Space Dog 2 might actually end up being more than 400 pages.
Wow.
I was anticipating 350 - 400 but I’m only at 345 and still have so much more to do. I used to have a hard time filling my 15 paged chapter minimum. Now, I’ve been going WAY over that.
115, 198 Words.
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Posted by saul on December 20th, 2008
I FINALLY came up with a deisgn I actually like for the Space Dog website. Some of the pages are still missing though and I wanna add some extra graphics still to make it look cool.
Just thought I’d let everyone know though 
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Posted by saul on December 1st, 2008
I just published Space Dog and the Solar Stone Code.
What else is there to say?
(FYI, I would hold off on ordering the book for a couple more weeks. It should be on places like Amazon.com by then, and I’ll be getting my proof to see if there are any errors I made).
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So I had no idea there were comments that needed to be approved, but I haven’t updated in some time either, so it’s my fault. Like seriosuly, there’ve been comments that are months old (back from Feb!)
Hey, tons has happened though since my trip to New York though. I sat with Mrs. Calahan and she gave me feedback on the book and I’ve been working on editing it. I thought it’d be easier to make the changes on the .doc file once she went through it and revised it - and it is easier - it’s just time consuming! But I AM working on that, and since the first chapter has been edited, I should update that excerpt with the newly revised one. Also, I’ll probabaly add some extra Non-Space Dog stuff too because Space Dog isn’t the only thing in my life and actually not the only thing I’ve been writing *hint, hint*
But, for an update on SD:2 - I cracked 300 Pages! That’s longer than the first book already and I expect I have 100 pages left to go. I’m about five chapters away from where the actual ‘ending’ begings (you know where everything starts getting really exciting and leads up to the big-crazy-awesome-climax). Oh, and I was looking at a past post of mine, 55,000 Words - I’m over 100,000 Words in the second book now! 
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I’m leaving in less than two hours, it’s over one in the morning and I have yet to sleep as I’m still preparing for this trip. I just had dinner (as I hadn’t eaten all day).
So, I’m going to blog/update everything on my trip on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/sprsaul
So, everything should be there!
(Still nervous but excited).
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Posted by saul on July 3rd, 2008
… I’m leaving tomorrow.
And I’m nervous.
You can ask Ryan about my fear of flying on a plane. What if it exploades in midair!?!?!? And they aslways say, “Don’t worry it won’t,” but that’s what they think until it happens! And by that time it’s too late, like this one time when I was in first grade…. well, you get the point.
Anyway, I’m going to New York City! It was kind of sudden. My aunt is going to be down there and she invited me, so I’m going on the plane - alone (ehh…) And I’m meeting with her tomorrow. It should be fun though! We still don’t know exactly what we’ll do, but we’ll figure it all!
And, I’ll take lots o’ pictures for you guys and then post them all here, so whoo!
And last….
Mrs. Calahan finally called back about the book. What happened was that it got past along to my old english teacher, Mrs. Bailey (aka Miss Peck), who lost it when she moved, and then found it but didn’t have time to read it anymore so gave it back to Mrs. Calahan. Either way, Mrs. Calahan read it and so we’re going to meet up sometime and go over the editing and how to make it better. So, I hope it’ll be completed soon. 
AND an update on Space Dog Book 2 is that I have reached over 80,000 Words! (OMG!) The first book was in the 80,00’s and I still have a lot to go though on this second one which is now at 245 Pages (42 pages less than Book 1). I’m thinking this could end up near a total of 400 Pages (wow). If not 400, then it’ll be near 350, I would think. It kind of depends on how a certina part of the story develops. I have it all planned out, but sometimes even the author is surprised by something they hadn’t expected to do.
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Posted by saul on May 13th, 2008
w00t!
55,000 words is a lot, in case you didn’t know.
170 + Pages.
Starting Chapter 13.
Now officially over half of Book One.
Looks like it’ll be even longer than I originally thought, so long as I stick to what I’ve been doing (10 - 15 pages per chapter).
Although, the other day, I did write my longest chapter = 26 Pages!!
Posted by saul on May 7th, 2008
Soo….
I just added a Concept Art Page, although technically it ain’t concept art as it’s the official chapter images…. actually, I suppose that would still make it concept art, but not in he same sense as most people would think. I’ll probably add in some more images as time goes by. Like maybe I’ll add sketches eventually, like this one:
(Valerie’s favorite character).
Moo.
Posted by saul on May 5th, 2008
Ya’ll heard it righ’ here. I darn did finally dun it! Dun what, ya’ll ask? I just gone an’ dun abou’ the two greatestest thayng ya’ller ever see in these for’y-two uni’ed states!
I finally found me a rootin tootin good design.
I dun finally put up the firs’ chapter o’ Space Doggy on me website too.
Check it out ya’ll!
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Posted by saul on March 13th, 2008
Gah! The bitter sweetness of the Harry Potter series….
When the final book came out, it was amazing. Mugglenet called it a “summer to remember,” and much of the HP Fandom has dubbed Summer 2007 to “The Summer of Harry Potter,” it’ll probably be forever known as that in literature and film history - and I don’t think I’m, exaggerating at all when I say that. The release of the final Harry Potter book was a literary achievement, recognized not just in America or Britain (Ha! Take that Stephanie), but globally - through the entire world. Harry Potter is the 12th in the most sold books, lagging behind items such as the Bible, the Torah, and The Book of Momron (squee! That’s cool, BoM beats Harry Potter). But we have to remember that these book shave been around for hundreds of years, and it took that long for them to get their respective spots on the list, where Harry Potter has been around for ten years. The movie was also praised in the film society as OotP marked Harry Potter as the most successful movie lineup since Star Wars (in fact, I think it surpassed Star Wars, I’ll have to check)….
…. So,
The night of July 20th, thousands of people flocked to the book stores and when the clock hit midnight, the secrets and the story that most of us have been waiting for, for years (myself, seven years :D), were revealed. For many of us, this was like: OMG! FINALLY! But at the same time, Aww…. It’s over.
Well, now, we can see that and compare it to the movies. The last few items that we wait for are the Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows films, the Musical (that was confirmed, right? Correct me if I’m wrong on that one), the Theme Park (that I will probably never attend :,C ), and the “Scottish Book,” aka, The Encyclopedia.
BUT WAIT!
The Harry Potter films will total in eight! OMG! We have an extra thing to look for. Tomorrow, Warner Bros. makes that official announcement that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two will be hitting theaters November 2010 and July 2011.
This. is. so. cool.
We get the extra thing that we’ve been waiting for, and on top of that, they plan to put EVERYTHING into the film - NOTHING GETS LEFT OUT!! Thus, the decision on this entire thing.
Cool, yes, but bittersweet for myself, as I’ll be on my mission, MIGHT get to see Part One in theaters. 
Not that I don’t want to go on my mission - because I TOTALLY DO - more than seeing Harry Potter! *Pause for collective gasps* But I am sad that I will miss it, but life goes on.
By the by, David Yates seems to be loved by Warner Bros. as they put him as Director for Half-Blood Prince after Order of the Phoenix, and he is doing the final two as well. This could very well mean that Nicholas Hooper will be composing the final two scores of the movies, as he did it for OotP, and Yates put him on for Half-Blood Prince as well. I like Nicholas Hooper, but I kinda wish John Williams would finish it with a BANG!
Btw, I’m sending the manuscript for Space Dog over to Mrs. Calahan, so she’ll get it done soon!
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