Nov

28

The World of Hart’s Deep – A Snapshot

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I’ve been busy working on several project, one of which is an original fantasy setting for use with fantasy role playing games. Called Hart’s Deep, it is a small city on the edge of the wilderness. Not smack dab on the edge, but the semi-civilized/semi colonized area (for humanity at least) extends around 55 miles from the city of Hart’s Deep.

Hart’s Deep is a very big project, with not only region mapped, but the city itself as well. The city, upon which the region is named, will be almost fully detailed. By almost, I mean every building in the city has been put into place, but not all of them have been assigned occupants or purposes. What I’ve done is figured out what the most important businesses and locations are (from a player’s point of view) and then put them on the map. Each location will be described, with information about what it is and who the proprietors are. The map of the city will also include maps of the mines, caves and caverns beneath the city. I haven’t decided yet how detailed these will be.

The image above is a snapshot of part of the map – if you click on it, you’ll be taken to a larger version of it. The write up of the city will be by quarter. The sample above is the old craftsman quarter, and it’s without all the fancy stuff Campaign Cartographer 3 can do.

I haven’t decided yet how exactly I’m going to publish the book – whether all at once, or each chapter or part as an installment for a subscription. I know I’m going to use the subscription model for the adventures (and the campaign) set in Hart’s Deep.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been working on and is keeping me so busy.

Jul

27

ROW 80 Check-In for July 27

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Once again, I missed the check-in on Sunday. Oh well. :)

I did a bunch of writing over the past week. About 1500 words all total, but not for my WIP, but writing is writing so it counts. I’m also working on some things for a world I’m creating (for the purpose of publishing and using it as the basis for a series of adventures for some role playing games), and that’s taking up some time. And then there’s the books I bought at Borders (2 fiction (Jane Slayer (sp?) and…. another one that I can’t remember the title of off-hand – it’s something new to me), 3 non-fiction (1 about the Incas, “The Ultimate Guide to US Army Survival Skills, Tactics and Techniques” and the Howdunnit book on Forensics). And then the new Jim Butcher book, Ghost Story, showed up on my doorstep today. Lots of reading to do.

The kids are supposed to be going to spend the week my my in-law’s, so hopefully I’ll be able to do a lot more writing.

Jul

17

ROW80 Checking for the end of Week 2

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I didn’t get a single word written for my WIP this week. I missed the last check-in, which is about typical for what’s been happening in my life over the past seven days. That said, I did get some other writing done – not a lot, mind you – and did some research for the WIP. Or tried to. There’s a book I was hoping to get from the library through inter-library loans, but it’s not currently available. It’s something that might be really useful, but I want to get a look at it before I buy it for my personal reference library.

I think that for the next week I’m going to be reducing my word count goal to 250 words. That might be more easily managed.

Jul

10

ROW80 Check-in

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By today (I’m not counting Monday the 4th because writing that day wasn’t feasible) I should have written 3000 words. I’ve done 1272, so a little less than half. I’m not giving up on my goal – it’s difficult to get back into the swing of writing this every day and dealing with the distractions the kids cause.

And a note to myself, the current total word count as of this morning for The Morgan Affair is 56,608.

Jul

6

ROW80 Check-In for July 6th

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I didn’t get any writing done on the 4th, and almost hit 500 words yesterday. The story is progressing, though how well I’m not sure. I’m going to do today’s writing later today, when things have quieted down somewhat.

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