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"Waning Heart" writing, crying, etc.
16 years ago
Journal Entry I tried writing a bit of the final chapter of Waning Heart last night, but to no avail. I found myself too stricken with tears to really write anything more than a hundred or so words. Because, you know, I had to read some of the previous chapters leading up to the final chapter. It's gotten me so emotional, heh, but don't let my talk of tears terrify you... they're tears of joy, not sadness, and I guess my ultimate goal for the conclusion of Waning Heart will be to get you to cry at the end out of happiness. :p
But yeah, today was much better. I wrote about 5,700 words and should have the full story finished the next time I actually write on it, which I'm hoping to do sometime next week (Wednesday is going to be my designated writing day, though I might squeak in a few words on other nights). I'm really loving the ending. It might run to be a bit longer of a chapter, but it'll certainly be worth it, I'm sure.
Now that actually brings me to another thing I've been kicking around. You see, the name "Waning Heart" doesn't really fit the remainder of the story. You know, that "Chapter 9 - 16" or "Second Half" I keep talking about. All along I've been telling people that it would be fine to start reading at Chapter 9 if they wanted to avoid the rape and that it would make for a great story on its own. Well, you know, since "Waning Heart" essentially implies a "fading heart" and that's quite the contrary of the second half of the story, I'm going to split the story into two stories. Chapters 1 - 8 will be Waning Heart, just as you've read them (except I'll make a slight addendum to Chapter 8 saying to read the new story to continue), but Chapters 9 - 16 will end up turning into Chapters 1 - 8 of the new story, which I'm likely going to call Waxing Moon (or possibly "Power of Attraction", but Waxing Moon fits the theme a little bit better). Haven't fully settled just yet, but I think it's the best way of doing it.
I look forward to finishing this story or story series (actually, it will be written for the possibility of a sequel... just saying) so I can work on Middle of Nowhere and Fleeting Friendship again, as well as a few other one-shot stories to cap off my 30,000 word goal for the month of January. I'm about 20% there and the month is about 20% up, so I guess I'm roughly on par. Now if I can just do a bunch of doodles, I'll be able to finish my art goal, too. X3 If I don't reach the goals, it's no big deal, it's not the end of the world, but they're just goals that I'm shooting for accomplishing. :3
But yeah, today was much better. I wrote about 5,700 words and should have the full story finished the next time I actually write on it, which I'm hoping to do sometime next week (Wednesday is going to be my designated writing day, though I might squeak in a few words on other nights). I'm really loving the ending. It might run to be a bit longer of a chapter, but it'll certainly be worth it, I'm sure.
Now that actually brings me to another thing I've been kicking around. You see, the name "Waning Heart" doesn't really fit the remainder of the story. You know, that "Chapter 9 - 16" or "Second Half" I keep talking about. All along I've been telling people that it would be fine to start reading at Chapter 9 if they wanted to avoid the rape and that it would make for a great story on its own. Well, you know, since "Waning Heart" essentially implies a "fading heart" and that's quite the contrary of the second half of the story, I'm going to split the story into two stories. Chapters 1 - 8 will be Waning Heart, just as you've read them (except I'll make a slight addendum to Chapter 8 saying to read the new story to continue), but Chapters 9 - 16 will end up turning into Chapters 1 - 8 of the new story, which I'm likely going to call Waxing Moon (or possibly "Power of Attraction", but Waxing Moon fits the theme a little bit better). Haven't fully settled just yet, but I think it's the best way of doing it.
I look forward to finishing this story or story series (actually, it will be written for the possibility of a sequel... just saying) so I can work on Middle of Nowhere and Fleeting Friendship again, as well as a few other one-shot stories to cap off my 30,000 word goal for the month of January. I'm about 20% there and the month is about 20% up, so I guess I'm roughly on par. Now if I can just do a bunch of doodles, I'll be able to finish my art goal, too. X3 If I don't reach the goals, it's no big deal, it's not the end of the world, but they're just goals that I'm shooting for accomplishing. :3
As for free programs, you may want to look into openCanvas (look for the English version) or possibly even The GIMP or Inkscape. A tablet is a huge help unless you learn to get good at the pen or line tools.
I guess that makes Tablet PCs kinda pointless then doesn't it? Kinda like how cell phones made the Palm Pilot pointless.
and like I said, the ones I seen, the system specs suck anyway. If your going to blow 1500 bucks on something, make it a top of the top of the top of the top of the line processor and a fancy mobo and MAYBE some memory... or a gaming labtop.
Your doing a wonderful job on the stories, keep up the nice work!
Hmm, I may have to settle for only expressing my joy in this comment. Oh well. Joy!
Also can't wait!!!!! Looking forward to it.
Cause in the past couple of years (as I'm sure you're maybe aware from our past talks), life has kind of slowed down a bit for me, ever since that fire. :( Though I should probably set some more specific goals, like yourself, right? Such as a word count per month (for a start, I'm thinking 10,000, even though could do a little more, since got all these stories still wish to write, lol), and like, maybe make some progress per month on learning how to draw, perhaps, as I've wanted to the past couple of years. Not to mention, get a job and anything else I've also mentioned that I'm not remembering at present, heh. :3