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05/10/08: Chapter 40 Close to Completion
I've just started the eighteenth page of the chapter. It will probably squeeze itself into ultralong chapter territory, although it will most likely be a couple of pages shorter than chapters 32 and 37 nonetheless. (To refresh your memories, they are 26 and 27 pages, respectively; this one might become, say, 23 or 24, I suppose, at my current estimates.)What really makes me happy is how little trouble I've had with the battle. It didn't even stop me when I got to that point, as it does so often. Once I managed to pick up that training scene and got some time to write, I've been in a great mood for it and it's just flown ahead, battle and all. Which is good, because it shows me I can get into a battle-writing mood without first spending a couple of months staring at the first couple of lines and deciding to do something else. And that I can still write fast. Chapters 38 and 39 showed me that too, admittedly, but I was afraid it would pretty much be a one-time thing.
Chapter 41 will probably be reasonably fun to write, if it will be a bit calm. Looking at my plan now, actually, I'm a bit afraid chapters 41, 42 and 43 have way, way too little content to them individually, which might lead me to combine a couple of them, which my OCD asserts is terrible because then chapter 50 won't be what it is now in the current plan. Although technically it wouldn't be too bad if chapter 50 were what the current plan has as chapter 51. Hmm.
But yeah. I'd say I'm reasonably likely to finish chapter 40 in the weekend, now that I'm not worrying about my history test anymore.
05/07/08: What's going on in chapter 40, eh?
“Acaria City Pokémon Gym,” Diana said in a strong, regal voice. “Two on two tag battle, five Pokémon apiece. No switching allowed until a Pokémon has fainted. All trainers carrying six must lay one Pokéball on the table before the battle begins.”
Yeah. That is what you just read. A Gym battle with twenty Pokémon.
Boy, this is going to be fun.
(And no, I am not going to give you any more information on this part than this, so don't even try.)
05/06/08: zomg a couple of lines from chapter 40!
Heehee.“How do people normally do this?” Mark asked in frustration. “There has to be some method to get it right, hasn’t there?”
May shrugged. “Normally people go to eccentric professionals who make you pay in some silly items they happen to collect.”
I'm having so much fun. I don't know why I'm on a writing spree for it right now, but I am. I'll probably conclude the training section soon enough, actually, and then move on to the Gym. Which will be fun.
RANDOM FACT ABOUT CHAPTER 40: You will meet a character you haven't seen in a while...
04/21/08: Dream + Chapter 40 Preview
I had another Quest for the Legends-related dream. It was something with Mark having Espeon and Grovyle (which makes me think of Carrie's team from elyvorg's fic) and trying to... do something. Like in the first Quest for the Legends dream I had, the whole thing was just what was happening in my head as I was writing it into the chapter. There was also something with Dannichu, but I've forgotten how she came into it.I really need to get on with chapter 40. I've been more in the mood for chapter seven of Morphic recently, mostly because that's a really plotty and fun chapter while chapter 40 is relatively uninteresting.
Aw, what the heck. You get a preview, since I'm posting here anyway. It's the very beginning of the chapter. For some reason I really like these city-history beginnings even though they're probably not the best way to begin a chapter.
And yes, longsentences are long.
They arrived in Acaria City around noon the next day.
Acaria City was the largest settlement in Ouen as well as one of the oldest. When the first early settlers had ventured inward in search of happiness, they had stumbled upon this beautiful, lush valley in the heart of the region and built many independent farms which later grew more numerous. By the time the place was densely populated enough for it to be impossible to call it anything but a city, there were at least three different families laying claim to the right to name it on the grounds that their ancestors had supposedly been the first people to live in the area, and for a long period of time the city had several different names. Before that dispute was ever resolved, however, a heroic young woman named Danielle Acaria and her bird Pokémon had next to single-handedly saved the city from being burnt to cinders by an army of trained Charizard from Johto, with which Ouen was at war at the time, and an overwhelming majority of the city’s inhabitants had afterwards agreed that it should be named Acaria City in her honour.
The current Acaria City Gym leader was a descendant of Danielle’s, a woman named Diana Acaria, whose decision to train Dark Pokémon from Johto after having been a great fan of former Elite Four member Karen since childhood would most likely not have pleased her famous ancestor very much. That had not stopped her from completely revamping the formerly Flying-type Pokémon Gym after inheriting its leadership from her father and announcing a type change. She was supposedly also a stunningly beautiful woman, but that didn’t stop her spending most of her time in a dark Gym whose only light source was a single candle.
04/20/08: Fixed?
I'm hoping I fixed the bug that made the tooltip on The Cave of Dragonflies not update itself. Testing.I'm also going to investigate why guests are apparently showing up with no name.
EDIT: Fixed that too now, I'm pretty sure.