A new year~

New years are always fun things. They are fresh slates and new pastures to be explored, and that sense of limitless possibility always breaths new life into creative fronts.

They also help me rein in and look at realistic commitments. I've got my cast of characters for PanHistoria mostly organised in terms of their personalised homepages, as well as where and how they will be playing for the time being. Now that much of the framework is erected, I will focus on the luxury of filling it in and doing so with care and deliberation. There is no sense in rushing and finding that I need to redo everything, for the process is as satisfying as the end result.

I am also hearing the new stirrings of older stories that had gone into the realms of creative fallowness. I will be giving myself until March to let them fully awaken and emerge before picking them back up to write. They won't be going onto PanHistoria at the moment, mainly because they are different and more private stories to be nurtured by myself from the beginning until the end*. To do this, I will be using the Novel-in-Ninety approach, which is to write 750 words a day for 90 days on your main novel. The idea is to write amidst all of the other things life brings to you that day, including but not limited to sick pets, algebra homework, and really fun RP threads that are begging to played in. We'll see how this goes. If it fails, then I begin again. If it works, I celebrate.


* The exception to this [there is always an exception] will be Vanth's story. That short will be written and go into the novel Short Cuts as part of Gwynne's Equinox Road: Tales from the Broken Worlds as an Autumn Tale.

Coming together

Gwynne is beginning to speak and it is very satisfying. I am giving her free voice in the first person present tense at Short Cuts in her own story thread called Equinox Road: Tales from the Broken Worlds. So far, I have a post on 'The Rites of Spring' for her, and need to add the edited beginnings of The White Lotus Clan to that thread. Vanth's tale will be in the Autumnal thread.

Which leaves some summer and some winter stories to think of soon. I will do that just as soon as I finish the co-written piece with cousin Gino.