Living another life

I should’ve posted this a while back. While working on a bigger image, I drew of one of Isica’s ‘other lives’. I think up versions of her often. Originally, Isica was a ‘fan-OC’ (original character) for an obsession I had back in high school along with AR Flynn’s Arika. Since then, we’ve created other fan-versions along side Project E.P.I.C for fun.

 

Anyway, what if she were a showtime pro-wrestler?

On the path to victory!

Two things to share today:

1) I spent yesterday (or was it the day before?) finishing my NaNoWriMo story (my prequel: Providence). It’s finally done at 52822 words, and is my first draft. Aside from the ridiculous amount of mundane events happening in the plot line, along with some cheesy ways of my characters dealing with situations, I am absolutely proud of it and I can’t wait to edit it in hard copy.

Also, because of my addiction to iwl.me, according to my full first draft, I still write like Raymond Chandler.

 2) Finished a sketch of Isica’s festival outfit in MLR. It was a half-finished image of her bust, which I found yesterday and completed at two in the morning. She creeps me out less when her irises have a bit of shine, don’t ‘cha think? Her colours are still terrible… Her unwillingness to part with her teal ribbon causes colouring problems for me. Anyway, for each girl, A.R. Flynn and I chose a colour they would wear for the festival: Arika wears yellow, Phenelia wears pink, Aurise wears blue and Isica wears violet.

The upside of NaNoWriMo

To be honest, I’m a little disappointed in myself. There’s that pit in my stomach telling me that I should have done better, and it’s right, but I can’t control how fast I think or write, for that matter.

So here’s my result to 2011′s NaNoWriMo event: I wrote 49,620/50,000 words before the timer ran out.

If only I had written 380 words more. I don’t want to deny the truth when fact is revealed before me, but I’m still a little content. I just have the epilogue to write and my prequel’s first draft will be complete. I have the contents of the scene completely planned out too, so this will go really fast.

This was a good first year. Time to reward myself with a run through Al Quelt Moreza in Sword 2 (Granado Espada).

Symbolism to ‘man buying a woman shoes’?

For a long time, I had planned for a specific action to be carried out in my prequel. All the while, I believed it to be innocent, but one day while watching Burlesque, a line said by character Jack had me worried: “There’s only one reason a man buys a woman shoes…”. I’ve been searching for an answer to this through Google, but nothing came up… until now.

I’m sure I’ve ran into this too during my first search, but it didn’t sink in. According to Warwick Deeping in his text Old Pybus, he wrote, “Nor had he arrived at that state of intimacy with her when a man buys a woman shoes or stockings.” I’m sure I don’t understand this one hundred percent, but there’s something there that may not be appropriate for my novel’s reading level.

In any case, this symbolism doesn’t exist in Providence. You’ll see why when you get a chance to read it. I can’t wait until it’s complete!

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Burlesque. Prod. Donald De Line. Dir. Steve Antin. Perf. Cher, Christina Aguliera, and Eric Dane. DVD. Sony Pictures Studio, 2010.

Deeping, Warwick. Old Plybus. 1928. Project Gutenberg of Australia. 20 November 2011 <http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601831.txt>

Hello.

Forgive me; I’m new to WordPress. I’m thinking about switching from http://iklore.livejournal.com to here, since RE:Faction has its own WordPress now. I already have some wonderful things posted in LiveJournal, but it’s time to move on to greener pastures, yes?

* Note: From this point on, any posts beyond this one are new and written in WordPress. The previous posts were imported from my old LiveJournal account, which can be found at: http://iklore.livejournal.com/

“iwl.me”

Although it’s only the thirteenth day, I couldn’t resist having my full document text tested.

I write like
Raymond Chandler

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

I’ve finished eight chapters and 18,614/21666 words. In order to catch up tomorrow, I’ll need to write up 4,400 words. I also have many, many, many plot holes, but I’ll fix those up in my second draft… after I get this one done.

Sharing empathy with your characters?

I’ve been busy finally actually doing NaNoWriMo for the first time. It’s tough, and I do run out of ideas and energy as I make up some of the plot as I go, but I am proud of myself for attempting to keep up with the 1667 word goal per day. Unfortunately, the only times I made the day’s goal was twice in ten days, but I consider currently being at 15,373/16,666^1; words is pretty good for a lazy person like myself.^2;

What I wasn’t expecting today, after writing a difficult scene of killing off a character, was feeling the terrible emotion of putting my characters through a high tension scene and having it end horribly. I don’t know whether to consider it a good thing I’m this involved or attached to my story. It’s helpful, since you’ll be aware of what kind of atmosphere you’d want for the scene (and putting it into words), but it makes me wonder whether I’m losing my mind for having emotion for something fictitious.

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^1; Actually, November 11′s word count should be 18,333, but I haven’t slept yet, so I don’t consider it as the day’s goal total.

^2; What prevented me from working on it in the first place was that I enjoyed daydreaming about it more than writing it down or drawing it.

Courage.

I know it's been a while since I've posted. I promised that new website, which turned out bust since I wanted to design a new one straight after, causing me to abandon my current one. But I read something I absolutely adore.

It's from September 22, 2010, regarding the new Devil May Cry game; the one which Capcom and Ninja Theory collaborated on, and the one with a dark-haired, serious character who introduces himself as Dante by the end of the trailer. Anyway, there was a quote from something I read, written by Simon Priest at StrategyInformer.

"And we went, 'No guys, go back to first principles and really do something,' and they went about 25-percent more down the field. And we're like, 'No, seriously! Do something that you think would make us angry with you,' and that's when we started making progress."^1

I absolutely adore that. Sure, it enraged a few fans of the game, but making the jump took guts. It's never a bad thing to have courage.

I'll be needing some if I want to make it somewhere in the published world, since from what A.R. Flynn and many other accomplished writers and agents in the world, it will require a great deal when submitting manuscripts. There will be several rejections, so I'll prepare myself for at least twenty.

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^1 Priest, Simon. "New DMC Dante about "making you feel cool" says Ninja Theory." Strategy Informer. September 22, 2010. October 27, 2011. <http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/9303/new-dmc-dante-about-making-you-feel-cool-says-ninja-theory>

NaNoWriMo is almost here.

Come join us. Once they enable writing buddies again, add me or private message me on that site. My username is isica. Hope to see you there!

—– EDITED 2011.10.30 —–

My username is no longer isica. It’s iklore.

An odd thought and an interesting idea from a dream

Yes, I know the last time we’ve heard this was from a published author of a well known, well-despised but also well-loved, series of books based on a vampiric and lycanthropic romance, but hear me out on this one.

Let me fill in this absolutely horrible piece of detail first: Two strangers after a day spent together fall in love, and one questions why and how did love happen so quickly. The other’s explanation was this:

“He believed that there is a parallel planet to the one we’re living on now, the same size and shape, as well as rotation and on the same orbit. He said he believed there are the same people as us on that other planet who fell in love as well, and it was their destiny as much as ours.“

Can you imagine one day meeting your identical self on the other planet? Would you be able to tell who you fell in love with apart from his “copy”?

Anyway, the man in the dream was Axel, so it meant a whole lot to me.