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thehalfelf


thehalfelf, otherwise known as The Black Wizard, is a strange, humanized cactus whose only intention is to 1) play all of the video games and B) ship all the ponies

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  • 150 weeks
    Elfy Update, 6/29

    As of this morning I am officially on the wrong side of twenty. I'd say it feels weird, but I don't really feel any different. Age is a weird thing, isn't it?

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  • 155 weeks
    To Dream is Divine Update, 5/27

    New Words: 2,338 (31,564 total)
    Chapters Worked On: 12, 13
    Chapter Finished: 12

    I know it isn't my normal update day, but I realized I hadn't said anything in awhile. I'm also sure you guys are about as sick of hearing my excuses for slow writing as I am of writing them, but here we are. Last time was RE8, this time it's a combination of Mass Effect and DnD.

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  • 157 weeks
    To Dream is Divine Update, 5/11

    New Words: 1,177 (29,226 total)
    Chapter Worked On: 4, 8, 10, 12

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  • 158 weeks
    To Dream is Divine Update, 5/4

    New Words: 1,910 (28,049 total)*
    Chapter Worked On: 11, 12
    Chapter Finished: 11

    Man, I've gotten really bad at keeping you guys updated, and getting a chapter done a week. It's gotten to difficult to focus with all my other projects floating around.

    In my defense, neither quick nor Qrow have been editing, so I'm not the only slacker here. Not that it makes this better...

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  • 161 weeks
    To Dream is Divine Update, 4/13

    New Words: 1,655 (26,139 total)*
    Chapter Worked On: 10, 11
    Chapter Finished: 10

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Nov
10th
2020

Weekly (Update) Update, 11/10 · 5:07pm Nov 10th, 2020

No, the parenthetical joke isn't me being an idiot. Allow me to ramble for a moment, provide some happy numbers, then ramble some more.

Last week I finally decided on the overall plot for To Dream is Divine, and knocked out a whole entire chapter. Actual, tangible, readable progress, people. I've sent it over to the editors and everything. I won't be putting it up for awhile, and it's entirely possible that it gets rewritten because it might be bad. But that first chapter is the most important. Now I can actually get going.

See, when I write, I see it in my head, kind of like a movie. I've got some control of what happens, obviously, but I have to be able to see it to write it. For a long time I couldn't see the entirety of a chapter, just bits and pieces. With the first one out of the way, it's a lot easier to coax my brain into giving me entire scenes, or even bridging the gap between them if I need to. The wait for actual news is over.

Starting next week, every one of these updates is going to start with numerical updates, exactly like what I'm going to type down below. It will then be followed by rambling, just in case you wanted to get some of that too. In a couple of weeks, once I've got a couple of chapters down, I'll talk about how / when I'm going to post this thing. For now, have some numbers

New Words: 1,855 (2,164 total)
Chapter Completed: 1
Chapter Worked On: 2
Other Notes: none

I'll put variation of that every week at the top of the blog post, and here is where I would ramble if I hadn't already done it. Ramble done, off to go write more, and watch buddied play the new Assassin's Creed. Hope you all have a fantastic week!

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