Being Peta

Okay....

With the a time management schedual in place to balance my work mum responsibilities without burning out I've commenced my first nanowrimo at the start of the month.  I've been absent from the web ways for quite some time trying to organise RL to free up this month as much as humanly possible for the tast.  All emails will be answered eventually I promise.  (Sorry for being such a rotten snob.)

With the first week drawing to a close I'm pretty pleased with my literary effort.  Over 23,000 words logged so far.  On the other hand, as I'm working off a synopsis, I can already forsee a huge run over of words before this story is finished.  Which isn't such a bad think except that it means more time will be needed to complete it.

Story wise, I'm lovin' getting to play in  an (almost) new sand pit.  This story is based in the Terinu universe but set a centuary into the future and so involves a whole new cast.  I've enjoyed learning about these new characters and seeing how they handle the stauff I'm throwing at them.  Also getting to write a purely word based story of a decent length has been good excercise for my muse.

In keeping with the need to focus on my novel I'm limiting my own line time to almost nothing... it's too big a distraction... until I've atleast hit the 50k mark.

On the other hand, after a prod from kiki, I've decided to go ahead and post this evolving story as I write it to anyone else interested.  I'm opening up another livejournal account as it's the most brain dead way I can think of to do it.  This journal will only be made available by invitation only as I don't want it available to the general publ;ic just yet.  It's going to be raw and choc full of ambiguities, creative use of grammer and spelling errors that would make an eight year old laugh.

I didn't mean to honestly....
My eldest son downloaded it and i got curious.  So one evening when I was feeling too tired to do much else and the quality of the tele was lower then it's usual aquatic state I set up my own account on Runes of Magic, a free, downloadable MMORGP.  I logged in and went to the character generating screen.  And was impressed. 
( Click here to read about my impressions of Runes of Magic and my very first Roleplaying experience with Terinu!!!!! )

I've broken through the block that was preventing me from writing the terinu novelette I started last year.  This story has evolved into more of a testing ground for setting up the main comics future direction.  Still, it's a good experience to write and maybe I'll make it public when the spoilerage level reduces.

One thing it has made me focus on is the military ranking system for the Vulpine Space Navy.  I need to expand on building the structure of the Vulpine armed forces as well as the humans (and clarify the Creo and Galen ones as well).  So here we go.   I know nothing of real life military structure beyond what a commissioned and non comissioned officer is.  So please feel free to pick this to death if you you see any glaring faults.

Note this is only loosely based on existing ranking systems... heavily tweaked in the lower ranks as the vulpine forces are all combined into a single space navy entity.  (They have a civilian police force to deal with planet side matters.)