Andrew Eckhart

Progression and Projectus

Posted on 11 June 2010

I have a few projects that I’m working on and a few that I have stuck and floating around in my head.

The LastMage website is going beautifully. I am looking forward to updating my ads and starting my third round of advertising in August or September. The chapters have been coming slowly and easily. The story has its own life and is creating its own momentum, which I am very glad for. More than that, I’ve been getting a few comments every now and again with generally positive sentiments.

The only thing I need to focus on is to cut down on typos. It’s embarrassing when someone says “Hey, I really liked this but in paragraph 7 there’s a misspelling.” Though, if people are willing to spend time to tell me about these things, I am extremely grateful. They could have said nothing and moved on.

Otakon is coming up, so I plan on trying to commission some character artwork for the site, design something after it. Some of those Otakon folks are amazingly outrageously talented and I really and truly envy them.

I plan to write another short story in the LastMage Universe dealing with Lorenzo and his story. Lorenzo is turning out to be a sort of conundrum to me. We’ve only seen him in one scene and he’s abrasive, curt and not extremely personable. While I know why he is that way, I’d like to discover how that inciting incident occurred. What were the steps that led him down his path.

Also, the nature of some of the other characters who I though I’d known for years have changed, as with some of their motivations. I hate to be needlessly vague, but I don’t want to spoil it for folks.

Beyond that, I’m working on pulling together a theme for “The Interview.” I was inspired by the usage of “The Doctor’s Theme” in seasons 3 and 4 of Doctor Who. They really gave the viewer a sense of the character in auditory form. I hope to capture that with this upcoming project — which should prove to be significantly easier than attempting a 3-D trailer for the story. That was an idea that died on conception.

Perhaps I should take some animation courses.

I’m coming up on my 25th birthday. A long, long way from highschool graduation where I thought that things would have been much different. But, alas, I have what I have and I am where I am. So, I continue working, dreaming, hoping.

For a less… PG version of these thoughts, see the flip-side of the blog, imagechaos.com .

Cheers.