It's amazing how much you can get done when you're on vacation. We're up to 87,928 words, folks. Mostly finishing up examples of play on Step 5b and creating more consistent formatting for Steps 5c and 5d.

The word count would have probably been higher, but yours truly thought it was a good idea to pre-fill examples of play with Lorem Ipsum text. Deleting that filler copy made a word-deficit that had to be overcome first. So though I probably wrote about 3000-4000 words today, it only raised the word count by half that much. No worries, still making progress. Every 100 words in this draft translates to one good word in the final cut.

Oh! In other news, Liz Hooper is working on another art for the book. She wanted more opportunity for faces, so I broadly outlined this crude sketch for a "Big Heads" movie poster treatment. I doubt it helps her, but makes me feel useful. :P

(Click link for annotations describing what's happening in these chicken scratches.)

Speaking of arts, I guess once I send this beast of a draft to Ryan, it will be time to get back to work on that long-delayed cover. Remember that?

Oh yeah, definitely looking forward to this.

Liz pointed me to this blog post (I think it's Chinese) that had a bunch of cool reference for doing the colors on the cover of Do. Can someone translate the post enough to tell me where this art is from so I can find out more about the artist, etc?