It’s been a long time since I’ve worked here, but with the end of the presidential election, I’m close to a placewhere I can recommence regular content on the site. We’ll be posting new games and new chapters of Journey’s End starting Monday!
And, I see a new tool has been added to the wordpress engine that I think will make things around here even awesomer than they already were!
a/n: As always, if this is your first foray into the Journey’s End story, please, click here to go to the table of contents and start from the beginning.
If you’re still here…
I think I should lay out my philosophy for all future posts of this story so that I don’t end up repeating the same thing over and over again. These chapters are, to say the least, rough drafts. I will likely never post whatever turns out to be the final draft as I hope to someday publish this work. I’m saying this because increasingly I realize that I need the benefit of a dedicated editor and collaborator with whom I can bounce my work off of, and thus make this story as smooth and engaging as it can be.
I say this now because this chapter feels as though it’s the roughest of the offerings I have delivered so far, even if I’ve combed through it and made changes at least three times. There are still parts that feel… off… somehow, and I don’t know that I can tweak those bits and pieces enough on my own.
In any case, despite certain eccentricities, I am still rather pleased with this chapter. The thing I think that hurts it the most is that it is itself a bridge of a chapter, not exactly carrying any one momentous moment of its own, but instead polarizing itself around the end of one major moment and the beginning of another.
Thus this is a comparably longer chapter (though, at under eight thousand words, I suppose it isn’t), but it feels as such stretched a bit thin. I suppose a natural ending could have been put a little earlier, or I could have split this chapter up between the previous chapter and the next, but one of the great things that I like about this chapter is that it has the rhythm that I’m shooting for. It resolves to a degree a cliffhanger brought on at the end of the last chapter, and introduces the cliffhanger that will be fleshed out in the opening of the next.
Also, I like this chapter because it really starts to flesh out the character of Lindsey, and most specifically about how she feels towards her new companion. This is by far one of my favorite aspects of this story–getting in her head, and trying to express the feelings and thoughts that she is having.
In any case, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and while I know I’m not maintaining this site on a day to day basis, I’m already deep into the next chapter (which will also, I expect, be rather long, depending on where I choose to end it).
Continue reading ‘Journey’s End, Chapter 8: Trevor’s Mistake’
So a week ago I promised I was going to keep working on this site, keep updating games and whatnot. Yeah, that turned out not to work out so well.
Basically, as I was watching the Republican National Convention, I knew I would have to spend the next two months working to help elect Barack Obama President of the United States. There is nothing else i could do that is more important than this single thing.
So, until at least November 6th (give me a day of celebration or grief), I am suspending all other projects. I will continue to try and write Journey’s End, but that is only when I find myself in the right frame of mind to write which has become quite rare as of late.
Win or lose, I’ll be getting back into the swing of things here by the end of the first week of November.
Promise.
It’s been a little bit since I’ve dropped a news post, hasn’t it? Well, let’s see what’s going on in my world.
This version of the song is by neuroticfish. Tomorrow we’re going to have the same song, the original version of the song, only I really wanted to share the video for that one because I think it’s personally creepier than this one by a mile.
By the Deftones. Ugh… groggy, need more like this to wake up.
Hey! So I missed this morning’s music post, and I’m just not going to be able to get a good solid game going for today either, so I guess we’re just going to call it an early weekend and I’ll see yall Tuesday, maybe Monday, depending on how things go. Have a great weekend.
Right, so while I have been diligent in adhering to my normal schedule here, I have been somewhat quiet as far as anything outside the morning music and afternoon game posts. Today, I didn’t post a game so much as I posted a link to a webcomic, but you get my drift.
Outside of that, thought, I know I have been quiet. Usually I post a couple of news posts a week to let you know how things are going, what to expect, and how progress on Journey’s End is going. The reason why you haven’t seen anything like this lately is because I don’t think I like myself very much.
This can be the only logical reason why I would doing to myself what I am currently doing; I’m getting back into political writing over at Comments From Left Field. That’s bad enough considering that at my most intense I was pulling eighteen hour days when I was writing politics, but this time I am not abandoning any of my other projects. Let’s take a look at what that means shall we?
-I will continue to update this site with at least a game and a music video a day during the work week.
-I will continue to work on Journey’s End. For those of you who are following Journey’s End, I’ve been writing a couple of hours a week, and I am about half way through Chapter 8, which could very well be a pretty big chapter so stay tuned.
-I will continue writing walkthroughs, with the one I’m currently working on being for Dirty Split.
-And I will continue contributing to Jay is Games when I can.
Oh, yeah, and there’s that whole family and full time job I got going to.
And now I’m writing politics again. Maybe I’ll get a chance to sleep in November.
