Blazing Keyboards · 2:32am Sep 2nd, 2014
I wrote over 3,300 words today, finishing draft two of "Granting Her Wishes". Now it's a 4,400 word story focused on just the first few scenes of the 14K version. Wrote this one without looking at the previous draft, so now I can go back and look for better phrasing in some spots before trying to get it critiqued. This isn't the first time I've massively reduced a plot, come to think of it; long ago I turned a story about "a devout Mormon girl who becomes a kitsune, frets about it, and helps set off a magic light show that reveals kitsune to the world while fending off a bad guy" into just the first two phrases of that.
Over the long weekend I also helped run Mephit FurMeet, though not very well, and flew back while wearing a cheap raccoon costume thing I'd bought. (They have unicorns and bats!) Also wrote a chunk of "Tournament of Scarcity", an Optimalverse short not to be confused with the story about hungry gamers, and (a bit before the weekend) wrote "Life Cycle", a non-pony story inspired by a BookBurner comment about ponies cycling between lifestyles. (In this one Dread Warlord Koth keeps getting banished and reincarnated as cute space farmgirl Pineapple.) Also wrote notes for how to possibly run the first book of Paizo's new Pathfinder adventure, the magitech-themed "Iron Gods", using the Fate RPG system.
I feel way more productive when not at my job, lately.
Yay for productivity!!!
You are a Hero of the Written Word!
So when do we get to taste these new fruits of your keyboard? :D
Woah. I wish I could boast that kind of writing productivity. Instead I just stayed up until 1:30AM last night doing one lousy bit of math.
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"Tournament" within a few days, I think. Can't post "Life Cycle" in public since there's some chance it'll become worth trying to market, but it's on TSA-Talk. "Wishes"' second draft... probably won't post that publicly either because I aim to market that as well. The RPG, I'm looking to run online but have no takers where I offered it so far, and that's Paizo's material anyway, just adapted.
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Thanks.
What's "TSA-Talk", though?
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One of the mailing lists here, with browseable archives and a "don't actually send me e-mail" setting. It's a way of posting stories without having them be "published" for marketing purposes, because it's not reachable without signing up. Lousy for getting comments, though. I recently got four words of comments on a story there, and was lucky to get them because they were a compliment and nobody else said anything. (Well, except NuclearPony.)
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Ah, thanks.