Slightly Untitled!

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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Songs & Poetry, The Path of the Gods

I didn’t get much editing done on the coach (I was travelling), but I did write a first draft of a song about part of Reclamation. Our hypothetical singers are one female, one male, playing the parts of Raine and Corvin respectively. The parts in brackets are sung simultaneously, while the parts that are just separated by a slash are one singer after the other.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t really have a name yet, but whatever!

Both:
We’re watching, we’re waiting
The sunset is frozen in time
We’re standing, we’re guarding
No longer remembering why

Raine:
The silence, the stillness
I don’t remember my voice
I break it, I hear now
I remember that I have a choice

Corvin:
At last change, the light fades
I don’t remember the night
I hear in the distance
I remember that I have to fight

Both:
I’ve stood here for so long
I can’t remember my name
The orb drops, the light fades
We realise it too late

Raine/Corvin:
I see you / I see you
(And I remember your name / And you remember my name)
I’ve found you / You’ve reached me
(And you give me back the same / And I speak yours once again)

Both:
They failed us, we failed them
No longer remembering why
How can we undo this
We just know that we have to try

Both:
We’ve been here for too long
Somebody was meant to have come
Now we can’t remember
But everything’s resting on us

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Out of Order

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Books, Fantasy, Reasoning, Sci-Fi, The Path of the Gods

My plan for the start of this year was to do up Alt-Shift. And I did do some work on it. But now that I’ve done the hardest part of the thesis submission process, I suddenly feel I have a lot more mental capacity to devote to writing, and a certain other project has been nagging me no end. So all right, Raine, all right. You win. I’ll edit Reclamation over April, hopefully bringing it together more cohesively and comprehensibly. And then maybe I can see better the pros and cons of writing a third (fourth?) book versus trying to fit everything into Reclamation itself.

However, this brings up a related issue. Reclamation and Ascension are two books in the same timeline. Ascension happens first, and leads essentially directly to many of the events of Reclamation. Reclamation, however, sets up a lot of mysteries and questions to be answered… a good half of which would be answered simply by having read Ascension first.

So perhaps I should do them out of chronological order, and have the story move around the timeline, at least in terms of publishing order. Ascension answers half the questions Reclamation poses – what’s really going on and how did we get here? – and adds its own layer of urgency to Reclamation’s other half: what do we do next? Which would then be neatly tied up in the as-yet-unnamed third book. At least as long as it works best having a third (fourth? Ascension is starting to look really long…) book, which I think it will, given the nature of Reclamation.