Long time since I've been around here. I've had a long stretch of bad luck finding work that is still continuing, though I hope that I have found a few promising leads if even only for the school semesters.

Anyway, I may be pushing through a belated associates degree which issues I would rather not discuss was delayed from being finalized until recently and that I sort of let go of to try and work more on my bachelors at WMU. During the summer with no job however I found the time to deal with it and hopefully will be given my shiny piece of paper at the end of august.

Other than that I've been trying to find a good progression raiding guild for my hunter in wow, helping my parents move stuff up to their new house in Manistee and doing house work up there for them (my brother and I tore up the floors on the top floor and the walls in the basement a few weeks ago) and otherwise justifying them giving my money for rent while I have no job. I hate being a leech, and it makes me feel like my independence has been sapped.

Anyway, I have been working on flushing out characters histories and exact time lines/outlines for the majority of the Legends and Legacy line though mot much more is typed or edited I have quite a bit more written. I have found it a strange irony that while most of my characters in the more comic book like stories I have thought up generally have been flush out more than the story it is the opposite in this case. I had generally histories and solid personalities for all of them, but I never really nailed down each major character or icon in the story's histories.

I also nailed down exactly how I want magic to function in this universe, which was hard considering that the best system I had ever come across was the one designed by Magic the Gathering, which split up magic into groups depending on what the magic did and by varying philosophies of life. However I am quite sure that the idea of magic split into colors is copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast (strange that you can copyright an idea of how magic works, but w/e). So my idea of the function of magic sort of became a amalgam of the those ideas and a few various other sources whom I found to have a very reasoned idea of how magic works. I always found the idea of their only being one kind of magic or the idea that there was normal magic and black magic to be overly simple views on how a system of energy manipulation would work. I also liked the idea that people were predisposed to certain types of magic through their very personalities, which was something that WotC did well by tying in philosophies to each color/type of magic.

I also am getting around to posting some character profiles for some of my favorite RP characters that I have used over the years as well as some characters from original story lines that I have thrown into RPs here of there due to my love of writing them. I'm going through a few ones from a very good Naturo based RP I've done on and off with some of my friends for quite awhile (I think the first incarnation was years ago) that I happened to be editing. After that I will probably move on to my comic styled characters. A couple of them are pretty long so I hope that DevArt doesn't cut them off and anyone who reads them doesn't get bored half way through.

I wish I could find a good artist interesting in drawing some of the stories I have come up with for the graphic novel style but as lucky as I have been in knowing more than a handful of artists on a friendly basis I could never really get any of them to bite.

On a positive note though the brother of a work friend of my mother's published a book not to long ago and I was able to get in contact with him about how he went about doing it for my own reference. This might be a good place for me to look for contacts later on in the story's development.