Get yourself packed and prepared. Relax and write (I hope you find writing relaxing) once you're settled in. Also, you should probably write a story or quest of your own, distract yourself from uh, your cravings.
Much as I would like to post updates as soon as I write them, having them delayed does give me opportunities to refine scenes, not to mention that you know, they're being edited in that time.
I'm not criticizing you in the least. I was pretty unhappy with how that line came out tbh XD
Editing is crazy important. There's a good reason I turned down your offer earlier, after all, the finished product is much better than the raw. What I really want to convey is actually the awestruck expression that my face put on when I realized that you were taking
half as long as I had thought to write these things.
Some updates have been two freaking weeks apart. This guy I'm quoting right here, half of those two weeks is editing the raw.
This is why we are so happy with this quest, this... this glorious bastard is spending as much time engineering all of the posts into the diamonds we know and love as he is writing them.
*glances at own previous post*
*whistles*
Sheeeeee-it, I REALLY didn't put that stuff into the right words, did I?
As for writing a quest of my own... I've toyed with the idea. The biggest reason I don't intend to is that I get a lot more enjoyment out of reading other people's work. The only reason I ever wrote Vae Victoria was that you managed to focus the daydreaming I do on and off while I'm working out on this quest for a good week and a half straight, and it eventually got out of hand. The only reason I ever wrote Mors Innocentia was that I was bored as fuck and I figured I might give omake another shot.
The only big reason I'm considering Bellum... It's got nothing to do with withdrawal. That's how I'm justifying it to myself, and I'm also using the wait for the update as a justification/motive for it. The reason I'm considering it, really? I feel intensely dissatisfied with Mors, and I want to satisfy myself. Vae Victoria was art; art I barely even understood I was creating. All the italics in Vae, all of them up to the scene with the barrier (the start of the addition from the morning after) were originally intended as emphasis. I never ever intended for them to come from Durga. The scene where the people were watching Anna VS AG-occupied Canada, that literally just sprung out of my head in the middle of the writing and yet it fit perfectly. The last scene, I didn't even know what was going on at all, somehow I ended up with poetic lines about angels blue and death. I had no fucking clue what I was writing, during either session. Shit, the evening, when I got done I was sweaty and tired and almost totally out of it. I didn't spare a glance at what I had written the whole time.
And then I posted it and it
blew up.
That was when I stopped heading for bed, sat down, and read what I had written. "What the fuck? Is that
Durga? Holy shit, this is good!"
Mors Innocentia was... Eh. Frankly I started it riding the high from Vae, put it down, picked it back up... The whole thing was researched to death and meticulously planned out.
I haven't really read it yet. But in my experience, when I write something and say to myself, "god, this doesn't work at all..."
Don't get me wrong, Mors has a lot going for it. But it's... There's whole plot lines in there that I would replace if I wrote it again, and that last scene made me want to slap myself it was so disjointed.
Perfectionist? Probably.
So, that's half of why I'm thinking about Bellum, more I guess. The other half is basically, "I have no idea what I might see next chapter and if it turns out to be inspiring I don't want two ideas in my head at once."
Hrm... /rant, go to gym Kai. Stop it with the rambling.
Edit: taking down last post. Not okay with some of the language I was using.
