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    Quote Originally Posted by Karro View Post
    Since I was a wee lad, I've always gotten a certain thrill when someone read what I wrote and liked it. As I said, getting paid would be gravy, but I'd love for more people to read what I wrote and like it... One of these days I'll have finished some of my stuff, then I'll bea able to decide whether it's good enough to think about what to do with it. My wife is having doubts that I'll finish, and I keep saying "Once I finish my map, then I'll be in the right frame of mind to start writing!"

    So you're 'full of crap' like I am . Welcome to the board!


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    There's Lulu and the Amazon store as well. Especially since the popularity of the Kindle/Kindle2 is growing. Just price them reasonably and make sure your introduction is well written.

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    Welcome to the Guild.

    A beautiful map.
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    Really guys... you are dragging me back into evil.
    I just starting downloading Campaign Cartographer 3 to my new computer. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo....
    My wife is gonna kill me as soon as she sees me plopping down houses in City Designer 3.

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    -snip-

    I'll move the updated image to the next page.
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    So are you actually handwriting all of these names, or did you turn your handwriting into a font to use?

    If the former, your consistency is amazing! I wish my writing was that artistic and consistent. Turning it into a font might well be worth consideration.
    If the latter, any chance we could persuade you to release the font for others to use, as well? It's amazing, and I think it really helps that lovely rough, hand-drawn authenticity.

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    Well, I've updated the mountains;



    Now, to get to work on the coastline, the ugly little islands up the top left and to hand write all the location names.

    Quote Originally Posted by altasilvapuer View Post
    So are you actually handwriting all of these names, or did you turn your handwriting into a font to use?

    If the former, your consistency is amazing! I wish my writing was that artistic and consistent. Turning it into a font might well be worth consideration.
    If the latter, any chance we could persuade you to release the font for others to use, as well? It's amazing, and I think it really helps that lovely rough, hand-drawn authenticity.
    Currently it's just a font haha, hence why the consistency is actually *perfect*

    I'll update it again once I've written all the names in myself.

    Oh, and here's the font for anyone who wants to use it!;

    http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psi...a+Saint-Andrew
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    Yeah, now the mountains and font are in line together. If your handwriting can match up stylistically, as well, then this will be pretty great!
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    I've reattached your image so that it will use the thumb-nailer.
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