Well, here I am, a few weeks after writing a good portion of my story (well, at least considering my will power and attention span it's a big chunk of text) and I decided that I absolutely hate the beginning of my story. It seems to me to be a bit boring. Nay, very boring. Some dude coming into a city. Well to be fair most of my story beginnings are very dry. Starting stories isn't my forte. I'd write so much better if everyone would just automatically know what I was thinking and so I didn't have to introduce my characters. I'd just go straight to the middle and plough right on through until the end.
Oh well, whining about it won't do very much. I've considered starting in the middle and then writing from there, but I'm not very sure where the middle starts and since I've only ever once actually finished a story, I'd doubt I'd ever get around to writing the beginning leaving my oh-so-many readers confused and annoyed at my lack of explanation. (I know, I know. Run-on sentence. It's a blog. So sue me.)
So I've already got a vague concept on how else to start the story, but it's not all very clear. One think I've also got to start doing is coming up with names for things and minor characters. In all I've got about 14 characters roughly sketched out--three of whom have names. I don't have names for much of the cities and landscape I've got my little party trekking through either.
Oh and the number one thing I've got to figure out is why exactly my party's going on this big quest they're on. Kind of important. You see, I've got what they're doing pretty much all planned out; I just don't know why they're doing it or what's going to happen after they get through the first huge hurdle. I've got a bucket full of little clips of plot and bits of conversations in my head--the hard part is figuring out how it all strings together.Usually when I write stories, I have exactly the opposite problem. I have the big picture but I don't know how to develop the feeling I want.
I do hope I can overcome this problem for this story. I'm rather fond of most of the characters. Actually making up characters is my favorite part of story-making (excluding coming up with their names). Really what I enjoy about writing is having people discover the personalities of my characters. I guess that's actually my main inhibitor of my writing. I want people to picture my characters exactly how I do and spend so much time trying to work in the little details that it drives me ballistic. I never got how authors would just make up a background for their characters and then never tell anyone about it and not include it in their writing.
Anyways, the point of this post actually was just to say that I will be re-writing what I have done so far (actually it's more like scrapping than re-writing) and that despite my desire to do away with what I've written all together, I will keep it up just for the heck of it.
Haha, boy did I get off topic. Oh well. I'm off to write more of my story. So please be patient and toodle-pip for now.
~Koshi~
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Chapter 1: The Knight
Chapter 1: Part 1
(Quick not from Koshi: I may play around with naming things. Most of the names of places as well as character names are just there so I can call them something. I'm not incredibly decisive when it comes to naming things. Anyway, without further ado, the story)
In the country of Avalask, autumn had set over the countryside. The hills and forests were alight with the fiery hues of the season. The animals were fewer now and so the city folk of the capital, Toronas, were drawn out further from the safety of the city borders in order to bring fresh meat to the market. As the days grew colder, the usually packed roads and crushing crowds of Toronas' main streets dwindled to a steady flow of people hurrying to get from one destination to the next.
One particularly frigid morning, just before sunrise, the roads were nearly deserted. People huddled close to building walls, sheltered slightly from the wind, and whispered to eachother as a mounted rider urged his horse quickly though the maze of alleys. His heavy wollen cloak was wrapped tightly around him, attempting to keep the icy tendris of the comming winter wind at bay.
The rider slowed his steed to a walk as he neared where the city slums met the outer castle wall. Both the inner and outer castle gates were shut and barred, a sign of the distrusting times that had befallen Avalask. A city guard scrambled clumsily out of the guard hut, holding a lantern aloof and attempting to peer under the rider’s cload.
Kale pulled his cloak still tighter against him as his steed stirred restlessly under him. Kale reached out and patted the horse’s neck, whispering promises of a hot meal and dry housing. Just as the dawn light began to creep over the city, the gate before Kale creaked open to reveal a mounted castle guard, distinguishable by the gold trimmed armour he wore under his heavy green cloak. Kale dropped his hood to properly greet the knight, revealing his short black hair and clean-shaven face. He also drew back his cloak showing his sheathed sword engraved with the Toronas crest which proved his knight status. The guard nodded curtly to Kale, then turned and lead him into through the maze of alleys leading into the castle.
Alright I think that's all I'm going to write for part one for now. I may just do an edit and add a little more to it tonight... maybe. But right now I am hungry and I have class, so I leave you at this. I'm actually not that fond of what I've got so far, but I do know where I'm going with this story and I do rather like the plot, even if I know that the exicution won't be that great. Oh well. Until the next part then.
(Quick not from Koshi: I may play around with naming things. Most of the names of places as well as character names are just there so I can call them something. I'm not incredibly decisive when it comes to naming things. Anyway, without further ado, the story)
In the country of Avalask, autumn had set over the countryside. The hills and forests were alight with the fiery hues of the season. The animals were fewer now and so the city folk of the capital, Toronas, were drawn out further from the safety of the city borders in order to bring fresh meat to the market. As the days grew colder, the usually packed roads and crushing crowds of Toronas' main streets dwindled to a steady flow of people hurrying to get from one destination to the next.
One particularly frigid morning, just before sunrise, the roads were nearly deserted. People huddled close to building walls, sheltered slightly from the wind, and whispered to eachother as a mounted rider urged his horse quickly though the maze of alleys. His heavy wollen cloak was wrapped tightly around him, attempting to keep the icy tendris of the comming winter wind at bay.
The rider slowed his steed to a walk as he neared where the city slums met the outer castle wall. Both the inner and outer castle gates were shut and barred, a sign of the distrusting times that had befallen Avalask. A city guard scrambled clumsily out of the guard hut, holding a lantern aloof and attempting to peer under the rider’s cload.
Kale pulled his cloak still tighter against him as his steed stirred restlessly under him. Kale reached out and patted the horse’s neck, whispering promises of a hot meal and dry housing. Just as the dawn light began to creep over the city, the gate before Kale creaked open to reveal a mounted castle guard, distinguishable by the gold trimmed armour he wore under his heavy green cloak. Kale dropped his hood to properly greet the knight, revealing his short black hair and clean-shaven face. He also drew back his cloak showing his sheathed sword engraved with the Toronas crest which proved his knight status. The guard nodded curtly to Kale, then turned and lead him into through the maze of alleys leading into the castle.
Alright I think that's all I'm going to write for part one for now. I may just do an edit and add a little more to it tonight... maybe. But right now I am hungry and I have class, so I leave you at this. I'm actually not that fond of what I've got so far, but I do know where I'm going with this story and I do rather like the plot, even if I know that the exicution won't be that great. Oh well. Until the next part then.
The Purpose
Well. A blog.
I'll say I'm not really one for these kind of things, but I need somewhere to ramble every once and a while so this is as good of a place as any. Please don't expect anything coherent to come out of this blog. I'm not usually one to talk and so I guess I'll use this blog to vent my frustrations against people and society in general. Nothing personal, you're all nice people I'm sure.
To be honest with you I don't really have anything to talk about. Most of the time I won't have anything to talk about... Usually I write things like this to kill time or to avoid doing work (Don't pretend you don't do stuff like this).
So today will be one of the (hopefully?) many times I'm just writing babble to kill time. Procrastination is one of the things I'm best at. I've got an assignment due tomorrow, and so of course instead of dutifully working out answers I'm writing a blog about absolutely nothing, no surprise.
Maybe I'll write a story...
Actually I've been meaning to write a story for a while. I'm just so lazy that I never get around to it. I've got a whole bunch of story lines floating around in my head. However I'm not very skilled with words and so often find myself giving up after writing only a few sentences. It's ironic really. I write stories to distract myself from work, and then when stories get to hard to write I find other things to distract myself from writing a story.
Well I guess I should at least try to write one anyhow. I mean, it's about time I get something done right? Don't expect anything I do to be Tolkien standards though. What I'm posting up here's first draft. Maybe if I get far enough, I'll post a more refined version on Elf Wood. (Yes, that's right, I write fantasy stories. For some reason me and present day don't get along to well. Maybe its the way I word things....)
I guess I should start the story in a different post. That way its more distinguishable from my inane ramblings. Right then, story time here we go....
*Edit: ummmmmm taking longer than I thought. I'll upload the story in parts. And it won't be soon soooooo no need to sit there waiting...*
I'll say I'm not really one for these kind of things, but I need somewhere to ramble every once and a while so this is as good of a place as any. Please don't expect anything coherent to come out of this blog. I'm not usually one to talk and so I guess I'll use this blog to vent my frustrations against people and society in general. Nothing personal, you're all nice people I'm sure.
To be honest with you I don't really have anything to talk about. Most of the time I won't have anything to talk about... Usually I write things like this to kill time or to avoid doing work (Don't pretend you don't do stuff like this).
So today will be one of the (hopefully?) many times I'm just writing babble to kill time. Procrastination is one of the things I'm best at. I've got an assignment due tomorrow, and so of course instead of dutifully working out answers I'm writing a blog about absolutely nothing, no surprise.
Maybe I'll write a story...
Actually I've been meaning to write a story for a while. I'm just so lazy that I never get around to it. I've got a whole bunch of story lines floating around in my head. However I'm not very skilled with words and so often find myself giving up after writing only a few sentences. It's ironic really. I write stories to distract myself from work, and then when stories get to hard to write I find other things to distract myself from writing a story.
Well I guess I should at least try to write one anyhow. I mean, it's about time I get something done right? Don't expect anything I do to be Tolkien standards though. What I'm posting up here's first draft. Maybe if I get far enough, I'll post a more refined version on Elf Wood. (Yes, that's right, I write fantasy stories. For some reason me and present day don't get along to well. Maybe its the way I word things....)
I guess I should start the story in a different post. That way its more distinguishable from my inane ramblings. Right then, story time here we go....
*Edit: ummmmmm taking longer than I thought. I'll upload the story in parts. And it won't be soon soooooo no need to sit there waiting...*
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