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Yellow Dawn...

¦ dialling in from the sky bunker ¦

03:44 GMT, Thursday, 18th October 2007. Solid inky blackness against the canopy above me. Soft lamps glowing. Life Support down to my right, humming. Debussy and the LPO is playing via random selection on laptop. Fresh mug of tea on my desk. Ahhhh it's all so lovely.

I'm into my 2nd week of the new job and still loving it. The bus journeys are still wonderful although I have one small annoyance, called the Heavy Metal Kid, who gets on two stops after me and always decides to sit in my general vicinity with shit metal music (as opposed to good metal music) bashing away like a pair of crashing dustbin lids through cheap headphones. *rolls eyes and smiles ironically whilst recalling his own teenage days* It is probably my karma.

Last night I completed a 16 page supplement for Yellow Dawn called "Rogues Gallery", which contains a list of ready-to-play NPCs from criminal and military backgrounds. I'm planning to make it available as a FREE PDF download from the main site when Yellow Dawn goes live.

So I've got a choice this morning: start writing Dog Eat Dog, now that all the research, note making and plot & character development is finished, or, finish writing Shadows of the Quantinex, a major campaign for Yellow Dawn.

Whenever I spend a long time working on Game stuff, by the time I get back to starting a new novel I usually end up feeling like I've forgetten how to write...which for somebody in my position is a TERRIFYING experience to go through. But it happens, and I've worked through it with Dante's Fool, with Iron Man Project and with the first few completed chapters of Edge.

The way I'm thinking is:
() having a novel set within the Yellow Dawn world, ready at the same time as a I launch the game is a Nice to Have
() having a large, well written, deeply thought out scenario ready for people to play with this new game system...when it comes out...it a pretty Important To Have.

So...I'm going to finish writing Shadows of the Quantinex. Anyway, I've left Dog Eat Dog at a point where it is ready to pick and run with. I've left Shadows of the Quantinex in a draft that was dropped messily when my Dad died last November. It will be good to pick it up and finish it.

Wow...my eyes just welled up. Hmm, been having a lot of thoughts about Dad the past few days. Been getting quite emotional. Not sure if it's the approaching 1 year marker, or, the fact I've found closure on the crazy period that all started back in October 2004, a closure that was sealed with the new job, and now I'm starting to reflect on those 3 years with the benefit of distance, renewed confidence and perspective?

As far as progress with Yellow Dawn rulebook itself, I'm STILL doing editorial. Can't believe how long it's taken me but it is nearly 300 pages, and I am only doing a couple pages a day, so work it out; and this is just the note making. Next stage is to go back through the notes and update the master copy for publishing. I'm smiling though, because the longer it takes me to finish this, the more time I have to finish off all the ancillary products.

Right, time to upload this and then grab another mug of tea.

Then start writing! Yay!

Djr