Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Chapter Twelve: 12/13
I feel like finishing up this section, but at the same time, I really don't want to today. Perhaps there will be another update, perhaps not. I don't know. We'll see.
I really wish I could skip ahead to the end but I cannot.
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Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Chapter Twelve: 12/13
Short update. Remember, this is the conclusion of an arc that initially only lasted for a couple smallish chapters
This is the second minichapter.
Tale of Aron, Mini-Chapter Two
And since we are at the end of this arc, I figure it wouldn't hurt to share the original written work on this part of Aron's tale. This goes all the way back to after Aron leaves Keldagrim. I have included the portion pre "snip" as well, but I am taking out some other parts as they may come back.
Original
Anyway, I hope you enjoy all the additional work that has gone into expanding this original 2,500 word section into something far larger (7,500 words+).
Edit: By the way, speaking of word count, the story as it currently stands is nearly 22,500 words. The original story when it was finished was at least 30-32,000 words, all books considered. Books One and Two were *maybe* 15,000 words total originally (can't remember). I can't give you definite numbers since much of book three was lost and much of books one and two were changed before I started keeping track separately. But those numbers should be fairly accurate.
Therefore, at this rate, story should greatly exceed 40,000 words once completed. There is still much to improve and add in book two, so it very well could even exceed 50,000. I shan't know until the end, especially since all these rewrites will constitute many changes in book three.
Last edited by TheDarkKnight; December 21, 2012 at 07:30 PM.
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Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Minichapter Two: 12/21
Tale of Aron, Chapter 13
Expanded something that before only took up a paragraph into a whole chapter in itself. This was originally going to be only a background event towards a much larger one, but unfortunately I could not help myself from writing more. The next event will likely have an entire chapter devoted to itself as well.
I hope my quality isn't sinking. I didn't particularly like how this chapter turned out, but it should be okay. I was unwilling to scrap it once I wrote it. I will probably improve on it once I am done, though. So enjoy.
And feedback is always appreciated.
Also, if you do read this but don't comment, please consider doing so. I feel like I'm only writing for 2 people here but the number of thread views suggest otherwise. Even if you hate my work in every sense of the word, please tell me so.
I plan to have the rest of book 2 finished before the end of the year.
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Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Chapters 13 and 14, 12/25
Originally Posted by Shankbot de Bodemloze
Great work on those 3() updates.
The story is coming a long nicely, and it was great too see how you've extended it compared to the original version you posted.
Great victory for the men of Lummy () and I can't wait to see what Aron gets up to now.
I can't wait either...Cause to be honest, I have absolutely no idea what I want to do from here. I wish to flesh out the story to include much more, but I do not wish to make the story so large that it becomes unmanageable. I have some ideas...but...
Well. I don't know. There might be some serious divergence from the original story coming up. We shall see.
By the way, Iriun is a completely new character to the story as a whole. I just made him up created him after many days of pondering the need for a new character last night . His original name was going to be Therod, but then changed to be Urien (as defined by my girlfriend), but I realized that looked far too close to "urine"...Perhaps not the choicest of names.
His addition may cause some big changes down the line, as might the additions of other characters. You may even see some other ones return later...I have some interesting ideas swirling about my brain.
Who knows.
As I said. I know the general story about how the story begins and ends. It's now the fleshing out of the characters as well as the story in general that I hope will make the story far more interesting.
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Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Chapters 13 and 14, 12/25
Might be a fair while until the next update for a variety of reasons, the first of which is the fact that I completely wrote out a new chapter, which took forever, only to realize it was complete crap and quite short (it felt like I had written two thousand words and it only came out to about a thousand). But I've had some new ideas floating around in my head, so maybe those will come out later.
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Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Chapters 13 and 14, 12/25
I realized that I will perhaps never be truly satisfied with this chapter, so it would be best to just move on. I almost completely scrapped it so I could just condense all the events into one paragraph so that I could move on, but I have decided to keep it. If it seems like crap, I'm sorry.
This is now considered an unplanned mini-chapter. It was originally going to be much longer (and better) but that will no longer be the case.
Tale of Aron, Minichapter Three
Sorry for the ridiculously long wait. I hope that it will not happen again.
Last edited by TheDarkKnight; February 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM.
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Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Minichapter Three 2/17
Some news:
In about a month and a half it will be one year since I started rewriting this story and adding it to the forums. Not bad, I suppose, but I had originally wanted to be done well before now. However, in expanding the story I have greatly undone that "goal"
So I'm starting a new goal...I am planning to have this story completed by April 10th, the anniversary. I don't know whether I will be able to actually accomplish this or not, but I will try. Book three is going to be a pain mainly because it is not really divided into chapters...more like odd sections. So I will probably have to rewrite more of that than before. I still have no idea how I am going to bridge it between Books two and three because originally there was a multi-year gap between the two...now that may not occur. I do not know.
But I do plan on having a final chapter that is significantly larger than Chapter five in House Divided (for the rest of you who are not following that one, chapter five was over 6,600 words long). That much is clear. Unfortunately I will have to rewrite all of that because it was lost. But much of the rest of Book Three is intact, so it will just require some editing to make it more...exciting? It is rather boring...most of book three is a set up to something huge, so much of it is rather...tedious.
Anyway, I hope you will enjoy it. And again, I will try to have this all wrapped up on April 10th. With this done, I can focus on House Divided and my next story, planned to be a "mini-serial".
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Re: The Tale of Aron, Update Minichapter Three 2/17
yeah we will see. I may do something in order to ensure it happens...I may do a big time jump and only allude to some events and return to them later in a series of short stories.
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