Happy Friday the 13th!
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I feel the outer edges of my current writer's block beginning to chip and crack. Do I push it, or remain patient?
I want to be held close and warm in someone's arms, and tuck my head beneath her chin. I am not in love with anyone, and it would take much for me to be, but right now I dearly wish that I was.
Magical Girl Phantom Ascension: Update was planned thoroughly and mostly written, then mostly deleted several months ago. Now halfway re-written, progress is slow and unsteady.
Beating Hearts/;/Bleeding Necks: Update is planned thoroughly, started but yet unwritten.
Somnia Virtua crossover: My designated chapter is planned thoroughly, started but yet unwritten.
I hope that I can overcome this block soon.
New avatar!
I may be in my late twenties, but for the moment I will allow myself some preteen self-indulgence.
On the whisper of a haunted breeze, SpoopyGhost has arrived!
oooOOOooo
Boo
Once again fantasizing about a scene a mere handful of updates away, whilst unable to focus on the present update to get there.
Even those who are not human, actually are very human, with all the good and bad that comes with.
The illusion of free will is the conflict between releasing a bad first draft late or a good revised draft even later. Because either way, it will still be late.
I am scrapping a significant stretch of the current draft to try again. I should have done this with BH;BN as well, but Phantom Ascension especially needs better.
Call me a luddite, but I do not like how the internet has shifted away from forums to The Big Five social media sites and Discord.
"The Living Dead" - Boring, trite, and dehumanizing
"The Dead Living" - Interesting, true, and empathetic
I think having good, well-established and defined systems of magic and metaphysics is a very good and useful tool in fiction, but I must also confess that sometimes I feel that it goes too far. The appeal of magic, at its core, is simply the ability to say "I reject this reality and substitute my own" and then force Reality itself to blink first.
The appeal of a romance with a potentially dangerous partner is the conflict between what they could do and what they would do. The appeal of a love triangle is the conflict between having multiple compelling romantic options and the monogamous pressure to commit to only one. Both of these are hard to do well on their own, and mixing the two is an almost guaranteed recipe for disaster.
I have fixed the flag.
I am scared to go back to Sailor Moon because it is so good, but so much. I am scared to go back to Vampire Knight because I do not know if it will hit the same way it did when I was a teenager.
Ironic that I have had more time to focus on writing during the holidays. It is a nice change of pace. I hope that it lasts.
I am writing one story and one story only, I tell myself, and have already foisted one spinoff upon my original Beta as it is. One story only. I tell myself this, while barely holding back an additional spinoff and two in-universe pieces of media that are desperately attempting to wriggle their way through my hands and onto my keyboard.
This time, surely, I can finish the next update within a week of the last, I say, before yet another unintended three-month hiatus.
So, if you don't mind me asking, where is your avatar from?
So many scenes I want to get to, yet getting there is the difficult part.
It is all coming together now! (It is not)
Metamorphosis
Distortion
Inversion
Ascension
I can spill extensive digital ink on worldbuilding that is almost entirely divorced from my main story, but writing an actual update for that story feels like pulling teeth.
Make it make sense.
"Parley voo fron say?"
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