Writing Under the Influence · 5:05am Jan 27th, 2014
Welcome to madness, population: One disgruntled author.
So, I have this burning itch to write and a writer's block at the same time. So here I sit, pecking random words into a blog post while waiting for my mob trap in minecraft to get sufficiently filled before I bomb everything to raw items. The constant sighs and moans of the zombies is driving me closer to the brink of insanity, and it's not a good background for writing.
To counteract this, I am using my nicotine allowance for the month to power my way to something good. I feel terrible for withholding the newest chapter of The Science of Magic for so long, but I was diligently looking for an editor to look over it until it was released. I know my writing isn't top notch, but that doesn't mean I can pass off raw writing to you guys just to meet a deadline. You deserve better than that. So, I finally found someone to fill in for editor, thankfully, and you saw the end result.
The problem is, I can't write chapters ahead while I know someone isn't checking over the stuff already completed, so chapter thirteen remains undone. Rest assured, I am doing my best to give you guys something worth looking at.
Oh, yeah, nicotine allowance.
See, on occasion, I use Camel Snus. I know how addictive nicotine products are, but college kind of encouraged me to find something I can use to force concentration on a task (aka homework, writing, etc.), and so far, it has worked pretty well. I chose a product that I felt offered what I needed without the additives some nicotine products use to further encourage addiction (looking at you, cigarettes). Besides, I hate the smell of cigarette smoke with a fiery passion. So, I turned to smokeless tobacco, so I could keep a closer track of how much I use.
I forcefully limit myself to three pouches of Snus a month, so I can make sure I don't go overboard with the stuff. A single tin lasts me around five months, which is great considering the things cost around two to three bucks a pop, and I can get four to five hours of solid concentration on a single pouch. I don't need that extra push often, but it helps a lot for crunch time, especially when I am SON OF A BITCH THAT CREEPER DESTROYED THE BOTTOM OF MY MOB TRAP RAGEQUIT—
Ahem.
Anyway, I don't recommend you ever use nicotine as a substitute for anything, especially if you have an addictive personality like me. The only reason I even use it like I do is because I keep it strictly to a bare minimum of usage.
Okay, so a chapter is being forced out of me, a thousand words at a time. Be patient, please. This story is going through the bottom of the sine wave right now, and it should swing upwards soon enough and get to the better stuff.
To those of you who are giving criticisms and negative feedback in the comments, rest assured I am looking at them and using it to improve the plot of my story. However, there are some things that I will do with my story that you might not like. I'm sorry that it might cause you anger, but you have to wait to the end to see how it all fits together. I have a plan, and I know where my story is going (mostly). Just be patient and wait for it to go for the upswing. All entities involved are swirling around in my brain, and you might be surprised with where it goes.
Here is to Chapter Thirteen. The kraken has been released. The pieces are falling into play. The chess board has been set up, and some pawns are being pushed into position.
The thing a8out fanfiction we8sites like this is that when you pu8lish a chapter, even if it's pre-editor, the readers who p8y attention to grammar/stuff and are on an OS that doesn't just drop memory when it's needed for another app (looking at you iOS) can and will comment with useful 8its of inform8tion which you can implement into your story as if th8y were your editors! I'd s8y read through once or twice after finishing a chapter, then pu8lish if you don't have an editor av8la8le, and let the flood (trickle?) of edit comments flow.
~Vriska Serket
1764041 I try to release chapters that need as little fixing as possible. I shouldn't rely on readers to polish a chapter that I have already released, and I need editors for more than mere grammar and spelling fixes. I also need someone who can fix awkward sentences and things of that nature, and tell me whether or not whole paragraphs need revision.
Basically, I dislike publishing something that isn't the best it can be.