(Ais) Psyched about writing... And the obligatory rambling as well.

So, it came to my attention that the RSS feed doesn't include our tags. Which means anyone reading RSS (or not noticing the tags at the bottom of the blog entries) was probably going, "Who the hell is writing this entry?" every time we posted.

LOLZ. We just like to keep it mysterious, guyz. It's not that we just didn't realize that. Not at all.

Sonny and I were talking last night, and we noticed how much quicker Afterimage has been to write than Book One (some day I'll get off my ass and throw out some viable solutions for the name of that book.. I still really like the suggestion of palimpsest but unfortunately that word is way too awkward). We're not sure quite when we started writing Afterimage but it must've been early June/late May. We're working on Chapter 31 at the moment so that means we've written 32 chapters (almost the entirety of the book) in about 8-9 months. Which is pretty good. The first book took I think just about exactly a year to write. Although admittedly it was ++ times longer...

At the moment, I'm totally psyched about writing. I haven't really hit the super lows like I did for the first book (and the short stories afterward) where I'd have periods of time where I was just like, "FUCK THIS STORY I HATE IT I WILL NOT WRITE IT." I get frustrated here and there with parts and I think there was a week where I just didn't want to write at all because I needed a break, but other than that, Afterimage has been pretty smooth. (This is all aside from the hiatus, of course, which was needed too. I guess I just don't think of my mood during the hiatus as being as intense as my mood sometimes was with Book One. But I'm also a very forgetful person, so...)

The funny thing is, Sonny and I are both just itching to write Fade. We're already looking beyond this book and even the one shots in between (which will also be fun to write) but Fade is really what I can't wait for. It's so hard because I keep wanting to ramble about this or that or express my enthusiasm for different parts of the plot-- but obviously I can't, because, hello major spoilers.

Suffice it to say, there are things in Fade that Sonny and I both are excited about writing and exploring and we hope you'll all enjoy that (and all the other parts of the series) as much as we enjoy writing/creating it.

I'm enjoying reading feedback and theories and what people would like to see in Afterimage as it is. It's so interesting because obviously I know where the story is going and the scenes that will occur in the future and what plot line goes in which direction, but readers can only guess. So some people are probably a lot closer to what will happen than they realize and others have interesting ideas that are probably not going to see fruition, at least in this book. But I can't say anything about that, either =(

Woe is me...

And in the final parts of my rambling (why are my entries always a thousand times longer than Sonny's and about 70 times less interesting? XD), I'm really happy with how the trainee characters have been received. It seems like so far, judging by what readers have said about the different characters, we pretty much achieved the basic goals we were going for with them. I'm secretly (except not since I'm saying this in public spaces online) pleased with the reception of Cade, for instance, because I think it's understandable if people don't like him or write him off as a dick and that's it, but I'm glad that some readers actually like that about him. Not sure I'd want to be seated at a table with the guy but at least he'd make the night interesting, I suppose ;P

Waa. Enjoying writing. This is good for me. Srsly, half the time on my vacation I was twitching to get to a computer to write... I guess I'm just addicted.