Updates, Thoughts, some Recommendations · 5:58pm Oct 27th, 2012
First, you guys should be so proud because I resisted the urge to make a journal two days ago when it was "everyone I watch make a journal" day.
Second, watching football is loads of fun when you are completely not emotionally invested in either team. :D
Third, read "Tinnitus" if you love to be scared. And if you like Romance, please do yourselves a favor and read "A Taste of Cakes" have I mentioned that I cried, rejoiced out loud, and missed female company severely reading that story? It is legitimately beautiful and clever and you should go read it.
So, the new big story "Where the Sun is Silent" is coming along. I'm at 5,668 words at the moment! I'd be farther along but other things called--namely, gorging myself on delicious food made by Jordanians in Jackson, celebrating 4 years with the Girl, and trying to sleep and medicate away my lingering, awful sinus headache. I love Mississippi, but it is mildly unhealthy to live here. ;_;
But, updates! As you may or may not (probably not) know, this title comes from an album by a band called Alesana. It's their... 4th, I'm pretty sure. I always loved the album art/titles of this CD, but the songs and the whole album is actually horrifying. It's essentially an emo-kid version of Dante in Purgatory and Hell, with no Paradiso. I listened to that album again last night as I drove home, and I'm pretty sure that I still am mildly creeped out by it... but I also think that it's exerted an influence over the story. The story as it will be isn't *that* far away from what RazedRainbow knows and my original vision, but I think it may be a little darker. I think the romance might also get more air time, which may make us all happy. Or maybe sad. :3
I'm trying to have the actual typing done by the 30th...because NaNoWriMo is around the corner! That's right, I'm diving into the great writing challenge once more. I actually have won twice, in 8th and 9th grades... but this time is different (read: I'm sorta cheating). This time I'll be working on a novel I really believe in (off and on I'm never 100% about anything, sadly.) and that I plan to try and find publishing for when it is completed. It stands at a little over 16,000 words right now, and I will be using NaNoWriMo to help motivate me to add 40-50,000 words to it in the month of November!
I don't think I've talked about it here... pardon me if I have. The novel is called Norpak and is a post-apocalyptic tale set here where I live in central Mississippi. Think Fallout meets The Long Patrol and The Lord of the Ringswith mysterious magicks. Swords, .45's, zombies, raiders, and a misfit band.
What that means for y'all: I'll actually probably still get a oneshot out in November. Maybe two. I plan to just be chugging away and I may end up writing bits and peices on something else. I have a few ideas that are short and interesting, so we'll see!
"The novel is called Norpak and is a post-apocalyptic tale set here where I live in central Mississippi. Think Fallout meets The Long Patrol and The Lord of the Rings with mysterious magicks. Swords, .45's, zombies, raiders, and a misfit band." Jesus Christ, I have to read this!
Excellent blog post. Glad to see you're participating in NaNoWriMo. I've considered doing it myself, but I'm already taking a small, intimate novel writing class at the moment, so I figured it would suffice.
I eagerly look forward to "Where the Sun is Silent."
Sounds interesting :)
452849 I gave him a shot, but he lost me after that awful second book... wow.
452950 :3 heehee. Let me go find the good description I did a while back...here it is! Gosh I should've used this.
I'm working on a very strange novel.
I want you to imagine Fallout. Now I want you to imagine if it was in the south, specifically in Mississippi with pine trees and the Delta. Travelling blues musicians, raiders, slavers holed up in old hotels, settlements here and there with walls made of cast away metal perhaps stripped from old cars.... a world of couriers and mercenaries, soldiers and idealists, thieves and scoundrels... filled with radiation and debris of an unlucky world.
Now I want you to imagine it with magic. It is also a world of terrible, eldritch forces that go bump in the night-- but it is also a world of wonderful things: fountains in strange hidden oases kept green and beautiful by magic and cared for by a fragile race we might call faeries, but who call themselves Alvar, or perhaps the tales whispered in the juke joint in The Ridge make you wander if there really are Griffons and Dragons in the hills around old Huntington, up in the Virginias. Zombies and worse things wander the streets. Wild, shrieking furies hunt in the night... and Dralla (Think... Dark Elves) and strange Gray Men who serve a terrible master wait to ambush any stray human who is foolish enough to walk in the open.
That's... Norpak. (Workin' title. Ain't it dumb?) It's the story of a few Initiates from the settlement of Norpak, a safe and prosperous community inside of an intact shopping mall in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Selected to be tried as Guardians, protectors of their home of magical means who mastered the control of Lycanthropy, they are sent out into the waste with a caravan to be tested.
It is a dangerous time. Jackson has been walled off by the human communities for many years, and only Norpak has survived for long in the city now referred to as the Valley of the Dry Bones... but its strength is fragile. This batch of Inititates is a few years too early selected, and are ill suited. The Lich Lord, Volanir who sits on the Decaying Throne atop the decaying husk of the King Hotel, has decided that the time to secure his kingdom has come 'round at last. What better time than now, when his borders are threatened by others of his kind and the only humans he truly fears are finally weak?
453046 Give me a moment to pick my jaw up off of the floor...
There. I think I got it. This sounds like an incredible idea! Are you going to try and get it published? Work at it, my good man. You have quite the epic before you.