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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Rebirth In Darkness 