Thread:FateAlbane/@comment-31798174-20180327181143/@comment-28644276-20180410160828

I actually started my story in...


 * takes a moment to look back*

October 2, 2009.

Yes. A proper novel may very well take forever to write if you're legitimately concerned with it. It helps in giving time to understand your own verse and expand on what you write. I also didn't knew exactly what I wanted to write when I first started.just hope I won't be getting wrinkles on my face when I'm finished... (Brrrr)

Over that time, I've been mostly writting Oneshots that I slowly fitted together until they merged into a cosmology, at which point I finally started writting actually bigger continuities of their own.

The big continuities would be the ones I referenced here already:

Mirage Saga, GI, Kaleidoscope, Diez Red Die and Sipsi

The one I'm uploading here (GI) has two volumes written already. It's just that my pace of writting atm was reduced to a snail's pace and I don't feel like attempting to publish anything before I know how to properly illustrate (as I'd like to do a Light Novel format for it) or before the main continuities are done so I don't run into "continuity crashes".

To list a few oneshots/short stories aside from these that complement the bigger continuities:

Darkness Wonderland, Aria of Arc en Ciel, M Night, Hazardystopia (N. A. O. M. I originates here), Jashin, Nyctophobia (Atlach originates here), The Babel Network, Baka Bakeneko (complements GI), The Depths - Miraculous Space (Complements GI), The Albion of the Id (A oneshot that had too much hints about stuff pointed out so I regretted letting people read it), Primal Paranoia (tells of how Atlach and the other Gods I mentioned to you in that chat conversation clashed ideologies with Prime and ended up sealed), C(lose) her, Netzach's Hourglass, Slimeventures (complements GI), Evergreen (complements the Gods), Circumpolarity Spiral (Complements GI and Gods),  Shadow Rain (Complements GI), The Egg of Extinction (complements literally everything I have. I should totally try and translate this one to here), Feather-Fossil Fissure (Continuation of this), Least Vermilion Flycatcher (Expands on Prime, Saleh and Persephone's situation - complements the Sipsi Land of the Dead and Prime's story as a whole. There's a bit of trivia in the title here as this is the name of Prime's favorite bird which is extinct here. So naturally Least Vermilion Flycatchers would exist only "in the Land of the Dead).

I've been thinking about how to fit the most recent one "Dreamer's Nightmare" with the main continuity of my histories (as that would allow for further expansion of continuity. However, that will recquire introduction of new characters on her scale, and a world - which I already decided to be the surface level of a certain plane... without ultimately getting her to interact with anyone high on the scale or "high level" combat situation so I don't drag myself into that disastrous corner of the character suddenly jumping a threshold of power with no actual need to or proper progression). Now these histories, they are mostly either short which fit in one big chapter or 5 chapters at most. Hazardystopia however ended up... Big enough to go past a hundred pages. I was happy and cursing NAOMI all the same while writting. There are still other oneshots I didn't include in this list and if I told you about each of them separately, we... Kind of might be here all day. ^_^'

But this reply is already quite big, I spoke a lot about my own stuff and, as Tolkien once said something around these lines of: There's this "egoism" in an author that gets stirred if a friend or a reader asks about their stuff, where they go around and talk and talk and talk about it like they have this urge to say everything. lol

He also said that "An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by their experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous."

As he also said "the most critical reader of all, myself", needless to say that I look at my own work and question the choices I made and the choices I didn't 10 times more than I ever questioned other people's stuff... Combined. *sigh*

But if even professionals find out that they think that, no matter how good their execution, they "found defects", guess there's no escaping that. Why did I have to grow into a perfectionist?