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DoorTraveler

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I LIVE!!!

(Just thought I'd clarify for anyon---for the one person ... okay someone might have been wondering, maybe.) 

So for the year of 2016, I've challenged myself to writing everyday. Which I have done so far ... on paper. I appear to be going through this weird stint in my career where I find typing boring, or well maybe not boring, just overly complicated? Whatever, the point is when I type a story I start obsessing over ever little thing, and with a first draft that shit isn't necessary and actually impedes progress. So I'm been handing shit. Not much, probably only 250-500 words a day. Hopefully, I'll get around to typing some of it to show you ... if I'm happy with it. But I'm a little tired of expectations right now so it might be awhile. Also, I've failed to reach the interesting bits of the story I'm writing, so you'd probably find the disjointed hopscotch I've written a bit confraggling. Confraggling is a word right? 
Is now, I guess. 

Anyway, thought I'd update anyone who cares. Though my audience is limited, and probably very few people actually look at these journals anyway. So I guess I'm just typing for my own amusement. 


So no real change there? 
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It has certainly been awhile, and as much as I would LOVE to say I've been hard at work ... well not so much. BUT my muse did hit me good and hard the other day, so I now have a short story to post! *insert cheering crowd, enraged protesters* 
Why am I posting a journal instead of just posting it as a deviation? Well, there's ... okay, so here's the thing. 
It has THREE different endings. 
Now I could post it as it is, with the full story and the three endings with little notations of where the other two endings begin within the first. OR I could post the story THREE different times each with it's own ending, and then you could favorite which ever one you'd like. Or all THREE, or what have you. 

I leave the choice up to you. 

Of course no matter what you choose, there is always the possibility that after I post your chosen format, I will post the other. Because, I don't know. It only seems right? Sure, we'll go with that. 
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1. How long have you been on DeviantArt?

Geez, 7 years it says. That seems like a long time, but also not long enough. 

2. What does your username mean?

It came from my book Doors, actually, and so is pretty straight forward. DoorTraveler = someone who goes through Doors. It's probably less silly sounding once you're familiar with the story. Probably. It is a tragedy, after all. A tragedy with many, many, many things I would like to fix and rewrite eventually. 

3. Describe yourself in three words.

Introvert. Emotive. Obsessive.

4. Are you left or right handed?

Right, although I would love to write left handed ... mostly just so I know that if I break my right hand the world isn't going to completely explode. 

5. What was your first deviation?

Oh, dear mother of god ... what was it? According to DA it was crappy depressing flash fiction, but in all likelihood it was probably a photograph I took down for who knows what reason. Could have been horrid poetry, though, too. I should really scrap a lot of that junk. 

6. What is your favourite type of art to create?

Literature, mostly sci fi settings with mythology ... usually SOMETHING involving the end of the world. Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of them involve the end of the world. Well, maybe. Also personifying death, that's a frequent thing. 

Oh, and MAPS. I LOVE drawing maps, though my current abilities could use some tutoring and patience. Which I don't tend to have. Of either, really. 

7. If you could instantly master a different art style, what would it be?

realistic manga/anime styles, or for writing genres, probably mysteries. I enjoy wondering what the hell is going on. It would just be extra gleeful to bestow that confusion successfully on someone else. 

8. What was your first favourite?

A photograph my sister took on our family trip to England AGES ago. Hellava lot longer than 7 ago.

9. What type of art do you tend to favourite the most?

Things that catch my imagination or fan art, or things that make me smile. 

10. Who is your all-time favourite deviant artist?

Probably humon, I love her art. Especially when it relates to mythology. 

11. If you could meet anyone on DeviantArt in person, who would it be?

Phantom-Daydream

12. How has a fellow deviant impacted your life?

Phantom-Daydream is a really awesome friend, and for me that's been a huge impact.

13. What are your preferred tools to create art?

Microsoft Word and color pencils, probably ball point pens, usually what's nearest. 

14. What is the most inspirational place for you to create art?

Someplace where I'm supposed to be doing something else. As long as I'm procrastinating something else I usually get really inspired. 

15. What is your favourite DeviantArt memory?

Getting first recognized by the DailyLitDeviations, and then getting a Daily Deviation. That was awesome. 

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It's occurred to me that I have actually updated in a bit, and there's a reason for that: My dad decided to come home and cancel the divorce. At this particular moment, I haven't talked with him to understand why. I'm not even sure if I want to understand why. Especially since I've realized these last two months I've never actually had an honest to god conversation with the man, which doesn't make telling him I want to talk any easier. I am honestly, it's like the start of a bad joke: "Two introverts walk into a living room." 

And that's it, because nothing happens. You just end up with silence or exchanged sentences no longer than five words and limited to small talk. At least that's always how it's been with us. 

Anyway, I've been distracting my conscious mind with anime so my subconscious can work things out because that's just how my mind works. ... Which is probably why i remember dreaming so often. Moving on~
This means I've been forgetting or avoiding updating Chambered Nautilus. And it's lack of reception is spurring my muse anyway ... but I guess I should continue posting since I do have the first story done... 

I'll think about it. Right now I have social courage to gather. Which basically means I'll worry about the conversation and then psych myself out because that's just how it's happened historically. 

Whatever. 
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Sad to say, I haven't accomplished much. I've story hopped and marathoned ... wait ... WAIT I did finish a story. One that I don't think I've even mentioned here ... like at all. WOW. Maybe I should post that. Maybe I should post that and then use all of you to get inspired to continued book 2 of said story. BUAHAHAHA. Plan established. 

I'll do that tomorrow, or today ... wait ... I HAVEN'T posted Nautilus on DA have I? I don't remember doing so ... not even the first chapter I thought ... *paranoia increases; immediately goes to check* I'mma go with no. ANYWAY, if I don't post by ... let's say Thursday the 18th, feel free to scold me and the like. 

Back to what I was saying. I haven't accomplished much ELSE, at least on the frontier ya'll are familiar with. DOORS is being difficult in the rewrite department ... mostly because the current version of DOORS went through 4 or 5 revisions so the writing is AWESOME, while first draft writing is just sad in comparison so I get way too frustrated with the shortest of sentences. The next arch of Allen and Ingel is still in the early stages, I think mainly because Allen has a headache and his irritability rubs off on me when I try to write it. Most recently I've been trying to rewrite Dragonlords. I emphasis trying, because it's been three days I'm still on the prologue but that could be because of ... other things. 

And this is where things get heavy. 

Last month my dad served my mom with divorce paper, and needless to say it's had a big impact. I mention this because it's effected my motivation to write. Which is part of the reason why I've returned to Dragonlords (though I'm not sure I'll post the rewritten stuff on DA for awhile). I think I'm mostly using the story to jumpstart my muse. And with luck, and hopefully any comments that might be left on up coming chapters from Nautilus: The Lost Twenty, it will do just that. 

Geez, can't believe I forgot I wrote Nautilus. Phantom-Daydream is going to kill me xD 
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