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Today's the big day. It's the day that going over 50k puts you in the winner's limelight and here I am sitting at my computer trying to get through the last thousand words to that milestone. I have some handwritten stuff that I'm working through but in the process of writing it I'm finding that I keep changing things - extending scenes, adding dialogue and right now I just added to a scene with Nadine that I was thinking "Oh well this is just wordcount fluff that I'm including to keep a sense of what she's doing at this point in time."
Apparently Nadine can see ghosts now. Otherwise she's rapidly descending into batshit bonkers territory. It's so much fun to write what happens to the pilots of the Voloth series. The Voloth have psychic abilities. A human who bonds to them undergoes drastic physical and mental changes (See also: Orocho puking up blood) as their physiology is modified to better suit the Voloth's needs. Now I'm not saying writing the other Akutenshi isn't fun. Heck I had a blast with Salon's politness. However the Voloth are more, uh, I guess you could describe it as ethereal. They don't see the world through the same set of priorities and platitudes that humans do.
So I'm just sitting here listening to music from Twilight Princess and the idea just pops into my head that Nadine should walk around a corner and BAM there'll be someone standing there watching her. Then I thought, but why would anyone bother to check that room and I debated it with myself for a few minutes. Well I didn't have long to ponder before I had to start typing again so I just ran with the idea and about halfway through the description it occured to me that it should be a ghost or something. I haven't decided what exactly.
Hmm, maybe I'm just trying to subconsciously come up with any excuse possible to have Nadine keep talking with Voloth-D.
Anyway I should finish up tonight. I'm just shy of 49k today. What's sad is that the plot has hardly moved 24 hours. Combine a large cast all in different parts of the world with a verbose writer and the need to describe in painful detail everything that happens and you get a large wordcount that takes very little "real time." It's not that nothing has happened it's just that nothing has been resolved - or even anywhere close to being resolved. One character is out and out missing (I know where she is, she's right under everyone's nose), two others have severe memory loss, three are only just starting to realize the gravity of their situation, one is in the custody of the military, one is alone wandering around a cruiser that was boarded by Hylin a short time prior, and the other two I've introduced thus far are looking for the missing character.
I guess I should mention that I haven't yet introduced the main "villians" yet. Ugh, it's genuinely hard to think of them in such - I don't want to say shallow but that's the only words coming to mind - terms. I'd rather keep the heroicness or villaininess of each character ambiguous.
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Now playing: Koji Kondo - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Snowpeak
via FoxyTunes
Apparently Nadine can see ghosts now. Otherwise she's rapidly descending into batshit bonkers territory. It's so much fun to write what happens to the pilots of the Voloth series. The Voloth have psychic abilities. A human who bonds to them undergoes drastic physical and mental changes (See also: Orocho puking up blood) as their physiology is modified to better suit the Voloth's needs. Now I'm not saying writing the other Akutenshi isn't fun. Heck I had a blast with Salon's politness. However the Voloth are more, uh, I guess you could describe it as ethereal. They don't see the world through the same set of priorities and platitudes that humans do.
So I'm just sitting here listening to music from Twilight Princess and the idea just pops into my head that Nadine should walk around a corner and BAM there'll be someone standing there watching her. Then I thought, but why would anyone bother to check that room and I debated it with myself for a few minutes. Well I didn't have long to ponder before I had to start typing again so I just ran with the idea and about halfway through the description it occured to me that it should be a ghost or something. I haven't decided what exactly.
Hmm, maybe I'm just trying to subconsciously come up with any excuse possible to have Nadine keep talking with Voloth-D.
Anyway I should finish up tonight. I'm just shy of 49k today. What's sad is that the plot has hardly moved 24 hours. Combine a large cast all in different parts of the world with a verbose writer and the need to describe in painful detail everything that happens and you get a large wordcount that takes very little "real time." It's not that nothing has happened it's just that nothing has been resolved - or even anywhere close to being resolved. One character is out and out missing (I know where she is, she's right under everyone's nose), two others have severe memory loss, three are only just starting to realize the gravity of their situation, one is in the custody of the military, one is alone wandering around a cruiser that was boarded by Hylin a short time prior, and the other two I've introduced thus far are looking for the missing character.
I guess I should mention that I haven't yet introduced the main "villians" yet. Ugh, it's genuinely hard to think of them in such - I don't want to say shallow but that's the only words coming to mind - terms. I'd rather keep the heroicness or villaininess of each character ambiguous.
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Now playing: Koji Kondo - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Snowpeak
via FoxyTunes
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