An eternity afterwards
So, just a heads up.
I had a very rough time with many things going on that forced me to stop my writing altoghether. Now, I won’t continue it for the time being due to me being in the military and away from any form of privacy and bearable pc access. Logically in 4-5 months I’ll be trasfered somewhere near my home and I will be once again able to write.
The bad thing was the above, the 1 year of service that is mandatory here. The good news is that at least this time has, and will, offer me some time to think about my problems, given me a respite, taken my mind away from any problems and given me new feedback on things that I can use for my writing. Also, due to empty hours on guard-duty I have already expanded my (legible) poem collection, unfortunately I don’t have enough free time right now to upload those.
So, take care.
Problems
I’m very sorry for my sudden dissapearence in both my stories and here, but unfortunately things have taken a wrong turn somewhere in my life and I need some time to figure out some… things.
I have so much to do that just now is the first moment that I’ve found free to check my mails and post this sort announcement. Until things get steady again I’m afraid that I’ll have to put everything on hiatus.
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PC problems
Sorry for not publishing chapter 4 and 5 for ‘the soul of charoden’ and adding a new chapter to ‘what lies unborn’ yet but unfortunately my hard drive crashed. Actually it seems that something happened to some windows files and the hard drive can’t be read right now… I’m getting my files recover as I type but some of the ‘not-backup-yet’ files were the edited Charodian chapters as well as about half the chapter X for what lies unborn. So, since I’ll have them pretty soon (the latest on Monday but I’m working on retrieving one of my external hard drives that I’ve lent away and I may have it on Sunday) and I’m too lazy to re-edit or re-write the same stuff, I’ll have to postpone those chapters till Sunday night-Monday noon.
Thanks for understanding.
Many, many things to tell
So many things right now to tell that I don’t know from where to begin…
I guess from the start?
I had a planned update for ‘What lies Unborn’ for today, unfortunately this isn’t going to happen for multiple reasons.
First of all, there were some changes in my work schedule today. The good news is that I’m going to actually work less hours, thus giving me more free time to write, the bad news are that until my program fully adapt to this new schedule I’m kinda in the dark regarding when I will have free time to write in the middle of the week (weekends are free so there is no problem there).
Secondly, I got a really bad review for this place and for What Lies unborn. It didn’t piss me off, on the contrary it made me think. This story has started as an experiment from me, I guess this is obvious from the way it is actually written. I really liked the story and where it was going, but from the lack of responses and the bad review I guess it’s not as ‘nice’ as I thought. So, instead of focusing solely on this story I have decided to start again ‘Crescendo’.
But the reason is not only so that I would have something else except What lies Unborn. Crescendo is a ‘normal’ fantasy story, no experimentation, no weird tenses, no weird format. I want to believe that I improve as I write, so this will give me an opportunity to strengthen my writing enough to succeed at what I tried to achieve in ‘What lies Unborn’ at the first place.
On to other matters. There was a massive wipe here. ‘Without a word’ got deleted and so did the ‘removed’ stories. The first one was due to the quality. It was severely lacking, it was a short story of ~1000 words that didn’t manage to communicate what it was about. The ‘removed’ stories got the boot because they had to. I’ve decided to let in this blog only the short stories that I really think that are good so as not to blemish the general appearance of this place.
If you noticed above, I said short stories. Yes, serials and longer novels are cumbersome with pages. I was told that after I had almost half their chapters in pages already. When I started this blog I knew nothing of blogging, I knew nothing of rss, I knew nothing of accessibility, and the main reason I wrote what I wrote was just for the act of it, never expecting traffic. Now that I know that posts are better, I thought about trying that. In order to have each story in a more ‘suitable’ background, I decided to start each one of them in separate blogs. The truth is that I was already doing that for ‘What lies unborn’ and I was pleased with the outcome. So, now that I start anew Crescendo I decided to do so again.
What was really tiring though was the editing of 3 blogs, 1 for the pages here, 1 for the blog itself, 1 for my backup. So to avoid that, and to avoid duplicate material, I’m removing the pages from here.
Now that I remembered… Crescendo is no longer called as such, but ‘Soul of Charoden’
If you had been to the main crescendo page those last three days you you have seen a warning by me. It was speaking of grammar errors and slight typos that irritated me and I wanted to have them removed. Today I fixed the first 3 chapters and they are in their new address. Tomorrow, if I find the time I will add the next two chapters, and after that I will update normally. You may wonder why I’ve split the chapters into parts. I want to see if I can manage 3 updates per week if I make them somewhat smaller. We’ll see how this will work on time.
I’m sure there is something tht I’m forgetting here… but I guess that if I remember it on time, I can just edit.
-Phoenix fades into his shroud
Failure…
So, I came back half a day earlier than I’d expected… Those are the good news, in fact, the only good news…
I can’t say I had fun, and well… everything was a disaster. To top this off, I’m expected to go there again in Monday. I do have some free time now to finish up the ninth chapter for ‘What lies unborn’ but forgive me I won’t. I’m not in the mood now for writing. Of course, since I will be missing in Monday as well, it means that sooner or later in this weekend I’ll have to finish it off. But as I have elevated procrastination to new heights, and right now I really, really, don’t feel like writing, that means Sunday.
Also I was kinda more despaired than what I’m now on the way back. And since it was a lengthy travel. I found some time to actually write something. It is a poem of a not-so-pleasant memory of mine, but I sincerely hope you’ll enjoy it.
The day I saw her coming bright,
my heart she stopped, she took my sight.
Her angel wings behind her spread,
beneath them hid a dagger red.
Her eyes, jewels, true sapphire,
my soul they set on fiery fire.
Her perfect smile of pure-white pearls,
stole me away from friends and girls.
I should have know that something’s wrong,
when she unleashed her forked tongue.
And when she washed her hands from blood,
I knew she’d rendered my brain mad.
Like victim old in spider’s trap,
she pinned me hard and flew me up.
Like just another that she loathes,
succubus vile in angel’s clothes.
And as I fell from insane height,
as my senses came to their right,
first time I saw her blood-red blade,
in heart of mine she had it laid…
So… see you tomorrow, with (I hope) a new chapter.
-Phoenix vanishes into his shroud