After Radiance ends (I currently expect #52 to be the last, maybe the second-to-last, chapter), I have two projects that will be lined up to go next.
However, both of these projects need significant amounts of preliminary work out of the way before I can even start writing the prose, let alone publishing it.
I don’t want to go stagnant during this downtime, so while I’ll definitely use the time freed up by no longer writing Radiance to hurry those preliminaries along, I also want to be, yanno, writing stuff as well as preparing to write stuff.
Solution: Luminosity/Radiance short stories. (Working title for the collection thereof: “Flashes”.)
I’m not going to do a third novel. Two is enough, and I do have other stuff to get to that isn’t fanfiction. But I can produce a short story (roughly the size of a Radiance chapter, i.e. more than 4,000 words but usually fewer than 5,000) once a week to keep in writing practice, and to offer additional perspectives on the Luminousverse, until Elcenia’s relaunch and/or Dreamward are ready to go.
I’ve made noise about doing omake/other extras before, and people have given me suggestions, but I wasn’t collecting the suggestions in any systematic way and don’t have them stored anywhere. So, if you’ve already suggested something, suggest it again and this time I’ll make a note; and if you haven’t, this is a good time to present an idea. I’ll come up with my own if I don’t get reader submissions I like. Ideas should be “canon” (comply with the Luminousverse; e.g. no telling me to write a story about, I dunno, Addy having a torrid affair with Nathan during the twenty minutes or so she spent on the Isle of Man or Alice creating an immortal child or something, because that didn’t happen). Suggestions could be as specific as “tell me how Aro and Sulpicia met” (I’m actually thinking of writing that one first to have ready to post before Radiance wraps up) or as vague as “something from some Volturi’s perspective sometime when something was happening”.
Uh, well I had made a few suggestions a ways back but I can’t remember all of them and as it’s my birthday I don’t currently have the time to search for them amongst all my comments and private messages.
Here’s a few though: tell us about when Bella met Allirea and Eleazar and managed to steal Allirea away and their subsequent journey up until they met with Elspeth and party again.
Tell us about how Bella reacts to Elspeth having been Chelsea’d, and if that is insufficient as an omake, what she is doing and thinking when and after Elspeth is abducted twice, and anything else you’d like to add pertaining to that time frame (e.g. Bella almost attacking Pera).
Tell us about the first major contact between the Golden Empire and human governments, and any subsequent contact you find interesting.
Tell us about the first direct public contact (televised or otherwise) between human society and the Golden Empire, preferably from the perspective of Bella’s past human acquaintances, like Angela, Mike, Ben, Jessica, Lauren e.t.c.
Tell us about the first official function Elspeth attends. Will she wear a crown? Will Jacob really get a title?
Tell us about Allirea’s experiences as personal bodyguard of the imperial family.
How about a story following a human trying to go through the official process of getting turned? I’d really like to see (a) how human society reacts to the demasquing, and (b) in particular, the interactions between those who want to become vampires and those who consider the vampires to be enemies.
I’m writing (this very minute, actually) the official form one needs to fill out to apply to get vamped. Depending on how long it winds up being, I might turn it into a framing mechanism for something more storylike.
I would love to hear about what Alice has been up to since the Volturi were defeated.
(It keeps seeming odd that she isn’t being consulted during all of this strategic planning… e.g., making sure that breaking the masquerade to various people’s relatives won’t result in being forced to kill them… so I assume that she’s working on something off-camera. )
Alice checked that with Addy ahead of time when Addy was making the appointments; the trouble was that they couldn’t do a check on how Elspeth (or even her power in Addy’s hands) would affect things because she blocks Alice.
I don’t know if you’ll get this, but I was wondering about vampire powers. I’d be specifically interested in a high level martial artist (7th Dan in aikido or equivalent) gaining abilities. It seems like most vampires use brute force to fight, and even though different techniques are required, I can’t imagine that a trained martial artist wouldn’t have a distinct advantage.
I had a long reply written up but I accidentally hit cancel and it’s gone. Argh.
Short reply:
No, wouldn’t help noticeably. Vampires have a much higher strength-to-weight ratio than humans, so using their own weight against them is a technique of negligible value. Their muscles move independently to a greater degree, so locks don’t work. They are too tough for “hitting ’em with the floor” (as my old sensei used to say) to be a worthwhile thing to do unless your aim is to destroy the floor. Etcetera. The adaptation from human martial arts required to effectively fight vampires is such that the martial artist might start out with an advantage in mental habituation to combat training (and so take to it more easily), but if you control for that there’d be no benefit.
This could be something you already have planned, but I don’t want to make any assumptions, so: I would like to hear about the eventual effects, if any, which come from Elspeth telling Magic that she loves her Mama in chapter 12.
I don’t have that planned because there isn’t anything, really. Elspeth has to build her relationship with her mother (again), she can’t pull it out of deep storage. She’s quite aware that, as a little girl, she loved her mother, though.
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After Radiance ends (I currently expect #52 to be the last, maybe the second-to-last, chapter), I have two projects that will be lined up to go next.
However, both of these projects need significant amounts of preliminary work out of the way before I can even start writing the prose, let alone publishing it.
I don’t want to go stagnant during this downtime, so while I’ll definitely use the time freed up by no longer writing Radiance to hurry those preliminaries along, I also want to be, yanno, writing stuff as well as preparing to write stuff.
Solution: Luminosity/Radiance short stories. (Working title for the collection thereof: “Flashes”.)
I’m not going to do a third novel. Two is enough, and I do have other stuff to get to that isn’t fanfiction. But I can produce a short story (roughly the size of a Radiance chapter, i.e. more than 4,000 words but usually fewer than 5,000) once a week to keep in writing practice, and to offer additional perspectives on the Luminousverse, until Elcenia’s relaunch and/or Dreamward are ready to go.
I’ve made noise about doing omake/other extras before, and people have given me suggestions, but I wasn’t collecting the suggestions in any systematic way and don’t have them stored anywhere. So, if you’ve already suggested something, suggest it again and this time I’ll make a note; and if you haven’t, this is a good time to present an idea. I’ll come up with my own if I don’t get reader submissions I like. Ideas should be “canon” (comply with the Luminousverse; e.g. no telling me to write a story about, I dunno, Addy having a torrid affair with Nathan during the twenty minutes or so she spent on the Isle of Man or Alice creating an immortal child or something, because that didn’t happen). Suggestions could be as specific as “tell me how Aro and Sulpicia met” (I’m actually thinking of writing that one first to have ready to post before Radiance wraps up) or as vague as “something from some Volturi’s perspective sometime when something was happening”.
Tell us about the capital on the moon!
Added to the list :)
Uh, well I had made a few suggestions a ways back but I can’t remember all of them and as it’s my birthday I don’t currently have the time to search for them amongst all my comments and private messages.
Here’s a few though: tell us about when Bella met Allirea and Eleazar and managed to steal Allirea away and their subsequent journey up until they met with Elspeth and party again.
Tell us about how Bella reacts to Elspeth having been Chelsea’d, and if that is insufficient as an omake, what she is doing and thinking when and after Elspeth is abducted twice, and anything else you’d like to add pertaining to that time frame (e.g. Bella almost attacking Pera).
Tell us about the first major contact between the Golden Empire and human governments, and any subsequent contact you find interesting.
Tell us about the first direct public contact (televised or otherwise) between human society and the Golden Empire, preferably from the perspective of Bella’s past human acquaintances, like Angela, Mike, Ben, Jessica, Lauren e.t.c.
Tell us about the first official function Elspeth attends. Will she wear a crown? Will Jacob really get a title?
Tell us about Allirea’s experiences as personal bodyguard of the imperial family.
That’s all I have for now. :)
How about a story following a human trying to go through the official process of getting turned? I’d really like to see (a) how human society reacts to the demasquing, and (b) in particular, the interactions between those who want to become vampires and those who consider the vampires to be enemies.
I’m writing (this very minute, actually) the official form one needs to fill out to apply to get vamped. Depending on how long it winds up being, I might turn it into a framing mechanism for something more storylike.
It’d be cool to hear about how the New World Order is recieved by those Vampires who want to continue killing people.
With brief violence.
I would love to hear about what Alice has been up to since the Volturi were defeated.
(It keeps seeming odd that she isn’t being consulted during all of this strategic planning… e.g., making sure that breaking the masquerade to various people’s relatives won’t result in being forced to kill them… so I assume that she’s working on something off-camera. )
Alice checked that with Addy ahead of time when Addy was making the appointments; the trouble was that they couldn’t do a check on how Elspeth (or even her power in Addy’s hands) would affect things because she blocks Alice.
I don’t know if you’ll get this, but I was wondering about vampire powers. I’d be specifically interested in a high level martial artist (7th Dan in aikido or equivalent) gaining abilities. It seems like most vampires use brute force to fight, and even though different techniques are required, I can’t imagine that a trained martial artist wouldn’t have a distinct advantage.
I had a long reply written up but I accidentally hit cancel and it’s gone. Argh.
Short reply:
No, wouldn’t help noticeably. Vampires have a much higher strength-to-weight ratio than humans, so using their own weight against them is a technique of negligible value. Their muscles move independently to a greater degree, so locks don’t work. They are too tough for “hitting ’em with the floor” (as my old sensei used to say) to be a worthwhile thing to do unless your aim is to destroy the floor. Etcetera. The adaptation from human martial arts required to effectively fight vampires is such that the martial artist might start out with an advantage in mental habituation to combat training (and so take to it more easily), but if you control for that there’d be no benefit.
This could be something you already have planned, but I don’t want to make any assumptions, so: I would like to hear about the eventual effects, if any, which come from Elspeth telling Magic that she loves her Mama in chapter 12.
I don’t have that planned because there isn’t anything, really. Elspeth has to build her relationship with her mother (again), she can’t pull it out of deep storage. She’s quite aware that, as a little girl, she loved her mother, though.