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uh oh look at that
I want to thank sad gays for helping me be so prolific
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so my writing project for nanowrimo is both getting much more focused and also much…um…fuzzier.
basically as I recently mentioned i’m taking brooding lust (and the 2 sequels that came with it), adding in the story I had actually planned for nanowrimo, and putting them all in the same universe. That came with deciding to make it into a 9 instalment series, because arc number of that world as of the latest iteration of world building. 6 of them are at various stages of conception, the other 3…well let’s be real i have plenty of time to figure those out.
basically the idea is for each most of these instalment to be a sort-of standalone story (all of them except a big crossover in the middle and at the end) with some crossover. which was extremely easy and feasible. Like i have main characters coming back in later stories but overall i think it works.
but now the problem is, um. which one do I actually write first? the one i’d originally planned or the brooding lust rewrite?
speaking of, brooding lust is now retitled “Elopers in the Night” and the series as a whole is prooobably going to be “The Primordial Ennead” (which incidentally is the first time I actually have a series title i’m happy with). I’m going to change my tags when I have the energy to make sure xkit works.
anyway i’m gonna keep working out details especially with character backstories today and like, figure out what to write on november 1 i guess
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a week before nanowrimo is the perfect time to feel a burst of motivation for world building right
#talys liveblogs nanowrimo#nanowrimo 18#talysnovel: dragged#talysnovel: tpe#talysnovel: eloped#i also have a new title…for brooding lust lmao
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18,924 isn’t quite the word count I hoped for today, but it’s what I’ve got, I’ve reached the end of part 1/4 of my outline, and I have a tiramisu to make, so i’ll take it.
I finally got to write the scene that I had in the dream that inspired this whole thing, you guys. It wasn’t quite as epic as I’d envisioned it, and later than I’d expected, but I think it’s actually still pretty good in this understated version with a lot of character building beforehand? idk hopefully it’s all right
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So, good news: i’m still on track with my planned 2k/day average (slightly above it in fact) and with my birthday coming up I should be safe if I miss out on a day this weekend. Plus I manage to avoid having plans this weekend (just eating with my parents, friends are out of town) so even that shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
Pacing wise I’m also on track so far with my plan (I don’t have a precise outline, but I do have a structure in four parts and I should reach about 20k for part 1, which is what i’m aiming for for each part, roughly).
problem is, if you do the math, that would leave me at 3/4 of the book done at the end of nano. and yeah, I can just…finish it in december. I know. It’s just kinda annoying. I know I can push it to 80k during nanowrimo, I did it for Psychopomp and for the FTEITS rewrite (90+k for that one actually). It’s just that so far…I’m not even close to that. Hopefully after my birthday things clear up? of course even if that is the case I’d still need to use that time for…you know, all the other things.
anyway that’s gonna be all for tonight. I’m calling it.
PS: I feel like I really want to talk more about plot than I have so far, but for that i need prompts. remind me to look at the nanowrimo challenges from previous years, see if i find anything.
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so two hours later I did not do any writing (on nanowrimo or otherwise) because I was busy world building/character building/outlining
on the plus side I have a tentative title for two more books in the ennead (books 2 and 3, though it’s a coincidence and also after this only book 4 could reasonably be titled at the current point):
so book 2 (the one i’m actually working on) is tentatively titled “Dragged to the Underworld”
book 3 (which i’m not actually working on, but will be a rewrite of my old fic “Brooding Impostor”) is tentatively titled “Captives of the Stars”
book 1 lest you forgot was “Eloped in the Night”. i’m doing kind of a pattern thing here. hopefully I can keep it up.
i’ll update my tags tomorrow because it’s past 2am and if i’m not going to write i should at least sleep
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razielim replied to your post “so my writing project for nanowrimo is both getting much more focused...”
that series title sounds incredibly cool btw. "primordial" is one of my all-time favorite words
Thank you! I am particularly satisfied thinking of that term myself tbh
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i didn’t make it to 3k today due to family nonsense + a hard scene to write* but i’m gonna call it a night anyway because i can barely keep my eyes open good night
*you know, just a buncha people who have to strike an uneasy alliance after being enemies. and then some gays who do the do but I don’t want to go full explicit but i also don’t just want to cut to the next scene as soon as they get going because damn it, sex is a good way to develop character. anyway I think i found a good way to do it.
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So i forgot to set my scrivener session options so that it doesn’t reset at midnight exactly, so I can’t show a screenshot like I did last night, but I once again got to 3.8k by midnight.
I also upped my daily personal goal to 3k/day, because if I can do that, then I should still be good to finish at around 80k at the end of the month, which should be what it takes to wrap up this novel. And that would be swell.
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okay well i’m calling nano for tonight
i got a total of 1851 words before midnight, plus another 591 after midnight. Also I’m around 12k total and I’m finally introducing the…um…villain? the last of the villains anyway.
(is it really spoiling my own book if I say the old rich white fuckers who are literally heirs to slave owners and more or less banished their queer son are also villains? I mean you should consider them villains even if they’re not antagonists in the story. but also. of course they’re antagonists.)
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also i got to write Noah’s first PoV that was neat even though it felt like walking a tightrope since i couldn’t reveal anything too early but have to make sure it’s not frustrating, either
#talys liveblogs nanowrimo#nanowrimo 18#talysnovel: dragged#talysnovel: tpe#also yeah I'm gonna have to post about#the characters or shit#i'm not doing the nano challenge over on the snark theater but maybe I can find some structured way to post here anyway
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as i’m writing the summary of each of these books, it occurs to me that three of four stories where I have any sort of outline starts with a murder
a third story started with a murder in the fic version but now will probably start with a kidnapping/brainwashing instead
story four doesn’t start with a murder but the protagonist is an assassin.
so. that’s a tone.
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talys’s great nanowrimo 2019 debacle: the post
i felt like being grandiose, just not grandiose enough that I’d properly capitalize things. bear with me.
So I’ve had a bit of a time figuring out what to do for NaNoWriMo this year. So it’s venting time.
I’m also using this to do like, a status report on all my writing endeavors.
Okay so I haven’t had any new novel idea in a while now. I mean, that’s fine. I have a massive pile of WIPs anyway. But (and I think I already made a post about it earlier) the problem for nanowrimo was this:
I didn’t want to do a rewrite of any of the existing drafts:
FEITS v3 was paused at about halfway done in 2017, and while I’ve had a bunch of ideas for it, I haven’t really taken the time to work on them.
Psychopomp’s first draft is complete, but it could use a rewrite
Tangled Stars and Dragged to the Underworld are about 50k each with a missing third act
Eloped in the Night is a 15k word mess that needs major rewriting because it was still Brooding Lust when I wrote those)
Of these five books, four have planned sequels, but: I didn’t want to write a sequel, since none of them anywhere near a final stage. That being
FTEITS (for which I wrote like 30k of a first draft of book 2, most of which is good for the trash what with all the changes I’ve made),
Psychopomp, whose sequel would have been the best candidate in this category honestly because I don’t think the rewrites would be super structural
Eloped/Dragged are part of the same universe though mostly standalones, but each of the subsequent books in that series would draw from one or both of these, and like I said, neither are even a complete first draft.
While I have a bunch of fic ideas, I didn’t want to do a fic for nanowrimo because it felt like cheating.
Which left me with um…like, nothing. Well, not quite.
So you may or may not know this (I kind of forget where I put information online) but my first draw to storytelling was actually video games. In broad strokes, here’s a quick history of that:
As a very young child (we’re talking 4-8 years old here), I’d play pretend with my plushies
When I got Crash Bandicoot 2 (one of my first video games I was really into), I started to imagine various games where my plushies would be the protagonists. Inspired by Crash, Zelda, other games…I remember once outlining a 15-part series of games around my favorite plushy, each of which was basically subdivided into chunks of different genres. I even invented a “dark age of the franchise”.
When I got Final Fantasy X and then got another gaming magazine with a walkthrough of Final Fantasy X, I started inventing a self-insert game based heavily on it, and wrote most of my ideas in the format of a walkthrough. I even parroted the editing style because I was like nine.
That story was iterated upon several times, and eventually yielded the character of Talys Alankil (well, sort of—the name actually originated in Guild Wars and was then repurposed. Somewhere in the lore, the two of them are like, extremely distant relatives, or were until I decided all copyrighted works were purged from canon). Thanks for creating my brand, 13 and 15-year-old mes.
I actually got into computer engineering because of games, except I then realized the storytelling was what interested me. Oops. I mean I like programming but I’d never want to work as a programmer in a game.
That tangent was completely pointless but whatever, this is the state of the talys post.
Anyway. Point is. I got a new idea for a game earlier this year. Life Is Strange 2 meets Octopath Traveler by way of Vanitas from Kingdom Hearts as the protagonist. This is the first time I have an idea that I can phrase in this kind of pitch so I’ll indulge. Fight me.
Working title is just “The Road” though obviously it needs some work, and over the past few months I’ve actually done some pretty good prep work, so I thought, hey, why not challenge myself this nanowrimo and write a script for a game instead of a novel!
And like, there’s no reason why not. I’m actually feeling pretty attached to the protagonist already, I’ve been wanting to try scrivener’s script writing tool, it could be fun. Of course, the problem is that a script for a game (especially this one) is inerently nonlinear and requires thorough planning, which I have not done. And nanowrimo starts…technically tomorrow night if I can still stay up past midnight.
[Second tangent time: I’ve been going for a teaching degree, which has forced me to reset my sleep schedule extremely hard and I hate it]
So that brings me option 2. Well, technically there are two options here, but only one that’s remotely viable.
I may have mentioned it before but in FTEITS, Adam and Cell bond over (among other things) a shared favorite book/author. Well, mostly a book. There is also a scene of Adam finding that author’s new book and experiencing nostalgia over his lost life, which may or may not survive the rewrites. The author, incidentally, is my self-insert in that world, and will also not be an active character in the plot of the books, but I just felt like mentioning it. And yes, that means my protagonists are fans of my work. Sue me.
The one they’re both a fan of is titled Snow to Ashes (I remember way way back, when I randomly picked a title “The Brain is Out”, before I had any idea what it was about). It is, incidentally, a chance to analyze Adam and Cell’s character arc by proxy and in a microcosm, which is good because I feel that sometimes their arcs are still kind of ill-defined. Basically the story has two protagonist and it is canon that Adam and Cell each relate more to one of them.
The problem with that is that now I’m getting a lot of ideas for Snow to Ashes, and I don’t know if I have the time to work all of these ideas and iron them out before nanowrimo starts.
So that’s where I’m at. Either way I will be pantsing it. I was hoping to get to do some outlining this week before Friday, but it turns out that being tired, having a pretty big spike of executive dysfunction, final fantasy 14, and my parents deciding to watch the TV again after years of not doing it (thus making noise at the time of day that would be perfect for me to write), is not fertile grounds for productivity. I am, incidentally, out of a FF14 subscription in four days, which is very fine by me since that game would also ruin nanowrimo itself, not just the pre-nano prep.
This isn’t really a request for feedback tbh, just, like I said, venting. Hoping to straighten my thoughts and figure out which choice is best.
As a PS i should mention that yes, the Talys Alankil game is also technically a writing option, and I could write a script for that. I mean it’s almost a rewrite because that one has a pretty rigid outline already, but. Yeah. It’s an option too.
Edited: I didn’t mention Malefacta. I didn’t forget about malefacta. I just don’t know what to do with Malefacta. It’s annoying.
Edited2: Remember when I almost wrote a superhero book for nanowrimo 2017? yeah that’s still a project I have somewhere. I’m no feeling it though. Sorry, superhero project. You were never meant to be, I guess.
#talys liveblogs nanowrimo#nanowrimo 19#talysnovel: fteits#talysnovel: psychopomp#talysnovel: tangled stars#talysnovel: eloped#talysnovel: dragged#talysnovel: snow to ashes#talysnovel: the road#i'm using a talysnovel: tag even though it's not a novel idc#talys reboots a universe#I think that's my tag for the Talys game#talysnovel: malefacta#talysnovel: tpe
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I’m probably going to hit 50k tomorrow by day 19 and I feel really good about that
also this fight scene is taking longer than planned. or, to be more accurate, it’s a series of fight scenes and like, it’s necessary, but also i’m sort of in the mood for mushy stuff right now and i know i have some sad gays awaiting around the corner, so my brain is just like “can we get to the angsty babies already”
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