I’m going to take a few days off. I need to think about where this is going. It’d be easy if it were a visual novel: it’s going everywhere!
But it’s not, so I cannot. Tanj.
Fret not: I’ll come up with something. If not, I’ll die.
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Coffee and alcohol
Back when we used to give presentations about how to make visual novels, a question that often came up was “what motivates you to write?” My glib, but honest, answer, was the title of this post.
Since being diagnosed with hypertension and placed onto Metoprolol, coffee has been rare in my life. But, at a mild impasse in “Defiant,” it was time to reach for the big guns: a cup of Café Busto with a shot of rye whiskey. About five minutes later, I ‘saw’ the answer I needed. I quick glance and Bing Images to make sure I got the description correct, and I typed what I saw, below the fold. I’ve seen Ep 18, too, but those steaks aren’t going to cook themselves. Perhaps tomorrow!
[EDIT: for some reason, WordPress ate several of my sentences. I think it has to do with my use of these: <>. They’re back in now, in red.
“Just keep swimming…”
Exposition. But naked girls, too. So we’ve got that going for us; which is nice.
Swimmingly
My girls are at a two-day home swim-meet. An invitational, there’s over 800 kids participating. So, I’ve got swimming on my mind.
Pause; and begin again.
At dinner last night, I looked over at the laptop my wife had gotten for me to ‘write anywhere!’ And no, I didn’t write at dinner with my family. I do have some manners.
Back to the story: as I looked at it, it occurred to me that I could take it to bed, and write there. Wow! Beloved wife playing Candycrush to my left, dogs at my feet, huge glass of wine at my right, computer in my lap… and off I went!
“Should I post this? It’s awesome!” My wife didn’t look up. “You always say, ‘write drunk; edit sober.’ You really want to post that?” Errr….guess not.
So now, I’ve edited about half of what I wrote, but there was a good break-point, so I wanted to push it out for everyone. There are times I think that if I let the reins of this story go for just a minute, I’ll end up in places I literally cannot imagine.
Four
That number keeps coming up: four loves, four laws. I wonder where it will surprise me, next?
Another ‘transitional’ episode, but Nichole does have a sudden realization. Amazing to think that both she and I didn’t know these things 24 hours ago. I love writing. Oh: I wrote this on a new laptop in Word, so the formatting is chewed, again. I’ll try to fix it for Ep11.
And I think I’ve a working link for Episodes 1-10 there at the left. Stupid formatting….
Organization
Another real life conversation: ‘following this story in reverse order is hard!’ I’m paraphrasing, but I get the point. After hunting tomorrow AM (at the supermarket), I’m going to try to create a sidebar link or something that makes it easier to follow “Defiant.”
But keep this in mind! The purpose of this blog is not to announce the release of new books, but to keep me writing! If I hit a wall on “Defiant,” I might just switch to “Hot Rod” or something else entirely. I love what I see right now, but time will tell how far it goes.
Now, back to the rooftop, when Mackenzie asks an innocuous question.
Back on Track…
…which is not the same thing as back on rails (to make an RPG reference). I’d seen most of this yesterday evening, but as important writing is, family – even just day to day family stuff – always comes first.
I also realized that my episodes were getting unwieldy in size, so I’m trying to pare that back, too. There’s more on the roof next time. Maybe the walk back to campus in a light rain after that. Does Mackenzie explode under the attention? Joe develop PTSD? Gil confront Nichole about her connexion to Kongo?
I’ve no clue; but, I’m having so much fun!
“Defiant” – War is not murder
It’s always bothered me that that particular Commandment was mistranslated like that. Deliberately, I’d suppose. If it can confuse humans, who else might it confuse?
There’s going to be a third and final part to Ep5; later….
“Defiant” – Life in Wartime
Episode five seems to be consuming my mind. That’s fine.
Someone pointed out the spelling/grammatical errors. Yepper: by the basket-load. These are RAWS. I make a very basic spell and grammar check before posting, but no editing. I’m writing, quite possibly to save my life, in what time I have. After a long dry spell, I SEE things! I want so much to show all of you!
So, sorry about the errors. I’ll try to do better. Cheers!
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