<–The State of the Writer: 12/27/20         The State of the Writer: 1/24/21–>

A post updated every other Sunday discussing my current writing projects and any completed the prior two weeks.

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Finished Projects: 0

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Project: Story
Working Title: The High Archon
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Type: Original
Length: Novel
Status: Preparation
Progress: Setting up notes in Scrivener

I have reached the obsessive stage of my language creation lol.  I think I’ve found a pattern I like though, and I also think I can move on and back to other things while still working on this on the side.  I still have numerous items from my notebooks to work in, nor have I figured out some of the integral details of how the world operates.  It’s more hashing out how things work so that I can be consistent when I finally start to write.  Plus I want to go back to finding pictures of beautiful people lol.  I’ll start posting the ideas I have for the other characters, too.

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Project: Story Audio Recording
Title: Northern Lights
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Type: Fanfiction
Length: Novel
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Status: Editing
Progress: Adding pictures for slideshow

(Speaking of beautiful people…) I use this picture a lot.  It’s the latest one at 187, but I also use it for 180 and a slightly modified version for 153.  It’s really good for showing sorrowed resignation behind a mask, and that’s what his initial appearance in this chapter is about.  I’m slightly over 30 minutes right now, and I’m trying to go back to a picture gathering methodology, as opposed to picking one at a time.

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In Progress

• Game Reviews: Final Fantasy VI – I made a little bit of progress this time round.  Started writing about the Figaro twins.  I still have literally no idea if I’m going to keep all of the stuff I’m writing or if I’m going to edit it down and split some things off into articles.  Ah well, I’ll just keep writing (when I can).
• Book Reviews: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – I managed to start this and immediately jumped into its Jungle Book comparisons lol. I wish I had time to reread Kipling’s work, but alas.

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Now the caffeine starts to kick in?  And only kinda?  Ugh, oh well.  I’ve started watching Schitt’s Creek, and I am so into it.  I love all of the characters, which is both impressive and surprising.  You have to know how to write to make people like that sympathetic.  Even though they’re out-of-touch, once rich people, they’re so clueless and kooky, you just can’t help but root for them.  It’s the classic “fish out of water” story, and even though they’re all so selfish in their way, you can see the potential for growth, and that’s what keeps me interested.  When you know people can be better, you want to give them a chance.

I need to work on my year end posts, the top books and top games ones.  The books one will take longer, though I think you all will find the games one interesting.  I need to locate some objectivity for this one, and I’ll gladly put the process on display for your amusement lol.

I guess I should be happy I finished posting The Broken Rose in 2020 and started working on The High Archon, buuuuuuut you know me lol.  I wish I’d gotten more done like finished the Northern Lights audio recording, but any progress is better than no progress.  I might do a 2021 project post or something soon.  It often helps me to do that since it’s something I can use to hold myself accountable, not…that I won’t do that anyway, but it helps to have it written down/posted.

What are your creative plans for this year?  Let me know in the comments below or leave the link to a post you did about it!

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<–The State of the Writer: 12/27/20         The State of the Writer: 1/24/21–>