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Cats and Floor Plans
4 Jun 2023 10:50 pmOkay, so this is going in tomorrow's newsletter too but I'm wicked psyched about it so check it out - this is a map/floor plan I made that's going in my next book, Welcome to Dead Man's Creek:
The final image might not look exactly like this - I might decide to add more texture/distressing, mostly - but I'm really happy with how it looks now. The main floor plan itself I made in Inkscape, and then I exported it to Paint Shop Pro to finish off with both the typed and 'handwritten' labels. There'll be an additional map in the book depicting the top level of the hotel, I'm still working on that one.
I put this off for a while because I thought it would be a headache, but it actually turned out to be incredibly fun. I'm looking forward to doing more of these in the future - I have a floor plan made up for Asher Thomas' house from Mortal Magic as well, actually, but I made it in the Sims 3 so it's quite ugly and was really only for the reference of myself + my editor. But I could easily make a nice version of that as well...
In other news, my cat Handsome Boy went in for surgery on Thursday to fix a chronic issue he's been having with one of his ears. The surgery went really well and he's recovering nicely - we took him off the heavy-duty pain medication today and he seems to be feeling fine, all things considered.
Total monthly words (May): 31,225
Monthly words to date (June): 3,508
Annual words to date (2023): 193,208
Dinner tonight is: homemade tonkatsu (Japanese-style fried pork cutlets) prepared by my sister!
The final image might not look exactly like this - I might decide to add more texture/distressing, mostly - but I'm really happy with how it looks now. The main floor plan itself I made in Inkscape, and then I exported it to Paint Shop Pro to finish off with both the typed and 'handwritten' labels. There'll be an additional map in the book depicting the top level of the hotel, I'm still working on that one.
I put this off for a while because I thought it would be a headache, but it actually turned out to be incredibly fun. I'm looking forward to doing more of these in the future - I have a floor plan made up for Asher Thomas' house from Mortal Magic as well, actually, but I made it in the Sims 3 so it's quite ugly and was really only for the reference of myself + my editor. But I could easily make a nice version of that as well...
In other news, my cat Handsome Boy went in for surgery on Thursday to fix a chronic issue he's been having with one of his ears. The surgery went really well and he's recovering nicely - we took him off the heavy-duty pain medication today and he seems to be feeling fine, all things considered.
Total monthly words (May): 31,225
Monthly words to date (June): 3,508
Annual words to date (2023): 193,208
Dinner tonight is: homemade tonkatsu (Japanese-style fried pork cutlets) prepared by my sister!
