Progress and Cyptics · 5:15pm Oct 31st, 2016
So, haven't really touched on this in a bit, mostly due to being busy with work or just varying levels of apathy and enthusiasm.
I'm still working on another Fleeting Light sequel, but progress is taking a bit, such that my self-imposed deadline of "sometime in October" didn't come to pass. Half of its due to a format that takes up over half of the story being new ground for me, and the rest is in wracking my brain over the nonsense I've written in the past.
Fleeting Light was always supposed to be mysterious, there's no doubt about that, but so much of what I'd written when put under a critical eye (or just read out loud) comes off so... muddy. When I wrote it, I knew what was going on, at least on some level, and I knew what parts I wanted seen, by Twilight and by extension the viewer, and I knew what things I wanted seen only by the viewer. In the end though, most of the latter bits come off as garbage. I mean seriously, I don't even know what half of this was supposed to mean when I wrote it.
And even Glimmer didn't improve on it much. I gave some sort of hackneyed explanation of what was happening with that in the story, but it still feels like I was trying to validate something I should have let sit. Maybe it would be better unacknowledged by characters. Then it'd feel... different, or something.
Maybe I've gotten older and I was just different back then, or I thought it was cool and creepy, but honestly now when I read it I just want to delete some of it. Not that I'm going to, hopefully.
Even if it's a mistake or an oddity, I kind of have to live with that mistake instead of trying to erase it. If nothing else I gave something a try and now, 5 years later, I know how to do it wrong, and thus what to avoid.
I'm going to try and aim for something by the end of the year, at least in a rough draft form. Maybe I can manage that, and have something clean by April. It would feel nice to publish in real time, relatively.
We shall wait on the king of psycho horror
There's always next October, eh?
I enjoyed both stories, and look forward to the third.
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The hope is April, really, given the plan I have for the sequel. We'll see though.
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Well, maybe next October now? Assuming you're still working on it.
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Yeah, still trying.
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Well, if you still need help I'd preread for you. I'd love to see a 3rd part.
It's good to know you're still working on it though.