Dreams of the Quill

Well here I am, home, sick, not really feeling up to much. But I’ve been listening to some of the gentler music I have and it makes me think of The Last Season. Thinking of The Last Season gets me thinking about Tundra of Heroes, and sooner or later, I’m doing quality brainstorming—all the while not writing anything down for my lack of health.

So what’s this? Some sort of general update on where I stand with writing. See the last bit of the post if all you care about is the Hunter Chronicles.

The Last Season: this is, as I stress again and again, an experiment. I say that and all, but really, I should like to finish it someday. Back when I was entirely serious about it, in April 2005, it was subtitled “Project 2005/dotq.org/war3forum.worldofwar.net” in my RTF. 2006 has already come and gone, and the plot has not progressed past the point at which it was in mid-2005: 2/5 done. There has been one heavy revision and a lot of stalling in between; whether or not more progress will be made this year is uncertain. One thing that is for sure is that the weakest part of the story as it stands right now is the diction, plain and simple. You all can expect another heavy revision some time this season—i.e. before late June. That much I guarantee.

Tundra of Heroes: another experiment, or so I declared it after realizing that only two characters out of five or so, all key to the plot, were more than 2D, and that I’d managed to kill off one of those two, reducing the number of real characters to … ONE?! I can’t write a story of ToH’s nature with that. So I named it an experiment, tried to flesh out Kihara’s character, and brought the dead man back to life—and then didn’t write anything for nine months. What I need to do for this, is I need to plot out a story, figure out what the characters do where, and drop this pretense of being able to make stuff up on the spot. I spew out HC almost every week, but that’s a story I’ve been thinking on for 7+ years. I figure I just need to take a deep breath and go back to ToH with more reasonable goals for myself. Possibly write a big chunk and then post it at once, or over time, or whatever, but not in short installments as I write.

For the Pen: can anyone say dead, lol? Recollections, that is. I finished v2 and am happy with it for the most part, though a certain someone keeps telling me it sucked… I’m not going to rewrite For the Pen. It’s not worth my time. My creative efforts are better spent on my host of other projects. Should I ever wish to write more For the Pen, Recollections is there, The Biography practically begging me to give it more story. Yeah. I’m really, really not worried about this project. It’s near the back of my mind, to be honest.

Drawing My Heart: did I say I was going to do character work on this? … yeah? Well, I am going to. You know, some time in the future. /me waves arm (You know, after Alar and I talk some more. Mmhm.)

Hunter Chronicles: here’s the big whammie: I’m stopping releases for a while. That doesn’t mean I’m not working on it, in fact, quite the contrary: the lack of a release schedule will give me the peace of mind I need to finish Part 2. In the meantime, I’m going to be working on doing some mini-junks related to HC (like maybe an HC comedy 4koma, or something) to keep interest. And I’ll still post SOMETHING every Sunday, so keep checking back. That SOMETHING may be art, it may be “hey look at how my training is going,” it may be “Kyoto Animation is god,” it may be “no update this week,” or it may even be an update concerning one of the aforementioned projects.

OH!! AND!!

KCG is running a new RPG. I thought it was a joke at first, but… well, I guess he’s serious…ly joking.
Check it out.