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15 years ago
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I've been experimenting lately, with my writing (and my drawing, as well, but that's still pretty inconsistent).
I've been hand writing stories at work during the long periods where nothing is happening. Then, when I get home, I've been, instead of transcribing those stories, rewriting them with the handwritten version being used as an outline.
Holy crap, it really makes a difference in my writing. Problems I'd been encountering in my stories just sort of melt away when I'm doing this, because in rereading and rewriting them, I'm also able to edit more fluidly.
Also, by experimenting with the more adult-oriented stories I'm posting over on SoFurry (http://blackwolfe.sofurry.com/stories), I've discovered something about the way I write. I've always frowned on giving too much mechanical detail, in favor of suggesting that detail while focusing more on the characters themselves.
So far, this has worked for me, but in my latest story, I give rather a lot of mechanical detail to the love scene and somehow, it just works. I'm beginning to understand when that detail is - well, not required, exactly, but useful.
Consequently, I've begun work on something else. Renzala and Maeve will have to sit by the wayside a bit longer before beginning their quest for the Crimson Sword. It'll help me flesh out both of their stories anyway. And in the meantime, the best way to refine any craft is to do it, and change how you do it, and do it again.
So, tonight at work, in between patrolling corridors and parking lots, and letting tenants know they're being too loud again, I'll finish the prologue to a story idea that's been banging around my head in various guises for as long as I've been involved (however marginally) in the furry fandom.
I can't wait to introduce you to The World Changed. I'm having fun plotting this one out, and I intend to take it as many directions as possible. The concept is a thematic anthology - stories that all take place in the same world, around the same time period.
There will be a central group of characters, but apart from the prologue (or chapter one, or whatever it ends up being in TWC chronology), they will not be the main characters for the bulk of the stories. (I imagine a few members of the exploration team will get their day in the limelight.)
And yes, I'm still me. One of the characters is a remarkably muscled, impressively tall female. Can't get away from those. Wouldn't want to.
I've been hand writing stories at work during the long periods where nothing is happening. Then, when I get home, I've been, instead of transcribing those stories, rewriting them with the handwritten version being used as an outline.
Holy crap, it really makes a difference in my writing. Problems I'd been encountering in my stories just sort of melt away when I'm doing this, because in rereading and rewriting them, I'm also able to edit more fluidly.
Also, by experimenting with the more adult-oriented stories I'm posting over on SoFurry (http://blackwolfe.sofurry.com/stories), I've discovered something about the way I write. I've always frowned on giving too much mechanical detail, in favor of suggesting that detail while focusing more on the characters themselves.
So far, this has worked for me, but in my latest story, I give rather a lot of mechanical detail to the love scene and somehow, it just works. I'm beginning to understand when that detail is - well, not required, exactly, but useful.
Consequently, I've begun work on something else. Renzala and Maeve will have to sit by the wayside a bit longer before beginning their quest for the Crimson Sword. It'll help me flesh out both of their stories anyway. And in the meantime, the best way to refine any craft is to do it, and change how you do it, and do it again.
So, tonight at work, in between patrolling corridors and parking lots, and letting tenants know they're being too loud again, I'll finish the prologue to a story idea that's been banging around my head in various guises for as long as I've been involved (however marginally) in the furry fandom.
I can't wait to introduce you to The World Changed. I'm having fun plotting this one out, and I intend to take it as many directions as possible. The concept is a thematic anthology - stories that all take place in the same world, around the same time period.
There will be a central group of characters, but apart from the prologue (or chapter one, or whatever it ends up being in TWC chronology), they will not be the main characters for the bulk of the stories. (I imagine a few members of the exploration team will get their day in the limelight.)
And yes, I'm still me. One of the characters is a remarkably muscled, impressively tall female. Can't get away from those. Wouldn't want to.
I think you'll like Saron, and if any of the central team from this story seed get their own story, she'll probably be first. She'll also feature heavily in a lot of the stories not about the core of the group, if only because her job mandates it.