by Phoenix | Jan 28, 2022 | FV, Journal
As of this post, FV1 is about 1/3 finished. I’ve been changing up FV’s narrative style, and it’s had me considering a piecemeal approach for posting. FV chapters pretty much always have three scenes per chapter so if I post one scene at a time after writing and proofreading them, I could make progress in smaller, less challenging chunks.
A part of a chapter wouldn’t count toward my goal for January though, only the full chapter, so it feels kind of pointless to make the change just yet. I’ll decide whether or not to do it tomorrow. I should have the second scene for FV1 done or almost done by then anyway. We’ll see.
by Phoenix | Jan 27, 2022 | Blog, FnF, Photoshop, Pinned
I’ve put enough polish on the MS-14JG Gelgoog Jäger article to mark it as done. That’s not to say I won’t touch things up here and there, but it’s presentable now.
I don’t remember when the idea came to me, but I’ve wanted to make articles like these about my favorite weapons, vehicles, ships, and mecha in fiction for a long time. It’s another way to spice up P.R.
Originally my Favorites in Fiction–FnF for short–was going to be its own section with a growing list of entries. Two things have changed. First, I know from how long this first article took to make that the list is going to be growing very, very slowly. I shouldn’t need another page just to host the links. The second thing is that whenever I try to make a page specifically for these entries, I run into all sorts of weird little problems. It almost feels like I’m being gently nudged toward the decision I made. On the plus side, troubleshooting all of this nonsense helped me cut some fluff from the backend of the site.
For now I’m planning on putting links to the FnF articles on the blog under the recent pinned posts. I’m also going to start making banner templates for certain posts and the FnF article links. Text links are all well and good, but I’m a creator and this is an opportunity to do more and do better. The only thing I need to figure out first is the scaling.
Also I need the practice in Photoshop.
Desperately.
by Phoenix | Jan 27, 2022 | Blog, LGT
Usually, when I have trouble starting these chapters, I just chalk it up to a combination of my nerves and the realities of doing entire outlines in my head. This time, I think what’s keeping the words off the page is the actual order of events. Even though I would have preferred to have The Emancipating Blade chapter be the fourth or the fifth, it still functions well enough as the third. With the Class Array, I’m starting to think it’s coming too early. In fact, if Lydia’s Golden Treasury was going to be a longer series, say twelve chapters or so, the Class Array would probably be the tenth or the eleventh. After going over everything that chapter is about and what happens in it, it doesn’t fit well happening before the Golden Ticket.
So here’s the new plan. Considering what’s going on with Enya and Lydia at the end of The Chronicles of Proxima, I think the Golden Ticket makes more sense as the next chapter in the series. The Class Array will also benefit from coming after it, and then it should segue nicely into Eisenwolf, the final chapter. That’s the hope, anyway.
Since I’m making a last minute switch from one chapter to another, I’m thinking about giving myself a few extra days to finish the Golden Ticket. Say, around February 3rd for that deadline. I don’t know if I’ll need it (the Golden Ticket chapter was one of the first chapters I’d hashed out the events and the purpose of in this series), but starting with a little under five days for a chapter that will average 12,500 words is going to be rough. Whether I finish it in time or not, this is a big change to work with. There’s also the other goals to wrap up, though I’m getting close on all of them.
For now I’m going to keep chipping away and will post updates as they happen.
by Phoenix | Jan 26, 2022 | FV, Journal, LGT
FV#17 is effectively the first chapter of the main story I was aiming to tell with Fleeing Victory. Everything leading up to this was setting the stage and introducing all the central characters. It’s still all a prelude, so I don’t know what naming scheme I should use. For now I’ll keep names of Fleeing Victory #1-16 as is and change things up for FV#17 and onward.
Going forward, FV#17 will be Fleeing Victory Chapter 1 or FV1. I’m actively trying to improve and I’m in the middle of incorporating some things I’ve only picked up recently, so the chapters from here will have some noticeable differences in how they’re written, particularly when I’m establishing locations in a scene.
I haven’t made enough progress to finish up FV1 today but the plan is to have it finished by tomorrow. We’re getting down to the wire for this month, so I’ll be focusing more and more on priority targets like this and The Class Array. If it comes down to the last hour then so be it. As long as everything that needs doing gets done, that’s enough for me.
On that note, back to it.
by Phoenix | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog, Life, Pinned
January 25th 2022. It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally free from one of the worst specters of my past. Cutting ties with people is painful when you genuinely want to see relations improve for the better, especially someone once considered family, but it’s just too much. I was no more capable of fixing this now than I was back when it all started. Things have only gotten worse since then, so I made one last overture, was promptly ignored, and now it’s done. I’m free of the delusion that this can be fixed, and I’m free to focus all of my hopes elsewhere. Upward and onward are the only directions left to go.
That’s not to say this is all completely behind me. I’ve had the gears shifted on me so many times that it affects all of my relationships. For two decades, I’ve been praised to high heaven and eventually slandered to the deepest hell, begged for money and favors and eventually blamed for anything and everything that’s ever gone wrong. I’ve been falsely accused of the most horrific actions possible, given disgusting ultimatums, prejudged in every disagreement and strawman’d to the point where communication was impossible. I tried to fix this. I pardoned the near unpardonable. I made countless attempts to get around the big evil strawman standing in my place over the years, but that thing was just a weapon held in reserve. There was never any way to beat it, and trying has left some serious scars. Still, the last shots have been fired, and the air is starting to clear a little bit.
I don’t have much else to add here. I’m just tired, relieved, tending my wounds, and trying to get into a more productive headspace. I think once I’ve put enough distance between myself and all of this I’ll be able to get a lot more done. It will be a while, but upward and onward I go.
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