Aestrix Ramblings and Q & A

[DanielH]

Didyme has only shown up in Radiance (and I think a bit in Effulgence directly), but Princess Cadence is supposed to be one but hasn’t appeared in thread yet.

[Bluelantern]

Sandboxes seem to be better for me in general, I suspect that any one thing in a very long form I'll get tired of eventually, sandboxes I just do it after the plot's been taken care of.

The timeskip's a pretty good idea, but there's some things that I genuinely think should be written down and not timeskipped over. And I don't know how to take care of those safely.

how... urgent is the need for a resolution? You want to put Incandescence to rest before moving on to other stuff? It is a matter of not leaving the readers pending? or...?

[Aestrix]

It's not bashing down my door demanding my lunch money, or anything, but I don't think it's particularly fair to anyone to string people along when I don't think I can manage anything any time soon. But also I just don't like having undone things hanging over my head, especially when a lot of people care about the thing, as they seem to with Incandescence.

[DanielH]

Sandboxes seem to be better for me in general, I suspect that any one thing in a very long form I'll get tired of eventually, sandboxes I just do it after the plot's been taken care of.

Does that mean that you don’t like my idea of introducing a new group of non-Bell non-Adarins and focusing on them for a while, with the intent of merging with the Bells and Adarins at some point if those become interesting again? I was thinking you might get bored of the non-Bell non-Adarins, but by then you could switch back to the Bells and Adarins. If the two groups meet and interact, but also have a lot of separation (easy enough to handwave how that could work; maybe they can only get a mirror to the other group and have short visits occasionally), this seems like it might be able to last indefinitely.

Your getting bored after a while reminds me of myself IRL, and of being sorcerous in the Momentum world: you need variety.

[Aestrix]

Well, what's also going on is that one annoying, hard-to-tackle thing sort of - spreads? Plus, I don't know, right now I'm a little leery of long-term projects. I think I need a break before I think about trying to start another xD

[Bluelantern]

Well, what's also going on is that one annoying, hard-to-tackle thing sort of - spreads? Plus, I don't know, right now I'm a little leery of long-term projects. I think I need a break before I think about trying to start another xD

Do you want more short-term projects/sandboxes?

[Aestrix]

I'm open to suggestions and requests for both, but I cannot literally write all the time. And I'm in college. So there's a hard cap on how many projects I can do.

[Bluelantern]

I'm open to suggestions and requests for both, but I cannot literally write all the time. And I'm in college. So there's a hard cap on how many projects I can do.

Do you think it would help you to recover willpower to write Incandescence?

I don't really have any idea that is more sophisticated than "Character X and Y meet", albeit it might be cute seeing a Nadia meeting a Franklyn or a Temperance.

[Aestrix]

Probably not, honestly? I don't actually know how to recover willpower to write Incandescence, otherwise I'd be doing that xD

[Bluelantern]

Probably not, honestly? I don't actually know how to recover willpower to write Incandescence, otherwise I'd be doing that xD

I did speculate that you thought about it, but it was worth asking. It was possible that - due to a variety of reasons - you felt unable-or-unwilling to direct request assistance. Out of curiosity, are you currently involved in too many sandboxes for your liking?