Writing the words of storyness

Again I haven't posted in a few days. That tends to happen when i do something like this. I forget about it for a few days. Anyway, I've been writing again and I've now nearly finished the second chapter, I would have finished it but the last scene turned into the second to last scene so now I have another one to write. But I'm sure I'll manage. I've also been figuring out relationships between the main character and the other people in the book which has been interesting and tit has helped me develop the personalities of the characters a lot more too. Which is always a good thing. I've been drawing more as well, and I seem to be getting better though I can't draw faces more than once they always seem to look different no matter what I do. Ah well I'm sure I'll manage. So later tonight I will be writing the last scene and will possibly be starting the third chapter. Which shall be interesting as I haven't quite finalized what will happen in the third chapter. Although I do have a vague idea I just need to expand on it.

More procrastinating and artness

Well I didn't post yesterday because the Internet cut off -.- which was terrible, I nearly died. But I didn't die just so you know. I was drawing my main character and that was going horribly and I was failing to draw anything other than mutated features of the elephant man, though really that's insulting to him. So I got some help from my artist friend and I can now draw something vaguely recognizable. I haven't quite figured out how to draw her hair yet, but I'll get to that eventually. I spent the rest of the time trying to explain how the magic works to my artist friend and he helped me figure out a much better system for that. So now I really have to get into writing the other legend/poem thing so I can start writing again. I think that's everything I've done since last post, if I missed something, too bad for you.

Magic of magicness

So I have another possible name which I will probably use for the second book and that is "Ring of Flames". Also, I have written up the rules for the magic, well the two magics and I know how it works and all that now which is good. So all I have to do before starting to write again is the other legend thing.
I've been trying to draw the Sivaen and the Iiolexa, and that's not going too well, I'm not that great at art. But I shall persevere and keep trying (and by trying I mean failing) if I keep drawing them over and over I will get better at it. Probably.

I feel like I should be writing more than that for a blog post but I don't really have anything else to tell you. I didn't really do much yesterday. Anyway I have a twitter account as well, so you should follow me the name of the twitter being Cake_the_Kat. Because I'm childish and I like to watch Adventure Time. Don't judge me you probably watch it too, and if you don't, you should watch it.

Official announcement of officialness

It's official! I have of last night split the storyline into two books. I think that it will be better now as I can pace the story better and develop the characters some more. Which would be good because it's boring of the characters stay exactly the same throughout the story. So I've also had to rename the book because the plot changed do much that it just didn't fit anymore.. It was called "the war beneath" before. It took a while to come up with the name, and I'm not completely satisfied with it but its just a working title and it will probably change a few dozen times by the time I'm finished with it. The name, by the way, is "Hidden in plain sight" which fits the current plot of the first book. I haven't named the second book yet and I really don't like what the storyline is for it do I will be changing that quite a bit. But of course I first have to finish book one. I will be finalizing the storyline for the first book tonight, sorting what each chapter will be about and I think I have another legend/poem to write. I have been thinking about what I going to do about the spell thing and Aliciel, and I have decided that I'm not going to use the Rendon, if you are curious what I will be doing instead, you'll have to read the book once I've finished it in about ten years.

Re-writing and splitting the book

Yesterday (and by yesterday I mean at about 2am) I re-wrote the prologue, chapter one and what I had typed up of chapter two and some of chapter three which will be moved to chapter four. I have changed the relationships with the main character and two others in the book which could be interesting. I was reading through the storyline again, I really don't like how it ends so I'm thinking of splitting it into two books so I can develop the characters more and I can fix the ending. So that's what I'll be doing tonight. I need to figure out where I'll split the story and re-write the plot for the first book, I'll need to see if I can find a better name too, because the name I have right now doesn't really fit anymore. Again I still think its weird that I'm just randomly talking to nobody. But it's slightly less weird that just talking to myself. It's so much easier to get followers on twitter.

Legends, Islands and magic things

I created the Island on which the new creatures will live and I created them as well. That took a while, I ended up using flowers that have meanings that fit the creatures. Then I make anagrams of them for the name of the creatures, Iiolexa (taken from Ilex and viola) and the name of the island, xeranthe (from Xeranthemum). The creatures there are scholars who spend their lives studying everything and anything. They are quite alien looking, though they are still humanoid. They have no mouths or noses and speak directly through their minds to yours.

So I also wrote the legend thing for the guy who founded one of the island kingdoms (Vuardia) and it seems really lame and horrible, I'm not very good with poems but it's going to have to do for now. I don't even think it rhymes properly. I still need to figure out how the magic part works properly. I know what will happen, and how they get the power, I just hasn't figured out how the exact spell thing works, because it has to be giving something to get something, and I just need to figure out what the main character is going to give, I know what she is going to get that's the easy part. I guess it's a matter of equivalent exchange or something. But I have no idea how I'm going to manage that without her turning evil. Maybe the story would get more interesting if she turns evil? Who knows, that part isn't till the end so I don't have to worry about it just yet. So my dear non-existent followers, on the morrow the story shall begin. Well it already has begun but...it will continue being written from when I stopped. Though I'm going to have to re-write what I have done already. So I will be starting the day after tomorrow. Or something like that.

To the next task of wonder

So I've finished doing all the mapping things. I decided to write the storyline, I knew what was going to happen but I felt like it would be good to write it out to see what it was like. So I changed half of the plot and made a few changes to some characters. I made some pancakes to keep me going along the way, and I've finished writing it out. It will change dramatically no doubt but it's good enough for now. I don't really like the end of it though, it feels very rushed too, I may have to pace it better. I am considering splitting it into two books to even the pacing. I'd be able to develop the characters and their relationships more as well, which would probably be a good idea. So I will now be starting to write the story, once I've finished sorting out the crescent island thing, and the creatures who live there along with writing the legend thing and figuring out how the magic thingy works exactly. So I'm not going to be writing for another few days. I have written the first chapter and I've nearly finished the second, but they shall stay on hold till I figure out the legend at least, which I think may take a while. Oh well all good things take time...or something like that. For now I just have to stop procrastinating and actually pick up a pen.

More mapping of book related madness

Well I'm now going to be doing all the namey things for Rendon, which consists of areas of territory and chiefdomy things. I really need to find out what these place things are called, I'll probably get around to it eventually. Probably. So I'm going to be making up more names and randomly scrawling letters till I get something vaguely pronounceable. If I need to use the places I can always change them a little. I finished making namey things for Lyel too so when I finish doing Rendon all I will have left to do is Jiwe.

Anyway, today I have spent most of the time sleeping ( I got up at about 4pm) I should probably start getting up earlier and socialize more but it's way to cold, and my bed is warm. I also have a cold (not surprising for me I'm usually sick) which isn't helping. I have decided that I dislike winter, it isn't a very pleasant season. My iPod is telling me that I should be doing so editing for my book now, so I shall leave you non-existent followers and obey the all powerful iPod wishes.

Upon maps, names and not much else

Today I was making the map for my book, you know, the one I'm writing. Well I ended up just drawing random squiggles of insanity and turning them into islands, it worked quite well. Then of course I had to name everything. So I have three islands of the names Lyel, Rendon and Vuardia along with an underground civilization called Jiwe. I spent the rest of the time on Vuardia just making different, how do you say? Places of ruling? Areas of rulership? Those place-area-things that one person rules over for a king? Or something along those lines, I have yet to find out what they are actually called, possibly counties? I have no idea. Anyway I spent about half an hour and I came up with about 21. I'm not really sure if that is too many, oh well it doesn't really matter at this point, I can always change it. Along with that I created three previously nonexistent mountains and the capitals of all the different race-species-humanoid-talky-thingies. So now I shall proceed to make all the different place-area-things for Lyel.

I presume blog posts are meant to be longer than this but I prefer to write only what I am immediately thinking of rather than recount my day, it is quite dull to read of someones menu of breakfast, lunch and dinner, and if they remembered to feed their fish or if their dog is learning to be house trained. My internal nattering itself will probably bore you into never coming back but never the less I shall persevere and continue my journey into the bottomless pit of blogging.

On the matter of blogging

Originally being a place of descriptions and language, I have decided as I have less interest in telling you of obscure meanings and phrases, and instead I shall change to actual ramblings of my mind. I'm sure you shall be greatly interested in my life and doings as I am a amazingly active, witty, amusing person who leads an interesting and productive path of continuance of being. You will mostly be bombarded about vague unmethodical progress on my writing and my general complaints upon the annoyances of aliveness -which according to my dictionary is actually a word, how interesting-
along with large gaps of my forgetting of my blog completely. I presume you shall only glance at this blog perhaps once in your life, and if you decide that it is worthy of your attention, you need to find a purpose for your existence in the world. If you don't you will most probably find yourself morphing into a strange creature of isolation, reading, general insanity and insomnia, like myself. So as you have been warned, my ramblings will proceed from here in a nonsensical splattering of letters and punctuation.