And here goes chapter 12 of Toreas. Eric get’s to meet the King and get his ‘reward’.
Now this has been one of those hate chapters. I love it, for the story it tells, but I had to tinker on it forever to get it into this shape. It’s not as perfect as I wanted it to be, but it’s as close to it as I could make it. For chapter 13 I’m being mean again. Well, meaner.
Things went faster than anticipated and here comes chapter 11 already. The conclusion of Zara’s and Eric’s rather unexpected and uncomfortable swimming excursion.
Chapter 12 is almost ready as well, but I want to read it over twice more as it is a pivotal moment in the story. Meanwhile I keep writing chapter 13, which will introduce you to the last of the 3 main characters for at least the first large part of the story.
After two rewrites, here is chapter 10. It has turned out a lot longer than I originally expected, but I hope that is to the liking of you, the reader. You get to witness some conversation between Zara and Eric, where they both say more about themselves than ever before.
The next 3 chapters are very important. A lot happens in them and I’m in the process of working them over now. I probably have to rewrite large potions of it, so this might take some time. For me the sequence is one big thing, so I treat it like one gigantic chapter for myself. I’ll try to finish by next weekend though.
Go and read the shortish chapter 9. Where are Eric and Zara?
This chapter now has been posted using a new system I have created. It accesses Mediawiki and Twitter so far directly. I’m also planing on having WordPress and even Facebook integrated into this. So now all I do is fill out a form where I say this is chapter 9, paste the text of the chapter into one box, edit (if I want to) the twitter message which is prefilled, edit the blog post and push a button.
Now it will create the page on the wiki for chapter 9, change the template for latest chapter, so clicking the link on the main page will lead to the latest one, change the template that shows the latest changes in the upper right area of the main page, recalculate all the stats with this new page added and automatically update the wiki page about statistics and then post the new status to twitter. Next stop, making it post to WordPress.
But this has some time. For now, I will concentrate on writing the story. This software already takes care of the most time consuming aspects anyways, the rest is just laziness on my part.
Been a busy week and a busy weekend. So finally here chapter 8 for your reading pleasure. We are back with Zara and Eric on their journey. There is one small, or rather large problem ahead though.
Chapter 9 should be out this week some time. As it is a bit busy I might not be able to wrap it up until the weekend.