Ok seriously India, what the fuck? What’s with the rise in rape cases? Just this month a 23 year old student in Delhi gets gang raped for an hour ON A BUS, then thrown out of the moving vehicle. She recently passed away from her injuries. I can’t even…like…wow. India you WERE a place I wanted to visit, but not so much anymore.
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Akumu Love Panic’s First Story Arc Complete!
With the belated completion of Chapter 8, ALP’s first story arc is now finished! Nearly 4000 words (or eight pages) worth of new material is available for your reading pleasure! Click the title link to check it out now!
If you haven’t read Akumu Love Panic!, then now is the time to start!
Hey guys.
So I’ve been hankering to write lately, but alas, I have another 40 hour work week looming over me along with school. So! I started exploring options for live writing. If you’ve never heard of live writing, it’s basically just as it sounds. Someone sits at a keyboard and types something live online, and someone somewhere else reads as they do it! Now I doubt you all will be hurrying for a chance to watch my 60 words per minute crawl across the screen, but in case you’d like to see the NEWEST OF THE NEW appear online before it’s “done”…well now you can. I just opened up two folders for both Akumu Love Panic! and Eikasia on Google Drive. There, you should be able to read the latest material, even as I’m writing it!
Currently, I have some of the newest Eikasia material up for Chapter 35.1, and I’m also working my way through Akumu Love Panic’s first drafts before I write some new material. With luck, the latter should be a much better story, which I feel is necessary before I proceed with it.
For the links to the Google Drive folders, just click below:
Comments are encouraged during the writing process, even if all you have to say is, “This is great!” I mean, you know, because…is it!? XD
There’s this older woman at my job here at the country club who sits here for brunch waiting for her daughter to come. She’s a widow and sits all alone. Her daughter never comes. It’s so sad. 😦
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So here is the chapter preview for…the next…Eikasia update….
…It’s bad when I can’t remember what number I’m at, right? OH MY GOD. WTH. SOMEONE SLAP ME. RIGHT NAO.
(shut up and take this preview before I change my mind!)
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When the dark came over them, whole and impenetrable, Hakeem ceased moving. When he looked back behind him, he saw no light. In their home world, this would be impossible—they hadn’t traveled far from the edge of the forest. But this was the Other Place, and it was a half-world, fraught with magic. This was a supernatural darkness.
He opened his mouth to mention this when—
“I can’t see!” That was Nyx. Her voice was tight with sudden panic. She sounded far away.
“Nyx?” Elmiryn. She was behind him.
“Get off my foot, idiot!” Quincy. She was to his right. Perhaps a few steps.
“Stay calm,” he said, reaching toward his wife. His hand swiped through air.
“Elle!?” Nyx again. Her voice traveled and he heard brush being disturbed. “Elle, where’d you—ah!” There was a thud.
“Cajeck!” Kali, now. “Stop stumbling around like that!”
“Nyx, you’re going the wrong way!” Elmiryn called. Now she was on Hakeem’s immediate left.
“In case you haven’t noticed, Kali, we can’t see anything. Historically this has never been a good thing!” Nyx snapped.
“Elmiryn, gods damn it, get off my foot!” Quincy snarled.
The warrior’s response was tight with laughter. “Wizard, I’m not even touching you!”
“Then…Then what–?”
“ELMIRYN!!” It was Nyx again. Hakeem heard sharp snapping sounds, like threads breaking.
“Nyx!? Nyx!” Hakeem felt Elmiryn shove past him.
The Fanaean covered his face with both his hands, a groan coming up his throat. “Everyone just calm down…”
A scuffle. It sounded like snapping wood. Hakeem couldn’t pin point the source.
“Nyx? Where the hell—?”
“R-Right here, Elle.” Nyx’s voice was small. “I just…it was moss. Just…uh…moss.”
Kali’s voice was a disgruntled grind. “A Champion of Survival, and she still can’t stand the feel of hanging vegetation.”
“It was scary vegetation! Okay!?”
“Kitten…” Elmiryn’s relief was apparent even amidst layers of exasperation.
Hakeem spoke loudly. “If all you women are finished being silly—”
“Hey, midget.” The gentle tone vanished as the warrior’s voice steeled. “I don’t care how little you are, I will kick you in the cod piece.”
He cleared his throat, clasping his hands in front of him. “Noted. I just wanted to let you all know that I recognize what’s happening.”
“And what is happening exactly?” Kali asked.
“We’re deep inside a magical edge effect.”
“A…what?”
“Are you familiar with the legend of the blackwood?”
“I am.” That was Elmiryn. Her voice had turned somber. “It was the forest of devils.”
Hakeem smiled in the dark. “Yes. The forest was famous for its ability to separate the color spectrum.”
“Aesutan used it to clothe himself in the ways of the universe.” Elmiryn’s voice was virtually a whisper now.
Hakeem frowned at this as he resumed. Was that a note of realization in her voice? “Yes…Meaning color can be manually manipulated.”
“Someone made a barrier of the color black!” Nyx exclaimed.
“Actually, black is the absence of color, and as color simply makes up the spectrum of light then it’s absence means—”
“We can’t see,” the Ailuran finished. “Fascinating! And…troublesome.”
“Very good, ikati. You’re correct. We should–” Hakeem broke off as his body tensed. Something just occurred to him.
“Hakeem? Is something the matter?”
The Fanaean waved his hands through the dark, trying to feel his way. “Mweze? Are you there? Mweze?”
“Oh. Oh no! That’s right, Quincy hasn’t said anything for nearly a minute,” Nyx murmured.
“What’s the problem?” Elmiryn asked. “She does that all the time!”
“Yes, but she does that with a level of menace that tells of a desire to hit you. That feeling’s noticeably absent.”
“When you say ‘you’—”
“I’m referring to you, Elmiryn.”
“I…you know, for once I have nothing to say to that.”
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So while all of you are wondering where the HELL I am in terms of writing, here I am, fantasizing about someday working for Quantic Dream. I think I may have mentioned how much a fan I am of Heavy Rain, and if I haven’t, then I am now. Heavy Rain was a formative experience for me. It showed me that not only could a game be engaging, like Super Mario World, or have a great sense of story, like The Longest Journey, but it was an epic marriage between the cinematic and video games.
One thing I have learned so far in my Creative Writing course at Full Sail is that video games is like the new frontier for storytelling. Its interactive format creates a new experience where a person is not passively experiencing a media source by themselves, but actively experiencing a form of media with someone else. Think about it. When watching a movie, do you really engage with the person next to you? (apart from when you’re talking through it—which doesn’t really count) So, in effect, I really, really, really want to write for video games…at least for some time in my (hopefully) professional writing career. And if I could choose a developer to work for?
QUANTIC DREAM.
Their newest game, BEYOND: Two Souls, slated for release in 2013, stars Ellen Page. And oh my gosh you guys…every time I watch the trailer (which is fairly often) I cum a little in my pants. I’m beyond excited for its release. That’s really all I had to say in this post…
But I also recognize my absolute lack of updates, so I’m posting a chapter preview for Eikasia. I’m not posting all 735 words I have (big whoop) but hopefully you guys will believe me when I say I’m trying. Work and school has been taking turns kicking my ass.
...Prepare to Die. 