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News

News on the March? But it's April now...
2010-04-20 01:03

Okay, that's a terrible pun in the title and in another fortnight it won't make much sense. But so be it!

I've either had too much sleep or not enough caffeine, or too much caffeine and not enough sleep. I forget how it works. Either way, I felt it was high time a new news post was posted.

I've also added the second in, at most, three installments of Zombies in the Quad, a Crossworld short series about college kids and zombies. And college kid zombies. One or two zombie college kids in there too, for good measure.

In any event, it's very rough, and like most stories I've posted here, has gone straight from draft to publish. I'll get around to editing and revising it eventually, but for now you can see the raw form and provide feedback if you like.
Optinomicon Returns
2010-02-16 16:02

I may be posting this a bit prematurely, but I've just posted Optinomicon Chapter 12. This marks not only my return to active involvement with the site, but also the last of my Optinomicon buffer.

I've recently quit my soul-crushing retail job and should have some free time in the coming weeks to get more of a buffer ready for my impending move.

It seems like I'm always moving. This will be the fifth move in as many years, and the third crossing state lines. I'm headed back to the Pacific North West, Seattle area this time.

In the next few days I'll be posting the first in a series of journal entries from Ian MacKellen's After the Collapse incarnation, Ian the Unbroken. You may have read about Ian in his Character Introduction short story. The journal will pick up where the story left off and hopefully provide some insight in to the state of mind of a recent Unbroken (mindful zombie).

-Karak
Fits and Starts
2009-11-29 18:35

So, due to turbulence, the website has seen some neglect. To what few readers we have by this point, we apologize. Our primary members have been:

-Recently returned from a tour of duty overseas

-Struggling in this new economy to find a job

-Busy with school/work/out-of-state visits

Thus, real-life unfortunately intruded upon our dream here.

However, We are not giving up. This week will see whole new updates for your regular serials, as well as some new world-content articles.

Thanks for sticking with us. Alternia Comics may not be solid-set, yet, but we ARE here to stay.

Oh, and Happy Holidays.

--Alarin--
NaNoWriMo
2009-11-02 00:26

I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month again this year, and I'm posting the novel-in-progress online as I write. You can follow it at karakwrites.livejournal.com. It's a sci-fi story about humanity's steps toward the stars and is tentatively set the Ex Machina universe, though I wasn't thinking about that when writing this morning, so it's much closer to present day real world than anything else...

And a final note, this is a very rough draft. I expect it will be pretty bad and I may not actually finish it. I won't post it on the site until it's finished and polished.

-Karak
Cutbacks
2009-10-06 12:00

So what with the economy the way it is ...

... actually, I meant that as a joke, but the economy probably has a lot to do with this.

The writing team at AC is a bit tapped, and other concerns have us pulled in numerous directions. As such, we are slowing our short-story postings to the level of "occasional." Worry not! Your favorite serials will continue every other week as normal, and hopefully this will give us time to make better, more polished short stories for you all.

Also, we will start posting more articles: world information, gaming material, character sketches, and the like. The strict schedule had us scrambling pretty hard for short stories, so this should give us breathing room to diversify our content.

Stay inspired, and thanks for reading.

--Alarin--