I guess I have been on a bit of a hiatus lately. Between work and personal relationships some things have to take a backseat. People say it is a lot easier to deal with fiction than real life but, I sometimes find the exact opposite. Sometimes writing something can make me more of an emotional wreck than dealing with something in the real world.
When I began this story I was obsessed with it. I read and did so much research and somehow that flame smoldered a bit. I think I was taking on to much. It was like I read Harry Potter and then tried to recreate my own wizarding story. I was stressed because I could never do anything remotely similar to the wonderful things I read. And with this break I completely forgot where I was going with this story.
Anyway, I think I am past that stage and am ready to start writing again. I used my reference quotes and themes and restructured the outline a bit. While this story is still inspired heavily by concepts from speculative fiction, cyberpunk short stories, novels, tabletops and video games it is becoming something of my own as well.
Retirement
After I finished Veritas I intended to go into web serial retirement. However reading LL and House of Fierro has made me want to sit down and write a romance kind of story. Maybe even a supernatural one ? Well, probably not supernatural but a romance defiantly.
As my boss occasionally says "The mark of a good writer is one who inspires others to write," and that defines Lile's writings to me. I also tend to write in 'ensembles' and I would love to write something with less characters, something more intimate if you will.
Chapter 5
So, chapter 5 was labeled in my notes as somewhat of a comedic interlude. It didn't intentionally add to the plot I just wanted to try that chaotic cyberpunk style of writing and creating that world.
I wanted to blog about the 'style' of writing I was trying and everything but, I wrote that so long ago I forgot exactly how I did it. I know it was a lot of present participle. That's one of the interesting things about language especially English, the forms of verbs you use (or I use anyway) can say a lot about a character.
There was also a misprint in chapter 5 that I fixed and I will explain it in the next blog. I mixed up two words.
Chapter 6
I wish I could say this was 30+ days of work but, it's not, it's just a long time coming. This chapter is music and pic lite.
Chapter 6
+1+ Alone at Night
+2+ Soul Meets Body (String Edition)
