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magistrate) wrote2012-06-18 10:28 pm
magistrate) wrote2012-06-18 10:28 pm
Entry tags:
- *(not) hiding under things,
- *....,
- *ahahahahaa... yeah,
- *movin' on forward,
- *movin'... on,
- *not enough exposition,
- *should have got more sleep,
- *wait what,
- *well that was random,
- [!] write-a-thon,
- entry: rambledansen,
- fic: the angel at the gate,
- game: silent hill,
- metafic: commentary,
- metafic: misc,
- metafic: process,
- religious texts: the bible,
- stuff: excerpts,
- stuff: links,
- topic: clarion west,
- topic: fic,
- topic: writing,
- webcomic: 1/0
In which our intrepid author types non-sequiturs
If you wanted to count the combined wordcounts of everything I've worked on since the start of the Write-a-thon, we'd be up to 624 now! If you wanted to count the actual words I've written since the start, we'd be at... something more like 87.
Neither of these are particularly inspiring numbers, but I'll take them, because they're greater than 0.
Today's 87 words went to The Angel at the Gate, a story inspired by a YouTube video of Silent Hill: Homecoming, the long-completed webcomic 1/0, and thinking about Biblical cherubs. Naturally, the story is about a group of friends who were tossed out of another world after fighting for and saving it as destined heroes, and who find themselves unable to leave the city they've been thrown into because there's a supernatural phenomenon which blocks their way out.
(They name the phenomenon Azrael. Who was not a cherub, if you were wondering.)
Long story short, my fiction rarely bears any resemblance to its inspiration, so I hope the preceding explanation made no sense to you.
...
...hey, who wants an excerpt!
[Semi-boilerplate text: As always, I hope you'll check out and support the Clarion West Write-a-thon (and me in particular, if you feel so inclined). Your donation will help a workshop that allows its students to create quality work like mine! Except often better, and coherent.]
Neither of these are particularly inspiring numbers, but I'll take them, because they're greater than 0.
Today's 87 words went to The Angel at the Gate, a story inspired by a YouTube video of Silent Hill: Homecoming, the long-completed webcomic 1/0, and thinking about Biblical cherubs. Naturally, the story is about a group of friends who were tossed out of another world after fighting for and saving it as destined heroes, and who find themselves unable to leave the city they've been thrown into because there's a supernatural phenomenon which blocks their way out.
(They name the phenomenon Azrael. Who was not a cherub, if you were wondering.)
Long story short, my fiction rarely bears any resemblance to its inspiration, so I hope the preceding explanation made no sense to you.
...
...hey, who wants an excerpt!
I look up to see Zeph straddling the peak of the roof, nailing down siding, and the arc of the hammer in his hand takes my breath away. It doesn't take long for him to look down and see me, loitering in the middle of the road.
I sign, Remember the flight to the burning cathedral? Your sword scattered the sunlight and gave you wings.
Zeph grins and hefts the hammer, then sees something in my face and sets it down. And he signs back, with emphasis on every word:
Don't. Start. Crying. Here.
[Semi-boilerplate text: As always, I hope you'll check out and support the Clarion West Write-a-thon (and me in particular, if you feel so inclined). Your donation will help a workshop that allows its students to create quality work like mine! Except often better, and coherent.]
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EITHER WAY the tiny little bit of out of context ficsnippet there is absolutely beautiful (in that whole 'this gave me an immediate brainmovie' sort of way) and makes me want to read the rest of the story, if it gets written. So yanno. Yay? :D?
Particularly intrigued by not the explanation of the mythic stuff in it, but the tiny little bit you dangled in the snippet: Your sword scattered the sunlight and gave you wings. That. That is awesome.