Chapter VIII, bonus chapter for the week (since I’m still trying to see if I can handle two steady chapters per week) is ready and posted.
Finally, we get to see some action in this one, and some ass-kicking-Liz.
Also our poor MC finally has some crazed antagonists on the loose.
The good news is that this chapter is pretty big, enough I hope to satisfy your curiosity until the weekend.
The bad news are that, starting tomorrow, I’m helping my brother move to his new house, and immidiatly after that, I’m leaving town till Saturday night.
I’ll try to write the weekend chapter sometime before Thursday night that I’m leaving, so that I can post it on Sunday morning. If this plan fails due to the moving, then I’ll try to write it on Sunday… if even this fails, then I guess I’ll have to hang myself to post the weekend chapter at Monday.
p.s. Also Chapter I of my new story is ready and edited too, but I will withhold it. The reason for this being that a)to not clatter the site with unfinished stories that won’t continue anytime soon, b)to see if the mood to continue it at all comes over me again, and c)since it is something different (as I’ve told you yesterday) I’m still not quite sure if I like it…
-Phoenix retreats back to his shroud
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In between a canceled rp session and some beers, I managed to find some free time. I decided to dedicate it to writing, but since I’ve already written about 1+ 1/2 chapter of what lies unborn yesterday I wanted to occupy myself with something different.
So, I started an idea that lingered in my mind for a while now. I’ve written already the first chapter, but it is a style that I’ve never tried before, lighter and more ‘traditional’, and so I will give myself some more time to edit it before I post it.
To add to this, I re-looked a bit ‘What lies Unborn‘. It seems that many readers have slowly stepped away the moment they saw the format of the first paragraph… As I writer, I cannot understand this completely. That is because I know what will happen, and I know why it is formatted this way. But I think, that I can sympathize with a first time reader that stumbles upon such random sentences that are supposed to be the beginning of a novel. And thus, I’ve added a small prologue, maybe 1-2 paragraphs of normalized text to ease the mind of the reader and prepare him for what is to follow.
I would greatly love to hear some input of what you think about those paragraphs since it is a major edit on my part (it basically changed the format of the beginning).
-Phoenix steps back to his shroud
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I’ve told you that if all things went well, I would be able to post a bonus chapter on Friday night. Unfortunately they didn’t go as planned. On the plus side, I was able to scavenge some time late in the night to start writing the sixth chapter, but drowsiness and tiredness caught up with me, and I had to abandon the idea of an update.
But that left me with a ‘half-done’ chapter. So, today, I finished it, AND wrote another one (albeit both of them are not as lengthy as the previous chapter). I tend to separate my chapters according to the material within them, not according to how many words they contain. So, I couldn’t just squeeze them together and call them ‘chapter 6’.
With the finale of chapter seven, I hope that I’ve given you enough feed to know most of the main character’s abilities, but (hopefully) leaving out massive chunks of how and why, just enough for him to keep a veil of mystery around him. The side-characters as well, have gotten their first chapters too (and in case of Sister Maria, even more) and they are starting to shape up a bit. Offering a glimpse of what they can do and what’s their role in the upcoming mayhem. A mayhem that is evident through our protagonist eyes and mind. What and why it is coming… well you’ll have to wait for that!
As always, I hope you’ll enjoy the story, and feel free to leave a comment now and then to give me too hope that they’re people there that actually read this story!
-Phoenix vanishes in his shroud
p.s. here are the links to the chapters for easy reference if you’ve already read the rest of it: Chapter VI, Chapter VII
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Well, I was almost certain that I could scrap some free time between work and setting this new blog in order (I still have one major problem, but for that I’m waiting for an answer from the support) so that I would provide you with an extra chapter on What lies unborn, but unfortunately a grand problem arose in the work that I have to personally deal with.
So, until this situation is resolved I don’t think I will be able to provide you with the extra bit (the normal weekend update will continue of course). I hope that until friday at the most I will be set, and maybe, maybe, have some time to post a new chapter.
My new goal, for mid-October would be to update what lies unborn twice per week, and start a new serial with one update per week too. That will make it about three scheduled updates on my stories weekly, and I honestly don’t think that I could pull out more than that.
My only gripe about the above plan is that both of those stories are in infant stage (at least in the writing department) and I’m not so sure about splitting my time in-between them or focusing only one one of them. The thing is that what lies unborn is more of a web novel, meaning that I have a set plot with beginning, middle and end, while the new project that I want to start is more of a web serial, almost completely character driven and without a definite end. More of like a series of plot hooks that help develop an ongoing story, something that I’ve not tried before and something that I would really want to do…
Oh heck… I think that I’ll stick to the plan and see if it will work out, after all, I can always change the update frequency later on, after I have some set data to work upon.
-Phoenix crawls back in his shroud
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As you understand, for practical reasons I decided to move the blog here. I hope that this doesn’t inconvenience you a lot.
We’re not talking about a simple revival here. A whole new being is being born, Shroudphoenix, the child of shadowphoenix is getting ready to open his wings and fly away from his old self, hence the name change of the blog.
On an unrelated topic, since I started posting to begin with, I think I’ve managed to squeeze some free time to update “What Lies Unborn” tomorrow. If I can keep up this schedule, I might pull it through to get two regular updates per week, but this is just too hazy for now.
(And obviously I had to just make a post to see if everything works as intended)
-Phoenix steps back into the shroud
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So, I was just browsing today and on a whim I decided to see if my common username would point to my site in a Google search.
The good news was that indeed this place was listed. The bad news was that I just discovered that there is a user nicknamed Shadowphoenix since 2002. Maybe I would let that go as such. But the main problem is that this person is also an amateur author like me (albeit he/she writes fanfiction while I’ve never dabbled in that), so I just couldn’t let it slide.
Regardless that the last entry/post of this person was more than a year ago, I decided, as a common courtesy since he/she is much older, to alter my nickname (unfortunately I cannot do so on the address).
Shadowphoenix has accompanied me over a lot of years and it means much to me. But I prefer to use this nick to represent something staying n the dark and being continuously reborn. So, I guess that ShroudPhoenix will be an adequate name to represent that.
Apologies to the ‘original’ person if he feels robbed of the nick…
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I begin the ‘promised’ weekly updates on ‘What lies Unborn’. I didn’t even think that it would be possible to make it on Saturday night… Luckily my exodus has been somewhat delayed, and so Chapter V came to fruition.
I realize the good things of scheduled updates. It gave me enough motivation to sit and write… now if only this didn’t actually mean that I just sat and wrote this piece at the (nearly) last moment. Heh, if it is riddled with typos then you know whom to blame…
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Just a heads up.
I’ve added some brief description on each of the stories that are here so far in the Story folder of my blog and some themes just to make it easier to navigate.
Also I added a new short story that I’ve written a little while back at writing.com: A melody that has to keep playing…
It has a musical theme and it’s the first time that I tried to ‘write’ some noises into it. I’m not fully enthusiastic with the outcome, but hey! since it has already been written, no harm in posting it.
I hope you’ll enjoy it.
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As promised, I’ve started uploading the rest of my english poems:
Chance meeting
Descend
Fashion Doll
First love
Generation Z
In loving, Hateful memory
Ode to islet sailors
This is the new crop to feast your eyes upon. Now… if only I had time to add a short description to each one of them… Well, can’t be helped right now. Tomorrow I plan to add the last 3-4 poems that remain and I’ll try to edit this post to include a short description of each of the new poems.
For now, Goodnight people.
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Well, things go well. Everything is quiet here.
At least in my mind they are, for I’m bursting with activities that draw upon almost all of my free time. I guess that by mid-October I will put a reign on those things and everything will return to it’s normal, boring, routine.
But I’ve willed myself to change. I PROMISE (to me) that I shall post a new poem or a new story chapter at least once per week. I promise that I shall not let this place die. To show my newfound determination I gave this whole place a face lift. Slowly, I learn to write, and timidly I step forward. Who knows, maybe I can manage my dream to became a writer eventually…
So:
a)No more whine (hooray!)
b)At least one update/week (I need a goal to keep me moving)
c)I shall stick to the plan of having this place as a writing repository and not as a rant receptacle.
For now, I’ve updated the story archives, and I’ve removed some of the old ones for a major re-editing of them (when I’ll find the time). What I plan on doing till the end of the week is uploading another ten or so poems of mine that I haven’t posted yet here (through some of them are posted in my portfolio of writing.com).
See ya soon!
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Rebirth In Darkness 