Tenebrism V

[teromain]

Title: Tenebrism
Status: in rewrites
Chapter word count: 14,000
Warnings: language
Additional notes: Loooong chapter, which will be split in a more finalized version of the story. Also entirely new stuff than the first draft. The link below is a fake cut to my dreamwidth again. There's a fictionpress version as well.
Thanks to radioredrafts for the beta.

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Comments

[brittleseastar]

Yay! This just made my evening. I love the interaction between Alan and Keyd. It's definitely an improvement over the old version; I feel like their relationship is progressing more naturally and it doesn't feel forced. Great work like always :)

[mikauk]

I am continually startled by when you update. I only get emails on the things like your Disneyland job post (which GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN!).

As far as this chapter, more adorbs! :D :D :D

[teromain]

Really? That's so strange! Are you tracking a specific tag, or....(I have no idea how e-mail alerts happen through LJ). The only difference between the Dland post and this one is that this one was not cross-posted from Dreamwidth, but that shouldn't make a difference...

And thanks! :)

[mikauk]

I haven't the slightest clue. I am tracking through LJ, not Dreamwidth, but as far as I can tell I am just following your LJ, not any tags. It's so odd.

[fareeedat]

Hi! New reader here - can I ask a question?

I just stumbeled upon your stuff on fictionpress aaaaand I`d really like to read all there is so far of "Light and Shadow" because the first chapters of "Tenebrism" were real nice. So, you`re rewiriting it, but is there perhaps anywhere I can still find the first version so I could continue on to the later books for the time being, even if it is all unrevised?

If I like it (I think I will, the start was promising), I will happily read the rewrites whenever you finish them, but at the moment it`s cruel, cruel torture - finding a new story with basically a chunk missing after a few chapters so you can`t read on.

[teromain]

Hi, I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far! Unfortunately I no longer have a version/copy of the first draft. Not to say it isn't findable, if you look around the internet, but I would really advise you not to do so because I am actually planning on doing rewrites of all of the books, since they are all very rough drafts, and they need to be fixed for continuity and overall quality. I know it's kind of a bummer that this giant chunk is missing from the middle of the story, but the rewrites are being done to make the story the best I can make it, which is the form in which I would want people to read it in. I usually get out a new chapter at least once every other month, and that speed will probably pick up once I get to the 2nd book and beyond since they require a lot less editing.

[fareeedat]

Thank you for your answer, and sorry that it took me a few days to reply!

Ok, I guess I will have to do with waiting then, because apparently I`m crap in finding stuff on the internet. LOL
I can understand that, as an author, you aren`t comfortabel with letting a version stay out there which you feel is not the best you can make of it. Would probably feel the same if I would write!
I just have to tell myself: Patience is a virtue, patience is a... :D

[teromain]

Thank you for understanding and waiting then! The story will honestly make a lot more sense this way though -- the first book was originally a stand-alone idea with a very different idea of what I was doing, so it especially does not fit in with the others in the series and had a lot of elements that never show up again.