Her lips curved into a smirk, Nami looked at a pair of figures floundering in the ocean. Behind the Going Merry—seemingly devoid of crew besides her—the floating restaurant, Baratie, grew smaller in the distance.
“See you, Yosaku, Johnny. If we’re linked by fate, tell the others we’ll meet again.”
Gasping for air while tr...
2024-03-27 19:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostA group of teenagers sat around a table in a small restaurant. One of them, a long-nosed kid with frizzy hair, stared into the void, eyes wide as dinnerplates.
“No way, my old man is actually part of such an amazing crew…?!”
Luffy rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
“Now that I think about it, I haven’t seen them in a long ...
2024-03-25 19:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostMy struggle with titles continues.
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In the middle of the day, a little fishing boat pulled up on the shore of an unremarkable island.
Holding his growling stomach, Luffy clambered over the edge, standing on the wooden dock. Zoro and Jack followed after him, taking in the sight o...
2024-03-23 17:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post...and I'm back to my roots. At this point, I'm just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. I hold to my views about original fiction, but it has one problem that might end up being too much for me to deal with—it takes waaay longer to write. No surprise given I have to do it all from scratch, unlike fanfiction.
W...
2024-03-21 16:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt doesn't seem like you guys are too interested. I also threw out a few chapters on QQ and the response was kinda lukewarm there as well. Personally, I think it's fine, but while I do write for myself, I also want other people to read and enjoy it.
2024-03-20 12:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe rewrite continues. Most of this chapter is new content. It's about 1k words more than usual, so I took a bit longer.
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Al knew it was night-time. It was raining softly, the droplets soaking his hair and clothes. The wind gusted, showering him with water and wet leaves. The surface unde...
2024-03-16 22:03:45 +0000 UTC View PostMultiple chapters have been condensed into one. This also has a big change at the end, so I recommend skimming it at least.
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Al groaned, his consciousness slowly returning. Before passing out, he recalled getting shot, everything going black, and then a sensation, like he was a piece of ravioli...
2024-03-12 19:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostI'm doing a soft-rewrite of the story. The beginning was too long-winded, and I made some bad decisions going forward. This particular chap doesn't have anything you guys didn't see before, but that won't be the case for CH2.
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On his way back after a long day, Al stared out of the bus's window....
2024-03-12 19:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostAl retraced his way back through the shelves, an embroidered curtain slung over one shoulder. He’d found it after not much searching, covering a dusty old desk, stacked high with books and papers. He’d briefly taken a look at those, but didn’t find the contents to be of much interest. Mainly, they seemed like record-keepings, documenting t...
2024-03-10 21:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostAl emerged from between the trees, spotting Jesse next to the cobblestone road. She looked like an abandoned little animal, drenched from head-to-toe.
“I’m back. Sorry I took so long.”
The girl’s eyes widened. For a moment, she didn’t say anything, curiously looking him up and down. Now cleaned up and wearing a full set of ...
2024-03-08 20:08:43 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, Al experienced that same strange sensation. He felt an immense pressure on himself, like he was being stretched and squeezed through a tiny hole. Everything twisted around him, the countless stars and galaxies revolving and streaking across the black expanse of infinity.
Like a stone from a slingshot, the portal shot him into t...
2024-03-05 21:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostI really pushed myself to get this one out. It was pretty exhausting, writing 2k words in a day. Doubly so if I want there to be any level of quality control. It's definitely not something I can do on a weekday.
Anyway, the title changed. It's a bit simpler, so I might stick with it. Who knows.
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2024-03-04 00:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'll probably have the next chapter by tomorrow.
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When the healing potion touched his wound, Al nearly lost his mind from pain. It was worse than being shot. A lot worse. Like someone had sliced him open and scraped a blade over his exposed nerves. It was a mercy when his consciousness blur...
2024-03-02 22:52:53 +0000 UTC View PostAl let out a low groan, his consciousness slowly returning. For a moment, he almost didn’t know who he was, never mind where. He could barely even think. His body felt like a block of lead. Even breathing was hard, sending sharp pains through his chest.
Somehow, he managed to prop himself up, leaning his back against a wall and forcing h...
2024-03-01 00:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostOn his way back after a long day, Al stared out of the bus’s window.
It was already dark, the sun’s last rays fading behind the horizon. Shadowed clouds rolled in over the mountains, their journey hastened by a strong, cold wind. Already, fine droplets of rain misted against the window—a portent of the coming downpour. It was unchara...
2024-02-27 02:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostTitle still a WIP.
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Al’s second ‘parent’ was an unmarried, forty-something woman.
There was a lot he could say about the time he spent with her, but none of it was positive. She had problems. A lot of them. And they were bad. Bad enough to make Jenna seem sane by comparison....
2024-02-25 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostGood lord, this chapter was harder to write than I thought.
It might seem a waste, not jumping right into things, but I wanted to spend some time with the MC first. I think it's important to set some kind of ground-work, to make it clear what kind of person the MC is, and to show the story won't be about its 'gimmick', but the...
2024-02-23 00:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostAfter fiddling with this new thing, I'm getting the feeling it's not going to work out. I'm horrible, I know, but I thought to myself when starting out that I was going to give it a try and see how it went, mainly in the sense of whether I'd at least put out more chapters than my previous story, but I think I can say that's not going to happ...
2024-02-16 10:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostTrying a different title. Also, this is more like a rewrite of chapter 4 (because I absolutely hated it, so consider it a proper follow-up to chapter 3. Chapter 1 and 2 will me merged into 1, so the current chapter 3 will become chapter 2, and this one will be chapter 3. Sorry if it's confusing.)
I was having some difficulty w...
2024-02-13 20:45:13 +0000 UTC View PostA very short, uneventful chapter. Initially, there was a huge infodump, but I ended up cutting it because it felt too unnatural. If anyone is interested in learning a bit more about the world, I can paste it in one of the replies.
After rereading, the story seemed very jumpy, so I felt I had to include at least one in-be...
2024-02-11 19:24:17 +0000 UTC View PostI redid chapter 1 because I wasn't satisfied with it. Usually, when I read a new story and it starts with a character just rambling inside their head, I lose interest. There's a big impulse for writers, including myself, to want to introduce the reader to certain types of information as fast as possible, which usually results in an initial i...
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Edmund had woken up long before the first rooster’s crow, when the sky outside was still black as ink. After picking the hay out of his hair, he carefully clambered down from the stable’s attic. After arriving the capital, it was the only accommodation he could find during the busyness of admission-week.
... 2024-02-06 20:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostTen years later.
A church stood on the outskirts of a certain town. It was surrounded by grasslands and scattered farms, connected to the nearby settlement by a single dirt road.
Where it split, a wheel-tracked branch meandering toward the cracked stone building, a wagon was drawn. A man sat in the driver’s seat; his hat pulled low...
2024-02-04 20:24:12 +0000 UTC View PostA full moon shone through the curtains of a second-story window, casting shadows on the face of a pale girl, perhaps six or seven years old. She sat at an engraved, wooden desk with her hands folded, head hanging low, her long, dark hair covering her face.
It was impossible to see her expression, but her posture managed to convey uncharact...
2024-01-30 16:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostAs you guys can probably tell from my slow release speed, I've recently been struggling more than usual to write my Eragon story.
When I reached the end of the village part, when they leave the village that is, I'd been planning to have the story roughly follow canon, with Cedric being present but acting somewhat as a foil to Eragon (in te...
2024-01-28 15:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostThough he preferred being alone, Cedric joined a group of travelers—wanting to stand out less and avoid unsavory attention. Ruffians wouldn’t think twice about accosting a lone teenage boy, and while dealing with them would be easy enough, it was too troublesome.
Currently, Cedric huddled near the edge of their camp, preparing for nigh...
2024-01-23 20:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostAt an unknown hour, a group of dark figures silently made their way through Teirm’s underground tunnels. The moldy, damp passageways where barren and empty, aside from the occasional sound of dripping water. Even the scuttling vermin and biting insects calling the place home were mysteriously absent.
It was almost like a crypt, though in...
2024-01-20 21:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostEarly that next morning, before the sun had risen, Cedric snuck out of Teirm through the sewers. He was almost unrecognizable, wearing shabby clothes with a dirty face, his conspicuous red hair hidden under a wool hat.
Like an apparition, he emerged behind a brush outside the city walls. Known to only a few, a well-hidden tunnel had been b...
2024-01-13 22:40:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe hour was getting late, with the sun sinking low, travelling past the horizon. It had been a long day, not only for Cedric, but Teirm’s various forces.
Currently, a member of a certain organization slipped from one street to the next, dressed like an average pageboy. With measured steps, they headed for a large manor, built near the c...
2024-01-10 22:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostCedric stood quietly in his hideout, a pipe dangling between his fingers. Inhaling and exhaling a stream of smoke, his eyes scanned the environment.
It was infuriating, having to leave his experiments behind. Never mind the cadavers and organs, the products of his alchemy were likewise stuck here. Even if he somehow arranged transport, avo...
2024-01-03 15:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post