I finally—and I do mean finally—have the study and curriculum guides for Green Dragon Codex available for download on the site.  I wrote these things months ago and, after a unique odyssey of technical malfunction, input from a few kind teachers, erratic editing on my part, and my undue dependence on my friend Thom, they’ve finally arrived home here on the site. 

These educational resources were pretty substantial undertakings.  To put it in perspective, GDC is about 50,000 words; the curriculum guide is over 18,000.  I put the guides together using the reading and writing curriculum of the Granite School District in Salt Lake, so I hope that they prove useful.  Whether they are or not, they’re now available.

Next up are the annotated chapters.  I’ve been looking forward to these because, when I’ve read those of other writers (at least those that are detailed and honest), they’ve been fascinating.  Don’t know if mine will fit that expectation, but I’m going to give it my best.  I’ll include notes on everything from alliteration and sentence level composition choices to where I got ideas in the story to how the book changes throughout different drafts and how I feel about the changes.  For anyone who’s interested in my idiosyncratic writing methodology—and dares brave a glimpse of the madness—it should be interesting.  Or at least diverting.

Oh, and just a heads up: R. D. Henham, my pseudonym/alternate self/replicant version of my editor Nina will be commenting as well.  By now those who read this blog are well aware of my petulance, so you can imagine all the sour grapes and cheap shots I’ll sling Henham’s way.  She—yes, for those who don’t know, my pseudonym is female, despite the gender neutral  name—will then return fire, sending me screaming in a pitch the littlest girl would find pitiful.  Don’t want to miss that.