About learning : If you don't get it now...

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... you'll get it later.
So this morning I was in the shower, that's kind of impressive what I start thinking about when I am in there.
Anyway, so I suddenly realized something about a book that I read more than 5 or 6 years ago, about writing. Because as you all know at the moment I'm writing like a manic due to JulNoWriMo. That book's title is "Die unendliche Geschichte" or in English, "The Neverending Story".
In this story, a boy named Bastien is going to a magical world through a book but he has to create stories in this world. The only thing is that he doesn't know that each time he is creating a new story he is giving a part of himself.
I always felt like I was giving a part of myself while writing, every single one of my characters have a part of my personality or something I am interested in in them. What I discovered this morning was that you actually need to finish the story to be able to have it go out of you, just like Bastien needs to finish all the stories to be able to leave the world. I didn't understand why he had to do that, that was always something that puzzled me.

Well the real realization here is not about that really, it's about the fact that your brain is processing information from a while back. I read that book years ago but I didn't have the experience I have now as a writer back then, so stuff like that was still obscure and difficult to get. The good point is that I didn't forget, or my brain stored all that information and decided to actually process it when it had all the pieces of the puzzle.
Isn't it magical?

I means that whatever you have to learn if you can't understand all the parts right now, they will come later when you have more datas. Of course you want to know things now and to be able to use them now but there are always hided things that you can't get without time for you brain to process all the information.
Repetition can probably accelerate the process, if I had read the book several times and more deeply and if I had look at some parts of it and analyzed them in details, maybe I would have understood everything. But was it worth it to put that amount of efforts? Did I need that knowledge back then? Probably not.
Let your brain do the work for you, give it datas and let it compile them, that is the best way to have a strong knowledge of what you know.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (Dune, Frank Herbert)

Demon and fairy part 5

So here is a new part of "Demon and fairy". I'm a bit behind on my words count but not too much I should be at 37,097 words by midnight tonight and so far I'm at 32833. Nothing unsurmountable really. Especially when you know that I finally find the solution to the thing that was getting on my nerves for days (weeks?) at work. That will help me relax and be able to concentrate fully on my writing during the week-end.
I still love this story even though Seti doesn't want to do what I want him too. That happens sometimes with character. He is maybe tired of having me on his back all the time. That's what I get for having a reincarnation of a god of Chaos as main character I suppose.
Well I brought some more demons in the story, you already know Sahel from "Demon Soul" and Evalynn who appears in there very briefly but I have a new one. He is a bit...hum... how could I say... well you will see by yourself.
Here is the story.

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Japan : 富士山

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Last Friday night we went to 富士山 to climb it. The goal was to climb it during the night to be able to reach the top before the sunrise.

We were divided in 2 groups and some people in the second group reached the top before some people of the first group, including me, that was really impressive. I think I had some kind of mountain sickness at least that's what one of my friend told me.

At first I was climbing with the leading group, we were going up really fast but that was fine. Then suddenly I couldn't breath anymore, like if my chest was oppressed by something big. I don't know, so I had to take more frequent breaks and I finally decided to tell the people climbing without me not to wait for me. I was always caught up by people I knew who I would let go to climb on my own.

I think that went people are just around trying to help me and asking me if I need something it is way easier for me to give up than if I am on my own with no other choice than climbing. I really liked them being nice, just maybe I'm kind of a solitary warrior anyway. Also being alone was allowing me to walk at my own broken and disturbing rhythm.

So at the end every body made it to the top. The last 400 meters were hell. We had to partially climb like monkeys. I think we were lucky that despite the cold it was still sunny, we saw rain only at the very beginning. I can't imagine what it would have been like in the rain. But as a result we had sunburns. I didn't expect needing sun cream, next time I'll know I suppose.

We climbed down on the Saturday morning, the going down was hopefully faster. I can say that we were all sleeping in the bus back.
Some people say they wouldn't do it again but I think I would if I have the opportunity. Extreme sport once in a while clean your body and mind.

 
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Demon Soul proof copy

Few days ago I received "Demon Soul" proof copy to review. I'm so proud to have my first novel's book between my hands. It took me a lot of times and efforts to write it, I basically have been working on it since last September when my friend first told me about NaNoWriMo. I started to gather my ideas about this story and to make some researches about demons, angels and magics. Then I started to write it on the first of November. No cheating ! It took me less than 20 days to reach my word count of 50000 words to win NaNoWriMo as I needed to finish soon to go on holiday, I wrote generally more than 2500 words a day. I finished to write the novel in December winning NaNoFiMo at the same time with more than 40000 more words. Since I have been working on other novels and on the editing of this one. Even though editing  can be really fastidious at time compare to the inertia of writing I still knew it was necessary and "Demon Soul" has been reviewed five times (one by my fiancé) since the first draft accessible on line had been written. And I promise it is a lot better and detailed.
Now I will review this proof copy to make sure to have something as good as possible for my beloved readers and it will be available on amazon and eStore as soon as it possibly can.
Thank you for waiting with me and bearing with my perfectionism.  

Demon and fairy part 4

Finally here is a consequent part of  "Demon and fairy" for you to read.
I think that writing this novel is a lot different than writing "Demon soul" or "Attic mirror", I am just following Seti all the time giving few space to other characters and still developing them mostly according to their relation to Seti. I'm also using a lot of flashback, that give an other dimension to the story.  It is a really different vision of writing and I thing I have still a lot to explore in this matter. I'm getting more attached to Seti than to other characters ever before, probably because I'm spending so much time with him, I want to write all the time.
For the moment I'm writing a part that wasn't really planed but I will reach the planed part again really soon and I know that one is going to make me cry. Just thinking about it already did.

So far 21356 words, I'm right on track.

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Demon and fairy part 3

"Demon and fairy" is progressing nicely. I have been writing everyday except one since th begining of the challenge and I'm almost alright with my word count for the moment. Well I'm 500 words behind but I'm expecting to solve that tonight. The day I didn't write was just after going to the aquarium, I took a 4 hours nap, I must have been really tired of my week.
Even if I have planed all the story before starting to write, this last part carried me to some unexpected event. Well as for "Demon soul" I guess I just have to feel the blanks between the things I actually planed, but it's a bit painful to be annoying and torturing poor Seti. I feel a lot mote comfortable when writing happy things. I think I just have to hurry up my writing to reach a happier part of the story.

So far 9187 words :D

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Japan : しながわ水族館

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Yesterday we went to visit しながわ水族館. From 調布 we had to take 4 trains to get there, 調布 to 明大前 to 渋谷 to 品川 to 大森 and then walk a bit. We almost get lost there but that was without counting on my logical sense of where things should be located. Hum that doesn't work that well all the time but in Japan it does so far. That wasn't the more efficient way to get there probably it terms of trains transfer but that was the cheapest according to google map.

The  aquarium was pretty big, 2 floors and a open pool for dolphin and sealion shows. And also an impressive tunnel under water from which you could see giant skate, turtles and all kind of fishes. We were lucky to arrive relatively early so it wasn't very crowed when we first reached the tunnel. We also managed to have a nice view of the dolphins' show and even sits for the sealions' show. It seems that each animal has its own trainer so they learn to do different things. 
 
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New Challenge JulNoWriMo

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On the first on July I decide to participate to a new writing challenge. My previous success for NaNoWriMo and other competition really motivated me to write more. Especially that today I successfully order the free proof copy of "Demon Soul" that NaNoWriMo allowed me to get as a winner.
The project I will be working on is "Demon and fairy" I already started few months ago but didn't go too far, by lack of time, concentration or wish, I don't know. But know I think it's time to give Seti a proper story. So here is the first part of the story that will count for Julnowrimo.

So far 4102 words :D

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