Blog Update - 2/02/2017 · 5:27am Feb 2nd, 2017
A bit earlier then usual for today’s blog post. But I felt like it.
Had the last few days off from writing as finishing chapter 5 really took it’s mental toll on me. Gah.
Chapter 6 is coming along smoothly though. If I keep up the pace I’ve set and write a bit each day I can potentially get the next chapter down in about in 4-5 days. Or approximately 500-1500 words a day at best.
The whole story is more/less outlined now. Still a few minor holes that I’ll need to look over but otherwise it’s all ship shape to set sail. Which is good, direction is good, and I know where the story is going and how to get there. Yet, I’d still be surprised if I ever finish it.
I figured out, there’s roughly 4 to 5 chapters left in the story to do. I figured that it would take me (time wise) one month each to get each chapter done. So...by the end of May 2017, the story will (should, mystical forces willing) be done.
Even then. It’s SO far away >3 I really want to get this finished. It sort of feels like I've got readers wanting me to finish the story so that they can read it. So I feel responsibility in a way, which feels kind of weird as well I guess. Since I original started the story as a me thing to do, a fun idea that’d be fun.
That’s were I started out wrong.
Since an idea is fun and all. But you can’t really make a story from an idea alone. Ya need story stuff, beginning, middle, end, blah blah, conflict. I know what I’m thinking I’m just loathed to say it all. But ya know, story, structure, smart stuff.
Suffice to say, Long Live the King is one of my first stories in a long time...since probable the last 10 years where I wrote last when I was in school...and life was easier. So I’m hardly expecting that the story is going to be received well or that it will be good. It’s going to be somewhat bad. But I can accept that.
Doing this story has been an experiene. One where picking up writing again was really hard and challenging, full of emotions and anxiety. Now, I want to get it done and I want to pull myself together to just DO IT!
The story plagues my mind as something to be finished. So that’s what is going to happen. I’ll probable be all pooped and/or bummed when I do finally finish it. But it will be finished.
I will have done a thing.
It will be great because I done a thing.
Then I go from, onto the next thing ^_^
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MS
