Over time I've gone back, I had the cover art in mind and did that back in 2010 I believe. It took about a month of off and on work to get it sorted out and rendered. I had to make some compromises to get it done.
Skip ahead to now, I've dusted it off and started to clean it up. I've started by editing the past presence mistakes and some of the easier common mistakes I made, and now I've started fixing the punctuation and caps while adding more scenes and viewpoints. It's hard, I don't want to detract from the story but I don't want to leave it bare either.
One of my other problems is shifting perspective for me. I mean I'm going from writing about a future dystopia to ... well this. A medieval society built up on an alien world with a homogenous take on the civilizations of Earth prior to that... intergration of alien animals in said society to replace or augment Terran animals that would normally fufill established rolls... and then throw in a war and a group of Terran explorers.
Let's just say it's interesting. lol
Anyway, here is the title and an image or two of the alien beasts.
The basilisk:
The Branack, this one is a wild one:
Domesticated Branack:
And finally the Rhino Trike.
That's it for now. I'll post the hexrat and other pics later sometime.
Great story. The few adult scenes were fine. You are correct in claiming it need some editing on a couple of places.
ReplyDeleteGlocks don't have external safeties. Made me cringe every time I read anything to do with the safety on a Glock.
ReplyDeleteOther than that...good story!
Just finished book two in the series. Outstanding! Now Chris where is book three? That being said the grammar nazi's will pick up on the few transposed him's for a few her's. $#%k'em if they can't read through like the rest of us fans.
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