CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Okay, so in last week's challenge we had to choose three random genre aspects and blend them. That was such a blast that I thought I’d give this week’s a whirl. Uh oh. The topics were as follows: 1.       Splatterpunk: I have no idea what this is, but it’s probably graphic. Uh, this could be difficult. 2.       A Space Station: Can do. 3.       A Funeral: hmmm, now why do I think this project just went terribly south? So, task one. Let’s go find out what splatterpunk is. Google is your friend… no, really :-) . References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splatterpunk ; http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=splatterpunk   http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Horror/Splatterpunk.html   http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/splatterpunk   http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/splatterpunks-extreme-horror-edited-by.html http://monsterlibrarian.com/Splatterpunk101.htm ...

Not a lot achieved this week – worked three 10-hour days, and dedicate one other for family time. Also, art work development is taking a bit of time. Current Projects Made the following progress on my current projects this week: ·          DarkFantasy1A: +2,000 words; and ·          ShortStory41: 1,000 words total, titled Blood and Iron . Publishing and other Non-WritingTasks The following publishing tasks were completed this week: Updated blog 4 times; Continued building art skills (very time-consuming, but worth it… and fun!)        o    Learnt how to create the ‘mist’ effect in Gimp;        o    Learnt how to cut an image out so that it has no background to obscure previous layers                     ...