iconography

It's taken me weeks, but I finally have a journal icon. I know this is not terribly significant, but it's been bugging me. It's a very nice base, provided by the talented crystal_dust. I might add to it some day, but I don't have any image editing software (only iPhoto, which is completely inadequate for this task).

Paine seemed the best of my character options. She's in every story I've written, and this is a great shot of her. What I'd really like is an icon of the younger Auron, but I've dug through tons of icon groups and haven't seen any. I imagine this is because he isn't young in any of the FMVs, and these make much for better screen shots than regular game scenes. I wish I could make one myself, but again with the image editing software problem. Even finding good young Auron graphics on the web is difficult, which seems odd to me given how popular the character is.

blocked, unblocked

I spent large portions of today staring at an empty screen. AGL 24 is a transitional chapter, and it's been giving me fits. How to bridge between the bombshell of 23 and the thing I want to come next?

Then iTunes brought me a blessing -- it randomly played me the first movement of Verdi's Requiem. And I remembered that I wrote large portions of the first dozen chapters while listening to classical music.

Verdi set me free, now Beethoven is working his magic. Maybe I can actually write this thing after all.