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About the Author:

Mostly writing about Silent Hill for now, I enjoy reading various fics: The Evil Dead; Final Fantasy; City of Heroes; and the like. I was propelled to write Silent Hill by D. Natali's novelisation of Silent Hill 4: Silent Hill 4: Introspection. I am an avid writer, and mostly, if ever I have free time, I'm adding to Silent Hill: The Red Angel or playing Silent Hill 2.

I was once a member of Writing.com, but I wasn't a paying member so I wasn't allowed to write books. So, after doing some 'freelance' writing, I came upon FanFic.net, and voila!

I am a devoted user of the single quote ( ' ) instead of the double quote ( " ); call it rebellion, uniqueness, or my way of showing my love of British writing (after all, I use 'lustre' instead of luster' and 'colour' instead of 'color'). It started after I read The Lord of the Rings, and I've used it since. Also, I'm very oh so picky about perfection in writing, and any spelling or grammatical errors I find in anything stick in my mind for the whole time I read that material. I apologise, and I try not to make a habit of 'chewing out the new writers.' After all, I'm human, and I make a ton of mistakes. . .

As odd as it sounds, music really gets the creative juices flowing. Rush, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Anthrax, Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins (on occasion), and Weird Al seem to work the most. 2112 is by far what I listen to the most, and yet Pearl Jam is what I wrote most of the good combat-filled Chapters on. Any of you get writer's block? Try some headphones and your favourite musician. I have found it helps loads.

Update

Current Favourite song: Okay, time for a new one. Eh . . . Pruno by STP isn't too well known, but I like the chorus ("I got another hit that held me the last time . . ."), and, also off the same album, Heaven & Hot Rods has a great guitar. But above all, and possibly my favourite song ever, is Big Bang Baby. The video is screwed up, but I LOVE the bass and guitar riff, plus it has that psychedelic flavour that I love soooo much. I'ma go watch the video (since I lost the song :O )

List of other 'prefered' songs: Far Cry, by Rush; Force Ten, by Rush; 4th of July, by Soundgarden; Burden in My Hand, by Soundgarden; Rhinosaur, by Soundgarden; Jeremy, by Pearl Jam; What the Hell Have I, by Alice in Chains; A Little Bitter, by Alice in Chains; Fly By Night, Rush; Lock and Key, by Rush; The Body Electric, by Rush; Angry Again, by Megadeth; Poison My Eyes, by Anthrax; I am the Walrus, by The Beatles; Superunknown, by Soundgarden; War Pigs, by Black Sabbath; Invisible Sun, by The Police; Don't Stand So Close To Me, by The Police; Seven Seas of Rhye, by Queen; Locomotive Breath, by Jethro Tull; Aqualung, by Jethro Tull. More to come, I wager. Any song that I mention in 'The Nameless Parody' or its sequel is a song I like (except 'Genie in a Bottle', that was just humour).

Current Favourite Video Game: City of Villains; Current Favourite Video Game Music: the music played during the A-Scenario battle with William Birkin, in Resident Evil 2.

Hobbies: Reading ; Writing ; getting owned/owning in City of Villains ; dominating 'Starfighter:Quadrant Wars' on Newgrounds ; playing Silent Hill, Final Fantasy, and other stuff ; talking about random crap ; making fun of my dog because she doesn't understand English (done by saying 'You're an ugly dog!' in a cutesy voice) . . . I still love her, though she is not the brightest pup ever ; other things that I can't think of right now!

About the Writing(s):

I tend to avoid poetry and write prose, though I have no problem with poems and I indeed like to brainstorm them while I have nothing to do and am away from home. Besides, when you work with the Silent Hill series, you pretty much have to know how to write some poetry. After all, what's a good Silent Hill game without the mind-bending irrelevant riddle?

Edgar Allen Poe: indeed, I draw inspiration from the man (mainly from the dashes and crossed out names). Trace amounts I think, but 'tis not for me to decide.

Writing began not long ago with a Fantasy story called 'Untitled.' It blossomed into a novel called The Flaming Hall, but it is Book One in a tetralogy and I haven't even looked at it in about three months. I began writing the Silent Hill-esque genre (horror/macrabe) with my novella Damage, which was set in a school, and was about a father fighting off Silent Hill-ish demons to find and rescue his son. I then began to develop a Silent Hill story in my mind about a guy named Arnold Westnaught, and though I've yet to pen this novel, I will after I finish the Silent Hill: The Red Angel, which is a precursor to the events in that novel. It will all be made clear after The Red Angel is finished. (For origins on Silent Hill: The Red Angel; read the story, it says various pieces of its history at the top.

Current favourite work (by me): Silent Hill: The Nameless Parody 2

Current favourite work (by someone else): well, everything on my favourites are amazing, but the top three are Silent Hill 4: Introspection (D. Natali), Silent Hill 2: Letter From Silent Heaven (Ryan M. Usher),and silent hill 2: this room sucks (Darkcomet).

Update

Recently started a few works on both FictionPress and here: here I started the Siege of Grandville; on FictionPress I started The Wall of the Dragon, a novella much like The Red Angel, save it's high fantasy from my own legendarium (in the works).

Also, I regret to inform you that there is false information in the paragraph starting with 'Writing began not long ago': it is about the novel featuring Arnold Westnaught. I have revamped the story, and incorporated it into my horror/supernatural mythos. Chances are, it will be published.

The Red Angel was on a brief hiatus, but now it's over, and aside from revising The Flaming Hall (which is almost done, at last!) I will devote all my time to it.

Update

The Red Angel is complete, and I've deleted The Wall of the Dragon from FictionPress. I started a new story (The Celestial Outbreak -- Part 1: Infection), and have an idea for a new one on Fan Fic. I'm thinking about writing a prequel to The Red Angel, telling of how Marcus and Anna met (despite it being in Chapter 25) and their life together, since the Romance-aspect of Chapter 25 was refreshing. But time will tell, and I have a headache as I type this so it'll be brief. The prequel is a probable thing, as, for some reason, I can't throw out Marcus or Anna so easily. I also made a lot of plot-holes in The Red Angel. Fixing those currently.

Update

Even I get sidetracked by simple story idea; and now I'm writing another SH novella called Silent Hill: The Holy Mother. It is basically Silent Hill 4 with different characters, settings, monsters, and a new protagonist and antagonist. I've been slowly chiseling away at The Siege of Grandville, but got sidetracked by a PvP journal I concieved called Siren's Call Chronicles. I haven't written anything of it yet, but I plan to do that one during my The Siege of Grandville phase.

Update

I'm postponing The Holy Mother to work on a sequel to The Legend of Tingle, called The Legend of Tingle: Tingle in Time. It's a short novella, completely moronic and with utter randomness. Probably will include Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, as well as other things. Basically, Tingle doesn't die how it was stated in the first one, and has to prevent Link from dying, Zelda from marrying, and the meteor from ending all life on Hyrule. On second thought, postponing isn't an accurate term, as I'm still adding to it. I guess I'm switching priorities.

Update

Forget The Legend of Tingle, I've been driven to write a novelisation of Resident Evil 2 once The Holy Mother is finished. I was compelled by having played it about five times this week, and when I went to find a good novelisation: nothing, save one that's only reached chapter 1. Thus I'm going to post that after The Holy Mother. I plan on being adventurous: I'm doing Claire A and Leon B, because that's how I always play it (what can I say, the Magnum works well agains 'Mr. X' and the Acid Rounds work well against William Birkin's last two forms: I killed the first in four shots).

Update

Well, I've hit a roadblock in terms of writing. I'm not 'out of it'; I just haven't had much enthusiasm for the past few days. I know that writing becomes a duty once you start it professionally, but my engine's stalled: it's writer's block in the EXTREME. I am enjoying writing this at the moment, but once WordPerfect opens, the train of thought derails. Good thing I'm not a journalist. I'm thinking about deleting The Celestial Outbreak and writing it in full once I have something published in reality. But, despite failure with The Wall of the Dragon, I feel a call to write fantasy. It pangs at me night and day, and I tried to rewrite The Flaming Hall, but it's such a headache. I can't start it over. It's so amateur, but I've begun to think it's not just the writing: it's probably the story itself. But oh well. Nothing I can really do about it.

Despite the depressing tale I've just told you, there is another reason I want to delete The Celestial Outbreak: I have what I think is an awesome story idea for both fantasy and horror. The fantasy is harder to get going; but the horror is too complex. I can't think of a 1. Reason, 2. Antagonist, 3. SystemLet's just say that it's Poe-ish and Silent Hill-ish: a man who, over the course of the week, begins to have hallucinations and strange encounters with an Other World. Towards the end, he questions his sanity to the extreme. Alas, I must finish The Holy Mother ere I start anything else. I'm tired of having three things on hiatus, and two projects not. I'm finishing The Holy Mother, and then I may work on The Celestial Outbreak or The Siege of Grandville.

Thus I'm 'mopping up' my account: everything on hiatus is going to be worked on. I'm going to make an oath right now:

I, EternalFlare, do solemnly swear to say nothing but the truth, the whole truth and nothing but-- oops, wrong memo.

I, EternalFlare, do solemnly swear to post nothing more than what I have on my portfolio at the time of this oath's conception until all works on hiatus are completed, excluding the publication of short stories. To this oath I hold, and no coercement, bribery (well, let's not push it) or blackmail will sway me. -EternalFlare.

Update

Nothing much to report, except the fact that I have been adding to The Siege of Grandville. I'll admit, I'm not fond of The Holy Mother, as it begins amateur, but I'm gonna start really trying, 100. Before, it was just me typing, because I was usually tired or wanted to write something else. But no longer.

Update

HOLY CRAP. I just revised The Red Angel, and found some of the greatest goofs ever made (by me):

The H.P. Lovecraft quote was missing a word: That is not dead which can eternal lie.

The floor of the cafe basement magically changes from concrete to grate between Chapter 3 and 4, both taking place within the Other World.

But the absolute biggest was that Raymond says his last name is Depurn, and in chapters after he is constantly referred to as Raymond Desmond. But, I do have a mediocre excuse: he says his name in Chapter 5, and his second last name appears in Chapter 10. That was a good sized chunk of time in between 5 and 10, so that's my only excuse.

I've been playing around with the idea of a UFO ending for The Red Angel, but I don't know. I'd like to do it, but The Red Angel's lifespan seems perfect as is. Well, we'll see. I wouldn't know how to format it, where to end the story at, and whether to include James and Harry. Marcus would probably kill them all and usurp the leadership of the aliens. Well, I'll toy around with it. We'll see.

Once more, Update:

Well, the absolute crappiest thing in the world happened. I was penning the eleventh chapter for The Holy Mother when the power went out! I had a solid three pages of near nonstop action, and then, POOF: it's all for nothing. Only snatches remain of it in my mind, but I'll try to reproduce it as accurately and as neatly as possible. It involved Pyramid Head, the shotgun, a sewer monster, and a door. When I post it, that should make loads of sense.

Uppo-dato

Well, aside from writing The Holy Mother, I'm writing (on the side, so it shouldn't interfere much) a simple Silent Hill 2 parody. Nothing too random, but there is quite a bit of randomness.

Here's a small excerpt, one of the less-important and less-funny parts:

(Angela) 'What's your name?'

'James.'

'Angela.'

'No, James.'

'Angela.'

'No, I'm James. J-A-Y-M-E-Z.'

'And my name is Angela, you idiot.'

'Did you find your mother?'

'No.'

'Brother?'

'No.'

'Father?'

'No.'

'Dog?'

'No -- wait, dog?'

'Did they live here?'

'WHAT?' Angela shrieked.

'DID THEY LIVE HERE?' James repeated loudly.

--Cut--

McUpdate

I'm hard pressed, because Summer Vacation is nearly over, and I'm finding it hard to write in this awful heat. When school starts, I should have more time to not pay attention in class, thus giving me time to brainstorm. I'm also running out of music (I'm resorting to some of my dad's old albums: Purple, N4 by STP, and Make Yourself by Incubus), so, yeah, hitting a rough patch. But, I'm still working hard on both The Holy Mother and The Nameless Parody. And, if anyone is wondering, I have no clue when I'm going to truly move on from Silent Hill. I just love the genre too much to quit just now.

Despite saying I wouldn't post The Nameless Parody until HM is complete, I needed a dire relief from the darkness of writing Silent Hill. Before I write Silent Hill, I have to get into the darkest, saddest mood possible, isolate myself, and crank up songs about questionable topics. But, with a parody, you can listen to Beethoven if you want (I still listen to the questionable songs). Even I had some doubts about whether I could pull off a parody, but, since I was in the dark, sad mood, I just decided I didn't care. So, I posted it. There are a lot of jokes that are hard to avoid, like the shooting of Laura or Maria's STDs, so some similiarities may be present, but I try to (this is where it gets weird) read the darkest, grossest thing imaginable - when I'm sad, I don't think about the other parodies, and thus I don't emulate them. If I had an isolation tank (which allows sensory deprivation, leading to the trippiest hallucinations imaginable), I'd probably get jokes so good you'd die from laughing. But I can't afford it, so I'll stick to mediocrity.

Holy Crap. An UPDATE!

Well, it's official.

I'm back.

I've been hard at work not working on anything. Just kidding. I've been working overtime on FictionPress, working on The Flaming Hall. I got a really good reviewer, Translucently Opaque, he's thorough and he's helping me change the story from "Written by 12 year old" to "Written by human being".

On the Nameless Parody 3:

It's not dead. It just got knocked out cold, dumped in the Atlantic, frozen, then recovered later. For all you people who are counting on the Final Chapter, it'll be here soon. I promise. It's not the end of the Nameless Parodies, however. There's 2 more games to be parodied (SOON TO BE 3, SH5 COMES OUT FOR XBOX 360! WOOTOX!)

In the meantime, live long and prosper.

Chaos out.

-EternalFlare