cks you designed to be ~exotic~ or whatever, and those rabid jerks at Disney can only grit their teeth now!
State of the Author, Tomb Raider free till Monday, and Comic Recommendations · 8:34am Mar 21st, 2020
Had that damned infected tooth filled for the last time last week. Been going well so far, and I'm feeling much better already. Cost me a pretty penny from my savings, but worth it, just to be able to THINK again.
Actually started reading and writing again! And it feels so good, like bits of my brain that went into power-saving mode are slowly blinking online again. (Currently revisiting a childhood favorite. 'Wich Witch?' by Eva Ibbotson, if anybody's curious. Highly recommended if you like 'Burton-esque' stuff where they mix macabre, mundane, and a bit of humor.)
Tiny confession, though: Currently writing original stuff, and focusing on that for a bit. I simply need to reread a couple of books worth of Butcher to get into the Dresden mind-space, and haven't had the focus and energy for that yet.
Kinda ironic, honestly, but hey, thought you guys might want to hear some good health news in these pandemic times.
Glad to hear you are getting back to a good state of things. Recover well!
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Glad to hear you're doing better! It's amazing the difference getting something like that fixed can make, same thing happened to my father a while back and he was like a new man afterwards.
Original writing you say, any chance we might have an opportunity to take a look?
Realized I actually forgot the comic recommendation:
Stand Still, Stay SIlent.
Horror comic about the end of the world. A horrific plague has swept the land. Killing near all mammalian life on Earth, leaving only scattered survivors... and horrific mutants.
Joke about: 'But enough about the real world' aside, there's also magic, a lot of nordic myths, some darn near succulent world building, a big focus on the Nordic countries and that art!
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Have to admit I got a guilty pleasure out of reading it during Korona, but hey, great comic. Got a couple of thousand pages in the archives, so should last even the fastest reader a day or two.
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And, yeah, it's crazy how even a small-ish infection like that can just drain so much life out of you. Gave me a real sense of empathy why so many in the olden days thought it was the literary work of a demon latching onto you, and slowly eating you alive. The darn thing didn't even seem bad from the outside, even the dentist had to take an xray to be sure.
Glad to hear your old man is better. Teeth going bad is no fun at all.
I would love to say yes. You guys have been very good and patient to me.
But~ the book is very early in production, and since I'm hoping to at least try to get it traditionally published, I kinda have to be hush-hush about it. Stuff like Twilight or Shades of Grey that started online and got picked up by publishers are nice little pipe-dreams, but getting published that way is the exception, not the rule.
(And though my notes are in English due to old habits/preference, that means 1.0 is going to be in Swedish.)
If the rejection letters start piling up? Definitely going the web-serial a la Worm route as plan B, though!
Hell, maybe by then, maybe this site has gone through that now near fabled 'general fiction' switch, and I get to do it here, even. That be nice.
I'll say this much though: It's heavy Dresden inspired, with my own take on why this one freak is running around in the real world mostly unnoticed and uncontested. Still really rough around the edges, but it's got some cool ideas I don't think I've seen explored in urban-fantasy before.
Also, the hero/inne is stuck as a classical unicorn/skin walker instead of the wizard she'd prefer to be. Having some real fun playing around with the rather large divide in the modern idea of unicorn with what the old tales actually say plus such a 'un-swedish' monster, and genuine heroism vs such a dark and primal powerset.
Not sure how well the story is going to go over in the real world, so to say, but think it would be a decent smash here on FiMFic, at least. Having a lot of fun and learning opportunities writing it, if nothing else.
congrats on your healing and happy you're considering writing again!
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