50267 words written... and Valkyrie and Skulduggery are barely in it.
This doesn't mean, of course, that they won't be taking their usual starring roles in Book 8. Of course they will. But I've had to approach this one in a slightly different way than normal.
Because this book is about, essentially, total war, I've had to think long and hard about how the different sides would fight— such as what tactics they would use in both the short and long term. It means I can't chop and change sequences like I usually would. If they're written, then they've been written for a very specific reason, and I can't mess about with that. So I figured the best way to write about these military actions is to write them FIRST. Write the skirmishes and the battles and the politics and the arguments, and get it all down on the page. Then, once I have the military aspect taken care of, I go back and write my usual Skul & Val stuff around and on top of it all.
It's an interesting way of working, to willingly ignore your main characters for large chunks of writing time. I sincerely hope it works...
Oh, and sometime in February I shall announce the title. I've had this title in mind for YEARS. Some of the early alternatives were:
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Billingsworth Continuum.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Behind Gold Eyes.
Skulduggery Pleasant: It's War, Baby.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Revenge of the Screaminator.
Skulduggery Pleasant: When Warlocks Attack.
Skulduggery Pleasant: A Very Nice Picnic.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Brain-Puncher.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Gut-Eater.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Skulduggery Goes Camping.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Things Get Nasty.
Skulduggery Pleasant: People Gonna Die.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Readers Gonna Cry.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Horace.
And amazingly, the actual title is better than ANY of those! I know, right?
Monday, January 28, 2013
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«Oldest ‹Older 1801 – 2000 of 4943 Newer› Newest»LUCY IS AN AWESOME NAME!:3
I wish I was called Lucy...
I'm not sure, Mara.
I have no idea what my names mean, and I don't really care. I know what they mean to me, anyway. Just not other people.
I LOVE THE NAME LUCY :D
Same here, Luci... Well, you kind of are ...
I was almost named Lucy...
Or Lucille, anyway, but I would have gone by Lucy.
It's Bethlehem. :)
Beff - lee - hemm.
Oh little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie . . .
Sorry, not really here.
Fabi - That sounded really poetic. *nods*
I might change my name when I'm older... To Lucy...
[Blinks]
Poetic? If you say so...
Fabi - Lucky! I was almost called Caitlyn, which I would have preferred...
Okay Star :)
Fabi - I don't know why... It just did! :P
Luci - Lucky! :)
Gtg, baking. Bbl :)
Mara, if you change one letter in your given name you'd have the same name as my irl sister. XD
Yeah on the way to the place where you officially name your baby (not sure what its called) I had been called sophie for just a little more than 2 weeks and my mum and dad changed my name ... and here I am!
It is a pretty name, I can see why you'd change it.
Not that there's anything wrong with the name you already have.
Bye, Mara!
WHOOO! going to freeging GALWAY to see teh freeging golden freeging god! YAYAYAYAYY! First tme to meet him!
I love you derek! Not in a weird way!
Ohh! My dog's name is Lucy!
she is a Labradore!
Yolo?
Making yore way n the world today...
MC DONALDS!
I hate my name.
I might change it...
Yolo brave? Really?
Changing it is up to you, and if you do, Lucy is a good one to change it to.
I hate my full given name, but I like my nicknames. I have rather a lot, considering the amount of name I have to nick... So to speak.
as long as book nine is called "And the Darkness Rained Upon Them", i will be an extremely happy fangirl. you could call book eight 'Horace', 'People Gonna Die' or 'Readers Gonna Cry' if that makes you happy, but damnit i've wanted book nine to be 'And the Darkness Rained Upon Them' for years
Helo!
Yolo is like MY word! Its fun to say. Say it out loud.
It means
Hi
Bye
Welcome
Booya and awesome
Gtg, may bbl.
YOLO!!!!
I mean, my taken name.
I might change it.
I've been thinking about changing it for a while...
But it means you only live once...
bYE!
Luciana suits you. Seriously. Awesome. Yolo in MY opinion is awesome. It means IN MY OPINION HI BYE AWESOME BOOYA AND ARE YOU TEHR!
Oh when I am older I am changing my name.
To awesome mCAwesomeness!
"as long as book nine is called "And the Darkness Rained Upon Them""
Yes!
Aww ok in your opinion I see, but for future refrence dont ever come to scotland and say yolo...bad things will happen...
Just so you know!!
Lol! Awesome Mc Awesomeness! What can i say!
Random#
Hashtags#
Brave...are you a hipster...?
Yolo!
Hello? :(
What is a hister? I heard the word yolo on a youtube vid. I did NOT know what it meant. So I guessed!
Hi Saph!
[Is not particularly here, but wanted to say hi anyway]
*hipster i mean!
I don't think Brave's a hipster. Just a ten-year old boy
Nevermind :)
What is a hipster! AHHHH! IS IT SOEMTHING BAD!!??!?!?
HI FABI! *tacklehugs*
Brave, a hipster isn't anything bad
Guessing what words mean can be dangerous.
Ok, still here-ish, but msd.
No its not anything bad :)
tELL ME ! please! Ill just ask my mom anyway so you might aswell. And if Its is SOMETHING bad then I will get told to leave this site so tell me.
[is tacklehugged]
Nice to see you, Saphy!
Ok what is it. I heard the word YOLO on andrea russetts youtube vids. If it is something bad tehn ok. Just to let you know i dint now WHAT it meant!
I don't want to leAve and my curiosity will get the better of me and all ask!
Type it in google it basically is someone who follows the latests trends :)
You too Fabi :) One minute, I need to hide my friends before the builders realise who's singing bob the builder at them... brb
oKIES! if someone has answerd and i didnt see there comment sorry but:
TELLL MEEEEEEEE
I read a fan fic where Scapegrace is a hipster. It was really funny :)
Yeah, just type it in google Brave
oH YOU DID ANSWER! ok no. I am not a hipster. If reading while writing is a trend then no.
I read multiple books at once while doing pretty much everything
Okies. Thatl be my new word. okies!
Coolio!
HEhehehehe
Very distant... Might poof...
I am going to see Derek in Galway anyone else?
I was just looking at Mara's picture and I laughed so hard my friends actually stopped singing at the builders to ask me what I was laughing at
Oh, if you poof then bye Fabi :) *hugs*
Speaking of poofing, BYE
Bye, Saph! [hugs]
Gtg as well...
SOUND OUT THE WHALE NOISES FOR IT IS ME, CHARISMA, BACK FROM THE LAND OF REVISION AND ESSAYS!
Whoot! I am going ta GALWAY!
I cannot beleive it!
Brave, I'm going to Dublin.
*is not here, waiting for buns to cook*
Im not allowing you people to distract me as HIMYM is on in 4 mins :D
Damn its gonna be another 30 mins ...WHY CRUEL WORLD??!?!?!!!?!?!?
I'm so stupid:(
You're not stupid, Lucy. [hugs]
[is probably not actually here, but will try to be, distantly]
LUCE YOU ARE NOT STUPID!!
*HUGGLES* ME AND THE REST OF THE WORLD AND THE TRACTORS LOVE YOU!
Now its HIMYM time :)
LUCI YOU ARE NOT STUPID. *hugs*
If anyone's stupid, it's me. I might have accidentally forgotten about the lemon bars...? *winces*
Hi guys!! *waves*
Sorry I've been gone a while, about a million things going on!! xD
How is everyone? :3
[hugs Mara]
You're not stupid, either.
Stupid people are people who hate SP.
[Is either really really distant or not here]
Hi, Rua!
I think everyone has been better.
[grimaces] I really gtg...
NONE OF YOU ARE STUPID!
Bye...
Oh dear... I hope y'all are ok!
Break time!
*is hugged*
Seriously Fabi, I forgot about my baking.
Bye! :( *hugs Fabi*
Hi Ruá! *hugs*
I just had a sugar rush and now Im falling down the dangerous side of candy mountain... :(
Hi Melica! Hi Maralie! *hugs hugs hugs* :)
Hey Ruá!
OH CRAP THE BUNS!
Mara, it may just be me wondering this but why are you baking at 20 to nine on a thursday night...?
Damn, they're burnt -.-
Ruá, call me Mara! :)
MEL DON'T FALL DOWN CANDY MOUNTAIN! :O
Im crashing after a sugar high its sore...
On the "Readers gonna cry" note... I'm in the middle of re-re-reading The Sight and holy moly. I haven't stopped crying. Has anyone read it?
I loved The Sight!!!
Well I hope it's the same one you are talking about...
Mel - Cause I like baking...
Nah. Cause of school and Home Ec. APPARENTLY I was meant to make stuff for tomorrow...
AKJDHJJSDL another reader?! With Fell and Larka...
Hi Em! :) *hugs* How're you?
AGH THE BROWNIES!
OMG that is it...
I absolutely loved that book to pieces. Such a well written book.
I liked the 2nd book as well.
Hi guys!
THEY HAVE RAINBOW AFROS
THIS BOOK
IT'S JUST
IT'S PERFECT
OH MY FINNICKING GOLDEN GODS, IT'S ALMOST FEB
FEB MEANS AUSSIE EDS
WOOOOHOOOOO
Ruá Hi! Nice to see someone with a good auld Fada in theer name like meeee!
do not beleive we met.
I am a necromancer and i shape shift into an owl occasionally. I am 10. yes. Yes. Shocking. Yes but wth
G2G BYYYE!
I HEARD RAINBOW.
Oh for God's sake, the muffins...
heylo
Sorry, my laptop just had a spaz attack -.-
Emerald, the two books just leave me like a blubbering mess. I used to RP on bebo as a member of "the wolf pack" and those books were my bibles lol... I'm at the part in The Sight where Brassa lies under the tree to go... *holding back the tears*
Hi Ulchabhán! Fadas are great eh? :P Ruá, elemental, at your service!
What happened to the muffins Mara?
COUNTING DOWN TO TMS AND AUSSIE SP BOOKS
I'M TOO EXCITED
OH MY FINNICKING GOLDEN GODS
I might try finishing PJ series over the weekend. Then read Gone, Equation of Life Department 19, Sherlock Holmes by Doyle. AND THEN WHATEVER OTHER BOOKS ARRIVE C:
Ruá - My muffins almost burned. ALMOST.
LUCI I STARTED READING PJ. *nods* Annabeth is awesome. For no reason. And Percy's mom... ASDFGHJKL NO.
Almost! Oh dear...I can't cook to save my live... Probably why I faild home ec..
^ failed*
I can barely cook, but it's fun :)
I enjoy flour fights, with myself....
Flour fights are AWESOME! 'Specially with yourself(;
I love this book's font SO. MUCH. It's SO AWESOME.
For an ordinary book, I mean. Most books just have Times New Roman or whatever. This one has font that is ELEGANT and PRETTY.
The title font it uses is ALSO SO AWESOME, btw . . . Star be so envious of Hush, Hush and its fonts! :)
Just got back from fencing twenty minutes ago. Hi. Wbd, reading and admiring the font. XD
Wbd, writing...
Hi Star! *hugs*
So, you're obsessed with the font on a book? xD nice news. *laughs*
*cries* THE FONTS. I'M IN LOVE WITH THEM. :'(
HI MARA!
YES! *wails* IT'S JUST SO BEAUTIFUL!
THAT'S WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Sorry, I couldn't resist :3
Fonts Are Beyond Imagination.
Mmm hmm.
Have you noticed that teenagers from Northern USA, well in books anyway, often say "I'll come with" 'stead of "I'll come with you"?
They were saying it att in The Wolves of Mercy Falls (Minnesota), and now in Hush, Hush (Maine) they're doing it again. Never come across it before.
The absence of a personal pronoun after the 'with' always makes me go "Huh?" for a minute coz it's not part of my dialect, so I always notice it . . .
I'm totally comfortable with both ways. I guess I count as northern US, though.
*grins at Fabi* Slings Turn Arms Round.
Thatvaguelymakessense.
Say if you had a broken arm, and it was twisted around so it was facing in the wrong direction, then you put it in a cast and a sling and it turned the arm back the right way . . .
Well, that make...ummm... it almost makes sense...
Close enough.
I HEARD DIRECTION!!!! *looks around frantically*
Oh, and Fabi, I don't mind about the MC. I think it's a good idea :) and I'll make sure Ember and Mara have gone to Kessie and Mara's house. *nods*
Ermagerd.
I just wrote a very depressing piece of Mara's life.
ARGH MARA HAS TO HAVE A HAPPY LIFE DX
Ok. I'll work on a chapter where Fabi deals with Eff and Star, and then finds Mara and Ember gone.
Star, if you had a concussion, what would you babble about?
Okey dokey Fabi! :)
"Have you noticed that teenagers from Northern USA, well in books anyway, often say "I'll come with" 'stead of "I'll come with you"?"
Never heard that before....hmm...
Distant...
Hey RC!
I actually have noticed it... I say "I'll come," nothing else :P
Bed... Bye! *hugs everyone* *teleports to bed*
Night, Mara!
*wanders in*
[Scowls at clock]
I gtg as well, now.
Oh, hi/bye, Robin!
Well, bye then Fabi
Why. Must. This. Always. Happen.
I suppose I'll just go.
I COME BACK TO FIND NO ONE HERE AGAIN
How depressing.
I mean, as much as I enjoy my own company a little human interction never hurts.
*hugs Robin*
OH YAY A LIVE PERSON!
*jumps on Em*
Well I'm more of a fucking zombie at the moment...
I have to go at 11 *sigh* School night.
Why you a zombie?
Very slowly.
MONSTERMOUSE
Cause I'm just on autopilot...
Angry all the time...
Just wanting to die...
The list goes on.
Em *frowns*
*hugs*
It'll be okay, in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
GOODBYE FOR NOW
Bye then D:
I gotta go too! Bai
Is Fabi here?
If so, sorry for not working on the chapters, I've been really, really busy with LWW. You can write whatever you want for it.
AAAHHH!!! WE'RE OPENING TOMORROW!!!!!
*Dies*
* resurrects*
Jubi!
I swear, if Gina stops us, I WILL smack her with my umbrella.
OMG
Monday will not be totally painful
My Beauty and the Beast sheet music will arrive!
Best love story ever. And I don't even like love stories. But I love this one.
BELLE LOOK INTO MY EYES
BELLE DON'T YOU RECOGNIZE
THE BEAST INSIDE THE MAN
WHO'S HERE BESIDE YOUUUU
My play is St. Patrick's Day weekend
Cool! What play?
Gtg bye
Why is this show so awesome?
Belle:
Yes I made the choice
For Papa I will stay
But I don't deserve to lose
My freedom in this way
You monster
If you think that what you've done is right
Well, then
You're a fool
Bye Zaf!
Is anyone here?
Obviously not.
SO I WILL SING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Beast:
And in my twisted face
There's not the slightest trace
Of anything that even hints of kindness
And from my tortured shape
No comfort, no escape
I see, but deep within is utter blindness
Hopeless
As my dream dies
As the time flies
Love a lost illusion
Helpless
Unforgiven
Cold and driven
To this sad conclusion
No beauty could move me
No goodness improve me
No power on earth, if I can't love her
No passion could reach me
No lesson could teach me
How I could have love her and made her love me too
If I can't love her, then who?
Long ago I should have seen
All the things I could have been
Careless and unthinking, I moved onward
No pain could be deeper
No life could be cheaper
No point anymore, if I can't love her
No spirit could win me
No hope left within me
Hope I could have loved her and that she'd set me free
But it's not to be
If I can't love her
Let the world be done with me.
omg Seph
SMACK HER WITH YOUR UMBRELLA ANYWAYS
aaaand your probably not here anymore...
I is here!
http://atributetochase.blogspot.ie/
If anyone would like to be a contributor, please let me know...
EM!!! SEPH!!!
hi.
I would look at it... but I'm on my phone and its difficult to look at it...
Wbd. Writing MC
I dedicate to all you Bloglandians. But especially the ones who are hurting right now. You are all wonderful people, and it's going to get better. *hugs*
I also dedicate to Beauty and the Beast, for being the most perfect story ever. I would personally like it better if she wasn't super beautiful, but a fairy tale about looks not being important is rare. I also love the songs, and the Beast. The Beast is the most wonderful fairy tale guy ever, even though he gets turned into a prince in the end. And his VOICE. In the movie he gets 20 seconds of singing, but in the musical.... If I Can't Love Her is my favorite song ever.
I also dedicate to Rumplestiltskin for being such an odd story.
And I dedicate to Ender's Game because it is fantastic.
And my goat shoes, because they are wonderful.
This is also my official resignation from SPPB. I think that the whole ded war is really stupid, and I regret letting Jubi drag me on to her side. It drags down the ded quality.
And Lion King. And Les Mis. And Jekyll and Hyde.
And MC
New MC chapter!
I have to go now. BYE!
SEPH!!!
NO!!!!
WHY!!!!!
NOOO!!!!!!!!!!
i hate you...
TRAITOR!!!
xP
Actually, Sev, in another variation of Beauty and the Beast, the author made her the simple looking one and her sisters were more beautiful.
Until the end when she finally saw herself in a mirror. While staying at the Beadt's castle, she grew taller and prettier. But in the beginning, she was- basically, she was like the ugly duckling. Okay- rant over. Sorry bout that.
And not staying so bye bye.
Well then. Silence falls.
But....but...but....no one asked the Question!
The... Question?
I assume this "Question" is "Is anyone there"?
No, it's a Doctor Who thing.
Silence will fall when the Question is asked...
The oldest question. The first question. The question that must never be answered.
DOCTOR WHO?
The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight. The question that must never be answered. The question you've been running from /all your life!!/
Doctor who? Doc-tor who? DOC-TOR WHO?
Hi. I'm here until lunch. Then I gotta help paint again.
Painting is fun. :) Even if its just lines on the floor.
Hello people!
Hi Willow. :)
Hope! Hello, how are you?
Hi, Willow!
I'm not exactly here...in the dressing room, second-to-last performance. Just one tomorrow and I'm done!
Hi Lav!
Nice Fabi! I bet you're thr best one in the play!
I'm... I'm kinda sad...
I just looked at Chase's blog... He was... He passed away early this year and was married to a Bloglandian... Emerald Melody...
Reading how much he cared about her... I haven't talked to him much, but it makes me sad...
And Em's feeling worse...
Sorry.
Congrats, Fabi. And good luck with the last one.
*smiles a bit*
I barely talked to either of them...
It's like Rufus, I'd only seem Mrs. L with him around the neighborhood a couple of times, then last Wednesday...
Thanks, it's a dance performance actually.
The play was last Tuesday. I do so much stuff...
I had Contemporary today, it went really well.
That's good to hear, Fabi. :)
*decides to write a poem for Em*
omg, that is sad, I hope she's doing ok after his loss. So many people hav been dying lately. In fact after I was done in the mountains last night I myself went to a cemetary to visit a grave.
*cheers Fabi on*
Writing a poem is a good idea...
Would write one as well, but has no idea what to say.
I have to go now...
May be back after trio.
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