Malice

The basic premise of my Modern BotW AU fanfic novel Malice is that Zelda is romanced by one of the Blight Ganons. It's taken a human form for plot-related reasons, and it retains some of the memories and personality of the original Ganondorf, but it's still a big messy scary monster.

While editing An Unfound Door, I wanted to reference how I wrote the Blight Ganon in the first four chapters of Malice, when it's almost completely inhuman. I thought this would be a chore, but I got sucked into the story and ended up reading 50k words of it last night.

The novel is surprisingly good, and that's distressing. I'm afraid that I might have been a much better writer in 2021. It's possible that I might have been a better artist, too. Goddamn it.

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2024 Writing Log, Part 38

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I’ve been making a lot of submissions and getting a lot of rejections, and the rejections have been making me physically sick to my stomach. I haven’t been able to eat for three weeks now. I’ve lost weight, so much so that I had to buy new pants. I’m doing okay, I guess, but there’s no way this can be healthy.

On one hand, I’m happy to have finished the first draft of my first original novel. That’s an incredible accomplishment! On the other hand, I can’t help but be frightened of what comes next.