It's a proper book now.
Demon Road was a little over 121,000. I had wanted it to be 80,000, which is roughly the size of Dark Days. Obviously, that didn't happen. But I am DETERMINED that Desolation be of a more manageable size. It'll probably end up somewhere around the 100,000 mark.
Writing a book can be a struggle. It's just so happened that in the writing of this one, every time I started to flow, and write LOTS, I had to go off on tour or do festivals or get interrupted for a multitude of reasons. It's very hard to build up any kind of rhythm when your writing schedule is kinda messed up.
But I'm flowing now. I want to get this latest draft off to my editor on Monday, because on Tuesday I'm off on holiday to Disneyworld and Universal Studios.
For Halloween.
Ooooooh this is gonna be my kind of holiday. By day, we go to Magic Kingdom, and go on rides and visit Harry Potter world and just have good, nice lovely fun...
But at night...
Universal Studios over Halloween has the most terrifying horror experiences on offer, and I will be going and subjecting my girlfriend to the ordeal. I'm going to tweet about it. I'm going to take videos. You may see me scream.
But it shall be a manly scream. A WAR CRY.
And then I'll run away and leave Laura to face this guy on her own.
Gonna be FUN.
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(@Kas yeah. Just bored and.. thinking.
@Saoirse rp?)
(I don't think I even have your new email saoirse.)
(How about Kiana and.. Velvet?)
(May be distant.
*leaves warm hugs*)
Fera: it was locked? ...oooops....calm down, i am not gonna hurt you *backs away from door and puts both hands up in the air*
(*hugs kas back..*)
Fera: *swiftly appears beside her and hugs her* shhh...it's ok. I am not going to hurt you..ok?
Kiana: *is out on her own, having been for a swim a bit ago she's a bit damp*
*walks past velvet, not noticing her*
(*Out of absolutely nowhere a wild John crashes into the ground, leaving a satisfyingly cartoon-ish person shaped crater*)
Fera: *pulls her up* silly...
(*looks at John*)
Kiana: *hears the sigh and looks at velvet*
*pads over to her*
(*One hand appears on the edge of the crater, then another, and he slowly pulls himself out*)
Hi...)
Fera: *hugs her warmly* *his hug is soft and gentle* I know you've only met me...but come on, do you really think i want to hurt you?
(Hi..)
Kiana: *jumps into her lap, looking up at her face, head tilted slightly*
*closes her eyes and lets her ears droop, trying to show she's sorry*
Fera: it's ok...I understand...but i am really not trying to hurt you *hugs again but then pulls away gently*
Fera: It's ok *smiles* as a matter of fact...you should keep looking down...and shuffle out of the bathroom like that. *starts walking out of the bathroom*
Kiana: *falls onto her back*
*whimpers slightly shifting and getting up, gently hugging saoirse*
Fera: *closes bathroom door, but he can't close it completely, because it was broken when he opened it* ooops...hopefully..they won't charge me ^_^
(Poofed for a moment there.
*Brushes himself off*
So, have I missed anything?)
*there's a clown puppet standing in the bathroom, which she shouldn't have been able to notice when running in while panicking*
Kiana: *whimpers, ears flicking back*
*lays beside her, watching her carefully*
Fera: *picks her up and comforts her* shhh...it's ok...i'ts been there since we get here.
*got
Kiana: *carefully shifts closer, cautious of being hurt*
*grabs a stick, struggling, writing out "sohre" in the dirt*
(The what now?)
Fera: *gently pushes a pressure point, so that she calms down* *puts her on the bed*
(Oh, no I was unaware.)
Downton Abbey in 5 minutes!!!
Kiana: *leaps forwards, grabbing her wrists, holding her hands away from her hair, sat on her chest*
*shakes her head*
Fera: *covers her with a blanket and goes to sit on his sheet* ...are you ok?
Kiana: *flinches but continues preventing her from pulling her own hair out*
(Sorry, I poodles earlier)
Felix; *shouts, looking about* kiana!
(Welcome back Chloe..)
(Where were we with the rp?))
((Hey sis *glomps*))
(*plays with savs hair^))
((Sup?))
Kiana: *yelps, rolling across the ground*
*whimpers, growling at velvet, trying to get her to back off*
(Tresha was offering Flauros cookies.
Wolf was tickling Lilith.)
Fera: good, i am glad *lays back* will you be able to sleep?
Lilith ; daddy!!!
Flauros: what do you want?
Felix: *comes across them* kiana! Velvet?
((I'm sweepy))
Felix: *growls* what are you doing to my girlfriend?
Fera: Would you like me to sleep on the bed?
MrBBWolf: *smiles, tickling her more*
Tresha: Nothing.. we just thought you might be hungry?
Kiana: *hisses at the spit*
*shifts, moving in front of Felix, growling at velvet*
Lilith: *squeals*
Flauros: *stomach rumbles and blushes slightly* no I'm not
Felix: get back kiana, let me handle this
Felix: no- *is forced to kiss velvet*
*struggles to break free*
MrBBWolf: *laughs, patting her head*
How's the running going tike?
Tresha: *smiles*
Well here's some cookie to, you know, snack on.
*hands over the bag which contains her half of the cookies Alice made*
Kiana: *backs up to his side*
(Ignore that Kiana part)
Kiana: *hisses, struggling, not wanting to see this*
*is making almost animalistic noises of fury and sounds quite desperate*
Fera: *he stands up and sits in the side of the bed, then lays down, making sure he's as far away from her as possible*
Lilith: *nods* good good! *smiles*
Flauros; *gobbles all the cookies down*
Felix: what has happened to you velvet? *steps back*
Fera: night...sorry to have made you uncomfortable back there...
Kiana: *growls, leaping between velvet and Felix, ignoring that her heart hurts from emotion, shoving velvet away from him slightly*
MrBBWolf: Show me?
Tresha: So.. How are you..?
*is human form rn btw*
*the cat is in a tree nearby*
Felix; let the other velvet come back!
Fera: *pushes some spots that relieve pressure points* better?
Lilith: *runs around the room, with arms out infront of her^
Flauros: I am normal ... A human would ask the same back...
Felix: what?
Fera: so...nighty night.
Kiana: *growls, narrowing her eyes*
MrBBWolf: *laughs*
Well done!
Tresha: Well neither of us are strictly human so that hardly matters
Felix: what would you have me do?
Lilith: *claps and jumps up and down excitedly*
Flauros: hmmm... How are you?
Fera: *turns and looks at her* heh...i promise *turns back and closes eyes*
Kiana: *isn't liking the sound of this*
*growls*
MrBBWolf: *laughs, picking her up and spinning her around*
What does Lily want to be for Halloween? Werewolf? Bat?
Tresha: I'm okay thanks!
*blushes*
I mean yeah I'm.. cool.
Lilith: vampire!!!
Flauros; you are... Unusual ...
mhmmm...but only to the middle of the night.
MrBBWolf: A vampire?
Tresha: I am..?
*looks somewhat worried*
I'm sorry..
Felix: she isn't a dog!
*looks at kiana* what do you think I should do *kneels and holds her possessively*
Kiana: *hisses, looking psssed at that comment*
Kiana: *leans against Felix*
*looks up at him, trying to.. understand something*
*hangs her head, ears drooping*
*-Get normal back.. she and you need.-*
Lilith: yea! Bla bla bla!
Flauros; you seem to think its a bad thing...
*the puppet clown is standing at the door of the bathroom*
Felix: don't get any ideas kiana.... I'm staying with you!
MrBBWolf: *laughs*
Okay little vampire.
Tresha: Isn't it?
Fera: *sits up* what?
Kiana: *doesn't look at him*
Felix: look at me kiana
Flauros: I don't know....
Lilith; *giggles*
Chris: what about you, wolfie?
Fera: *moves head and as he does so, puppet's head moves as well, in the same direction* ....look...whatever you do...don't try running...got it?
Kiana: *shakes her head*
*screws her eyes shut and pulls away from Felix, squirming out of his grip, moving behind velvet*
*pushes her towards him, ignoring the steaming crater that was her heart*
Tresha: Oh..
MrBBWolf: Me? Uh..
Chris; how about the wolf man?
Flauros: *frowns* there are many things I do not know about this world
Felix: no! Kiana... Please *pleads*
MrBBWolf: Wolf man?
*grins*
Then what'd you be?
Tresha: You'll never know about them until you learn about them?
Kiana: *whimpers, flinching, tearing up*
Felix: stop kiana!
((I am off for the night sorry... My body is still an hour ahead))
(Night..)
Kiana: *shrinks down against the ground, trying to hide from her emotions*
Fera: I...will get it...outta here..ok? *as he says this, he jumps off the bed, takes off his shirt, and throws it at the puppet* *the puppet seems to be moving very quickly, however confused to the shirt being thrown* *it catches up to fera and staring at him right in front of the door*
Fera: *fera tries to open the door, but clown lashes out at his hand and barely scrapes his arm* *moves around room quickly, but so does the puppet* ....this isn't working...do you have a mirror, celia?
Fera: ...fucking...shit...*he is still moving around the room* pass the key!
Fera: *tries to get past the puppet, but it seems to be able to mimic any movement, no matter how fast*
For aanyone that read Demon Road...
The boy (Glenn?) died because of vampires, right? Does that mean he'll come back as a vampire or...?
Fera: pass it!
Fera: *approaches door*
Fera: *puppet has a huge, unnatural smile and looks back at her* *fera holds keys in front of its eyes and it seems to be following them, like a dog* *he opens door and throws keys outside the room* *puppet follows and fera shuts door*
hey kallista
Fera: pheww...well...that was something.
Fera: *turns to her* wanna..get back to bed? *smiles*
Fera: *looks around* what was what?
Fera: oh that...a malevolent spirit *nods* was pretty deceivable, though.
Fera: ...I really have no idea...maybe tried to make us stay? possibly? I mean, i don't know its intentions *nods*
Fera: I am some mysterious guy, remember? I've seen that kinda thing before..oh and the door opening? It really wasn't even a trick *laughs*
Con: *screams inside his kill room the walls thicken to dampen the sound* WHY IN THE WORLD DID I DO THAT? *stabs a torture table with lashes of shadows until it dissipates into nothing...*
( sup :P )
Fera: I wouldn't say an alien...nor a magician...i am me *smiles*
sup biatch :P
( only con isn't an alien on my chars :))
Fera: Didn't say i am a perfectly normal human either *smiles*
(what is he btw? is he just con? :P )
Fera: I am not. As i said, i am me ^_^
Fera: *shrugs* wanna get to bed, then?
Fera: *walks over to bed and lays down* want me to sleep on the side which is closest to the door?
( he's a necromancer... that started out by stealing his families magic)
(ahh, fair enough )
Fera: ok *smiles* well...night again *sighs*
( he's not on the cusp but was forced to use multiple types of magic controlling each with his baton but he could only control one at a time hence why he died when his brother re-appeared )
time skip?
Fera: *wakes up, opening his eyes* *it's morning*
Fera: good morning
ok, have a goodnight *Hugs*
(Hi.)
( when you clean out the vacuum cleaner you become the vacuum cleaner )
Hallo Kumpeln, could someone mention to Silente that pumice works really well on those odd bump things we were discussing a few months ago? Cool thanks bye.
(*Sits with his legs hanging into the crater he made earlier, whistling a lonely tune*)
(Kally! Twip! *hugs the two despite then likely being long gone* Miss you Kally! Miss you Twip!)
...
"Twip"
(F*ck sorry!!! Sorry Noelle!!! **Trip! **Trip!)
Is anyone here...? Ghosting maybe?
I need to talk to a person...
((I is here if you're still here!
I can't sleep£)
I can't either...
I just...
Need fo talk,but I'm not awake enough to do so without spilling secrets that I'd rather not spill so I I think I'll try to sleep again...
((Okay, that's fine ^.^
If you do ever want to speak, we can massage via twitter
And I'm trying to get dad to put emails back on my phone again))
(-blushes-
-totally forgot that it was Monday and that it started today-
I'm a terrible person...
I guess i'll rp getting some stuff ready for people coming back from school and that...)
hey. I am going on the trip soon.
(Aww...i'll miss you Frank :( have fun though...)
thanks gemmy ^_^
Lira, Lucas, come help me set up for the halloween party.
We can't use any ice for this, blue isn't a good scary colour.
Although i guess it's scary having icicles coming from the ceiling...
Oh well. It needs to be made out of shadows.
Twins: Yay!
Lucas: So you're really letting us help?
Of course i am. It'll help with your training too.
Lira: cool.
Lucas: This is going to be awesome...
bye...be back on Thursday heh ^_^
(Sure ser, you can help. You can put up the decorations, the twins will make the buildings look scary and use magic.)
-They create a big hall outside made of shadows-
-They also create the massive haunted house with a scary face on the front-
-They have cobwebs hanging from all the corners of the buildings and a giant spider-
*Prances through Blogland spreading shadows like it's his favorite time of the year*
*Because it is*)
(The heck is that parentheses doing at the end of that comment? Shoo! )
-They make a trail of shadows from the haunted house into the woods-
-has a can of red paint and splatters it around the shadows making it lok like a trail of blood-
-puts some in the mouth of the haunted house too-
Looking good, kids.
-throws some paint over the trees too whilst flying above them-
-gives Ser some balloons of orange and black and some banners, and party poppers-
*Walks down the path, admiring the creepiness of it and taking time to carve large scratch marks into trees every so often*
Con: *hangs actual dead bodies on the trees*
AU!Sil: *grins, running round with ACTUAL blood because it looks so much more realistic, getting some of her old, dull knives, craving random slashes in trees, coating basically everything (herself included) in the blood*
*climbs up a tree, stringing up a bunch of suspiciously realistic skulls up along with fairy lights*
Con: lets them naturally drip out onto the grass below smirking*
*Sighs and starts walking home to grab some air freshener*
((Idk, the fake blood I purchased looks pretty damn realistic.))
*sticks jack o' lanterns on sharp sticks.*
I put a special light in these, so they'll really go. it's kerosene!
Con: *taps his baton into the middle of each hanging bodies forehead and black veins run through out stopping the blood and making them groan * Zombies! it's not halloween without Zombies... *they try to pull away but they just hang there strung up on a rope made entirely from shadow*
*wanders over and looks up at zombies*
well, I can see no way that this could come back to haunt us...
Con: *looks at him* neither do I. *smirks*
-grins- This is turning out so well!
You guys are great ^.^
( I know :P hehe )
*Comes back, air freshener in hand, and kisses Chi*
Well, we do try our best. Are the twins inside?
Yes they are. What's the air freshener for?
It's ok Ser)
The smell of all the actual dead bodies that idiot Conductor brought. I figured I'd never convince him to take them down so I'm just gonna try to make them more bearable.
*Lets fly with the spray can as he walks towards the haunted house*
(*STILL hasn't finished painting the damn jacket*
*groans*)
*fills a zinc bath up with water*
does anyone have any apples? It's that or tennis balls, I'm afraid.
(*is gradually painting arm into a skeleton as boredom increases*
*...probably gonna need a shower*)
Con: *shakes a tree and they fall in piles*
thanks!
*picks up apples*
they might be a bit Zombieish, just 'cos of the proximity, but I reckon most of the fleshy bits'll come off in the water.
AU!Sil: *is getting dressed, humming "This is Halloween" to herself*
*has had her serum for the night*
*is very good with make up*
*Whistles "Thriller" as he puts on his costume*
AU!Sil: *grins at her reflection*
*Consciously amps up the shadows around him and steps outside, trying to hold back his grin*
AU!Sil: *puts in her contacts, grinning, jumping from her tree house*
*she's dressed as herself*
*her vampire self*
(How ironic.)
*He's dressed as himself as well*
*His own body, at least*
*Straight black contacts cover his eyes, and instead of walking he glides along an inch in the air, held up by, you guessed it, a few shadows*
(Are they both dressed as their destructive sides? xD)
AU!Sil: *smothers some fake blood around her mouth*
*rolls her shoulders and bounds towards the party*
(I believe they are.)
*He floats around a bit, getting the hang of it*
*Always preferred to have his feet on something solid*
(That's quite funny really)
AU!Sil: *pauses outside the party, looking round*)
*wanders over, dressed in a purple waistcoat and blue shirt with long purple ears on his head*
hey guys!
AU!Sil: *creeps up behind Bruadar*
*pounces on his shoulders, snarling animlistically, fake fangs diving for his throat*
*jumps around trying to shake her loose*
Hells bells! halp!
AU!Sil: *laughs, holding on tightly*
Boo. Happy Halloween.
*kisses his cheek and runs off cackling*
(..strange vampire..)
Con: *is dressed like a wraith*
*Watches from the shadows, waiting for the opportune moment*
*staggers over to drinks*
hey, dude...
*pours a large measure*
Con: *looks at him* i'm dude?...
oh, cool, i guessed the costume first time. I'm Eeyore.
*smiles*
Con: *laughs half heartedly* I'm a wraith... I just wondered if you meant me... you never seen a wraith before?
*frowns in thought*
Once, but he hit me really hard and then took my wallet. I think...I might have just been robbed will I was unconscious...
*holds out a drink*
care for a dram?
((Hello!
After tonight, I won't be here for a few days
I'm spending half term with jack ^.^))
(Hey Chloe!
And ewwwwwww/nawwwww)
(I SAW AN AD FOR THE CHICAGO TOWN BURgER THiNg!))
((Hey jai!
Ewwwwww?))
(Yesh. Ew.)
((How so?))
(Couples. Yucky. Couple sleep overs. Yucky yucky.)
((*raises an eyebrow* what do you think we get up to?))
(Kissing. Cuddling. Snuggling. Watching films. Coupley gewwyness.)
((It's not ewwy))
(Is too.)
((Nooooit))
(Isssssssss)
(Noooooot)
(Isssssssss. Tooooooooooo.)
(Noooooooooooooooooooot)
(husht now children)
((Yes, mother))
( good chloe now share this twix with your sister )
((I don't like twix))
(I'll eat the twix!
*cough*is too*cough*)
( it was the first breakable chocolate I could think of... uhmmm toblerone? )
(TOBLERONE!!!)
( no twix for you if you misbehave !
*laughs at himself being a mother* )
(you'll just rot their teeth. And all that sugar'll make them hyper and well never be able to get them to go to sleep.)
*Irons Frustratedly*
(I don't know, I just...I just think you're too soft sometimes...)
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