The second SOX Assessment is finished -- hooray! And while I'll spend the next few days preparing for the next life-draining SOX Assessment, I'm at least free of any lashings from that particular scourge for at least a month or two.
Now back to all of my other projects.
I'm still (slowly) working my way through the revision of "Razor: Hell". It's simultaneously better and worse than I remember it, so my love/hate relationship with the book hasn't really changed. I don't think it's as solid as "Razor: Angel" (the first book in the series), but I have to admit that it does have its moments. (I actually can't remember laughing at so many of my own written jokes and descriptions before...and I mean laughing as in laughing at stuff that's supposed to be funny, and just not laughing at the awful quality of my own writing, which I do all of the time.)
My big problem with "Razor: Hell" is the tone I adopted for one of the storylines. Basically (without giving too much away), there are two different tales being told in the book: one takes place in Hell (which I think it's safe to say is not like most people imagine it; I really like the way this particular storyline has turned out), while the other story follows a group of vampire hunters back on earth. While I like the plot progression of this second storyline, I think it's a bit *too* obvious that I was reading Laurel K. Hamilton's "Anita Blake" novels at the time that I writing it, as I've managed to imitate Hamilton's tone, her main character, and even her strange obsession with describing everyone's clothes in onerous detail. I've tried to curtail this unintentional style theft as much as possible in the revision, but it's going to take a bit more work to get it all.
That being said, I'm over halfway done with the revision, so I should (hopefully) still be on target to start up the third and final book for Nanowrimo in November. I still have some reservations as to whether I want this to be the "Novel in November" project or not, but after far too much deliberation I've decided to go for it (if for no other reason than I'm tired of being on the fence about it).
In the meantime, on the WotC front, there have been some interesting developments. While I won't be leaving the Finance department any time soon (which is ok...I sometimes wonder if I've made the right career move, but I have a good job with good people, so I have no real call to complain), I will be broadening my horizons somewhat in the near future.
For the record, I had intended, when I first came to Wizards of the Coast, to do everything I could to get into R&D (the department that actually writes and creates all of our games). Oddly, it was shortly after I started working at Wizards that I entered the longest and most terrifying creative dryspell I've ever had...to be honest, I'm not sure I've fully recovered. Regardless, after the conclusion of a Ptolus-based campaign that I ran for my wife, her sister, my brother-in-law and my daughter (which was just one fantastic game), I've only run D&D games intermittantly at best, and I've very much fallen out of practice. I hope to remedy this situation with the release of 4th Edition D&D (if not sooner), but in the meantime my minute RPG writing skills have not been enough to get me shifted to R&D.
However, it would seem that my meager skills are not entirely without merit. I was recently asked by R&D Development Manager Andy Collins to assist the D&D Minis Development team with...well, I probably shouldn't say too much, but let's just say that it has to do with a recent announcement made concerning old miniatures and new rules. (One instantly gratifying result of this upcoming work is that I'll get access to the new Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures rules early...and I might even get a peek at those silly 4th Edition rules, as well...) :)
That's it for now -- I have meetings to (re)schedule, hopes to crush, and dreams to dash. All in all, a typical day in the life of an accountant...
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