Tears of the Moon

Creating Symbols

David - Most of the past few days, comic related, were spent working on symbols and the map. I did some basic sketching of what symbols we wanted to represent each of the gods, but it’s terrible enough that I’m not going to share until Steph gets a chance to make them look pretty. But there are 7 symbols, one for each god, and one for the Father. The idea I wanted was something that was sort of timeless, and maybe evokes that sort of historical mankind memory type feeling.

Otherwise there was a lot of back end work on making sure the website was secure and playing around with various ways to handle news. At the moment we’re settling with streaming an RSS feed of this Tumblr to the website for news.

I haven’t really screwed around with serious website editing in years, at least enough to make the website look really good. We still need to create the graphics that will make everything look good, and Steph will handle the stylesheets and other related things.

Oct 13

World Building - Characters

David -

Today was oddly enough a slower day but I did get a lot done. Got detailed descriptions of the looks and personalities of the gods, as well as the framework for the same type of thing for the primary characters. Wrote down some notes (and changed the whole concept of) about books 2 and 3 that we needed to know for proper foreshadowing in book 1 as well as discussed the general ideas for the climax of that book.

World Building Part 2

Today’s efforts kind of skewed in a direction I didn’t anticipate, and sparked some additional story ideas that may never see the light of day as anything but an additional info page, but that’s okay. I also finished rewriting the Red City to properly fit into the world and fleshed out another city, though not the one I intended to at first.

World Building Part 1

David -
A long time ago, before my wife and I ever met, she had an idea for a comic. She had the basics, and a myriad of loose threads and seeds, but never went much farther than that. But it was something that always bounced around in the back of her mind.

We’ve discussed it several times in the past, done some brain storming fleshed the world and the storyline out some. The other day, it comes up again. We’re both in a position where we need a creative outlet and we want to tell a story.