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3 years ago
Admit it, these past two months of silence must have been nail biting for ya. To be fair, these past two to six years feel like one big roller coaster made of flaming garbage and ill omens, but these past two months... well, they could have gone better. The key is finding treasures in the refuse, and diamonds in the coal. Easier said than done, but it is doable.
I am about 40k+ words into my WIP now. Figured NaNoWriMo would be an excellent time to get back to writing in earnest, and so far so good. November is for this passion project, but starting next month I plan on splitting my time between this book, tentatively titled "Oathborn," and a series of short stories I'm writing as a children's/YA collection. I'm about 20k+ words into that project, and have maybe six more stories to go in it before I put a polish on the pages and submit them for publication. Those'll be written under my name, while the book will be put under a pseudonym; don't want anyone familiar with my short stories picking up the book and thinking it'll be a light romp through the fields with bunnies and sunshine. The book will contain adult issues and deep material. The humans and the wolf-like anthro series therein live in a tenuous sort of peace with varying degrees of tolerance, and the dry kindling built up between the two is just waiting for a spark to set their whole world ablaze. The book details the makings of that spark through the actions and eyes of initially two protagonists, with three named by the end. I'm a little put off about the story, to be honest. It's not following the traditional layout of Intro --> Rising Tension --> Climax --> Resolution. There's no cataclysmic world changing event happening in this book. It feels almost like a build up to the next stories that come in the series, and I don't know how much folks will be willing to read something without a big badaboom. Or there might be. The plot and characters began to change from word one on day one. You can put the hamster in the pen, but you can't get mad at it when it decides to run through the maze rather than on the big wheel. And oh, do my hamsters have such a big pen with so many toys to play with!
... t-that was an analogy. I don't actually have any hamsters in my stories. Yet.
I am contemplating picking up short story writing commissions after both books have somewhat of a polish on them. I'll let everyone know when I'll be doing this. Initially, since I've never done writing commissions before, I plan on opening up three slots as a test run. These'll go to folks whose subject matter both interest me and test my abilities in taking premade characters and blending them into the commissioner's desired setting with their desired plot elements/actions. Now, I can't promise speed; I've mentioned before that my disabilities affect my arms, wrists, and hands in quite a difficult manner. But I can promise the best of my endeavors when all is said and done. Let me know below in the comments if you'd be interested in helping me test these waters out, or if you think even dipping a toe in these waters would be a worthwhile endeavor.
I do want to share some of my writing with you! I have a prologue I am quite proud of and think you'd might like to read, but I am leery about property/idea theft to a illogical and stupid degree. Should I be? What're your thoughts on this?
I have a few more pieces of artwork to share here. Not mine. Yet. Several pieces I received as gifts, raffle wins, and adopts. But I plan on working on artwork as well. Once I can figure out Krita/openCanvas. Being an artist was a childhood dream of mine. Well, I'm still a child at heart, so I guess now's a good as time as any to go chasing those stars again.
Thank you for reading, folks! Hope to see you around 🙂
🌳🪨🐺
I am about 40k+ words into my WIP now. Figured NaNoWriMo would be an excellent time to get back to writing in earnest, and so far so good. November is for this passion project, but starting next month I plan on splitting my time between this book, tentatively titled "Oathborn," and a series of short stories I'm writing as a children's/YA collection. I'm about 20k+ words into that project, and have maybe six more stories to go in it before I put a polish on the pages and submit them for publication. Those'll be written under my name, while the book will be put under a pseudonym; don't want anyone familiar with my short stories picking up the book and thinking it'll be a light romp through the fields with bunnies and sunshine. The book will contain adult issues and deep material. The humans and the wolf-like anthro series therein live in a tenuous sort of peace with varying degrees of tolerance, and the dry kindling built up between the two is just waiting for a spark to set their whole world ablaze. The book details the makings of that spark through the actions and eyes of initially two protagonists, with three named by the end. I'm a little put off about the story, to be honest. It's not following the traditional layout of Intro --> Rising Tension --> Climax --> Resolution. There's no cataclysmic world changing event happening in this book. It feels almost like a build up to the next stories that come in the series, and I don't know how much folks will be willing to read something without a big badaboom. Or there might be. The plot and characters began to change from word one on day one. You can put the hamster in the pen, but you can't get mad at it when it decides to run through the maze rather than on the big wheel. And oh, do my hamsters have such a big pen with so many toys to play with!
... t-that was an analogy. I don't actually have any hamsters in my stories. Yet.
I am contemplating picking up short story writing commissions after both books have somewhat of a polish on them. I'll let everyone know when I'll be doing this. Initially, since I've never done writing commissions before, I plan on opening up three slots as a test run. These'll go to folks whose subject matter both interest me and test my abilities in taking premade characters and blending them into the commissioner's desired setting with their desired plot elements/actions. Now, I can't promise speed; I've mentioned before that my disabilities affect my arms, wrists, and hands in quite a difficult manner. But I can promise the best of my endeavors when all is said and done. Let me know below in the comments if you'd be interested in helping me test these waters out, or if you think even dipping a toe in these waters would be a worthwhile endeavor.
I do want to share some of my writing with you! I have a prologue I am quite proud of and think you'd might like to read, but I am leery about property/idea theft to a illogical and stupid degree. Should I be? What're your thoughts on this?
I have a few more pieces of artwork to share here. Not mine. Yet. Several pieces I received as gifts, raffle wins, and adopts. But I plan on working on artwork as well. Once I can figure out Krita/openCanvas. Being an artist was a childhood dream of mine. Well, I'm still a child at heart, so I guess now's a good as time as any to go chasing those stars again.
Thank you for reading, folks! Hope to see you around 🙂
🌳🪨🐺
