Update with seven days to go!

25Nov06

With seven days left to go, do I think I’ll make it?

Doubt it, but I’m still on it.  And if I don’t reach 50G, well thats okay too.  I’m definately going to be working this story into something.  I really like it, and I really want to tell it.

Okay so I have quite a few developments, first of which is I’ve cut the story in half.

Rather than following Uta and company through the entire journey, this story ends when she reaches the south pole, the halfway point of the original time line.  This is plotted along six months of travel time.

Every year the earth takes one full breath, In, and out.

Uta’s story begins as the Earth inhales, part two begins as the planet exhales and predictably ends up at the North Pole, right back where she started out from.

Part three is purely extra terrestrial!

I’ve also got a number of sketches to post.

I did a couple wind personifications while trying to pin down their natures that I really ended up liking.  They were done in charcoal, pen and pencil, and if you could see the originals you would be able to see shimmer of the charcoal.  I am particularily in love with using this charcoal because I actually made it myself.  Well, more like I scooped it up one morning after a good camp fire the previous evening.  I have a poem around here somewhere I wrote on that particular trip, I’ll post it here.

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