Children of the First

Update

So we have another guest piece for you! This time it's a bit of fanart from Dawn (also known as Tigerkytti). She's a Super Ninja by day, and a rockstar/artist/writer/poet/blacksmith(maybe?) by night. You should all check out her deviantART and The Dreams of Insanity for her wordings.
...maybe she'll do more pictures if you do, who can tell with that crazy cat?
(Get it? Man, I'm funny...)

So, here she is:

Fera "Feral" Ignus

Thanks Dawn!

At the Blog

So here's chapter ten! It's a long one.
(Hiatus still in effect: I got a job and might have the housing settled, but I still have some scheduling to iron out and some site design work I'd like to get done before I officially end the hiatus and set a schedule)
Thanks to the wealthy benefactor who donated the full $15 to reach the bonus story goal! That's awesome!
I have an idea to do another myth installment, but suggestions are always welcome!

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I pasted a copy of the hiatus announcement post into the forums over at the WFG, and the lovely
Kyt Dotson was kind enough to send me a short piece from her story, Mill Avenue Vexations. It's pretty cool, even out of context (maybe especially out of context--woo, ambiguity!), and hopefully it'll tide you over at least until chapter 10.  While you wait for me to get my act together, why not saunter over to Mill Avenue Vexations, or to the Web Fiction Guide for bunches of other stuff.

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Children of the First was just reviewed over at The Web Fiction Guide, which is one of the best (if not the best, since Pages Unbound is out of the running) communities of web fiction readers and writers. Chris Poirier, one of the WFG Editors and author of Winter Rain, gave CotF 3.5 stars in his review, Children of the First: a fun little romp, and I think that's pretty decent for nine chapters in. The review was very well written and I tended to agree with Chris's criticism, though I have the benefit of knowing that certain things are going to change as the story progresses. Chapter 10 is getting closer every minute (well, not this one), and I'll have it up as soon as possible (it's gonna end up being looong). For now though, we'll have the first guest piece.

So I'm here, working on the new chapter, when my roommate comes in and tells me that one of our new roommate's rent checks bounced after being late with last month and 3 weeks late with the security deposit, so now our landlord wants us to fix the problem (which would involve getting him his money and getting a new roommate) or we have to be out by September. So, I have decided to put the story on a brief hiatus until this gets sorted out. Chapter ten will go up and then the hiatus will begin. Sorry about this, but I need to set this aside while I get my real life in order. I'll still be around to talk respond to comments and give updates, but no chapters for a while. I'm going to take a page from MeiLin's handbook and ask for guest submissions during the hiatus. It can be art, poetry, fiction, something involving CotF (Like MeiLin, I don't want fanfic but sillyfic is awesome), really almost anything. This is just to have something for visitors to check out during the break. In exchange, I will link to your website, webnovel, random thing you want to support, or what have you. You give my guest stuff, I promote you; win-win. Sorry that I have to do this, guys, but I've been struggling to get new chapters written lately, so I think I need to take some time off and come back to it in a week or two when I can get the schedule back on track. Thanks for your understanding. (Also, I will still do bonus chapters if the donation goal is met. Every little bit helps.)

Wow. Too much. Expect blog post to explain what has happened in the last few days.

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So I was pretty far through the bonus thing; I'd gotten the images in, knew what I was writing, and all that was left was put the last words on the screen. So what does firefox decide to do? Crash. And of course, instead of writing in microsoft word like I have with every chapter so far, I was writing the bonus in wordpress. And of course, the crash deleted everything I'd written and saved the post. Meaning everything I've done on it is gone. I still have the images, but fucking hell, can't a guy catch a break?

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Hey everyone!
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