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The Legend of Peran: Acacius is a fantasy story set in Peran starting in the 1990s. It follows the life of Acacius who is an experienced pilot from the U.S. Air Force that stumbles into Peran after getting lost in a storm while chasing an unknown contact over the skies of Alaska. In his efforts to find a way home, he meets Clio Ejderha who is a self-taught witch with incredible power.
This series is not crowd funded, and I intend to write for it as it fancies me, but if you want to support my work in any way you can either give directly by Paypal or find me on Patreon. Unlike my other stories however, I will not accept requests for this one. There is only one other person in the world who has any say in how this story goes, and they prefer to remain anonymous.
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Ace tries to escape Clio's cage before she eats him. With some clever thinking, he does so, but escaping proves not to be as easy as he had hoped. He's not in Alaska anymore.
Posted by PrismaticAria 4 years ago Report
This is adorable! I wish I was half the writer you are!
Just curious, do you spend more time actually writing and/or drafting than you do editing and revising? Or is it the other way around?
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Posted by Aces 4 years ago Report
Writing usually takes longer because I will often times completely scrap an entire chapter because I don't like how it plays out.
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Posted by PrismaticAria 4 years ago Report
So you start writing a chapter with a rough idea of how you want the story to progress, but you don't actually know exactly what's going to happen until you've actually written it?
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Posted by Aces 4 years ago Report
Pretty much. Sometimes I outline stuff in advance but I often wing it, especially with stories like Little Lamia or Guts and Glory.
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Posted by PrismaticAria 4 years ago Report
I find it rather odd how that's exactly what I do when writing; I just wanted to know if your approach was at all similar to mine. Weird how things work out like that, yeah? Makes me feel all fuzzy inside :)
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Posted by gongofknockout 4 years ago Report
how did you get so good at writing? I've always been interested but i have no idea how i would start.
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Posted by Aces 4 years ago Report
Sheer stubborn determination, and the ability to recognize good criticism but also being thick-skinned enough to blow off bad criticism without getting deterred. For the second part, the difference being one offers you ideas on how to better the story which you may or may not agree with, and the other is a person trying to force in their own arbitrary likes and dislikes with no bearing on whether it enhances the story. I've ranted about this in the past and you can find those rants on the blog.
Fallout: Guts and Glory was an example of both of these traits. The sheer stubborn determination was me forcing myself to have a chapter posted once every week, consistently, on the same day every week. Often times I would find myself writing ahead by many chapters because I was getting into the groove of it. Other times I would just drag myself through and have something to put up. Either way, the story progresses, at least a little bit at a time. Before I know it two years have gone by and I've just finished my first novel. However, doing so was not without its fair share of criticism. I have rewritten up to TEN CHAPTERS and completely scrapped weeks worth of work because it ended up not working out. If I hadn't done that, the ending of that story would have been very different.
Reading other people's stuff is the best way to improve one's own writing. Yet, I get bored with reading regular books. That said, I thrive on RP. In roleplay, I not only get to practice the use of language, I get to see how other people use it. I often find things that I like, and adapt it into my own writing. The better the writer I am working with, the more rapidly I improve.
Of course I've been roleplaying for about fourteen years now so the experience is helpful too.
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Posted by Allard-Liao 2 years ago Report
Reading this, I realized we've never seen a reptilian naga in LLitBC. I wonder why that is.
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