The deadlines loom week-after-week. Every Tuesday and Thursday. Deadlines we've placed on ourselves, but deadlines we've been hell-bent on meeting. It's been fun and exhausting and frustrating and exhilarating and damn near everything else in between. And regardless of the response, it's been ours. That's been the goal with this project, Tales of Desolation. To tell a story in a way that we had not done previously, and to do it entirely ourselves, with absolutely no outside help. That's an interesting notion for guys that have spent the past 15+ in the movie and tv business; the idea of being able to create and distribute a story without any outside input or permission. In truth, it's also been a bit of an experiment for us. Can we tell these stories, in this kind of way - entirely over the internet - and still pursue other projects that are more time and resource-intensive? And yes, we proved to ourselves that we can. So here we are, 60+ chapters of Tales of Desolation released over the past 30+ weeks, with another dozen to go. Yep. There it is. 80 chapters is the cap on this story. At least for now. We've proven to ourselves what we needed to prove, so we want to move onto the next project. A much bigger project. A much more in-depth project. A project that will have us launching an entirely new, far more intricate website, and releasing individual chapters on a monthly basis. Chapters of between 6000 and maybe 20,000 words. (Yes, that's a lot of words.) Moreover, we'll be doing that over the course of three years. Thirty-six chapter in total. (We said it was big.) But that's just one part of it. This project is also visually intensive. We're in the midst of multiple photo shoots. (Ooph.) Animals and kids, they said, just don't work with 'em. Pffft. We haven't listened. We've also partnered with artists and craftsman from all over the world to create stunning one-of-a-kind and short-run handcrafted pieces to go along with the project. No, really. (It's kinda nuts what happens when nobody is there asking us "what does it all mean?") Yeah, so, that's kinda it. Tales of Desolation will be ending at 80 chapters. Maybe forever, maybe for now. We've had a blast doing it, and are incredibly thankful for the support of people we know and people we don't. Those who have played along and offered us the feedback that any creators want to hear. And keep an eye out on our SharpCrye website and Facebook page for that next project (and a couple other surprises). We'll be giving you more details over the next couple of months. We hope you'll stick around for the last dozen chapters as things come together (hopefully). Thank you for the support. John and Todd. SharpCrye.
