The Crystal Caves

Saaaa, I started writing the sequel to the novella today while I was at work. Jeffrey and Sammy were messing with my dreams again - the create some of the freakiest yet coolest nightmares ever - and only stopped when I promised to work on this for a while. I guess patience is not a virtue a devil has. The worst part is that I never can recall what the dreams/nightmares are about so I can't use them as story ideas. Hell, I've had Rikkai show up in some of them. Just warped.
I was going to share the first three paragraphs to the sequel to get an opinion on what you think, but realized that it would more or less spoil the entire first book. Rather a moot point, when I thought about it, because what the sequel takes for granted, the reader doesn't learn until the last chapter and a half of the novella. So, killed that idea. *snorts* Shows how tired I am. It's remarkable how sitting in a desk chair for nine hours will wipe you out. For those that are curious, remind me after I publish the first book, and I'll post the paragraphs. If this publisher doesn't want the story I'm going to self publish with Amazon and see what happens there. As this piece isn't involved with fan fiction at all, there's no copyright issues, so I'm not worried about it.
My novel on the other hand does have dragons in it kinda like TDC, but at the same time, the history is totally different as are the characters and ideas. I don't know how that one will pan out. Meh.

I'm writing the synopsis for my Titanic novella tonight at work - Sunday is traditionally a fairly dead night - and am sending it to the publisher tomorrow night.
Please, everyone, keep your fingers crossed for me. They say it's about a three to eight week turn around on manuscripts so nerve-wracking, but I'll let you know what happens.

I'm ahead of myself, I know, but as I needed to do this part of it in Japanese, I had to do it early on. *grins* This is more an experiment than anything else to see if it works.


FOR: 古川雄大
本当にありがとうございます。あなたの音楽はこの部分を書いている間インスピレ－ションでした。私は最初の執筆時間の間にあなたのフルカラ－の変化DVDを非常に楽しんだ。そのようなすばらしい音楽を作成し続けて下さい。


This is what I wanted to say: Furukawa Yuuta, Thank you so much. Your music was an inspiration while writing this piece. I greatly enjoyed your Full Color Variation DVD during the initial writing time. Please continue to create such wonderful music.

A co-worker who was raised in Japan did the translation and typing for me. I still haven't worked out how to type kana and kanji on my computer, but she said there's a download I can get and put it on the computer. I'm going to add a couple of more things on, but like I said, this needed to be done.



I'm doing a little better, but at the same time, I've got a split shift tomorrow and I'll probably end up sick again after a day or so. At least I'm not falling asleep in my chair like I was a couple of days ago. That's a good thing.