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Chasing a fickle muse
Been a while since I've spoken/updated about my novel. It's no big surprise for two reasons:
1. Being the fact that deviantart is feeling kind of stale of late. Plenty of great artists still post here, but it's been stagnant. Never really became that social community that so many other sites have become (and there are plenty of reasons for that, I'm sure).
2. Truth be told... I've had some real bad struggles the past year. After doing my first two drafts, I cut my first novel into two, had to do a lot of rework on the direction I wanted to take, did another 6 drafts (of various percentages of completion - start is always the hardest par
Update: Novel Progression
Wow that's a fancy font for the title of this journal entry. And a very plain font for the body text.
Anyways, so it's been almost a month since my last update. I've been struggling through my second draft, making a lot of changes to the novel, and bouncing back and forth between ideas for the characters and the plot. But you can hardly blame me, first books are hard and I'm also including mythological figures into my story, who are literally larger than life.
Spent the better part of today writing outlines for the appendices I plan to include at the end of the novel (educational notes at the end of a novel meant for kids/young adults?
My ambition as a writer
Firstly - regarding my previous journal entry. My ambition as a game developer is on permanent hiatus. It just got taken over my my long-standing desire to write and publish my own original novel.
To this end, I have spent the past month working on my first draft and it is finally completed... but wow is it a mess.
So many times while writing I wanted to go back and change details and expand the story and mess with the characters and add dialogue so that it wouldn't be a confusing pile of nonsense.
But I told myself that I would finish the draft first, and then go back to do revisions.
It was so hard, but I finally finished... but looki
Life Update
So yeah...
moving to Oregon at the end of the month. Going to get away from the dry hills of San Diego and moving to the green hills of Central Oregon... middle of nowhere.
Battling depression after losing out on the job with the Sheriff's Dept. really sank me for a while, but it hit me with a strong vibe that what I'm looking for is not where I am. So the move might do me some good.
I might have made a mistake though. Sure it was only $130, but I bought a copy of/license to use RPGMaker MV. So I'm going to start working on my own RPG. Do I have any experience with this?
Nope.
Was I never able to use the "create event" mechanic when
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