The first draft of the book is now nearly done. <\/p>\n
\nMy writing has slowed considerably lately for a number of reasons. I hit a section of the book that I hadn\u2019t extensively planned out in my head, so my writing slowed as I devoted time to thinking about what I wanted to compose. Then I\u2019ve also been busier lately, leaving less time to spend on composition. Finally, I\u2019ve lately realized that I spend so much time thinking about this story, and having fun wrestling over how I want it to develop, that I think I\u2019m somewhat subconsciously hesitant to actually finish it. As long as it\u2019s still a work-in-progress, I can continue thinking about it and developing it. However, once it\u2019s \u201cfinished,\u201d thinking further about what I want to do with it is a pointless exercise. However, I have lately found myself considering more ideas that may be integrated into the sequel book.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always envisioned this story in two parts, and although the world setting is certainly big enough to allow for an infinite number of tales, I\u2019ve never seriously envisioned this story as anything more or less than two parts. I\u2019ve also never seriously thought of myself as a novelist, and I\u2019m certainly no NisiOisiN who can churn out a complete light novel in under a month. But at this point, I\u2019m now into the \u201cepilogue\u201d and have completed over 200 typed pages and surpassed my target goal of 50,000 words. I put \u201cepilogue\u201d in quotation marks because I\u2019ve thought of this final scenario in the story as an \u201cepilogue\u201d for years. However, just yesterday I realized that it really ought not to be an epilogue. The prologue is specifically a prologue because it occurs before the introduction of the protagonist and establishes the foundation of the narrative. But the \u201cepilogue\u201d does focus on the protagonist, so it\u2019s really more accurately a final short chapter than an \u201cepilogue.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve also recently come to realize that I think I\u2019ve actually managed to craft a reasonably original story. The tale draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including Tori Amos and X Japan songs, medieval poetry, and certainly anime and manga like Gunnm<\/em> and Five Star Stories<\/em>, but I don\u2019t think that it clearly and immediately resembles anything else I\u2019m familiar with. While K-On<\/em> is a variation of Lucky Star<\/em>, which is a variation of Azumanga Daioh<\/em>, and \u201csad girl in snow\u201d eroge anime are similar enough to be categorized \u201csad girl in snow\u201d stories, my novel is overtly a sci-fi revenge story that\u2019s not entirely a revenge story. My tale actually pre-dates Tow Ubukata\u2019s Mardock Scramble<\/em> novels, but while my story bears some very loose parallels to Mardock Scramble<\/em>, the similarities are so superficial that I\u2019d immediately dismiss any serious attempt to compare my novel and Mardock Scramble<\/em>. Both Bloody Angel<\/em> and Mardock Scramble<\/em> are futuristic stories in which reconstructed young women seek answers and revenge. But that\u2019s where the parallels end. In specifics, my novel Bloody Angel<\/em> has no similarities to Mardock Scramble<\/em> at all. So I\u2019m pleased to believe that I\u2019ve composed a moderately unique story, but that occurrence is largely coincidental as I didn\u2019t consciously set out to create something \u201ctotally original.\u201d I only sat down to write the story I wanted to tell, and I\u2019m pleased to find that I think it\u2019s turned out quite interesting. Provided that I may actually finish the initial draft tonight or tomorrow, I\u2019ll then begin re-reading and revising it, hopefully to get a workable draft to a small handful of my \u201ctest readers\u201d sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first draft of the book is now nearly done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29838,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836\/revisions\/29838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}