Dreams of the Quill

Second revision of my short story for my short story workshop. This version won’t be workshopped; it’s the ‘final draft’ as far as the class is concerned. It clocks in just under 8000 words. I hope it’s alright—I added a lot of new scenes that I’m not entirely confident about. You be the judge.

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It’s been over a month since the last main site post, let’s step it up guys and bring some activities here.

Expect a huge batch of drawings, biggest batch yet so far in the recent future.

Here’s my first day’s attempt at writing for NaNoWriMo. I will, with Flak’s pressure, continue to post stuff up here every day. I may also update the stuff I put up one day if I come up with more. This attempt only got me 431 words. I need to stay at it longer, it seems.

EDIT: Up to 582.

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Hey guys. November—that month I’ve been fighting for four years—happens to be National Novel Writing Month. In the past I’ve goaded others into participating, always sitting out due to “being busy,” but this year will be different. I’m never going to be less busy, and the people who participate in and complete NaNoWriMo do it despite being busy, so I’m participating this year!

I’m not sure what I’ll be writing yet. I’m going to do some brainstorming Saturday, then begin pounding stuff out Sunday. 50k words in 30 days. Won’t you join me?

Alar’s in, KCG is in. C’mon. Let’s do this.

Revision of last month’s short story.

It’s substantially longer now, and more polished. Unnecessary details have been omitted and necessary details have been added. Again, things have changed since the writing of the Crystals of Mana. In this draft, I have taken out all references to Guardian Lord/Heir/Throne; there is merely a Lord Tryn who rules Tryn (what was once a province of Libra and is now what Libra was). Mana is explicitly named in this draft, but his name has been changed to Mantha.

This draft is going to a second workshop round next Monday (November 2nd).

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