Thinking about coming back to this, I'm not sure where I'd go with it since I can't use my book characters for it. I can create new ones and adjust this story to fit the "universe" since I'm already looking at two other mediums (and got the greenlight a while back to pursue one of them wooo, need to check on that.) There are so many forms this story can take!
Absolutely unrelated to the site, I'm bingeing Dropout shows and "Don't Cry" on Game Changer made me cry with Up, without seeing it. Absolute menaces orz
wow I haven't looked at this in ages, I actually started writing a book for this instead. So many changes to the characters ahhhh
wistaria
2 months ago
oh the writing is so GOOFY, I've learned a lot in nine months. I'll probably revisit the dialogue, journals, etc. I'd like to make some Orrie, Felix, and Polly pages tooo ahhh
turns out I did NOT return to coding because I am at 82k words in my novel lmao I'd like to do more with the site tho. I'd love to share text from the novel but after all of this work I feel like I should actually try to query and pitch it orz
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wistaria
2 months ago
hil-arious of me to be excited about the 82k words written here since they were probably all CUT during edits lmaooo. Pieces of them survived but by golly it's a whole darn other book (two actually, bc I had to split it in half, then wound up STILL getting to 120k and I'm trying so hard to finish it without cutting too much)
I have been writing for days orz I have 22k words of a Wistaria novel now because I cannot focus on one hobby, but I'm going to return to coding soon, especially now that I have a sense of the bigger story beats.
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This works so well!
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Instead of doing something useful after waking up earlier, I have been glued to discord for god knows how long today. for my sanity. surely. :)
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wistaria
11 months ago
ok I've been drawing for like 3 hours now so that's something, I'm going to write but I have some simple page ideas for later parts of the story!
i have been drawing for so long i must sleep here is the progress if it lets me link orz https://herebyhalfpint.tumblr.com/post/763157416414150656/
wistaria
11 months ago
it's not the final but it's going to be on that very untouched page for the c drive, i will be deceased if i draw another line or type another letter
my ipad died in the middle of my finishing up a drawiiiing I want for the C Drive page ;n; why must I suffer, this sucker takes SO long to charge too ugh. I really like how the drawings for that page are turning out though!
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I'll probably switch Damian back to Theo, and give Vera/Sonya and Nate other names. There's a character in the book named Saki who might actually be incredible for a 90s character, but might be a tad early in the timeline. Spy docs could be cool if I want to follow certain plots, like cold war era. Ahhhh, so much inspiration.
I also have more unique creature designs, away from the clean and simple one I had for the OG one in Nate's (Haru) room. I should draft those up but I'm... not great at drawing and super rusty now. C'est la vie
I will say, the characters and story itself has matured a bit. I might be able to still write dorks in their early 20s, their book personalities are a tad different, and they're pretty loose here. Mental health plays a MAJOR role in the book, and I worry about handling that properly for such a wuick moving medium. I should write all of this in my blog page, oops. I'll think up some new things for the site soon :D