Old Posts

In preparation for a day of writing, I went through some old blog posts to look where I left off--in some ways posting is better than a private journal is some decrease in "omg drool" moments and I'm forced to patch my thoughts together into some coherency, but I definitely go too far into my "BSing scholar" moments. Some of my posts are just wtf was I thinking....

Like my previous declaration that I think of Van as the main character. That's seriously off mark. Hitomi is the catalyst of Gaea's war and Van's development. If he didn't have the dreams of Fanelia, and Hitomi and Merle to protect, would Van still turn out the same way? Without Hitomi, the only character to interject defiance and kind thoughts, would Van still progress to that smile at the end of ep26?

The dumbest thing about being stuck is that I planned my story mid- and endpoints, and backstories and little details, but I have no idea what I want Cim to say in ch6.

Hi There

I've been thinking, thinking, thinking--and then I realized there's no point in thinking if there's no doing. (Yes, I am really that dumb...)

I always have excuses. Perhaps the largest is how much time I'll need to finish. (I'm still at an rough ch6 and the story hasn't yet kicked off. If there are 20-25 chs as I had outlined, and writing each ch so far has taken me 1-2 months each, it would take me at the minimum a year. Damn rationality.) But really: I like DS and I like writing and I like writing Van--why shouldn't I spend more time on it?


I was surprised to find a modern, European version of Van: