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Camp July '23: Miscreants + Through the Amber Forest



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Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:15 pm
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Hoping to finally finish my 'first draft' of Miscreants, and also to develop the worldbuilding for another fantasy novella (more specific goal to be determined later).

Miscreants: fantasy political intrigue story, planning to work on this 23 mins a day

Through the Amber Forest: speculative/fantasy story in a world with mysterious magical creatures
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Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:32 pm
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Oooh exciting that you might finish Miscreants during Camp! How close do you think you are to the end?
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Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:26 pm
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@Carlito A little over one chapter, though length may vary haha!
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Sat Jun 24, 2023 10:36 am
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Some planning

Miscreants: fantasy political intrigue story

I have a pretty detailed outline of how I want the last chapter or so to play out. By and large I'll just follow that and finish up the draft. I know there are probably a bunch of side characters and side plots that don't really get resolved in the ending. My plan is to leave that for a revision because I ultimately might decide to cut a lot of that out, and also the ending was always meant to be a bit open-ended, with things still left undone.

Through the Amber Forest: speculative/fantasy story in a world with mysterious magical creatures

As I'd like to be able to use this setting for future projects, I'm trying to increase the depth of the worldbuilding. My main goal is to come up with a sensible climate, even in very broad strokes, based on this setting's rather odd premise that also involves plenty of magic that is incorporated into the physics and biology of the planet. In our physics terms, magic retains conservation of energy/matter while magicking up the processes betwixt, if that makes sense.

The story itself, which is a second draft, will probably be another month's project.
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Sun Jun 25, 2023 11:08 pm
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Ahhhhhh!!! You're about to finish??? What a rush of emotions!
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Sat Jul 01, 2023 10:39 am
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Indeedy @Snoink!!
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Day 1

664 words, and wrote to the end of chapter 17.
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Day 2

475 words, finished one scene in Chapter 18 and began another
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Day 3

222 words - didn't write for the number of minutes I wanted to, but I did finish up one scene with that
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Day 4

473 words - did a kind of jumpy vignette-like dinner scene and then started on the final scene of the draft (!!)
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Day 5

120 words and completed the draft of Miscreants. Got started on figuring out how climate in Through the Amber Forest works -- I just realised I might have to change some of the locations from being villages to being places where nomadic groups of humans occasionally come to because of how volatile the unnamed planet in the story is ^^'
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Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:03 am
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120 words and completed the draft of Miscreants.

YAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!! :D
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Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:44 am
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Carlito wrote:
120 words and completed the draft of Miscreants.

YAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!! :D


Hurray! :D
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Day 6

Came up with some new ideas on how the sun in TtAF might work. Started thinking about landmass formation.
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Liminality wrote:120 words and completed the draft of Miscreants.


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