I am sick.
Which means that I'm going to sit in bed and write.
expect previews by tomorrow and the chapter by saturday.
lucky you. *sneeze*
Update:
Songs I have listened to most while writing this chapter (not counting the Chapter Song, The Prayer.)
Return to Mother from Tangled
Alone from A Little Princess
Trip the Light by Alicia Lemke
All are pretty- the first two are just instrumental, but the third, trip the Light, is vocal and is really cool. It's used in the Where The Hell is Matt video,(linked) which is seriously touching.
Thinking about making this a two song chapter, because I really, really like Trip the Light. Will think about it. Nearly done!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
A Fading Hope Chapter 10
A Fading Hope: Chapter 10: Leader's Duty
Song- Angel of Darkness (see Chapter seven, it's the same song, just a different section)
Story-
So yeah, I had FUN with this. Serious fun. It was hard, one of the hardest chapters for me, but there you go.
first- things I have changed from Canon:
Digivolutions- specifically what is needed for the digimon to become Ultimates and Megas. In Canon, the kids gave up their crest powers. I call bs on that because Gatomon was able to become the Ultimate Angewomon twice before this was brought up(episode seven and episode thirteen) and the whole mess with Skullgreymon/ MetalGreymon and possibly more.
So my version is this- they didn't give up all their crest powers. Some, sure, and now it's really, hard to digivolve past champion- it just takes a lot of energy, and since most of their foes have been easy to take down at this point, they haven't needed to digivolve much. The Armors and Champions have worked fine.
Also, as brought up in episodes 53 and 54, the crests are not individual- that is, the Crest of Courage is not just Tai's courage, but everyone's, the Crest of Friendship is not just Matt's friendship, but everyone's friendship with everyone else. So it makes sense that the more Digidestined in the area- and the more courage they felt, the stronger Agumon's digivolution would be, at least to me. So that's my explanation.
Now that that's taken care of, onward.
Oh, holy duck with a typewriter, the battle.
It started as 300 words. It grew to a full third of the chapter. It took me hours, literally. I just sat at my computer and typed and deleted and typed and edited and Gatomon said she wanted to do flips and it was just a mess.I was trying to capture the chaos of battle- not that I've ever been in one, but I drew on watching things like Narnia and LotR and Avatar the Last Airbender and intense games of Capture the Flag. Seriously, Capture the flag. I was the queen of that game in school.
So I wrote with just commas and oh, the poor commas and semi colons, I've abused you so, but I wanted to capture that breathless pacing, that turn around and there's another attack and oh no, look out no time to breathe feeling.
I wanted the danger to be real, because it is, it always has been. This isn't pokemon, where the Digimon attack Digimon. They go after the kids, always have. I've grown a lot since my first battle scene, in that mary sue, awful, terrible fic that I wrote back when I was young and stupid, "Dark Serenity" please don't go and read that. Someday I'll fix it, read it then. there was one battle scene and it was terrible. I feel like I've grown so much, but still.
I hope you let me know how I did. I think it came out pretty well,which is a new feeling for me. I'm so used to thinking I suck at battles. I still do, but this one was ok.
Moving on. Them finding Sora's crutch was a cat on the lap line- that is, a line that came to me while I stared at a mostly finished chapter but couldn't take a break from the computer because my cat was siting on my lap. so I started to zone out and think and the image just... poofed into reality. I thought it added drama. What say you?
Lastly, the ending.
I had two possible endings for this chapter. the first would have cut off a bit sooner, ending with T.K. saying " It's Matt" and leaving you all in hopeful terror about what was to come- was he awake? was he ok? was he dying?
But the cat was on my lap so I decided to keep going, because it just felt... too open. It wasn't an ending, not even a cliffhanger ending, not really. so I continued and got to the last line of the chapter and thought, yes. this is it.
so that's how you got that awful ending. blame the cat. always blame the cat.
hedgi
Song- Angel of Darkness (see Chapter seven, it's the same song, just a different section)
Story-
So yeah, I had FUN with this. Serious fun. It was hard, one of the hardest chapters for me, but there you go.
first- things I have changed from Canon:
Digivolutions- specifically what is needed for the digimon to become Ultimates and Megas. In Canon, the kids gave up their crest powers. I call bs on that because Gatomon was able to become the Ultimate Angewomon twice before this was brought up(episode seven and episode thirteen) and the whole mess with Skullgreymon/ MetalGreymon and possibly more.
So my version is this- they didn't give up all their crest powers. Some, sure, and now it's really, hard to digivolve past champion- it just takes a lot of energy, and since most of their foes have been easy to take down at this point, they haven't needed to digivolve much. The Armors and Champions have worked fine.
Also, as brought up in episodes 53 and 54, the crests are not individual- that is, the Crest of Courage is not just Tai's courage, but everyone's, the Crest of Friendship is not just Matt's friendship, but everyone's friendship with everyone else. So it makes sense that the more Digidestined in the area- and the more courage they felt, the stronger Agumon's digivolution would be, at least to me. So that's my explanation.
Now that that's taken care of, onward.
Oh, holy duck with a typewriter, the battle.
It started as 300 words. It grew to a full third of the chapter. It took me hours, literally. I just sat at my computer and typed and deleted and typed and edited and Gatomon said she wanted to do flips and it was just a mess.I was trying to capture the chaos of battle- not that I've ever been in one, but I drew on watching things like Narnia and LotR and Avatar the Last Airbender and intense games of Capture the Flag. Seriously, Capture the flag. I was the queen of that game in school.
So I wrote with just commas and oh, the poor commas and semi colons, I've abused you so, but I wanted to capture that breathless pacing, that turn around and there's another attack and oh no, look out no time to breathe feeling.
I wanted the danger to be real, because it is, it always has been. This isn't pokemon, where the Digimon attack Digimon. They go after the kids, always have. I've grown a lot since my first battle scene, in that mary sue, awful, terrible fic that I wrote back when I was young and stupid, "Dark Serenity" please don't go and read that. Someday I'll fix it, read it then. there was one battle scene and it was terrible. I feel like I've grown so much, but still.
I hope you let me know how I did. I think it came out pretty well,which is a new feeling for me. I'm so used to thinking I suck at battles. I still do, but this one was ok.
Moving on. Them finding Sora's crutch was a cat on the lap line- that is, a line that came to me while I stared at a mostly finished chapter but couldn't take a break from the computer because my cat was siting on my lap. so I started to zone out and think and the image just... poofed into reality. I thought it added drama. What say you?
Lastly, the ending.
I had two possible endings for this chapter. the first would have cut off a bit sooner, ending with T.K. saying " It's Matt" and leaving you all in hopeful terror about what was to come- was he awake? was he ok? was he dying?
But the cat was on my lap so I decided to keep going, because it just felt... too open. It wasn't an ending, not even a cliffhanger ending, not really. so I continued and got to the last line of the chapter and thought, yes. this is it.
so that's how you got that awful ending. blame the cat. always blame the cat.
hedgi
Friday, October 19, 2012
Update.
I'm 1200 words into Chapter Ten.
800 of those words are battle sequence.
H E L P.
It's a very chaotic battle because that's what battles are, if you think about it, it's not like in pokemon games where one guy goes and then the other and then the first guy goes twice because the AI is a cheating- anyway. Not the point. The point is that Holy duck with a typewriter, 800 words of chaotic action.
You folk had better like it, because it's killing my brain to find ways to make it happen- it's so messy and chaotic and there's screaming and feathers and light shining and shadows and oh no, that's going to hurt and oh my gosh did I not use any commas that is a run on sentence and H E L P. although Gatomon was quite clear on one point- she wanted to do a backflip onto a Violent and Attacking Unimon's back.
Well, I'm not going to argue with a lady.
This chapter should be up in a week or less.
Gatomon's orders!
Update as of 10/20/12
over 1000 words of battle and it's not done.
Conversation bits that I had while writing.
***
Me: Hee, I'm working on an action scene and have LoTR music playing.
awww, my music changed. less epic, but still pretty.
Him: but a fight scene isn't supposed to be really pretty, its supposed to be epic
Me: yes, I know! sigh. silly music. oh, now it's Narnia. Problem: solved
***
800 of those words are battle sequence.
H E L P.
It's a very chaotic battle because that's what battles are, if you think about it, it's not like in pokemon games where one guy goes and then the other and then the first guy goes twice because the AI is a cheating- anyway. Not the point. The point is that Holy duck with a typewriter, 800 words of chaotic action.
You folk had better like it, because it's killing my brain to find ways to make it happen- it's so messy and chaotic and there's screaming and feathers and light shining and shadows and oh no, that's going to hurt and oh my gosh did I not use any commas that is a run on sentence and H E L P. although Gatomon was quite clear on one point- she wanted to do a backflip onto a Violent and Attacking Unimon's back.
Well, I'm not going to argue with a lady.
This chapter should be up in a week or less.
Gatomon's orders!
Update as of 10/20/12
over 1000 words of battle and it's not done.
Conversation bits that I had while writing.
***
Me: Hee, I'm working on an action scene and have LoTR music playing.
awww, my music changed. less epic, but still pretty.
Him: but a fight scene isn't supposed to be really pretty, its supposed to be epic
Me: yes, I know! sigh. silly music. oh, now it's Narnia. Problem: solved
***
me: My battle scene is confusing me. maybe if I make it confusing enough it will seem like a real battle and the readers won't realize how lame it is.
***
me: Gatomon has decided to do flips. She's ordering me to write that she do flips.
This is madness.
him: No, This is DIGIMON!
So yeah. Chapter should be up between this Wednesday and Saturday.
Update as of 10/24
you will all hate me for what I'm about to do. live in fear.
Update as of 10/24
you will all hate me for what I'm about to do. live in fear.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
A Fading Hope chapter 9
A Fading Hope: Chapter Nine: Darkness of the Past
Song : Someday ( from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Song-
Someday, when we are wiser
When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray someday we may yet
Live to live and let live
Someday, life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
And greed will not pay
Godspeed, this bright millenia
On it's way, let it come someday
Someday our fight will be won, and
We'll stand in the sun, in
That bright afternoon
'Til then, on days when the sun
Is gone, we'll hang on
If we wish upon the Moon
Godspeed this bright millenia
Let it come
If we wish upon the moon
One day, someday....soon
So I really like this song, because it's Alan Menken, the guy behind all that is gold in Disney music. In my humble opinion, that is, but seriously. Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback, Tangled, Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Enchanted, the guy's brilliant. Also, because the version I first head was Celtic Woman, and I love Celtic Woman. I picked this song because it's about fighting, not war and bloodshed fighting, but fighting against the inevitable, fighting for something so *good* and so *right*. It's about hanging on and not giving up, and that's what our characters are doing now. They're in it now, no matter the cost, they're going to battle and hold on and hope for the best.
Poor ducks, they don't have a clue whats coming.
It's also part of the Code.
Story.
Like I said, I wrote this in about 24 hours- I had a two page outline, I knew what was going to happen, of course, but specific dialog and phrasing- and some new bits that came out of nowhere- were all new. I will most likely never do that again. It was hard on my poor fingers, because that ended up being my longest chapter and nearly 6000 words.
I had fun writing it, though. It started out as a filler chapter, one I'd planned in because certain things needed to happen for the rest of the story to happen like it should, and I wasn't really looking forward to it. I'm really no hand at battles or action, I prefer the more emotional and character based aspects of my stories, and try to write minimal battles. This story, though, and this chapter, called for me to step up. I ended up having fun, though the earlier drafts( written and re-written over a course of minuts/ hours, not days) were not what one would hope. they were bare and spares and dull. I think I did a fair job of the battle scenes by the end, though.
One of my favorite scenes was a " hey, I should focus on characters" scene, Cody's. It was short, and I had some serious fun with his grandpa's advice. No, Grandpa knows nothing about Cody's Secret life as a Digidestined, or the crests, but wow, wasn't that advice just so close to home? I think I might have Cody exclaim over that later, at least in a deleted scene. Or perhaps not. I'm amused, and frankly, that's all I need. Another favorite bit was davis's. Davis has long been my least favorite character, but by adapting him, slightly, to this story- making him grow up a bit, as the danger is a bit more "real" and trauma inducing- I'm growing to like him. I also finally feel, after two years + messing with Digimon fanfiction, like I've got a grip on his character.
Onward. I have lots of things to say because Holy duck with a typewriter it was a long chapter.
The dreams. You may remember what I said about the Dreams NOT being visions or prophetic. Guess what? I so did not lie. T.K.'S aren't prophetic, it's just him being a scared boy, for all his courage, and a traumatic past. I've had dreams, slightly off, of real events.(by slightly off I mean Suddenly Dragons.) It's partly that he's sensitive to dark, and his subconscious picked up on, but it's not specifically a warning of what's to come.
Kari's on the other hand, are. Hey, there's precedent for her being possessed by the Digital World Spirit Thingie( I promise I know words) and in my little fic universe it's established that the DWST talks to her( and as of the end of this chapter, has possessed her again.) so yeah.
So, Kari. Having dreams. And what was it that the DWST said to her last time?
So yeah. You know me, that can't be good, because really, I warned you this would be darker and what's darker that " the deepest shadows" GASP could those be the shadows in the dreams?
Live in fear. Oh, live in fear.
I should get the next chapter up around Halloween.
Song : Someday ( from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Song-
Someday, when we are wiser
When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray someday we may yet
Live to live and let live
Someday, life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
And greed will not pay
Godspeed, this bright millenia
On it's way, let it come someday
Someday our fight will be won, and
We'll stand in the sun, in
That bright afternoon
'Til then, on days when the sun
Is gone, we'll hang on
If we wish upon the Moon
Godspeed this bright millenia
Let it come
If we wish upon the moon
One day, someday....soon
So I really like this song, because it's Alan Menken, the guy behind all that is gold in Disney music. In my humble opinion, that is, but seriously. Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback, Tangled, Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Enchanted, the guy's brilliant. Also, because the version I first head was Celtic Woman, and I love Celtic Woman. I picked this song because it's about fighting, not war and bloodshed fighting, but fighting against the inevitable, fighting for something so *good* and so *right*. It's about hanging on and not giving up, and that's what our characters are doing now. They're in it now, no matter the cost, they're going to battle and hold on and hope for the best.
Poor ducks, they don't have a clue whats coming.
It's also part of the Code.
Story.
Like I said, I wrote this in about 24 hours- I had a two page outline, I knew what was going to happen, of course, but specific dialog and phrasing- and some new bits that came out of nowhere- were all new. I will most likely never do that again. It was hard on my poor fingers, because that ended up being my longest chapter and nearly 6000 words.
I had fun writing it, though. It started out as a filler chapter, one I'd planned in because certain things needed to happen for the rest of the story to happen like it should, and I wasn't really looking forward to it. I'm really no hand at battles or action, I prefer the more emotional and character based aspects of my stories, and try to write minimal battles. This story, though, and this chapter, called for me to step up. I ended up having fun, though the earlier drafts( written and re-written over a course of minuts/ hours, not days) were not what one would hope. they were bare and spares and dull. I think I did a fair job of the battle scenes by the end, though.
One of my favorite scenes was a " hey, I should focus on characters" scene, Cody's. It was short, and I had some serious fun with his grandpa's advice. No, Grandpa knows nothing about Cody's Secret life as a Digidestined, or the crests, but wow, wasn't that advice just so close to home? I think I might have Cody exclaim over that later, at least in a deleted scene. Or perhaps not. I'm amused, and frankly, that's all I need. Another favorite bit was davis's. Davis has long been my least favorite character, but by adapting him, slightly, to this story- making him grow up a bit, as the danger is a bit more "real" and trauma inducing- I'm growing to like him. I also finally feel, after two years + messing with Digimon fanfiction, like I've got a grip on his character.
Onward. I have lots of things to say because Holy duck with a typewriter it was a long chapter.
The dreams. You may remember what I said about the Dreams NOT being visions or prophetic. Guess what? I so did not lie. T.K.'S aren't prophetic, it's just him being a scared boy, for all his courage, and a traumatic past. I've had dreams, slightly off, of real events.(by slightly off I mean Suddenly Dragons.) It's partly that he's sensitive to dark, and his subconscious picked up on, but it's not specifically a warning of what's to come.
Kari's on the other hand, are. Hey, there's precedent for her being possessed by the Digital World Spirit Thingie( I promise I know words) and in my little fic universe it's established that the DWST talks to her( and as of the end of this chapter, has possessed her again.) so yeah.
So, Kari. Having dreams. And what was it that the DWST said to her last time?
Be brave, Little oneBeware, Light one.Pathways are forming, Light Child. Past is becoming the future.
You must be brave, and choose the brightest path, with the deepest shadows.
So yeah. You know me, that can't be good, because really, I warned you this would be darker and what's darker that " the deepest shadows" GASP could those be the shadows in the dreams?
Live in fear. Oh, live in fear.
I should get the next chapter up around Halloween.
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