Week one:

Yes! This is the first official blog entry on the Heartstone Odyssey: Making of blog. :D I'm very excited I can tell you!

Of course you could say that the first official post was last week, but because that was a welcome note I'm calling this the first one.

What has happened in the Heartstones: making of world this week then?

Well, quite a lot really. But at the same time, hardly anything at all! :P

I haven't been able to write a lot of the script, just because I'm physcially too tired. But I can say that I did manage to do a couple of pages and a lot of little scenes to go along with the story. At the moment all I tend to to be able to do is write in my notepad.

I'm currently studying very hard so that I can get into the university I want to go to. So the actual script writing of Heartstones is coming along slowly. But when I do manage to write it I really do it, and I love it so much.

A lot of this week (especially yesterday) I was debating over what should happen in the end for certain characters. I'm not saying who of course! or what happens! I'M NOT GONNA GIVE YOU ANY SPOILERS! But it's acually quite a hard decision, I want this comic to end dramatically and I know that it will do.

But I really can't decide which idea I should pick. Both Kathryn and I have got ideas for it, but its picking out those ideas that are really hard. And when it comes to writing those final lines (which granted are a few months off yet) I'm not sure I'm going to be able to choose.

Whatever happens, one of these little dramatic ideas in the notebook I carry everywhere will be used and it'll be right for the story. Both Kathryn and I have had to think really hard about what's right for the characters, just because we like it doesnt mean it's what should happen to the characters. And I think that's quite hard when writing something, because writers obviously enjoy writing it, but I sometimes wonder whether it'd be their first choice of happens for the characters. :P

Kathryns been doing a lot of sketches too! All of which I love and I know she's worried that people won''t like it. But I know that when she starts doing those first pages properly they will genuinley look fantastic, especially if she decides to do it in the way she wants to. :)

She's a fantastic artist and my best friend. I really couldn't imagine doing this any other way, it's nice to have a hand to hold when doubts start to flood you over your projects. Because there have been doubts. And there will be more to come I'm sure. :P That's kind of inevitable isn't it? I know that.

I don't think I'd want to do this if she wasn't here doing it with me because I think that it's going to be a fantastic adventure, for characters, creators and readers. :D

what more could I ask for?

The Beginning:

It's still another few days until I post the next character profile on the Heartstones website. So I'm going to start with just bascially explaining what everything is on here.

It's first and foremost the special blog I've created specfically for Heartstones! :D This will talk about anything and everything that Kathryn and I create in the weeks and years that this project is on.

On my lj account I do writing updates and I'm intending on this again on here, but instead of just my writing in general it'll be just Heartstones. :D

I keep referring to the comic as Heartstones, that's because it's the name Kathryn and I actually call it when we talk about it. It's real name is Heartstone Odyssey (was The Heartstone Odyssey but was changed for copyright!) but yes, when I say Heartstones I of course am referring to Heartstone Odyssey.

I won't insult anyones intelligence and carry on, I'm sure you all knew what I meant there!

Another reason for this blog is for me to post the short stories that I have/am going to do. The comic itself probably isn't going to be drawn for some time. It of course will be at some point in the future but because I'm writing the scripts still, and we're still getting feedback from it really.

But no! That was not a green light for all you readers to bugger off and come back when we have some comic!

We've got so many things to show you before the story actually starts.... believe me, this is only the beginning.