New chapter
October 17, 2008 at 10:34 pm (literature, novel, stories) (chapter, dragons, fantasy, novel, serial, the soul of charoden, webnovel, webserial)
Sorry for the late update but things were a bit ugly here with various stuff popping out of nowhere and my hard drive crash and other -annoying- little details that I won’t bother you with.
I’ve managed to post a new chapter for ‘The soul of Charoden‘ although I think that I’ll have to check it again tomorrow for further proofreading and general editing.
Unfortunately the chapter of ‘What lies unborn‘ has been delayed enough that I’ve reached the next publication date, meaning that in actuality I’ve missed an update altogether… that would be my first one 😦 .
Getting physical
October 5, 2008 at 5:40 pm (General, literature, novel, stories) (chapter, contemporary, dark, Fiction, novel, story, webnovel, webserial, what lies unborn)
As I have told you, I was in a pretty bad mood yesterday. Well, I slept for a good ten hours awakening in a ridiculously late hour 😀 and then the day began…
I made three cupboards and one bookcase from scratch, I emptied (alongside my father) a whole storage for a shop, built up shelves on the spot, and re-moved all the stuff in again. A fine way to pass up a Sunday ^^. My hands kinda hurt, my back definitely hurts, and I’m officially beat. Add to that that some few days ago I was helping in a moving in, I can easily say that those days were some of my most physical active this last six months…
But you know what they say about physical activity… it has that unique ability to take everything out of your mind and -plop- into the drain. Whatever troubles were messing with my head yesterday -poof- they are gone. And finally, now, at 8:30 here, I can start on finishing chapter 9 of ‘What lies Unborn’. Thankfully, it will take less than three hours to finish, edit and post it, and this will mean that it will be my 3rd week on the row, that not only I haven’t missed a planned update, but I’ve actually managed to pull off 2 updates per week.
Now, excuse me, I have to actually start writing. I’ll edit this post when I actually post the chapter.
-Phoenix runs back to his Shroud.
Edit: Hah, despite an abrupt stop for dinner, I actually made it. Chapter 9 of What lies unborn delivered at 23:10. It came out quite big too, almost as long as chapter 8, and is starting to ‘spice up’ the convenient (well, not so conveniant, but you get me^^) life of the MC. And it’s time for Maria to start to shine in!
A quick thing, if you haven’t noticed it yet, and you’re fans of rss feeds, you can always go HERE to find the whole story in post format.
Enjoy.
can’t… keep… my mind… on one thing…
October 1, 2008 at 6:05 pm (literature, novel, stories) (contemporary fantasy, dark, modern supernatural, novel)
Yay, here we go again changing subjects!
As always my mind drifted to a new story! And that’s the reason that I didn’t want to post the 1st chapter of the one that I had began some days ago.
I fought and fought with my urges, and finally I had them subdued though. I forced myself to not start a new story, but instead edit one of the removed ones that matched its theme (horror, dark, modern supernatural). So I started the long procedure of editing ‘Lurking shadows’. What I wanted? Less gore, more horror. I ended up cutting the chapters to smaller bits too, making them small and easy to read. So far, the first 5 chapters are ready (what was originally the first 3 chapters). Gore is still there, but far less than before, and I hope that I’ve actually managed to add some more suspense. It’s still not available though. I want to edit the whole thing (that is about two times more of what I’ve edited, but what remains is the actual ‘hard’ part to edit) because I’m afraid that I just won’t get it exactly right.
Of course, since I so totally hate editing, that was as far as I could go for the day (or for the week as far as I’m concerned). And started doing something else:
I started working on chapter 9 of ‘What lies unborn’. As I’ve explained, this Friday and Saturday I will be missing and (due to some things that I don’t fully understand) I’ll have to help my brother move to a new house not today as I thought, but tomorrow. This means that the weekend update will not be ready by Saturday as usual, but I think that I’m still in my mark to deliver it on Sunday afternoon. I’m halfway done with it anyways, so that means just one to two more hours of work (including the editing) to finish it. So, see you on Sunday.
-Phoenix backtracks to his shroud
Bonus chapter
September 29, 2008 at 10:07 pm (literature, stories) (chapter, contemporary, dark, fantasy, novel, serial, webnovel, what lies unborn)
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
A muse and a change
September 28, 2008 at 11:20 pm (stories) (chapter, contemporary, Fiction, novel, webnovel, what lies unborn)
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
Saturday’s chapter +extra chapter (because I can!)
September 27, 2008 at 3:10 pm (literature, stories) (chapter, contemporary fiction, dark fiction, dark story, serial, web novel, what lies unborn)
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
Here we go again…
September 24, 2008 at 1:02 am (novel, stories) (Fiction, novel, shroudphoenix, story, web novel)
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
And we begin…
September 21, 2008 at 12:00 am (literature, stories) (chapter, contemporary fiction, dark, dark fiction, novel, stories)
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…
New short story
September 17, 2008 at 1:01 pm (literature, stories) (literature, music, short story, story)
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.
From scratch.
September 16, 2008 at 2:43 am (literature, novel, Poems, stories) (Fiction, literature, poetry, short story, stories)
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!
Rebirth In Darkness 