,
I’ve been getting a lot of love from various sources: Deviant Art (with some exceptions from a
couple), Disney Echo (who’s ‘Big Tent’ Disney Fandom gave me another reason why I’m a part
of their group, and Gaia, who’s really cheering me on with my books. It is my hopes that I can
make it up to those three organizations. (Relatively easy to do so with dA; I’m due for a support
payment.)

While I was allowing the Emo Storm to pass I managed to go through the rest of my initial edits
to ‘Murder in Main Street USA,’ the first Scarlet book, as I returned to the Scarlet PI strip (this
chapter will focus more on Melody, and would end up with a grand adventure as . . . well, heh
heh heh, that would be _telling_.) While there may be some areas I need to add and rewrite, but I
think I can go through it all within a couple weeks, then it’ll be in a presentable form as a beta.
At that point, I’ll be looking for proof and test readers.

As I do so, I’ll be starting the lion’s share of the closed door draft of Blood and Metal while I put
Mim Su Sa through the group edit gauntlet. Until then, I’ll have some parts of B&M written as
Writing Circle challenges. My entry of Challenge #27 consists of a compromising scene with
Eric and Sarah, while Challenge #28 will have one of the earlier scenes I’m still working on.

July 31, 2007

No Wiki! For Good bleeping reason…

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 7:21 am

I think I feel pretty much the lowest I’ve ever felt this morning. Just as I was about to get going on my second book when I got the word. Someone has hacked into my Wiki site and royally smucked it up. I’ll spare you the horrid details, but I’ll just say that it’s not safe for work, not safe for Disney, and not safe for human consumption. Let’s just say that it made the joke “The Aristocrats” tame in comparison.

And then I looked at the date of the changes: July 20.

I’ll say it again. July 20.

I just received word of the vandalism TODAY!

I don’t know whom I should be angry over worse: The Radio Edit who put this up, or ME! FOR LETTING IT STAY ON THIS LONG!!!!

…..I really need some support right now, because I’ve deleted the wiki, and I’m considering deleting the whole web site right now. I bust my tail off for over two years getting books written and published so I can, at the very least, earn something more than what I could earn flipping burgers. Right now . . . . it just seems too much for me to ask.

June 8, 2007

Murphy’s Law. Why I do not NaNoWriMo

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 5:39 am

You want to know why I do not trust myself with a 50K word novel in under 30 days right now? It’s because of the chance of disasters like what I had to suffer this week. It’s Murphy’s Law being an absolute and, when you promise yourself to write that book “Come Hell or High Water?” Well, guess what? Hell _and_ High Water comes.

And when you have to trust a Vista machine to write your book, well? Just who decided to flick me the middle finger?

Yep. Vista can be as bitchy as ME at times.

It took me a total of four–yes, you heard that correctly–reinstalls of Vista just to get all of my programs up and running properly. It’s a good thing I decided long ago to save my files on a jump drive, or I would be pissed.

Be that as it may, I finally weathered the storm, but that means that I lost a lot of precious time to write a book. But that’s when I gave myself this stress-relieving permission: In the event of a computer related disaster, you are allowed to add up to 7 days in your deadline.

Which is what I did. I moved the deadline for Mim Su Sa from July 3 to July 10th. That should compensate for the time I lost.

Otherwise, progress has been good, and I’ve been developing a lot of scenes and characters. I won’t drop all the details right away, but I will state that the developing as I go might add some extra cards to the stack I have with me. This is a good thing, that means that the story is developing as I go along, and that’s what I wanted.

So with the corrections, I set my status at, as of 9PM June 7th, 15.6K words, 31 Cards to go, and 33 Days remaining.
Barring any more disasters.

May 26, 2007

God Bleep It, it’s bad news to Somebody!

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 12:50 am

I’ve just found out earlier today that my mother has breast cancer.  I heard it’s not too serious and she’s really optimistic about getting through this, but even with my Asperger’s riddled mind I know it’s gotta be bothering her.

But I have to go on record with this statement:  Anyone who openly declares their jollies over my mother’s illness will be hunted down.  I know you’re out there.  If it happened to Tony Snow and Jerry Farwell, it will certainly happen to my mother.  Maybe it’s that shell shock I have since the ninties.  Maybe I know the Troll sites too well, but when I heard the news over my mother, the first thought was for my mother’s well being.  The second thought was about what the trolls would say.

Sad isn’t it?  Thank you Radical Left Wing.

April 28, 2007

SPI’s new web site: scarletpi.foxfirestuidos.net

Filed under: Uncategorized — DaveykinsFoxFire @ 1:30 am

Having heard all the suggestions on how I should keep people on track with the meandering comic strip, provide a better way to navigate through the page over at my home site, and to provide a room for an planned novel, I’ve created a brand new Scarlet PI site. I’ve even given it it’s own subdomain at this http://scarletpi.foxfirestudios.net . I hope this helps, especially as I add more content as suggestions come up.

In other news, I have a tentative cover ready to use for Lost Boy Found and, if all things go well, will be released next month. Well on my goal of a release date on my Birthday. With all the times I stay on schedule, I’m glad I picked Writer as a career choice.

February 23, 2007

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