Not dead.
If anyone who reads this who doesn't talk to me otherwise was wondering, I'm not dead, just half-boiled (Heat indext today: 106. It's gotten to me not caring and just wearing whatever's not in the smelly laundry pile,) and I'll get on with the editing and posting of Silver in Eillen soon. Meanwhile, working on the sequel, Letters in Messian, and a writing challenge for the month, wherein participants were dared to write 10 k (or more) of a story that was in a genre that they never write, selected by the other participants. I was given action/adventure, did a wikiwalk to figure out what distinguished it from, say, sci-fi and noir mystery, and ended up witth a story inspired by pulp of all descriptions, which I've named Fiction Savvy. No idea why, really, except that I'm 2.5 k in and there are already pirates. It does seem promising so far, because I've managed to mash up some different "action" settings.
In the meantime, stuff's still going up on Fictionpress, so stop by there if you get a chance. I've recently posted a smallish series of tutorials - how to make good summaries was specifically for fictionpress, but I'll probably crosspost the name generation tutorial here for those who don't care to muck with the Fictionpress format. The character psychology tutorials will be expanded if and when I find a new topic - the first one is on having realistic (aka: not supposed to be perfect) characters with realistic reactions, as well as not playing trauma for drama. I'll be doing realistic ages next, but I've hit a roadblock because I don't know exactly what normal kids are like at any age, given that I've always been the mad scientist bookworm.
In the meantime, stuff's still going up on Fictionpress, so stop by there if you get a chance. I've recently posted a smallish series of tutorials - how to make good summaries was specifically for fictionpress, but I'll probably crosspost the name generation tutorial here for those who don't care to muck with the Fictionpress format. The character psychology tutorials will be expanded if and when I find a new topic - the first one is on having realistic (aka: not supposed to be perfect) characters with realistic reactions, as well as not playing trauma for drama. I'll be doing realistic ages next, but I've hit a roadblock because I don't know exactly what normal kids are like at any age, given that I've always been the mad scientist bookworm.