Spoilers: bass drops.

I spent a good deal of last night optimizing my orchestral sample library so we can get a little of the classical flavor on the OST without having my computer crash every chord. Some of you might not know but similarly to Akane, I was a music school student once. This brings back some memories…

Book 3, “time to heal”, is being very complicated to write for some of the reasons I mentioned before: to combine both novel 1 and 2 while adding new elements and end the cycle… it’s hard. What gives me hope is the fact this is all just the beginning.

All in all it’s been one interesting year. I hope every single one of you made the best out of its ups and downs and also that the next one will have even more unique events in our lives.

Announcing the OST

Novel is near 50k now, trying to get it done till the end of the year.

NaNoWriMo 03/30

5515 words down so far, major surreal battles going on.

NaNoWriMo 02/30

http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/ryuno/novels/the-longing-of-shiina-ryo-volume-3-time-to-heal/stats

Got the dialogue for a very important Shin-tsu scene down and more of the cool new characters I worked on yesterday, including a huge speech that may or may not be villainous. Wrote a little more than yesterday, too.

Still fun!

NaNoWriMo Day 01/30

Current wordcount/Goal for the day: 1682/1667

Today I started another sideplot, was a lot of fun because the setting allows for some nice experimentation and, failing to do that, I can continue to rip off Ender’s game. Got some good example of gun porn for it too, which made me notice my tendency of going on and on about subjects mid-narrative is alive and well. Also, got some “Last Battle” scene lines right: I had an idea of how I wanted them to go, but this is it.

Managed to meet the goal. Didn’t go too far from it at the request of my loved one and it was for the best; even though I knew I could write a little more, there’s no need to rush it at first. The fact remains I was able to get a solid set-up down and that’s more than I can say I did when not practicing. Teach your kid to walk slow and steady before he can run, yadda yadda.

How are you guys doing?

more hiatuses than Togashi

So yeah, apparently I got a full time job. Which I already have mixed feelings about because of its conditions. Still, need the money so I gotta give it a shot even if it means throwing NaNoWriMo out the window. Remember when something exactly like this happened last year?

Volume 3 delayed? Yup, it seems so.

not noveling yet

remixing instead

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo time!

After the traumatic events of the Slaughter Festival and the return of an old acquaintance with a craving for vengeance, will Koukishin Shinzou get the peaceful days he desperately wanted in the first place or was the whole experience just proof he is unfit for that kind of life? What awaits Kouma Yon after her manipulation being discovered and the situation seems to go deeper than initially assumed? What will happen to Reikoku-sensei, and why does her backup plan terrify Shin-tsu so much? How did the unusual events of that day affect Megumi? Will Akane come to terms with her insecurities and confess her love before it’s too late? What led Rin to considering breaking the band up? What is this town’s secret? What is Mystery? Who is Shiina Ryo?
A literary tale of creation, destruction and reconstruction comes to its conclusion. More characters! More sideplots! References! Casinos! Otaku culture! Psychological drama! Audio engineering! Secrets! Time travel! Metaphysics! Cooking! World War II! Gravity not working properly!

The ridiculously vague synopsis is there and Chiri’s face explains it very well. I’m not going to count the words I have already written, which would be technically “cheating”: in the following month, I really plan on writing 50k words and hopefully wrap the story up while doing so.

If you’re on NaNoWriMo as well, feel free to add me as a buddy!

the Red Orchestra plays one last time

http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=The_Longing_Of_Shiina_Ryo

The story written by Cyul reaches its climax!

8315 Words

17 pages of pure confrontation.

http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=The_Longing_Of_Shiina_Ryo:Volume3_002