Gray Beard: Blog

March 2, 2012
Posted at 10:11 pm
 

Re: Saralinda: Gary's Furthurmore

Hi - I've uploaded some drawings I did of Gary's ship, Furthurmore. I prepared these long ago in order to make my writings about the ship make sense. I designed this "ship" myself, knowing very little about ships. I looked at several photos of large yachts, but I didn't have floor plans for any of them.

This probably wouldn't be a good ship design. Oh well. At least you can get an idea of what I was imagining when I was writing.

I put these in as a Prologue, though it's not a prologue at all. I suppose they'd go better as an appendix, and maybe I'll see if Lazeez can move it to the end once the whole story is uploaded.

BTW - I did the drawings painstakingly in EXCEL, having reduced the row height and column width down enough to have a very small grid to work with. Perhaps a strange choice for a drawing program, but it worked for me.

- Gray

February 22, 2012
Posted at 1:01 pm
 

What happens when you don't think

So, as I said before, I'd finished Saralinda. But when I went to post Chapter 43, I decided I needed to reinforce the closeness between Moira and Saralinda. So I quickly added a couple of scenes to the end of the chapter and posted it.

Then, this morning, I noticed that Chapter 43 is supposed to be from Jake's point of view, but I switched to Saralinda's POV for the additional scenes. OOOPS. So I've now split it into TWO short chapters, 43-44 and reposted.

February 11, 2012
Posted at 4:42 pm
 

Saralinda finally finished!!!

Chapter 1 was written in November, 2006. Real life interfered after chapter 40, but I've now written a final 8 chapters, which I will be posting over the next few weeks. My apologies to all who have been waiting.

July 7, 2010
Posted at 4:45 pm
 

Vacation calls

More of Saralinda is coming, but I'm on computer-free vacation for a couple of weeks. I may get Chapter 35 posted next week, or maybe not until the 21st.

RL timing sucks. Sorry, as Chapter 35 directly follows 34, and I hate having to post them separately.

- Gray

April 28, 2010
Posted at 1:16 am
 

Slowing the pace of posting

With spring and summer, I'm going to be pressed for time. So I'll be posting updates to Saralinda only once a week instead of twice. Sorry.

(I'll try not to do too many really short chapters, to make up for the slow posting)

- Gray

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