I’ve made the last few tweaks to the outlines for the coming chapters.
It’s going to be bad, gentle readers. The working titles I have for the crescendo chapters are “Angstrofest of Blood” and “Vengeful Iron Sunset”.
I’ve made the last few tweaks to the outlines for the coming chapters.
It’s going to be bad, gentle readers. The working titles I have for the crescendo chapters are “Angstrofest of Blood” and “Vengeful Iron Sunset”.
I still am not 100% comfortable with it, but I’m sure the gang will make it fantastic. It’s a talky non action chapter.
I’ve suspended user registrations temporarily, as I’ve had 48 new signups with .ru and .tu domains in the past day and all of them are spamlinks.
If you wish to sign up just shoot me an email at viley@att.net and I’ll hook you up.
I’ve made a bit of progress on the next chapter of TWCD, although not a ton of it. No good release dates so far, as my back is intermittent and I’ve been distracted by work and personal bullshit no one cares about.
I’d like to get my shit together to at least try for a chapter this month.
Not sure when I will be back into writing, still working with chiropractor.
If you are looking for something to read, Aberron updated his Illusive Man story not too long ago.
If you’ve put a watch on my stories you know I’ve been updating the Naruto stuff instead of the Mass Effect stuff.
Two reasons for that. I’m still in the process of doing the research on the Drell, and a book I ordered is held up due to utter fucking bullshit so I’m forced to wait.
The other reason is that the next chapter of TWCD is important, and I’m not willing to put together a bunch of filler scenes and wonky dialogue when I’m not sure how I want it to feel. I want to get it right, and until I can I’m not just happy with a token effort to advance the story. I’ve done that a couple of places in both OSABC and ATTWN and while it got the job done it weakened the overall result.
I’m aware many of you aren’t fans of Naruto, and even if you were most people gave up when the series creator fucked it up waaaay worse than the ending of ME3. So don’t think you have to read or review my stuff if it isn’t your cup of tea.
That being said, all interest in the work is appreciated. The DLP Gang have a particularly dim view of most Naruto fics and I am going to get a positive reaction out of them to show them the fandom isn’t dead yet as long as people with a brain write it instead of yaoi-obsessed idiots with a fixation on mPreg and foxy accessories.
In other news, my back is doing better, my mom’s hair is finally coming back in, work is still crazy but is doing better and nothing horrible has happened to me (yet) (knock on wood). It’s a very crappy time of the year for me, but I’ll be okay.
If you really want to scare the shit out of yourself :
Then go read chapter five of Fear Unrelenting.
The answers are out there.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.000-13-more-things-dark-flow
http://www.deepastronomy.com/hypernova-vy-canis-majoris.html
There has been a perpetual thread that pulls no punches about my series going on at the Dark Lord Potter forums for some time now. Unlike Spacebattles, where if your fic is not about Shepard killing Reapers with his dick while doing his best Kirk impression, the DLP folks are actually GOOD at textual analysis and reviews.
They raked OSABC over the coals quite a bit, but every last criticism was very fair (and are things I’ve tried very hard to address in the next two books). And lo and behold, as I’ve gotten better they have continued to go over things.
More recently they had several text-walls discussing the nature vs nurture argument of Premiseverse Badasses, which tend to run in familial lines. One poster put forth the idea that perhaps outside forces augmented such things to create ‘heroes’.
It is a curious viewpoint, one that I had certainly not considered. I would say that genetics plays a role. So do connections and who you know. There is often a subtle chain of events.
The ancient dalatrass of salarians, Shego, would have never amounted to anything if she’d not been somewhat rebellious in her youth and made lots of friends outside her clan. While I’m not ready to drop the big reveal on the Thirty and what Trellani found out, the only reason Trellani was accepted into the ranks of the normally Thirty-only Church of the Sun’s senior clergy was her relationship with Benezia.
If not for Anderson growing up near Kahlee Sanders and being friends with Pel’s father, Pel and Leng would have never joined, and Anderson would never have met Michael Shepard. And without that meeting, Shepard herself would have just ended up on the streets, dead, or in a Commissariat labor camp, and the entire focus of the series would be lost.
Fate, or destiny, may be something the Leviathans can control with their subtle manipulations. It may well be that they can’t see specifics but altered the timelines to ensure the most powerful ‘heroes’ were all available at the time when the Reapers would arrive.
Or maybe it’s sheer dumb luck.
Anyway, you should head on over to the massive megathread on DLP if you’re interested in that kind of thing. They have a HUGE range of other stories they review, and some of the reviews of the more sizable Harry Potter fics — and the depth of analysis — is as good as any New York Times review.
As for the story itself…
I’m in the process of the following:
I’m interested (as always) in what you think should be worked on next, although I’m pretty much tasked to capacity in terms of starting NEW projects. The only one I haven’t started is SevenSeven’s guide to the Citadel forces.
So, if you check the downloads tab to the left, you will see I’ve finally managed to convert OSABC to PDF.
I will probably convert ATTWN as well , and eventually any other completed documents. Right now I need to do some rewrites of stuff like the Encyclopedia Biotica and Order of Battle.
The sheer scope of what I am attempting to do is becoming literally unmanageable. Therefore, in the interest of using some of these goddamned Steam coupons, I have had an epiphany.
See some game on Steam you’d love to have but don’t have $55 to fucking waste, or your wife/parents/college debt won’t let you? Have some spare time you would be willing to expend in mindshatteringly boring tasks in exchange for said games?
Contact me. I have put off cleaning up and editing a number of documents, and I literally need someone to clean up the OSABC version on AO3 and get some of the other works on there.
Good with art? Same deal. (I’m looking at you, LuckyFK. I have a literal muscle-woman that needs art, she makes your ripped up Shepard look like an anorexic.)
As for the Great Work ™: