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Dragon of the East - A Skyrim Retelling

  • Member
    April 1, 2016
    I'm sure you'll do fine. Focus on your work and you'll be all right.
  • Member
    April 7, 2016
    Wow. You started up again and you have yet to make a new screenshot. Not that I'm complaining, it's just surprising.
  • Member
    April 8, 2016

    Screenshots were a fun hobby for a while, but I don't go out of my way to make them anymore. I might get the urge again, though. For now I'm focused on writing. That's more important to me.

  • Member
    April 8, 2016
    I understand. Like I said it was just surprising so it ain't too much of an impact.
  • Member
    April 28, 2016

    Time for another monthly update.

    April has been a lazy month for me. Aside from writing the latest chapter of DOTE, I don’t have much to show. Camp NaNo did nothing to motivate me and progress on Kindlerfire ground to a halt. (I did change the name, by the way, from Kindredfire. Don’t be surprised if it changes again.)

    When I realized there were problems with my original story idea, I set it aside and tried to go back to DOTE. Arc 3 Chapter 4 was fun to write, even if it did take me a while. I started Chapter 5, but quickly ran out of steam. I’ve written little of anything since then.

    Lately, however, I’ve been working on a new outline for Kindlerfire that has me feeling optimistic. I’m going back through my old chapters, re-tooling some scenes and characters to fit this outline, and then I’ll get back to making more progress.

    I fear that I’m slowly sinking into a George RR Martin style of re-writing, but there’s no avoiding the fact that I simply do not write consistently. I don’t even think I can. Ever since DOTE began, I’ve always been like this. Writing every day of the week is beyond my capacity.  

    Maybe I'd be better as a binge writer? Something to try in the near future, perhaps.

     

    One last question for you all. Would you prefer if I made these updates more frequently? I basically just lurk on this site now, so I don’t post regular content like I used to. Still, I know what it’s like to not hear anything from a content creator you’re trying to follow.

    I’d probably end up posting a lot of fluff and nonsense, but hey… 

    Here's to a merry month of May (and my 23rd orbit around the sun).  

  • Member
    April 29, 2016

    I'm glad to hear that you're not giving up on Kindlerfire. I have a tendency to scrap my stories if their storyline has some holes rather than try to fix them. Your perseverance is encouraging!

    What's a George R.R. Martin style of re-writing? 

    I do like to hear from you every once in a while, but if you'd rather stick with monthly updates, I'd be fine with that. 

  • Member
    April 29, 2016
    Leave an update whenever you like. But at least monthly would be nice. Just out of curiosity. What is the new title of KindredFire?
  • Member
    April 29, 2016

    Kindlerfire. (Yeaaaah.... It's practically the same.)

  • Member
    June 2, 2016

    Welp, another month has passed. Here’s another update! What have I gotten done over the month of May?

     

    Nothing. Or rather, nearly nothing. A few thousand words here and there for some scenes in stories that I probably won’t finish.

     

    Not even gonna lie here – my work ethic has all but collapsed. And I’m pretty tired of it. These days if I’m not being lazy and lethargic, I’m getting mad at myself for being lazy and lethargic. Kind of a vicious cycle.

     

    Let me start by saying this: in an attempt to kick my writer’s block in the pants, I’m going to tackle the next chapter of DOTE. I’ve got to try and save my writing habits before I’m too far gone. I just want to be writing something again.

    Yes, there’s nothing technically stopping me from writing, but for those who can sympathize with writer’s block, you all know how it goes. Day by day you wake and think to yourself, “I’m going write that thing today, dammit!” And then you don’t, because the simple act of starting takes effort enough to move a mountain.

     

    With DOTE, at least, I feel like there’s something I can fall back on. A small clutch of people who maybe still want to see how this story ends (including myself). Two years of previous dedication. My original manuscript so far has suffered from a lack of external support and internal consistency. I miss releasing serialized installments. I hate feeling like my worldbuilding’s incomplete.

    I’ve had a hard time pinpointing when and how I fell off the tracks, and can’t figure out how to recover. My confidence has completely crashed. Not a fun place to be in.

     

    So that’s that. I’m not saying I’m back. I’m only committing to one chapter of DOTE, in the hopes that it will kickstart my engine again.

    From there, we’ll see.

  • Member
    June 2, 2016

    Hang in there DOTE is a fantastic read and many would like to see it finished even if you don't tell the whole of Chase's story. Maybe if this arc was concluded you would feel better? Even if you didn't want to do another arc after that we would understand. Just don't leave it on a cliffhanger.

    I stopped writing my story because I ran out of ideas and it didn't get many views and comments but yours is different. It's a story that is worth finishing for sure and at least you have the game's plot to follow. Don't loose the 2 years of dedication - maybe concentrate on getting this arc finished then go back to Kindlerfire? 

    I think your hardest part and biggest problem with Kindlerfire is writing something from scratch rather than basing it on an existing world or sequence of events. Creating a whole world, characters, places and a good engaging plot is very difficult to do.