{ of introductions && plans }

Welcome to Ghost Harmonics, my chronicle, commentary, and occasional compendium of writing and my take on it.

If there's one thing that's been constant in my life from changing cities, schools, roles, and circles of friends, it's been writing. I'm a notebook collector, a lover of fresh pages and new pens, the kind of person who wants a new body of pages for each new idea or plan to flesh it out fully. Reading I also like, and might comment on it here, though I plan for this to be more a collection of my lonely thoughts on writing.

The title of this space is meant to mimic the way certain words make me feel--like there's a strange electricity undercutting them, as though as they strike a chord in you and stay with you long after you've read them. I'm in search of words, phrases like that. I'm constantly trying to invoke emotion, to convey my characters and scenes in a way that make them feel real and meaningful to readers.

I can't promise anything more specific than that I'll talk about writing, what I like and don't like, and what I want to do, and that I might keep this up for a while. I tend to start things and not see them through fully, or really much at all, so this is my no-promises-no-guarantees clause.

Currently, my goals include finishing my dragon story (working title Argent) and prepping to finish the second half of Callahan for this year's NaNoWriMo.

Research for Callahan has been hilarious. It's meant to mimic my life on about a million levels, as well as incorporate a lot of religious context and mythology as well, so it's a crazy ride. I've gotten tons of dark and odd looks checking out these esoteric and really fairly evil looking tomes on demonology and "dark" magic and I believe I've horrified a few librarians with the incongruence: being a mostly attractive young girl and borrowing items that would perhaps, in other times, have marked me as a odd variety of heretic or devil-worshiper. While sometimes I get sad that I don't live in another time, the freedom of information that I enjoy in this era is something I can't say I'd want to sacrifice.

So projects:

- Callahan (research && planning)
- Argent (writing)

I don't know if I can finish Argent before NaNo. It's supposed to be a Christmas present, but it's doubtful that I'll have the time to get it all done, unless I really step it up or finish Callahan ridiculously early and then spend the rest of NaNo completing it. Oh well. We'll see; I might yet amaze myself.

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