I realized today when looking at the site's list of my postings that it's been exactly a year since the last set of chapters for the fourth book 'Light and Shadow' was posted. Yikes does time go zipping past!
Progress on book five is there, it's just been creeping slower than I'd hoped with events of late making some days rather difficult to get mentally going. So I'd like to thank whichever kind reader ticked Part 4 of Book One (Into the Light) over the threshold to totaling 300 kudos today! It had been sitting at 299 for months on end, and seeing that it finally got there this morning was a lovely positive boost to get past a case of the blahs. As a result two scenes hit the pages throughout the afternoon to finish a chapter, leaving just one more chapter to go to complete Part 5 (out of a likely 6 total).
The planned ending for this book got revamped over the past couple weekends which delayed the actual writing after the realization that to properly fulfill a part of the original plan was going to take another 50-60k words to do right...which would mean this one would have come in at a ridiculous 170k+ and also probably have had a less cohesive ending. After some serious re-think (i.e. staring off into space while metaphorically beating the noggin into a figurative wall) the path forward came into focus which has (I hope) a better sequence to the ending for this book and will save the other stuff for potentially a volume of its own (or a large chunk of one) so it has the room to be fully developed.
So if you're wondering whether a kudos given to an old story posted years ago can make a difference for the author - it really can! If you like what you read, click the button and who knows...you may happen to help a crazy author beat back whatever block is currently sitting in their path. Someone did that for me today, and I'm thankful.
- Erisian <3
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Too bad
Too bad that our kudos, like, love and thank buttons don't let us hover over them and see who all has hit that button, like Facebook does it. Not a serious request, so please, no one go off on either the dis-merits of Facebook or just what a hassle it would be to implement that feature or it's relative merit.
Just an idle comment.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Writers block
And here I thought I was your Melpomene, able to get you through the worst blocks in this tragic tale of betrayal, rebellion etc ^_^
Next time I will just kudo all your parts again like in Chicago. Vote often vote Daly :)
Muses
-offers hugs- You've been awesome. :)
Kudo all your parts sounds
Kudo all your parts sounds vaguely horrific. Much like Cujo.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Ahh Chicago...
The arm pit of an otherwise nice state. The only place I know of that counts on the votes from the residents of their cemeteries.
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
It takes what it takes. You
It takes what it takes. You're still here, and you're still intending on finishing the story. That's head and shoulders over some others I can think of.
(maybe not Head and Shoulders... Suave? VO5? Dove? Aussie? Pert Plus?)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Obsessions
Maybe it's weird, but this story isn't going to let me get away with not finishing it. The holidays this year are just going to be rougher than usual so energy/motivational levels may be tricky day by day - which messes up the mental timetable and progress I keep expecting of myself.
(And Pert ftw!)
Hm.. Obsession is a mousse, I
Hm.. Obsession is a mousse, I think.
Unless you're -really- paranoid, use a headset with your phone or tablet, fire up a text program (or just log into Google Docs), and use speech to text. Just ramble on with the story while you drive, walk, kayak, or whatever.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
If there's one thing
we know about Jordan is that she’s persistent. She probably inherited that trait from you! :) Banging your head against the wall probably helped.
“Light” is not an “old story” but rather a “classic”. In some ways “Light” rivals “Lord of the Rings” because of its length and complexity. I’ve had to read both LOTR and Light multiple times to try to understand the depth of both of them.
We readers wait, sometimes impatiently, because we know that Part 5 will be worth it.
Voldy
I think that The Hobbit was
I think that The Hobbit was actually the better story over The Lord of The Rings series. (I first read both when I was.. under 12. Same time that I read Don Quixote the first time. Luckily I've forgotten most of that one.)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.