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| Topic Started: Mar 5 2008, 01:00 AM (230 Views) | |
| Chaos2651 | Mar 5 2008, 01:00 AM Post #1 |
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Yes, it feels like CS is dead. In the present tense, it is dead at this moment. I'm blaming this on Suke for having a cold and not waking up early so we could get stuff done, which really isn't too unreasonable (sickness overrides everything, I'm cool with that). Besides, I happen to be very busy with a multitude of things. I know, it's crazy, I have a thousand things to do? Surely, the apocalypse will come when I actually get a good night's sleep. Seriously though. I'm up at 11:30 posting here. That totally does wonders for my sleep patterns. Among the usual things I do, such as Zelia, I recently added another "item", shall we say, to my plate. I decided to read this novel a second time. It's the second book in what is becoming my favorite fantasy series by my favorite new author, Brandon Sanderson. It's a 600 page behemoth, but I started it yesterday and I'm already 230 pages into it. That's with my busy plate, so I presume I'm pretty good at reading. Or something like that. The reason I'm reading Well of Ascension again is simply that, in the Mistborn series, there is this really cool setting. You know, the kind that fascinates me endlessly, with the nature of the world at stake, gigantic ultra-manipulative entity/spirits locked away for a millennia under the grasp of some pseudo-immortal god who killed the guy who tried to release the spirit (unwittingly) a millennia ago. Also, there's ash. The plants aren't green, and the sun is red. Oh, and the pseudo-immortal god, well, let's just say he's not doing so well. Naturally, the ultra-manipulative entity (he's mysterious) is trying to destroy the world. This apparently has something to do with Mistborn's magic system, Allomancy, an extremely creative magic system. Unlocking the knowledge of the entity unlocks pretty much every revelation in the series. All of you know that I will not end until I discover the revelations. Everything, of course, will become clear once the third book comes out, murderously in October. Obviously someone didn't tell Brandon that some other asshole was releasing a third book in another well known series a few weeks before that. Damn them both for making me wait so long. So... normally I would grudgingly wait and eventually forget about the entire matter of the entity. But Brandon, on his website, gives little annotations for each chapter in his book. He slipped up and gave me the key clue which subsequently made me rant with that theory. And apparently, the name of the entity known as the Deepness is referenced in Well of Ascension, somewhere very hidden. This is my only key to my theory, so I must find it. So... this explains the reading. Reading it, however, is not doing Zelia any justice. If anything, all my thoughts about magic and magic systems is making me feel very insecure about my magic system. I'm not doing so well this week. My only consolation is that my maps and history are more intense and rigorous, but that doesn't help with my fight scenes. It doesn't help that Zelia also has a pseudo-immortal poser god magician of ultimate power, only less interesting and a lack of a quantified magic system is making his defeat really implausible. I have some work to do. Though I really like how the system is set up (mine, not Brandon's, though I like it's implementation, too). It allows you to do anything, with very little restrictions. Openness can be good. It's a bit more realistic, because like other sciences, this magic evolves. New discoveries occur which changes the way you look at it. Realism is good. But the flipside of openness is that I have virtually no idea how to even begin crafting battle scenes. I really need some hard, eternal laws that set up some restrictions and how magic works. Those anchors will get me through the book. I have some restrictions already, but they are esoteric, like most of what I have. Not useful, really. I have a lot of work to do. You wouldn't know it, but Zelia is moving. Not "vertically" to, you know, a place I haven't been yet, but I've been editting the same two chapters for something like a year now. So laterally, and qualitatively, I'm making progress. That's gotta count for something, right? So, Well of Ascension, Zelia, the inevitable load of schoolwork. I still have some pretty important college-related applications to get through. I doubt procrastinating in that regard will do me any good, but I'll procrastinate anyways. I also have drama to do, which this week, has practices every day. That's a good two hours per day dead, although time when I'm not on stage gives me time to read WoA, so it isn't all bad. Still, it hurts. Let's see, then there's the upcoming matter of what I'm going to do at my school's prom, which is at the ungodlily early date of March 15th. I have to sort out that, too, and pretty quickly, too. Hmmm. Oh, and I have a job. I'll probably end up stuck with working Saturday, which kills a day of my crucial freetime. Yay, work. But work gives me money. That's good, right? Yes, but probably not for the short term. I can predict myself buying Advance Wars: Days of Ruin and Super Smash Bros. Brawl all within a week from now, and that definitely won't help my free time. And people wonder why my progress with Zelia is so slow. On top of all this, there's Episode 13. I'm sorry for delaying the matter at such a crucial plot point. It feels like a different century, really, since I last worked on it. Maybe it's that it seems so long and tedious, I just gave up on it. For now. Temporary giving up, seriously. It will get done. I will work on it. It will get done. Then you can blame Suke for being slow after that. Now onto good news. I came up with daring idea to merge TEP and Affliction together. Now, do I really know how that's going to work? No. But I'm sure it will involve a magic system revamp, and I have been making progress in that regard. It's almost unfortunate, considering it is sounding nicer and nicer to implement that system for Zelia, in a way... Oh, the topic title is "We won". Right, the original reason I was making a topic. I'm prone to ramble, you know. We are listed in the directory now. We are #1. Told you putting us in the Literature forum was a good idea... |
 
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| Kururugi | Mar 7 2008, 08:01 PM Post #2 |
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I'll try to get on more so that CS doesn't die completely. Turok has been owning my life as of late. >_>;; Although being in the Literature category may seem good, what if being #1 in the Literature category is like the equivalent of being #50 in whatever category we were in before? Since, perhaps, that category might get way more viewers or something. Just a thought... ._.; Edited by Kururugi, Mar 7 2008, 09:13 PM.
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| DBI.ZnT | Mar 15 2008, 03:39 PM Post #3 |
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Chaos, get a blog. You will have more success. Literature? Does ANYONE browse that section anyway? |
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| Death T-2 | Mar 15 2008, 09:08 PM Post #4 |
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I have a similar problem to yours: I get so caught up in the stories I draw (or write, same difference) that when I step back and look with a fresh eye, or compare with a successful publication, I see all my flaws. Usually then I give up on that and try to start again without the mistakes. Except mine are more visually based than writing oriented. |
 
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| Chaos2651 | Mar 15 2008, 11:55 PM Post #5 |
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Well, I'm improving. Not the magic system, but I solved the quintessential problem in the primary trilogy. It is has profound impacts on the sequels, but it doesn't matter. I solved the problem. DBI, all blogs I have die. Every single one. |
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| DBI.ZnT | Mar 16 2008, 02:29 PM Post #6 |
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Why? You always have plenty of rants to write. |
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| Chaos2651 | Mar 16 2008, 10:02 PM Post #7 |
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Yes, but that doesn't mean I actually have time to write them. |
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| DBI.ZnT | Mar 19 2008, 08:50 AM Post #8 |
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I think you do. *points to all the long-ass posts in all these forums for the past few weeks* |
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| Chaos2651 | Mar 20 2008, 06:11 AM Post #9 |
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Hey! People actually read those. Journals and blogs, so far, not so much. It doesn't feel like it's worth it. |
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