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The wonderfully dark Dr. Creepen on YouTube read "The Unfamiliar" and decided to read it! His deep voice definitely adds an element to the story that I absolutely love. >w< Give it a listen, the doctor is quite the masterful storyteller. :3
10 Years Today
Wow. This year's writing anniversary kinda snuck up on me, but I didn't realize it has been ten years since I started this journey. I've been quiet on here, but that's for a good reason. I've been hard at work on other projects and trying to build up to a career. I guess I'll start with the creative side of things. As I've written here before, I actually finished writing a novel called Watch Us Fall. It's a story about the perfect high school romance gone horribly, horribly wrong, and it takes place in my fictional small town of Crystal Gates. I've been querying it around to different agencies in hopes of getting it published. I've had no luck so far, but I'm going to keep pushing. On top of that, I'm also working on another one about a former conversion camp that was turned into a school for wayward kids where students keep disappearing. The working title for this one is The Unfeeling, and it's based on an idea I had a few years ago for a short story. I'm really proud of how my
Nine Years Later
It's been nine years to the day that I started writing on dA, and in a way, that was the start of my writing journey. I haven't been uploading on here very much, but I'm still writing. Right now, I'm working on finishing the fourth draft of a novel. Hopefully the fifth one will be the one that I can pass around and maybe get published. I've never stopped working on writing stuff. Sometimes you have to write with the door closed, and I'm not ready to open it just yet. I don't know where this is going to go, if it even goes anywhere, but I work on it every day, inching closer to that finish line. I believe it's somewhere over 150,000 words right now. For reference, it's getting close to the length of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I'm going to need to do some serious trimming in the next draft to get it down to a much more manageable 70k-80k. It's nice to write this stuff down. ^w^
Second Draft Done!
I don't know who might still be reading these, but I recently finished the second draft of my novel! It was so exciting to go and get it printed, and then to hold all 200 pages in my hands...
I'm still going to work on a third draft, and then possibly a fourth and fifth and so on until I get it just right, but this is a huge step forward! I feel like everything is starting to come together. >w<
It's Been a While
Jeez. I haven't written a journal entry in a while. I've logged on occasionally to check out some artists I watch, but as far as writing goes, I haven't written anything to post since finishing my Dead Rising fanfic. That poem I posted today felt more like something that I had to write. There was a feeling of finality to it, you know?
Of course, that doesn't mean that I haven't written at all. I've actually been doing a lot of writing lately! For the curious, I'm still working on that novel and trying to average 500 words a day, and 1000 words on days that I don't work. I'm at 70ish pages in the second draft now. owo
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Congrats! Seems you're getting the recognition you deserve. Do you think you'll write another one at some point?
I'll definitely give it a listen!
I'll definitely give it a listen!