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Plans for the blog

There's a few things (besides basic updates and status) I've wanted to do for a long time. I'd been doing some of them on Facebook, but due to the cancerous algorithms, even people who followed my page rarely got to see updates amongst all of the paid advertising spam. So here we go, in no particular order.

Retrospectives: Basically go over the design process of each book. Some of them are fairly interesting, and only a handful were straight forward.

Word count: Every time there's a new book, or I do edits that change the word count of the books by more than a hundred words or so, I like to keep that updated. It's fun for me.

Artwork: I generated quite a bit of artwork for these stories. Not nearly as much as the webcomic project I did before this, but still quite a significant amount. Also to include the back story on each piece. Although I'm a little divided on whether I should do that here or on DeviantArt. We'll see. Maybe if the feedback is positive I'll keep it here.

Easter eggs: It'd be fun to capture all of the Easter eggs and characters somewhere. Right now its in a text file on my computer but I'm working on building it out.

Timeline: I have a high level timeline I've been keeping in Visio that tracks the story progress. It'd be fun to post that here so everyone could see. Also I'd like to make it more visually appealing, which would be fun.

So, anyway. As people slowly find my blog, hollar and let me know what you think.

-Chance Paladin

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