Category Archives: Darkniciad

Couple scenes left

Only a couple of scenes left in SOTM 16 now.  It’s really flowing, and I’m just going to stay on the horse until this momentum slows up and I need to give it more muse time.

There’s a lot of foreshadowing going on in this chapter, some of which isn’t going to come to light for quite some time.  It’s a joy to be caught up in this story and have it flow so easily again — even if I don’t have the time I used to have or the ability to crank out thousands of words at a time without taking little breaks every quarter/half hour.

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Muse still on track

Between last night and this morning, I added the next scene to SOTM 16.  ( If I’ve said 15 at any point, I meant 16.  Haven’t checked, but that thought popped in my head at some point at work today )

The imagery is coming out beautifully, the plot is moving along, and the characters are singing to me.  I’m over the halfway point of this chapter now, and one scene in particular is probably going to take up the bulk of what’s left.

Managed to squeeze in the final video of the Gladiator LP today, too.  You can just follow the links in the last post to find Ep. 09 if you’re interested.

Still deciding whether I’m going to jump into the next scene of SOTM or hit the hay.  Nice to have this story moving again.  It feels good.

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LP Video and SOTM

Woke up this morning with the bug, and went straight to work on SOTM. The next scene took off beautifully, and I really didn’t want to leave for work.

Got home early, and decided to catch up on my too long neglected Let’s Play Gladiator videos.  Uploaded Ep. 07 a little while ago, and Ep. 08 is uploading now.  One left to finish the playlist — the hardest one.  Playing stages 3 & 4 on hard mode without lots of practice is probably not going to be pretty.

But, I digress.  I’ll link up the new videos here later tonight.  I’m going to go take a bath and a nap, then get back to SOTM this evening.  Hope my muse is singing to me like it was this morning.  Spent most of the day mulling it over at work, so that’s a good sign.

EDIT: I’ll just edit this time instead of posting again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Kcq14kkn0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3865xze8gow

There’s the two new vids.

The young one was in a mood.  Driving me batty, so haven’t written any more just yet.  About to give it a shot, now that he’s asleep and I’ve wound down.  I’d forgotten just how good loud Alice Cooper was for bleeding frustration out of my system.  Really need to download everything off my old “pissed off” cathartic tape that I haven’t yet and put it together in a playlist.

Anyway, going to try to get back into SOTM for a while again, before I have to crash in a half hour or so.

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Amber morning and Sisters night

Wrote on Amber this morning, and a few paragraphs when I got home from work this evening.  I hit a scene that simply wasn’t visualizing for me, though.  It’s one of those that’s vastly different from anything I’ve written before, and I’m having a bit of a time wording in a way that isn’t repetitive.  Not an easy task, because the very nature of the scene is repetitive.

To hard to describe without giving too much away. *laugh*

With a bit of a roadblock there, I decided to put all the musing that I’ve been doing about SOTM to use.  I wrote two more scenes, foreshadowing some very important things to come.  One is sweet — full of nostalgia, love, and two sisters bonding again as they continue to grow individually as women.  The following scene is the exact opposite.

I’m dozing off when I close my eyes to try to visualize now, so I guess that’s all for tonight :p  I’m at around the halfway point of this chapter now.

I think that I’ve figured out another of the roadblocks in my head on that story, as well.  This was always supposed to be a trilogy, right from the first chapter of Danica.  As I muse over it, I’m not sure that there really is a book three.  Everything seems to be coming to a head here, and I’m right on the edge of letting it happen.  That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a book three, but what I’d originally planned for that third book might just end up happening in SOTM instead.

Just as I was about to type that it was going to be difficult to combine the two climaxes together ( I actually backspaced part of saying that ) the way to pull it off popped into my head.

I’m off to update my notes file while its still fresh in my mind.  This pretty much decides it, because it works too well, and its already giving me ideas for the new storyline of Book III.

Damn, I love it when my muse is so to the point.  I’m off!

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Amber tonight

Felt like writing on Amber tonight.  Finished the first detailed sex scene, fully introduced one of the other characters, and I’m set up for the wild scene that leads into the end of the story.

Lowborn and Secret are both still off for those impression reads, so those are back-burner until I get the thoughts back.  Still not ready to wade into the VR:DQ again.

See how it goes in the morning.  Unless I get up really late, I usually write a little in the morning before work.  For some reason, I always seem to have the bug then, when I don’t really have any decent amout of time.  It will be a matter of whether Amber or SOTM is singing to me.  I did spend most of the day at work today musing the rest of this chapter of SOTM.

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