Maybe I'm a Dreamer...

Alright, so the guest wing is pretty much done. There are a few finishing touches left to do and it'll be shiny. Next is the Gold Wing and we're tossing around a few ideas for that already.

Without further ado, here's the youtube link to my personal update on the project: Just Click Here!

Prior videos are on Cheldog's list of videos as well, so have fun viewing them all, if you want.

So I got the walls, doors and windows in on the third floor of the guest wing with Chell's help. I started with the ceiling, but got bored and decided to leave it until we had either Emer or Rusty to help out with it. As mentioned before, the first and second floor are complete. We do want to add large windows to the ballroom, but we haven't tackled that particular project quite yet. I get the feeling I'll leave the boys to do that while I'm laying out the first floor of the Red Wing (Damien's Mum's wing). They'll have fun, I'm sure.

Otherwise--I've planned out the first chapter of The Runner and just need to work up two character sketches--one for the unnamed male alien that sort of works with Ryan "Nihil", and the unnamed female alien who is basically the main villain. I think it'll be fun, as will finishing up Killian's short story.

With renewed fervor, we've been working on the mansion. We've been doing work on the front of the house and in the guest wing. Chell has been working on the driveway in the front of the main house, which means that it will look somewhat complete if viewed from the front of the buildings.

In the guest wing we've got the layout finished on the first and second floors. The lighting and windows have been completed on the first floor, while only the windows have been completed on the second. I've put in beds on the second floor and I'm currently working on the interior decorating of the first floor.

We're not done working on it yet, but we've gotten a lot done!

EDIT1 (7:44pm): the first floor has all interior decorations in place.

EDIT2 (8:04pm): driveway complete!

Well, since the patch we figured out how to get Chell and I on the server at the same time. So we have most of the first floor of the guest wing sectioned off into rooms. We just have to build the walls up and make the ceiling/second floor.

We'll be putting in windows/staircases, and filling the rooms. We also exchanged the old "beds" we had created for the beds that Notch put into the game. They don't look quite to scale, but it really doesn't matter all that much.

We also had a visitor on the server, Belghast, who checked things out.

I intend to either make a video myself or have Chell make a video update once we finish the guest wing in entirety.

So, I'm working on the mansion in Minecraft again... so far I've added two rooms to the guest wing, and then I wanted to tackle the front--mainly, the gravel driveway. I was going to leave the statue in the middle up to the boys to build, but I found another issue first.

The front door. We centered the building around an uneven number of blocks, meaning that to have the door be in the middle, it's a single door. Usually on castles and mansions and stuff you see ornate double doors--but if I try to do that, it won't look right. So, I have a problem. I'm going to play around a bit and try to figure it out. In the end, if I don't like what I've done, I'll just leave the "doorway" open and see if the boys can figure anything out.

Another problem we had tonight: apparently I can't connect to the server when Chell hosts it. He also can't connect when I try to host it. Meaning that we can't work on the mansion at the same time. Other people could feasibly connect to the server. So this is a bit of a bummer...

All in all, I'm hoping that Notch fixes the bugs that need fixing, patch everything up, and we can be on our way. Because I'm fairly certain that once Minecraft is patched, we won't have trouble connecting anymore.

Non-Minecraft related happenings: I sent off the first chapter of the first book of the series to Rusty to read--he and I are thinking of working on a different writing project together, but he wanted to see some of my writing before we started in. The project we will be working on will be very different for me. Basically, he will know how everything it going to turn out--he'll play one character, I'll play the other. He'll feed me bits of info so I know how to stay on the right track, plot-wise, but otherwise I'll have no idea what's going on. It should be fun, regardless of whether or not it turns out to be any good.

xx
Parkyr

I got Nano rolled last night and ended up writing another 103 words, bringing my word count to 5,180. I stopped and worked on the mansion on Minecraft, played some WoW (got acheesements), and went to work. Now I'm running on Monster and I'm waiting for Dead Like Me S2 to finish downloading as well as BAM! to open so I can go sit in their cafe' and type away at my novel. -nodnod-

Hopefully 10K today?

Chapter One is officially complete for Be Happy, Idiot. I ended up adding about 1,000 words to it. Chapter Two will be started shortly, my goal being 2,500 words for today. Only about 434 words to go! I want a good start for NaNoWriMo :)

My goal is to write 2,500 - 5,000 words a day; it would make sure that I completed Be Happy, Idiot well before the deadline. I want to win this one. I need to. It's important to me. I need to prove to myself and everyone else that I can write a full novel without getting stuck.

In addition, I completed the second floor of Damien's wing in Minecraft yesterday. It needs a complete ceiling, but otherwise it's all good. Then I need to make the third floor.

So far, my Mum seems supportive and wants to read the end result, my boyfriend is interested, but mostly in me meeting my goal :)

I can't wait for the pep talk by Mercedes Lackey! She was one of the first adult authors that I began reading: the Arrow series and Gryphon series are my most favourite. I feel like I should read more of her stuff.

EDIT: up to 2,672 words!

EDIT 2: completed the ceiling of floor two in Damien's Wing!