The Virgil McDane Instagram
So, I have an Instagram now. And a linktree. I didn’t expect this, but Paul Tassi at Forbes had a post in which he put up some great Destiny art. Only it wasn’t, actually, Destiny art. He had gone to a Discord bot called MidJourney. I don’t know how this thing works, but you can feed it art prompts and it will spit out images on the back end. I have always been a visual person. Fantasy art, especially concept are or the illustrated covers we used to see on fantasy novels, has always been my thing. So, yeah, I lost several hours last night producing some of these images. To be absolutely clear, I had no hand in making these. I put words in a chat field and things came out the other end. A LOT of things. Many of them horrible. But these were pretty cool (I thought)….
The Writing Plan
The last time I did a “plan” post was almost exactly two years ago. Before that, it would have been roughly five and half years ago. I’m returning my attention to this part of my life and I want to rebuild some confidence in what this is going to look like for the future. I have been inconsistent (yeah…let’s go with inconsistent) in my writing over the past decade. So I’ve been hesitant to talk about where I am going with things for a few different reasons. Whenever I do, I tend to miss those dates. The past two years have seen a greater rate of production, both internally for word count as well as being able to translate that into something that actually gets published. I had a major spike in early 2020 that saw the publication of the Order Bound Novella and FayTown Calling. In October of last…
Order Bound Novel
Okay, I came back to the website and the damn thing was down. Then I wrote the post I came back to write, only to fail to save it because…I guess I don’t remember how to write on WordPress anymore? Or something changed? Sigh. Anyway, I have news. It’s not the new novel. Well, it’s not the NEXT novel. Not, uh, exactly. It’s been an interesting couple of years since I wrote the Order Bound novella and FayTown Calling. I have been working on the next Virgil book. It started out being Pilfered Souls but I am going with another idea I had in the middle of that called Blood Pact. I’ll circle back on that in a minute. I wish I did have this next book. I have been working on it, more so this year than last, but I have a few different versions of where I could…
Website
Well, apparently the website was down. I, uh, don’t come here a lot, honestly, so I hadn’t realized until a little while ago when I wanted to announce something. Looking at the site stats I am assuming it has been down for…quite a while. Quite a LONG while. So, we’re just going to ignore how little attention I pay to my own website, chock that up to a learning opportunity, and move one. Next post will be the ACTUAL announcement I was wanting to make.