Showing posts with label screnzy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label screnzy. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Google Chrome, Noodle Updates, and ABNA Apprehension

I just downloaded Google Chrome - it's insanely fast, and it's making me very happy. Bye-bye Internet Explorer! You may have nostalgia attached to you, but you still suck!

That said, I've been noodling!

...that's code for 'editing'. And yes, it is true. I have been noodling last April's novel, "Flight" for a while now, and I'm up to the 80s pages. It's only 115 pages long, but I plan to change that after my first grammar-and-syntax check. I plan to add scenes and everything. >8) It's making me hyper.

I am also still planning the sequel for this April's Screnzy challenge (knowing me, I'm doing a double challenge - a screenplay and novel in the same month!) It's a very exciting sequel idea, and what with the same lovable characters as the last book, and the new faces, new powers, and new plot, I'm really really excited.

It's dangerous, with all this excitement!

I'm also waiting for tomorrow's Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award first round results. I NEED TO SCREAM AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Thank you. Now, you have probably realized my novel is entered. It is. I'm scared. It's thrilling. I will die either way tomorrow, if I make it or lose it, so prepare for a funeral.

That said, I'm off before I get too crazy.

More noodling!

~Silvermist

Friday, February 10, 2012

April Approaches

Author at work. Viewer discretion is advised.

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As April draws nearer, my excitement grows, for April marks the beginning of an adventure only I can undertake. One of plots! Settings! Characters! NEW characters! NEW BEGINNINGS!
And only I will survive, dragging a team of tired characters through the end of an epic climax, struggling through the opposition, pushing against the wind! Sword drawn! Guns loaded! COMING OUT ON TOP! *insane cackling*

Not only that, but it all is enclosed in thirty days! Thirty precious, breakable, fragile days that only I can control, warping the bonds of time and pumping out thousand and thousands of words per day! I will prevail! I will throw my heart into this, and not only will it win, it will get stronger!

ZOMG HOW LONG IS IT NOW?!

*explodes
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You have just witnessed an author at full whacko. If medical assistance is required, call an ambulance. I claim no responsibility.

~Silvermist

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Flight

Hey, did you scroll down and see the dude at the bottom of my blog? Well, his name is Andael, and even though 'Flight' isn't really hitting theaters this April, I've chosen to take that novel and spruce it up for publishing - but not before I add the scenes I've been meaning to add since last April, when I wrote it during my Script Frenzy double challenge.

Please comment on this basic plot outline/summary!

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Set in a futuristic, semi-scifi Earth-based setting, 'Flight' centers around the story of four "Supernaturals", or power-wielding humans who are scattered sparsely from each other, always forced to keep their otherworldly talents a secret, living disguised among the humans and forever cursed by their differences. The quartet of young people pull together but are pushed into hiding for fear that they will be discovered by the untrusting, fearful, and sometimes biased humans; they train together in the deep country until, when the book begins, they are discovered but suddenly and unpleasantly kidnapped.

Bane Larron, the Supernatural's malevolent captor and the unfeeling orchestrator of the Supernatural Plan, relishes the thought of four such rare beings at his disposal, and the intelligent scientist uses threats and even violence to keep the prisoners under control, even at the expense of earning his only teenaged daughter's displeased anger. Things go quite well according to his plan, until the Supernaturals prove to be much more powerful than he anticipated, in more ways than one.

Over the course of one day and in one place, the Supernaturals must fight their way past Bane's guards, weapons, and machines, trying to find their way toward the woods and, ultimately, freedom. Along the way they meet Andael, Bane's right-hand man, but whose side is he really on? He claims to have known Larron for longer than he cares to remember, and follows the man's orders to the letter in capturing the Supernaturals, but when he faces them alone, he's a different man. Wary of his trust, Laticia, the group's leader, is left helpless in the face of attack after attack. On top of it all, each member relapses into his or her past, reflecting on what brought them here, who they are, and why - and none of it is pleasant.

But the real question is: will they ever escape alive? Bane is as ruthless as he is knowledgeable, and with his hands on the most technologically advanced, anti-energy weapons of the age, he will leave nothing behind without first making sure it's left maimed or dead. Left powerless, the small group is forced to leave behind everything they believe about the captors and even what they knew about each other before they can escape. Andael and Erica, Bane's meek daughter, try to help, but whose trust are they looking to secure? There's only one way to find out, and only one way to escape.

Destroy the source of power - Bane's anti-energy dome.

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Be sure to tell me what you think! Now I'm off to start writing those scenes I need to add! Weee!

~Silvermist