Merry Belated Christmas and a hopeful Happy New-Year to all of you!
If you somehow missed it in the posting of my latest chapters, I've been spending a lot of time lately over in The Furry Corner of the web. I'd love to invite all of you there to chat, hang out, and get to know each other better. Maybe even make some new friends. :)
(Please do remember to wipe your paws on the mat at the door, though. This is a clean space.)
In Other News So sometimes, when I’m stuck on a chapter or just not feeling the flow of the current scene, I go and write something else entirely just to get the creative juices flowing. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it works too well...
Case in point: “Saving the Sha’khari” started as a little “what-if” scenario for my main characters in “Prayer and Demon”...that turned into three books of its own, and now I think I like this version of these characters more than the original. Now I’m just working on the last few chapters (yes, I swear, it does eventually end), and struggling to decide which of the three ways I see in my head it could go that I actually want to canonize. Cue decision paralysis. So to get my head out of that space and back into actually writing a bit, I thought it’d be neat to drop them into a sci-fi setting, a la Star Trek...
Next thing I know, I’m ~12 chapters deep and liking it even more. Then the spark really reached the end of the fuse, so to speak, and now I’ve got ideas exploding all over my head. Western, Low Fantasy, Cyberpunk...I’ve got bullet-point plots (as much as I ever have a real plot for these things) and character notes for several settings already. I’m actively resisting the urge to try capturing scenes on paper, lest they run away with me.
So it is time once again to ask you, the kindly people reading these things after they leave my head, which of these settings you would like to see next! Just like last time, I’ve put up a little poll over on SurveyMonkey (also linked below). And if anyone is antsy about touching an external site for any reason, I’ll also count replies to this journal or PMs. (This isn’t academic research, I’m just asking for help deciding where my focus should be. ^_~ )
P.S.: No, I am not abandoning the current story. That little burst of side-writing served its purpose, and now I’m just detailing out the route I settled on. I’ll have it finished and posted before I start posting up the sci-fi one.
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Survey Questions (for anyone who just wants to reply here)
1: Pick a setting (I have at least a rough plot in mind for all of the below): * Action-Adventure (what I like to call “World-Trotter”, e.g. Indiana Jones) * Cyberpunk (e.g. anything Shadowrun) * Fairy Tale (e.g. Beauty and the Beast) * High Fantasy (i.e. Get back to Corruscant where you belong, you off-brand-D&D-loving freak! ^_~ ) * Low Fantasy (e.g. Conan the Barbarian) * Super Hero (in the vein of DC comics) * Western (e.g. Bonanza / Barbarosa / My Name Is Nobody) * Wuxia (e.g. The Daily Life of the Immortal King)
2: Mama Tuli, or Sister Tuli? (I’m torn between which version of this character I like more.)
3: Initial Relationship? (I tend to start with one of these already established, and build the other) * Oro/Nayeli * Oro/Sarahi * Sarahi/Nayeli
4: Masculine or feminine Sarahi? (i.e. should I break the rut I’m in with her-who-could-be-him?)
5: Bonus! Ask any of my characters (specify which version, if necessary) any question. You may assume they are aware of the other versions of themselves, if you like. (I’ll pick one or two of these to answer in another journal as the character, and use the rest as a gauge of who all of you are interested in and what you’re curious about.)
As an example of what I mean by “aware of the other versions of themselves”... “Three-Peaks Oro, be honest: do you really think you could beat the Corruscant Oro in a fight?” He will then give his personal assessment of his odds, with all the usual vitriol you should know to expect from that one.
