sethgray

So, If I wrote a few short stories about an earthbound angel would anyone be interested?

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Today I have written seven and a half pages. The only trouble is, it was on a fanfic, lol. That's okay, though, because Lessons has been languishing on my hard drive forever. But today the muse was just like, "Well, what's taking so long?"

And I was all, "Bitch, don't even start with me. That's what happens when you just up and leave for four months."

So anyway, I'm gonna keep picking at it tonight and hopefully finish the second part. Oh, I said back in the beginning it was gonna be three parts, but it looks like it's gonna be 4 parts now. These two parts, the morning after, and then a fun little scene I've had in my head forever. After that, who knows? At this rate, it's probably gonna be next year before all four parts are written, so I may have a whole host of ideas by then.

That would be wild, wouldn't it? My very first fic 'verse. Whoa, Seth, easy now. No need to get carried away before the second part is even done. *deep breathes*

Recording yourself is strangely addicting. I now have an understanding of myspace camera hoes. As I described some posts down, I've been recording myself speaking the chapters to help in my editing process. It was kind of a hassle at first, but now I kinda like it. I even signed up for a youtube channel to post the recordings on if people were interested. If it reaches that point, I'll need to redo them because I screw up quite a lot. And I haven't finalized edits on the earlier chapters even, so there's that as well.

But, regardless. If anyone is interested in that, head over here and let me know.


I must advise those who would be listening with a weak immune system--my voice has teh!gay. Consult your local medical practitioner to see if it's catching this season.

Just stopping in to say that as of right now the word count on GBatB is 14141. It's lolarious.

So I kinda forgot to post today. Oops. Oh well, anyway I wrote that scene I was talking about yesterday, but then I decided it fit bitter in chapter five than as a chapter on its own. It's only three and a half pages, anyway. This way all the really weird is kept in one chapter, and the rest of the story can go on as normal. I think I'll try and keep that pattern; all the scenes with that group of characters will be as self-contained as possible.

Well, after a couple of attempts I made a dialogue that I was satisfied with. It still feels a little too expository to suit me, but I think it's the best it's gonna get. This information must get out someway or another. So tomorrow I'm going to run through chapters three and four really quick to see if there's anything I want to tweak, and then I'll go on to new material.

It took me about three hours to come up with one that satisfied me. I started at about noon and I quit at four. I took a two hour walk after that (I just got back, in fact) to decompress. Man, trying to rework your old crap is hard. I pretty much scrapped it all and rewrote it all as if it were the first time. It fit the two characters that were talking better that way. I didn't get across everything I wanted to, but I got enough for the plot to advance. That will just have to do.

Thanks to Ms. Miranda's beta skills I now have a much firmer grasp on where I need to be for these intro chapters. I've spent the entirety of today taking apart the first chapter and making it better. Tomorrow will probably be chapter two, and I have a whole two pages of exposition that I have to turn into a dialogue somehow. I'm not sure two professionals would stand around a dead body and have this conversation, but I don't know how else to do it. Besides, readers expect and accept a certain amount of exposition, so long as it's not in a huge chunk of text like mine was. *headdesk*

Anyway, cutting it off early today because I'm going to dinner with a friend of my aunt's. Then I get to come home and enjoy softbluebuddy's new update to Hello Kitty. Hell yeah!

Also, the new "undead journal" menu bar is really annoying, isn't it?

I decided I was going to start making daily writing update posts again, but this week there wasn't a lot to report.

( Whoa, this post was longer than I thought )

Geez, only I could say there's not much to report and then whip up that monster, hmm?

I got a new journal for my web fiction projects, seth_gray. I don't know if it will take the place of my wordpress or supplement it. WP is kind of a pain to use, and I'm already familiar with LJ. But, on the other hand, WP can get you your own host and domain and what not, and also looks more professional. I dunno, we'll see. Thoughts?

Well, here's a story that popped into my head today about these two characters that've been brewing for awhile. I don't know why they chose this scene to be the first I write about them, but here they are.

I give you Hrothgar "Garth" the Red, and Illya Greenman.

Garth is a professional warrior that was betrayed by a compatriot and left for dead. Illya, a member of a traveling healer sect known as the Greenmen, found him and brought him to his camp to doctor him up. This scene takes place a while down the road, after Illya has left with Garth to see the world and find out for himself whether it's really the horrible place his people say it is.

This particular story is in media res, or it's already started for those not in the know. As I said, I don't know why they wanted me to pick it up here, but here it is nonetheless.

As always, point out any mistakes.

( A Winter's Tale )