Alchem 5

Well, I've finished Alchem 5, or at least my first draft, and so hopefully that will be online soon, after, of course, I make sure I didn't spell anything wrong. Anyway, hopefully this one will clear up some confusion, it takes a little more time to explain what's going on, and makes the plot very clear. Also, soon I will use the upcoming parts to work mostly on character development, while Alchem runs off and does pointless things for a while. As far as length, it's shorter than the fourth, but longer than the third. Hopefully it will turn out better.

Also, I've added three more rules to my rules for writing a fantasy book:

4. Your not C.S. Lewis, or Christopher Paolini, stop trying to be.

5. Your writing a book, not a movie, don't sit in your room with a plunger stick and underwear on your head pretending your fighting a dragon, it's not going to make your story any better.

6. Absolutely NO corny one-liners.

These three are very important rules, keep them dear to heart, otherwise your story will end up looking something like this:

And then Eragonslan was like WHOOSH! And hit stuff, and Boom! And darkness conquered the land.

That is NOT what you want your story to look like, at all! Seriously, read your story through, at least a day after you've written it, at three in the day time, and you'll realize how bad it is. That's the most insincere hour of the day, prepare for people to be reading you story at all times of the day. Don't muck it up.


Also, I've started on a web comic series, and am planning on having that start this month. Paddy set me up a really nice system that I can use to update the series whenever I want with relative ease, so hopefully this will be a little bit of inspiration to get me out of bed and make some stuff. HOWEVER, don't plan on it being funny, I'm not funny, don't kid yourself.

So keep an eye out for a new Alchem and comics.