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Happy April 1st everyone! It's been a pretty quiet day here so far, though the cats decided to cause a ruckus last night. I have more bandages on my left hand than a mummy in the sarcophagus. Why did I ever agree to adopting such deadly little fuzz-balls? Actually, out of the three I have here, technically I only adopted one, the other two were somewhat inherited.
Anyway! There are just a couple more chapters left in Folie A Toi, I'm pretty excited (I'm sure I've said that already). So happy to those of you who have been following along with me for this adventure and I do hope you continue to stick around for what I have next.
Speaking of...Some of you may have noticed the new story I started last week, Adrianna. She's actually a rather recent character addition in my repetoire. I wasn't planning on doing too much with her, but she took on a life of her own and will be a nice addition to the little universe I'm expanding. I hope her stories are as entertaining as the misadventurings of Birdy and Jester have been. Not sure how consistent her story postings will be though as she is quite new and I only have one other installment to post of her. I like to have a cushion of more if I have a 'scheduled' posting day.
I'm also happy to say my more 'longer' story I've been working on has a nice little cushion, I'll begin posting that one after posting the last installment of Folie'.
So, last blog I asked about crepes, I want to shout out that I did get an answer, but I haven't received permission to mention names so I won't do that, just know if you read this, THANK YOU! I always appreciate good food suggestions! I may be a foodie...
So, to wrap this up so I'm not continually dragging my feet about getting my other responsibilities met...
Thank you again for sticking around, I appreciate you all so much and would love to hear from you, keep an eye out for my future projects, and if you have a baller recipe of any kind I'd love to hear!
Don't go fool'n around too much! ^_^V
Good day, or night, to all! It's another chilly day here in my little corner of the PNW, cloudy and oh so overcast.
So, I have an exciting story update, I have closed work on Folie a Toi, I have just a handful of chapters left to post and then we get the conclusion. Not to worry though if you do enjoy my writing, I am still working on my long-term project and will start posting it after I conclude my current (only) story submission. I'm kinda a 'one-at-a-time' person. This long term project has been in the works for years, mostly due to re-writes because I have bad luck with crashing computers (I swear it's not because of visiting shady porn sites.)
I have a question for any of you authors out there, what is your experience with creating new worlds? Like, creating completely new societal constructs, laws, systems, and what-not. I am having a bi of difficulty with creating a viable/believable/realistic political system and political anything is super boring to me. I guess what I'm asking for is for study/research tips? In my years attending educational facilities I found my assigned research projects to be enjoyable, so it wasn't difficult. DAMN I do not like politics! So any tips or idea bouncing would be welcome.
Going back to my conclusion announcement, it really has been an enjoyable experience, sharing the story with you all, and I appreciate you all for sticking with me through it. Hopefully you'll enjoy my future submissions as well, and I would love to hear from you!
The following is a little nursery jig I thought of and meant to incorporate it into my current story: (To the tune of 'Baa-baa-black sheep')
Birdy birdy, To where have you flown? Time to play in trees from the seeds you’ve sown.
Birdy birdy, to where have you flown? Don’t miss the fun from the seeds that you’ve sown.
Birdy birdy, to where have you flown? Only peace and joy from the seeds that you’ve sown.
Birdy birdy, I see where you have flown, to the safety and love from the seeds that you've sown.
Instead I've slightly modified it and it will show up in the last installment.
Randomly, little rhymes and jingles will pop into my head, I think the coolest thing ever was when an ex of mine put two of my poems together and wrote accompanying music for it. Too bad he's an ex though, it made a really cute song.
Oh! Another thing, so I was told that I have a bad habit of posting a daunting 'wall of text'. I am so sorry! If ever I do a 'remastering' of Folie a Toi I will be sure to edit better (unless by that time I have an actual editor to call me out on my lack of skill and BS) Moving forward I am trying to be better about it, so as I make reading a little easier on you guys. Please accept my apologies.
So for my last thought here, totally legitimate question here, any tips on making a good crepe? I've been craving crepes with hollandaise but I am not good at making crepes, hey end up being scrambled pancakes.
Hello all! It's a sunny day here in my neck of the woods, hope you all are doing well too.
Well, I'm working on what I am certain will be the last installment for Folie a Toi, it has been a fun journey and the story actually ended up being longer than I had expected. I'm more accustomed to much shorter stories. I thank you for following me along for this story and hope you stick around for what else I have to offer up. I'd love to hear from you too, what do you like? What don't you like? Is there anything you'd like me to explore more among my writings? I enjoy making interconnections among my writings, so there will be a lot of tie ins among my stories as I move forward despite different genres and story content. This site has been pretty welcoming so far and I'm excited about sticking around and making more posts.
I don't have a whole lot to blab on about today so I'll end here. Until next time! ^_^v
I wasn't going to make a post of any sort today. I typically like to wait until my usual times of posting (Monday for story installments, and I think Thursday or Wednesday for a blog?) however I feel a bit inspired by a rather talented gent who has been enormously helpful with insights into general and ideas I otherwise don't typically entertain (not my usual intrusive thoughts, delicious to a terminally curious mind). I'd mention names, but I'm not sure I have permission, if I do obtain permission I'll probably post names.
Anyway! As always I would like to thank those of you who have been following along with my story 'Folie a Toi', you're amazing. I am currently on the ending part of it, but if you do enjoy it I hope you like my take on the sci/fi genre as the world in which Jester and Birdy are living their adventure will be the same (albeit about a decade or so in the future) as where my newer (actually older...) stories will be mainly set. ("Fish, what do you mean by 'mainly'?" My dear reader, if you stick around you'll see.)
On another note, I am toying with testing the waters on ACTUAL horror and psychological terror too, so I'm going to post an excerpt on something I am working on and I really would like to know if anyone would be interested in it, otherwise it'll probably be an unpublished "I am writing these things out so I don't put actions to what those damned intrusive thoughts want me to do" situation. Writing really is an outlet for me after all.
I'm posting the 'tease' of a story idea here in the blog because I've noticed that there are some rather popular niches on this site, niches I am not at all talented at writing competently, however if I found this place, and I myself have unique tastes, then there must be someone else who would be entertained by my particular flavors so to speak. (I mean, there are a few of you I know for a fact I didn't bribe to read my other story...right?)
So, before reading any further please note, there is gore, there is viscera, there is a corpse, there is the devouring of menstrual elements in the following passage. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
(I'm working on the title and the actual monster, skin-walker? Wendigo? I want to be sure of what it actually is before I name it properly and yes I am actually researching this stuff, if you have any materials or references as to such creatures I would love for your input!)
>>The actual excerpt follows>>
A sickening crunch stirred the woman awake. She found that she couldn’t move, her whole body numb, her vision blurry but slowly coming into focus, and her head throbbing as though she had been drugged. More crunching, and something like slurping, the sounds reminded her of a safari she and her fiance had gone on. The sounds that a group of hyenas had made when they were eating an antelope. That was it, the sound was unmistakable, something was eating something else. It sounded big too, was it a bear? Her heart began to race, if she was incapacitated in the presence of a hungry bear she was done for. Where was her fiance? She desperately tried to move but only managed to turn her neck to face the direction of the sounds. She blinked, trying to focus on the surroundings. Her mind couldn’t entirely comprehend what her eyes were relaying. Whatever this was, it was no bear. She felt panic rising, heart racing, body beginning to heat up in fear. Even if she could move, she would have been paralyzed by the vision before her. Something was crouched over a skinless carcass, feasting on the muscle and sinew, claws ripping at the bowels. It had a head like a cervid, but larger than any deer or elk she had ever seen and with fangs like a mountain lion, horns like a bighorned sheep and antlers like an elk on its head, rotting flesh was hanging off it in places, a deflated eye in one socket and nothing in the other. Its arms seemed almost humanlike, but longer, and its fingers ended in claws that curved like a cats, she couldn’t make out much else since it was crouched over the corpse that separated the two, but she could see more rotted looking flesh along with lichen and, was that fungi growing on some of the exposed bones? It was an impossible looking mass of death and rot, but there it was, eating something, or someone. The woman was certain she would be next, and that only compounded the fear she was trapped in. The creature looked up from its gory feast and stared at the woman, if one could call it a stare with an empty socket and a deflated eye. It stood, at its full height it looked to be well over seven feet, the lower body looked to have had more flesh stretched taut over a sinewy human-like structure. She could see into the torso, what looked like a putrid, but fully animated, scene of rotting organs. How was this thing existing? Ribs broke through the thin skin on its right, while the left had rips that looked held together with the lichen and fungi.
‘I’m gonna die…’ she could think of nothing else but a horrific death. The beast looked to the side and retrieved something that almost looked like a leather pelt. The woman closed her eyes tightly, if she was to die, she didn’t want that hideous thing to be the last thing she saw. The sounds of cracking and stretching chords echoed off the damp walls of the cavern the two were in. She managed now to tremble uncontrollably, still unable to consciously force any movements. Soon she felt hot wet breath on the skin exposed from her ripped clothing, first along her neck and moving down. She heard the thing sniffing her. Unwilling to look at it, she imagined that the thing was crouched over her like it had been over the corpse just a few feet away, then the smell hit her hard. She hadn’t noticed it earlier, too afraid of everything and mentally not caught up to the situation. The smell was absolutely insufferable, that distinctive, unmistakable scent of death and rot. Her head was swimming, she felt she may pass out again, then it removed what remained of her pants and underwear, exposing her lower body completely. ‘Of course’ she thought, ‘the flesh of the belly is softest, no bones to get in the way. This is it, I’m dead.’ The trembling got worse, then she felt it. Her eyes widened, she looked down at the creature, but it was different, it looked almost human, and it was licking her crotch, tongue impossibly long and going deep into her, as if it wanted to slurp the contents of her womb. She was on her cycle, was it just so attracted to blood that it was going to start there? Unexpectedly she let out a gasp she didn’t realize she was holding, despite the horror of it all, this felt incredible. She hated that she knew she was about to die, and yet no one had ever eaten her out in such an amazing way. The irony, she thought, getting eaten out, and then getting eaten. The creature looked up, her menstrual blood covering the tattered lips. The face that looked at her was a zombified version of her fiance. That was it, she couldn’t take it anymore and passed out once more, certain she would never awaken again.
Tech one looked at scribe one, “She passed out again. Do you think it will eat her this time?”
Scribe one didn’t look up from its tablet, “No, it’s treating this one differently. Almost reverently.”
Tech one looked at the display monitor at the two subjects, the ‘monster’ carried the human female subject bridal style to its nest. “You think the cafeteria will have meatloaf again today?”
Scribe one, still inputting data on the tablet, responded, “I hope not, that shit tastes like a bloody nose.”
(As I read over after posting that, I am appalled, Cervid is part of the English language! What spell check is this site running?!)
Anyway, please let me know what you think, if you want more or no. I'd like to read your thoughts. ^_^v
Hello readers!
As the title says, 'uhg' this week is kicking my ass. Everyone seems to be coming down with a cold around me and it started with the Endocrinologists kiddo. It's caused quite a lull in my creative thinking for current projects and I've found that I've been 'fluffing' all of my writing projects. (I guess that's good for inter-character developments??) maybe it means for a longer last installment of a couple, or I dunno, something. Hopefully not too dullsville. On the flip side, I have been inspired for a new story that I think I can manage to tie into the lore of what I've already got, though a different tone and whatnot, just need to work on getting he imagery out of my mind and translated to text on a word doc. I think it fits better with me, being a recluse by nature.
Anyhow, hopefully I have more done soon and can get back to a comfortable buffer of how many installments I have left, versus what I have to post. I'm not sure that last statement makes any sense, here's hoping.
From a dismally rainy area, I wish you all a wonderful day!
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