SURPRISE UPDATE HUMPADUMPS · 4:52am Sep 27th, 2014
If you haven't read it already, Calm updated! ...Again!
And this is the last chapter. Now, I can focus on something new! Something... something that's a hell of a lot of fun.
If you haven't read it already, Calm updated! ...Again!
And this is the last chapter. Now, I can focus on something new! Something... something that's a hell of a lot of fun.
So Calm just updorted! To all of you that were a bit confused when I posted, then removed it... I'm very sorry about that. See, there was a copypasting problem, one where I had accidentally pasted in 25 pages of the story... twice. It would have been awful, and you would have hated me. So I'm... I'm very sorry for that.
It's coming soon... depending on when I can get Beyond to write a scene with an OC we've been privately discussing for awhile. That man has a genius for weaponry concepts, I tell ya... Anyway, I have not forgotten about Calm, and if I were you, I'd expect it very, very soon.
Also goddamn this is a long chapter. So, y'know. Be ready for that.
EDIT: So i probably should have mentioned this earlier, but I've got... another story in the works. Let's just say it'll go some interesting places.
Do any of you speak or read afrikaans? Cause if you can, the next chapter will be... interesting.
After a lengthy discussion with Red, chapter 4 of Calm Before The Storm is going to be changed up a little. Just as a warning, the stuff you saw in the previews I made earlier... will probably not be there. As for why this happened, let's just say I wrote myself into a corner. A damned depressing corner full of terrible ideas that looked good at first, but would just hurt the story in the long run. And you'd hate me if I went with it. You'd be all like "He wasted a perfectly good plot!" And for
It's... pretty unlikely that chapter 4 of Calm will be split into two chapters. Still, I'm just telling you-it could happen. The chapter is already...
Checks wordcount...
23538 words.
At the moment, I am busy writing UNSPEAKABLE HORROR! And big guns, soon enough. So, you know. The usual.
ALso, this seems like a good time to updort you on Calm Before The Storm's status. Chapter four will not be coming until the last 2 or 3 chapters of Spectrum are out... Or at least till the final battle is out. Part of chapter 4 takes place during the final battle, so it'd just be awful if that didn't mesh.
Ah it feels good to get that off my shoulders.
Anyway there's a new chapter of Calm! Go read it HERE... or just go to the story after clicking on your favorites. I don't care.
Well... it's today depending on your time zone. The most I can say is that it'll be out within 15 hours, cause I usually go to bed around 2 AM, even though I really shouldn't.
Just need to get it okayed, make sure I haven't made horrible continuity errors, and whatever other editing counts as the finishing touches, and BOOSH! New chapter. Seriously, this one is huge.
The next chapter for Calm will be huge. Bigger than anything I've written for Calm before, bigger than... well, not bigger than some of the stuff in Spectrum. But it'll still be huge. You'll probably look at the wordcount and be all like "DAAAAAMN"
Can't edit calm right now. The wireless in here is crap, but then, that's the price I pay for....
Not paying a price, I guess.
I'm beat, so Imma hang out with a friend and do some drawing but not in that order. I am BEAT from all that writing... and there is a certain drawing that a certain friend needs. You know who you are... and I'm truly sorry for having put it off so long. Still, I'm working on it now
But... cause you guys that care have been waiting... here's some of the in-universe quotes that appear:
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE
That homage to Balzac's War turned out to be a Welcome To Night Vale homage at the same time! Oh, and it's finished, meaning that Chapter 3 of Calm is now... 40% finished. I think. I'm truly sorry for the low progress on this.... I really don't have an excuse.
Okay, here's the situation: Calm Before The Storm's links for chapter 4 have been given to team spectrum. This chapter's about earth. And on Earth, there are survivors, doing whatever they can to get by. And some are dicks, attacking others for their stuff...but it's not all bad. All Earth needs is a hero! One who doesn't just survive...but does it with style! Who is this hero? ME!...n-not me? Oh. YOU! Can you write a character that can survive the many dangers? Can you help others survive? Can
Just sent a message to Jeff Vandermeer over facebook, asking if I could write an homage to Balzac's War. Wish me luck.
Man, adapting Balzac's War to a Conversion Bureau setting is harder than I thought. Perhaps it's the lingering sense of guilt... and the fact that the ludicrously far-future setting of Balzac's War doesn't mesh well with our 2020s... that, and Jeff is a friend of mine, and I'm worried he'll be angry. Ah, the problems of having decided to do this because flesh dogs remind me of newfoals! That was the only reason I did this!
Unfortunately, this means that any drawing (Yes, I finally did more work on that! =D ...not enough, but Khan's about half done.) won't be done for awhile. This is on account of:
Trust me. You don't want to know.
In related news, I have decided that there will now be 4 chapters of Calm. Two set on earth. Because I am good at earth :)
A Story About Them
This is not a story about you.
Though to be honest, you could be an interesting person.
Here's a snippet of Chapter 3 or possibly Chapter 4 (depending on how i feel, but probably chapter 3) of Calm! =D
WARNING: Nothing in here is entirely final. Though I should point out I intended the tesla to be incredibly inferior in terms of power economy to an actual unicorn, and only holding 3 shots before it has to recharge. On top of that, it has a fire rate that Borderlands would register as 0.8.
It's... not really snippet time. That implies that I have enough of a next chapter to write, which... would be a lie. I do not. I do, however, have this badass speech that I really want to implement next, and I want to hear your thoughts on it. What should I change? What song do you recommend playing it to? Am I using too many mixed metaphors?