Postmortem: Two Thousand Years Later

[SKILORD]

I must confess I never read it before.

Magnificent.

[vovan]

Thanks Chris for bumping, and SKI for reading. It's been a while, and have yet to produce the prequel I had promised.

[KuriousK724]

well when are you going to produce the sequal?

[vovan]

Well, the thing is that I had written a rather big portion of the next story related to this one, while I was still finishing postmortem. But I had lost interest to it rather quickly and have been struggling with restarting for a while, and still can't get over the "I'll just reread what I got one more time to perfect it a bit more and then get going with the next chapter" syndrome. I am really stuck on this one battle-scene... I suck at writing those, and it never comes out the way I want it to. But it is really important to the story that it reads a special way... Maybe I'll try my hand at a couple really short one-battle stories and see if I can get better at it. I'll also watch some battle scenes from the Lord of the Rings, and some other movies - these always help.

What I had in mind for that other story is completely different from this one, though, in genre and style, so I wasn't sure how much interest it would generate... Additionally, I have been struggling to make enough time to even relax from school-work, not to speak of actually using my brain for something extra-curricular, like writing (continuing) a story would entail. In a couple of weeks, there should be a bit less work though so I will try once again to continue what I had started a year ago... Maybe...

[Paddy]

Vovan,

You do present a good case here...

May I ask what are you studying?

[vovan]

Computer Science.

Say, Paddy, I notice there are no comments from you about the story. I'd much appreciate it if you read it and told me what you think about it.

[DarkCloud]

So, this person injured himself?

And there were no other dead people at the mine?

And what about Claw...

I can understand that much of this is imagined and agree with your treatement of Svetlana at the end... But-

Is there any chance that you could make at least some things more obvious in the tale's ending... because otherwise a good deal of information is left hanging- I mean, you can still make everything obscure, but to not address the mine-deaths, or wolves, or exactly how the mortician was injured leaves too much hanging.

The writing is good- but the ending sort of 'floats' with too many loose ends.