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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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Still working

Editing on SOTM 15 and puzzling out how I want the next “of the wood” story to go.  Have Lowborn and the next VR:DQ going as well.  Just a matter of what strikes me when I have time/peace to work.

New video up.  This one is less tips n’ tricks and more me playing through the game making silly comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6NZ6px2h7E

Okay, back to editing Ch. 15.  At least that’s the plan for the moment *laugh*

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Next “Of the Wood”

Think I have some of the basics for the next “Of the Wood” story going.  As with the last two stories, I’m going to jump ahead several years.  The primary protagonist this time is going to be young Daniel — just conceived at the end of “Forever of the Wood”

Xanbrina and Gary will be in their 60’s, Xankia and Steve will be pushing closer to 40 than 30.  I should imagine that you’ll probably meet Kia and Steve’s young ones, but they’re too young to feature much in the story considering the state of undress common to family gatherings.

Odds are that Kia’s little ( well, the oldest is 13, so not so little ) ones will be the focus of the following story after this one, marking the first shorter jump in time span.  We first met the elder Daniel at around five years old, so this story will have been following the family for more than 85 years when I finish the current tale.

I think that someone else associated with the younger Daniel is also going to have a larger role in this story than similar characters have in previous tales.  We’ll just have to see how it goes as the story congeals in my head.

That’s pretty much all I’ve done tonight with my writing.  I went through and read the series again, figured out how old everyone was going to be, and started meshing it with the ideas I tossed around in my head while at work today.

Other than that, I just uploaded my fifth LP and recorded the sixth to upload tomorrow.  Think I’m actually going to go to bed a little earlier tonight.  I was pretty beat down from staying up last night.

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Off Mood

Just wasn’t in the mood to write or edit tonight.  I went ahead and finished my fourth LP video and uploaded it.  Then I topped off the fifth, which I’ll upload some time tomorrow.  I guesstimate that there will be four more videos, running straight through the game twice to show off everything in a seamless run — probably making goofy comments all the while.

That’s what I’m hoping for, anyway.  I’m going to try to do two stages per video and keep it down to the 11 minute barrier.  I’m going to show off the second run because there are new traps in the chance stages, and the enemies are a buttload harder.

I’ll try to do some writing or editing tomorrow, though.  I may try to work out the next “of the wood” story while I’m at work tomorrow.  Time’s running out to prepare for that one to avoid breaking my tradition of putting one out for Earth Day

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