It's Beatle-pony-reading time! · 10:48pm Jul 19th, 2015
Hey, guys, I'm not dead! That's pretty much the real reason I'm writing this blog post.
Hey, guys, I'm not dead! That's pretty much the real reason I'm writing this blog post.
Quick update: I'm about halfway through chapter 18 at the moment.
Now for the Real News: I figured it's about time to overcome my childhood trauma from playing Hot Cross Buns and get out my mum's old recorder. :P This is my first serious foray into songwriting, so I hope you like it, but don't lie if it's terrible. I have my wonderful flatmate, Steph Cinder*, to thank for the guitar playing. And if you get the reference in the song, I love you.
Now new and improved.
Please listen with headphones :3
Listen here: https://wellofpirene.bandcamp.com/track/ch-1-the-forest-ways
Please welcome our new cast members Illya Leonov (aka Morgan Freepony) and Silver :)
Chapters 1 through 4 of Pirene will be getting retakes with the black beast, spawn of Caerbannog. :3 I need more time to work on chapter 17 than originally expected, since my recording schedule brought it up prettttty fast.
So those will be taking place over the next two weeks or so. It'll be more editing work, to be sure, but when I'm already 8 chapters ahead, may as well plow on through.
Right?
Chapter 17 is on a delay.
Buuuuut I have my reasons.
A reason.
It's in 6/8.
I think.
But in the meantime, I will be spending my nights working on chapter 16, plus wholesale retakes of Chapters 1 through 4, for the next two weeks or so. I'll also be taking care of the chapters that come after 17. All in all, this should be done in late March or early April.
Holy shit, this is awesome.
I hope we can live up to your expectations.
You heard me right.
Yep, I'm saying this right in the middle of reading through chapter 19, when she performs her arguably most horrific acts.
As I write this, the raw file for Chapter 5 is being exported, and Von Snootingham is in the midst of Chapter 4 - which bodes very well. Having finished Chapter 5, I can only assume that we've pretty neatly made it out of the exposition stage, whether that sounds pretentious or not - because if I have learned anything from watching Breaking Bad, it is that any time it feels like there's a lull at the end of a chapter in someone's story, it very likely means that a lot is about to start
Hey folks!
Just want to give a quick update on how Pirene is going.
I'm going to re-record chapter 10 to fix up some major quality issues I discovered during editing. Chapters 22 through the epilogue will also be taken care of very soon.
Flow through a mythological epic with today's story.
Through the Well of Pirene
[Adventure] [Human] • 369,088 words
We have passed through the dark night of the... *hrmhrm* never mind.
In any case, I've got internet back!
No more trips to Starbucks for poorly disguised bids for wifi...
*HRMHRM* Yes.
Anyway, this will make uploading new chapters much easier. Don't forget to check Illya's channel on Sundays for chapter updates!
Again, I will start updating the Bandcamp page as soon as Youtube is caught up.
First - I've been reading everyone's comments on the audio version of Pirene. You guys are amazing.
Thank you so much for supporting this enormous endeavour.
I'm incredibly lucky to be working with Ether Echoes, the mastermind behind Pirene and its universes, on this, and Illya Leonov (aka Morgan Freepony), who has brought so many fics here to life with his beautiful voice and warm narrative style.
On to the audiobook -