Category Archives: Darkniciad

Barren Harvest Moving

Just a quick story note.  Once I finshed up with the blog and goofed around on the internet for a bit, I returned to “Barren Harvest”  It’s flowing smooth again after a few quick edits to where I’d left off.  Woot! 🙂

If it keeps going like this, I’ll probably finish this one this weekend.  If that’s the case, it will finally come out sometime next week at SOL, and a little later at Lit.

I really wish I didn’t need to go to bed right now.  When I’m in the zone, I hate stopping.  Not a lot of choice, though.  Have to get some sleep.

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Complete through May ’07

Whew…  These are taking a while.  I forgot about the near daily updates while I was pushing to get SOTM geared up.

*Sigh* My optimism about how well I could keep up back then makes me sad.  Maybe I should put together another set of specific goals before re-launching the story.  It seemed to keep me motivated and pushing forward.

Let’s see…  Re-edit existing unpublished SOTM chapters (including adding plot points). Pass them through Roust.  Put together an outline for future chapters up to a certain point in the story.  It would be loose, because my characters do what they want when they want, but it would give me a physical framework, as opposed to just a mental one.

Think I’m going to stick to one goal for the moment, though.  Get all of the news entries into this blog.  It just keeps nagging at me, and I’m not going to accomplish anything until I at least finish that.

Well, other than a bit of writing here and there.

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Two more months in the can

Two more months worth of old news added to the blog.  Here’s hoping that nobody set up subscriptions, or that it doesn’t publish every one of those old updates as a new post :p

I have a little bit of time and quiet, so I’m going to work on Barren Harvest.  Maybe I’ll have that one ready to post by the weekend.  Once my tornado boy starts his evening wind-down, I’ll probably work on digging through my brain for forgotten PHP knowledge again.  I’m beginning to think that I can remember enough to do the simple forms myself.  Once I finish one of them, the rest will come easily, because they’ll all be similar.

Time to see if I can’t wrap up this Danica history tale.

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A bit of history

Still writing on the new Arts Ardane and Lowborn. I’ve also went back and started working on some style edits to Ch. 14-16 of SOTM.

In the meantime, here’s that original version of Denethia’s story from “Harvest of Blood”. This is ancient writing, and has all grammar errors intact. It also has the stats for Denethia as an NPC in my D&D world. All I did was paragraph it out for easier reading on a computer screen.

Denethia – Van Richten Lich NOTE: Links on this page lead to the old, defunct pages. Just close the new window once you’re done reading.

I have a new story out as Les Lumens, too. You can blink on over to that part of my website, if you haven’t seen it.

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Missionary Impossible

It’s taken some time, but I think I might finally have my writing spark back. I’ve written over 60k words the last couple of weeks, and everything is still flowing smoothly. For those waiting on SOTM, I’m not quite in an emotional place to get back into it full steam, but I’m always working on it a little here and there.

As to what’s actually going to see a release soon, one is already out at SOL, and should be out at Lit soon. It’s a story taking place after Blackhawk and Queen Alicia, starring Mindblind, Arilee, and Christi. It’s an episode of life, much like King Thakkorias and Queen Alicia. I loved writing Ari again, and I hope she comes back to visit my muse more often!

The next thing to come out after that will probably be that long puttering Mindblind story. It’s called “Lowborn” and details his history, from about the same time period as Casting Off Convention and To Catch a Merchant Princess do for Christi, Thakkor, and Alicia. I have four chapters of it complete, and I’m working on the fifth. Coming along nicely, but I can’t say for sure when it will be finished. I’ll do my best to keep this page updated, as well as my SOL blog.

There will be more, from this pen name and my alternate. Only time will tell when and how much. All I know is that it’s nice to be back in the saddle, and excited to write again.

I have plans to do some updates to the website. The first one will be small. I’m going to post a copy of an old story for those interested. It’s not the best in the world, but it was the original version of “Harvest of Blood”. I thought some might find it interesting to see how my writing has evolved, and how the characters/story from that tale evolved from a concept story to set up an NPC in my D&D game into a story simply for reading.

The second plan is to update the characters pages with darn near every recurring character in all stories. I’m going to lean away from the “powers” thing that I have on the existing pages, and more toward physical descriptions. There may even be illustrations, if something works out, showing you how I envision the characters.

Enough for now. You can hop over to my SOL page to read “Missionary Impossible”, and I’ll post up a link when it goes live at Lit.

Here’s the Cover Image.

Not going to add a new entry, so the story is now Live at Lit

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