Very original title, I know.

I've been hanging out here for a few months now, and have been scouring the archives for tutorials and information...and boy, howdy, I have learned a lot. About all sorts of things. Things I didn't know about Photoshop (and I've been using PS for a long time), to weather and cartography terms to...lots of other esoteric knowledge. It's all been very helpful and interesting; love learning new things.

I've recently decided that I'm going to finally write that book I've been wanting to write for the past...20 years or so. So I buckled down and worked out the scenario and have started writing it. And well...one thing I needed was a map to work with. Being me, I couldn't just doodle something. No. I gotta make a BIG MAP. It's okay; it's actually helped me a lot with world building. It's just there's so much to do. Which has been both fun and frustrating.

So, anyway...Hello. *waves*

-- Pairaka (Pai)