Lilith Langtree’s – Chaos Magic

Archive for June, 2009

Blech

The last couple of days have been very blech. Every time I go to sit down and get to work on a story, I get interrupted, or a thunderstorm rolls in, or I get distracted, and I haven’t written anything. During down time I even work on upcoming stories: plotting, surfing for someting inspirational, etc.

I’m not even doing that.

I need something cleansing to wipe the palate clear. I tried a few stories, but I tend to gravitate to novel length tales and there aren’t that many in the works. Maybe I need to go out and buy a book or something.

The Embarrassed Dead Guy Story

Since I’ve received a number of requests for information about the plot line of this story, here you go.

A boy 17ish dies in a really improbable and embarrassing way.  After a death transition scene he encounters Nyx, the primordial goddess of night. In a cave-like chamber sitting beside a young girl 16-20 who is kneeling and seemingly in a trance as she is closed-eyed staring at the ceiling of the cave.

It turns out that the girl is Death/The Grim Reaper/The Angel of Death(Whatever you want to call her) Nyx’s child. (In Greek Mythology, Thanatos(Death) is the child of Nyx.

Nyx and going pro

I’ve been talking to a few people recently. Weird, I know!

Back when I was writing fanfic I’d get the occasional, “Wow, you ought to write for a living, or You ought to go pro.”

As an author of fanfic you learn to quickly disregard these comments, because the quality of fanfic is usually so bad that when someone posts something that is actually readable, and has an actual plot instead of wish fulfillment, then the fans rave about how good you are.

It’s a good way to become complacent and stay mediocre.

Just Because

I was surfing for pics when I ran across this little gem. It has nothing to do with TG, but I thought it was funny. So here it is, just because.

Ideas and Thanks

I want to start off this with a big “thank you” to everyone that voted for Poseidon Adventure for the BCTS May Day Contest.  There were a good number of top notch stories this time around.

I won’t be participating in the Summer Contest there. I don’t think it is being full of myself to recognize that for some odd reason I am popular at the moment. Certain authors do pull in the readers, or at least the readers that actually vote. So by winning the May Day contest I’ve filled that little fount of ego that I was apparently searching for and will step aside so as not to destroy the bell curve this time around.

Meet Paris!

I’ve already had a couple of people wanting to know what Paris looks like from Ares Bane: Nemesis. Well here you go!

Now in the story, her hair is almost bleached totally white/platinum blonde, so that’s off just a tad, but that’s her.

Road Trip

This Saturday I will be travelling from my current home in Hell, otherwise known as Southern Mississippi, to my old home in Houston, Texas. It’s been almost a year since I’ve been there and when I left there were a lot of changes underway.

I miss Houston, but I have family here. They’re not perfect but then again neither am I.

So if you live in or around the Greater Houston Area lean out your window around 1-2 pm and wave hi, as I’ll be waving as soon as I see the skyline I’ve missed so much.

Meet Veronica

I’ve been surfing around for faces to put with my character. It helps me write. What am I gonna do, right?

Anyway, here is Veronica from Ares Bane: Nememis

It’s Susan Ward, for those of you that need to know. She’s Veronica… well, maybe not in this outfit, unless Marcus gets really lucky.

The next part will be out very soon. I’m up to 10,000 words with only one more scene to finish.