Friday, November 12, 2010

NaNoWriMo



I'm participating in the NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month, which challenges people to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. My book is a Science Fiction book which is a prequel to a short story I wrote years ago called "Your Source of Violence". This book, This Hero Has Dead Eyes, is the story of how the main characters meet, how the main character in YSOV, get's the abilities he gets, and set's the stage for YSOV. It's been really fun writing the story as I'm re-introducing the characters to myself and am building quite a background for it. I'm also seeing where the original needs to change a little because of what I'm doing now. I think the changes will be for the better, because it is just adding depth and complexity to the story. Anyways, I've added the badge for NaNoWriMo, as well as an image that ties the stories title into the story. It may not make sense right now, but once you read the book, it'll make perfect sense.

One more thing, as far as writing this 50,000 word book, I'll have the story completed by the end of the month, but believe me, it'll be a very rough draft.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Simple Freshness


I do most of the marketing advertising for Flooring Liquidators, an eight store chain in the central valley, and while he has a great logo and mascot, the pieces can get stale. So one thing that you can do to keep things fresh is by making slight non-permanent changes to the logo or marketing piece. In this example I had made a couple of slight changes to "Super Steve", the teeth and cape, that keeps his identity fresh, but not permanent. As soon as Halloween was over we went back to his normal logo. At least until Thanksgiving.
thisHero Designs... Keeping it real... keeping it fresh!