《Journey of my Core》3. Where do I come from? + a poll
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Light.. One Eighty-One (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Two (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Three (sfx sound of) click.One Eighty-Four (sfx sound of) click. PAIN...
My skin is pealing away from me slowly, being ripped in currents of endless pain that I can't even get used to. As I think okay this is horrible but I can keep ahold of myself to focus and see through this film of light to look around, but no... this is not something I can hold my breath and grit my teeth through in the hopes of holding out until I grasp a moment of reprieve.
One Eighty-Five (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Six (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Seven (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Eight click.One Eighty-Nine click. One Ninety (sfx sound of) click. Darkness…
Why do I only feel a body while I am in pain?
I am paralyzed when I am not...
If there is a functionality issue with me... I could just wait for the end, but who is to say an end would be a release?
Light.. One Eighty-One (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Two (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Three (sfx sound of) click.One Eighty-Four (sfx sound of) click. PAIN...One Eighty-Five (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Six (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Seven (sfx sound of) click. One Eighty-Eight click.One Eighty-Nine click. One Ninety (sfx sound of) click. Darkness…
I don't think there is a way back to less pain, once I pierced through the wall there doesn't seem to be a way back.. I can't just try to fall back asleep immediately. I just feel the building pain and now nausea from just trying to let it come to minimalize the pain.
*Sigh* I don't enjoy this pain, but I feel that if I stay here or give in the "System" will kill me... "self-destruct"...force me to kill myself? Thats explicatived up!
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What a malevolent entity this "System" is... Is it my creator.. Is it a mind controlling squid pushing its tentacles into different circumstances choosing, "You don't fit my ideal parameters, YOU DIE! You can survive to suffer. You get a puppy. You get a cookie. YOU get to be wrung by my metaphyscial tentacles until you burst.
...
What the explicative are those? Squid? Tentacles? Puppy?
Hmm... cookie sounds good... *Shrugs* I don't know what it is but it sounds good though.
Something is clearly wrong with me, but I don't want to die... If this is all life is.. Then "System" explicative you!
I WANT BETTER!
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I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. 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