I struggled a little with how to handle Fafnir, which delayed this chapter a day or two, and in the end, I'm not totally satisfied, but the perfect is the enemy of the good, and I liked Siegfried's...
2021-09-25 09:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of you who haven't seen it already, I shared this in both the story thread and on the Discord channel. Feel free to vote if you haven't already.
Pirates of the Caribbean reference, get. Every time I read that title, my mind goes back to its inspiration: "T'would strain credulity, at that."
I kept forgetting to post this, geez. S...
2021-09-19 00:19:42 +0000 UTC View PostShould tell you how far I intend to get, but it might not wind up getting quite that far, so I might need to change the name.
I actually forgot all about Atalante until about three quarters o...
2021-09-17 20:15:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis...not quite filler. It's a bridging chapter to connect last chapter with next chapter. It's not to say that nothing important happens this chapter, just that I didn't want to skip it entirely....
2021-09-17 02:04:36 +0000 UTC View PostI kinda wanted to turn this into a Jeanne interlude, but it feels too soon after Siegfried wasn't that long ago.
I might go back in at the bottom and flesh it out a little bit more. I was exhausted when I penned that last page or so, and Labor Day threw me off quite a bit on Monday, so this took a day or two ...
2021-09-09 21:31:29 +0000 UTC View PostNot totally attached to the title, but "Requiem" was a bit too lonely and something like "Lacrimosa (Requiem)" got just a little bit too fancy for this, so I went a different way.
Picking up from last chapter...
I felt, at points, like that Godzilla movie from back in 2014. Instead of staying directly on the fight, I cut away from it just as the action was getting good...
2021-09-02 04:08:59 +0000 UTC View PostSo I wound up doing this one pretty fast, because things are finally moving towards the meat of the story. Not that the other chapters were boring, but that both my and Yukio's plans were finally s...
2021-08-31 13:06:26 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not totally attached to the title. The only reason I avoided "The Enemy of my Enemy" is because I think I might want to use that one later on down the line.
This is a little late because it fought me just a little. Between not being entirely sure what to do with Siegfried here and some scheduling conflicts with the editing team, this is coming out a la...
2021-08-26 04:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe're still in the preparation phases, but we're getting close to the start of the HGW proper. Some of Yukio's plans start to come together.
This...required a bit of consideration. I wasn't actually 100% on who should be in this interlude, or rather, whose perspective it should be from. I also considered Da Vinci and Romani, but neither...
2021-08-19 13:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not sure the ending feels urgent enough to convey how much Taylor feels trapped into this decision. How much she hates having to split the party. I might need to revisit it later and smooth out...
2021-08-16 13:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis particular "damsel" doesn't get enough love, if you ask me. DW has been ignoring her for years, and Nasu has only ever included her in slice of life comedy for most of her appearances since th...
2021-08-09 22:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post4400 words in one go, yesterday. Wow.
Well, sporadic breaks were had in-between, but 4400 words in one "session" is pretty big, huh?
In any case, things finally start moving towar...
2021-08-09 22:13:29 +0000 UTC View PostI added a "Finished Chapter" tag to help weed out the full chapter releases from the CiP posts, make it easier to find them. I only applied this to chapters that don't currently have a public relea...
2021-08-07 16:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor is such a mama bear sometimes.
Editor had some real life drama to deal with, so this is a few days later than when I "finished" it, but I hope the surprise at the end makes up for the delay.
This is, so far, a relatively m...
2021-08-04 13:22:54 +0000 UTC View PostAnd 7 chapters in, we begin to move towards the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War.
Took a little bit longer to figure out where this one was going. I've been trying to figure out where I can start pushing against canon's framework a little more, and I think this will work for tha...
2021-07-24 03:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostAn expert on Middle High German, I am not. Also, my attempts at hiding the identity of the Servant in question are painfully transparent, aren't they?
Honestly, considering the forces arrayed...
2021-07-21 20:17:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt feels really weird for FRW posts to have so few tags. I'm used to decking out posts in, like, a dozen different ones, and that still doesn't feel like I'm covering everything.
So,...
2021-07-20 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps appropriately, one of the first things out of his mouth is, "I'm sorry."
My boy got done dirty in Apocrypha. He had all of, like, five minutes of air time, although to be fair, the fi...
2021-07-17 10:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis got long, again. I was tempted to break the chapter up into halves, but the first half wouldn't have reached my 3K minimum threshold, so I just shrugged and kept it the way it is.
Those ...
2021-07-16 01:15:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt felt a little anti-climactic. It really did. But there was no reason why Taylor would let things go that easily, so it couldn't be help. Taylor never fights fair, so the instant an opening like ...
2021-07-08 23:53:21 +0000 UTC View PostYou guys actually like this story, right?
It gets written a lot slower than Hereafter does, but I am working on it. It just has a lot more buildup to ease the audience into Yukio's c...
2021-07-06 19:52:32 +0000 UTC View PostAre we still building up, here? We're still building up, here. Geez.
And now we get into the meat of the story. Wow, that was a lot of setup to wind our way towards this main conflict.