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
Stupid machines…
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