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  • Short And Long Form Fiction Experiment

    I’ve been writing for RR which asks for long form stories as long form stories are primarily what does well, however it is short form stories that let you develop the fastest as a writer. What do I mean by this? A short form story takes less time to write than a long form story meaning you can write more complete stories faster meaning you go through the steps of producing a story more often. This means you practice writing a story more.

    By doing this practice, one ends up becoming better at writing stories. So, how do I balance this short vs long form story writing? For now, I’ve been considering dual wielding stories. Essentially, I run a short story every month and put it into an anthology while running my weekly chapters on my main fiction. I plan to continue this for two to three months and then share my thoughts on how it went. My first short story has already been planned and I’ve started building up the backlog for my main story. Things are looking up.

    Hopefully, I can complete enough chapters to make the patreon worth it. Hopefully.

  • Some Art Sketch

    Again, I spent most of today sketching and writing the next chapter of my book. I’ve been cooking up a long post but have been a bit distracted by this art project. I suspect this art phase will extend beyond just this sketch. The finished art will probably be done tomorrow? Probably. If you’ve been reading my book you can probably guess what scene this is from. 😀

  • Some Art

    So a lot of people are making their own ads out of art they have commissioned. I’m poor. I can’t afford that crap. So I’m gonna start drawing art from scenes from my book. Here’s the piece I’ve been working on today.

    I really like the hand. I’m going to need to rework the left side a bit but I’m pretty happy with this. I’m going to stick with my two color style as I feel it is something distinctly me. And yeah, that’s it. I was quite busy with school work today so I didn’t get around to doing much.

  • Short Story Or Not?

    I’m debating between making my upcoming short story happen within my Fool In Space universe or not. I kind of want to make it in the universe so that I can build upon it. Maybe I’d end up turning the short story into a long story. I’m kind of bad at that though. I’ll probably decide tomorrow and write up a post on why I choose that. For now I’m busy studying for my exams. Pretty busy.

  • Video Editing Again

    Over the past month my PC has been killing itself prevent me from working on those editing projects. Well, I somehow managed to resuscitate that desktop so we’re going at it again. Maybe I’ll finish something? Finally? Who knows.

  • Next Short Story

    So after RRCM I found myself liking short stories a lot. So I decided to write another one. Today I finished up the cover for that story. Here is the finished cover. It’s going to be a fun story to write. Someone gave me an incredible idea so there’s a lot to do now.

  • Resuming Everything

    I had a great break. I’m back to doing crap. I’m excited to share the next short story I’m working on. I’m thinking of finishing a short story every month in addition to my main Fool In Space fiction. This would give me a great deal of practice while still having a long running fiction. We’ll see how it goes.

  • Resurrected The Desktop

    I somehow revived my computer after if fully killed itself. It took the whole day. D: Hopefully the titanfall edit will be done.

  • Drawing Pad + MS Paint

    I have this really old drawing pad. And I’m really lazy. Instead of like buying a tablet to draw and take notes I just take my laptop plug in this 10+ year old drawing pad open MS paint and then take notes on that. But it somehow works. And it’s really easy to use compared to everything else out there. Nothing really can beat how lightweight MS paint is. Instant startup and right to the work. The shortcuts are so intuitive and the options are very limited but clear. It’s quite nice.

  • RRCM Complete + Thoughts

    It’s finished. I took a big long rest on writing anything yesterday after I finished everything. Below are some spoilers for the short story. It’s only 8k words long. Consider giving it a read before reading the spoilers.

    https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/147184/lunar-tombstone

    I think I have said this before on my website but I am ill. For some it is deadly. I am lucky to be young and for this to not be critically life threatening. It’s still life threatening but it would take a few years to kill me. Because of this, I know exactly what that feeling of “giving up” is like. One can be alive but not alive. This deeper question of what “alive” entails is the centerpiece of the short story as Luna grapples with the death of Daniel.

    I’m going to give one last warning for spoilers because I really think that reading the story itself will give you the best perspective on the philosophy I wish to portray.

    In the author notes for the last chapter, I put “I too like to believe I am immortal.” Do I believe this? Yes. I have explained in a previous post about how I believe I live through the things I have created. I put a piece of my soul, my spirit, into my works. In my previous long post about writing I explain my stance on writing as simply a vehicle to encode the stuff in my head into a package someone else can consume and internalize. This process of another being internalizing my ideas makes me spiritually immortal. In the story, Daniel writes a journal which is a physical representation of Daniel’s story. When Daniel refuses to take back his journal to continue writing it, he is hinting that he had already died at that point.

    Shortly before I fell ill, a close relative of mine died. I heard from those that knew him that they didn’t get along but deeply regretted it and weren’t able to talk it out until they were dying. This anecdote resonated with me especially because I got to see it with my own eyes. From this I came up with Luna’s questioning and internal monologue questioning if it was okay for her to feel the way she did about Daniel’s death. Obviously, she wanted to believe Daniel was alive but the story heavily foreshadows that Daniel had been dead.

    The stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. When you look at the story, this path is very obvious. And at the end Luna accepts Daniel’s death and admits to her denial of the dragon rider’s death. The death of Daniel is foreshadowed through the pity and the revival chapter. From this I’m pretty sure it’s obvious that the reader can gather that Daniel is dead.

    So what about Eris telling Luna to go to the moon? In many religions, a journey to the moon is seen as a journey to the divine. When Daniel looks back on the world from the perspective of the gods he laments how he says that he would be the only mortal to ever gaze upon the world. However, once you realize that Daniel is dead you realize that he isn’t exactly mortal anymore. However, Daniel still has his body somehow. Upon reaching the moon his body disappears signifying his complete ascension to immortality. This displays the conflicting states of aliveness where Luna wishes for physical aliveness and Daniel has accepted his transition to spiritual aliveness.

    I too like to believe I am immortal. If one denies the truth of death everyone will remain mortal. Accept the state of the world and let those reach the moon. Let them see the world from the perspective of the gods. Let them be immortal.