Cryopod's Final Artwork (And the new Blog Posting Schedule!)

Hey everyone, Klok here. This post is all about my new blog-posting schedule. As many of you may know, I've decided to drop MWTX for art. It seemed like his art wasn't that popular, and I'm too poor now to keep paying him what I was before. I definitely wish him the best of luck, and to commemorate this final art post, I had him draw the six best Cryopod girls in an anime style! That's right. Phoebe, Hyacinth, Ose, Belial, Daisy and... some other angel! Probably nobody important at all! If this art style looks familiar, you might recognize it from the youtuber Cudlil! MWTX kinda heavy-handedly copied her style, but eh, he's not great at the anime style so it was a learning experience for him lol.

Anyway, since I'm announcing my new blog posting schedule, I also wanted to talk about what I would be blogging about, in addition to when.

Let's start with the 'when' first. I'm very busy writing Cryoverse posts. Every blog post I write will be very verbose with a lot of interesting information, and as such I imagine each will take 1-2 days to draft, edit, and post. They'll have just as much love and attention put into them as the Cryoverse itself! As such I'm going to try and aim for THREE blog posts a month, but depending on how my creativity works out, I may drop this to TWO per month. I don't exactly have any idea what sort of set schedule I'll go for, but I'm thinking...

Post 1: Roughly the 10th of each month.

Post 2: Roughly the 20th of each month.

Post 3: Roughly the 30th of each month.

If I end up dropping to two posts a month, I'll probably aim for the 7th and 21st, or something like that. These are just ballpark guesses and we will have to see how it all works out.

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So, you might be asking yourself, "Klok, why would I care about your blog posts? How interesting can these possibly be?"

Well, I've done a few trial runs with blog posts in the back. ALL of them were written within a few hours and were very 'stream of conscious' in tone. Examples include:

My thoughts on Marty Stus.

QWFT: Quit Fucking With Tenses.

How I like to Write a Fight Scene. (This one's a bit outdated, I've changed my style dramatically since I wrote this one.)

The Ancient Era Breakdown. (Heavy spoilers for Chapter 2 of Cryopod Refresh; new readers beware!)

And a few others. You can read them all by clicking this link.

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My future blogs will be much more focused. I want to talk about a lot of things I've learned over the last four years and really put my thoughts out there about writing styles, things I would change if I had infinite time and money, tropes I like, tropes I don't, and so on.

So this part is where I give out a few ideas for my upcoming blog posts.

What if I rewrote Cryopod Refresh?

Cryopod Refresh is not perfect. It has some serious flaws, mostly with chapter 2. Should I rewrite it? Should I not? I have very strong opinions in both directions, and this post will go into detail about those thoughts. I expect this will probably be the first mega blog I write, and it'll probably happen early next month.

How can I expand the Cryoverse?

This post will be a slightly spoilery one focused on my future plans for the Cryoverse. I'm going to talk about the different story ideas I have, how I plan to rework some of them for HFY (or maybe not! Who knows?), and how they tie into Cryopod's narrative and themes.

What makes a good Isekai story?

Isekai is a very broad genre. The word means "person thrown into a strange world" and originates from Japanese light novels, manga, and anime of the same type. Cryopod and The Last Precursor are both Isekais of a sort. They feature protagonists 'immediately' thrown into a situation they're unfamiliar with, and like many isekais, they also feature protagonists way more overpowered than the world/galaxy around them. I've read a ton of isekai and have strong opinions about them. This post will be a fun one.

Are Sci-fi and Fantasy really that different?

A lot of people think Sci-Fi and Fantasy are very different genres. Personally, I disagree. I am also really looking forward to writing this blog post, because as I'm sure my prolific readers have noticed, when I write a story, the sci-fi and fantasy tend to mesh together really well. But how do I pull it off? You'll find out the answer in the next blog post:

How I develop POWER SYSTEMS!

Do you know the difference between hard and soft fantasy? Magic Systems. However, I have taken the idea of magic systems and turned them into power systems. These can work for sci-fi and fantasy alike, and they DON'T have to reflect only on character powers and abilities, magic, or other such things. I think you guys will read my work in a new light once I write this post ;)

Constraints lead to Creativity, but Freedom leads to better Worldbuilding.

This post is a bit more nebulous. I've had many instances when writing Cryopod where I had too much freedom with what was coming next, and it stifled me, making me very hesitant about what path to take. Similarly, there have been times where I limited my world by complete accident, and thus stifled a big possibility for enhancing the story. One such example was when I linked demonic horn sizes to their power levels. It's fine, but I could have made demon horns also represent their personalities and that may have worked out better for the story.

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These are only a handful of the ideas I'm working on. I have a bunch of others in the backlog I can't wait to write. However, patience is key, here. Trying to balance two stories is already pretty dang hard without blog posts confusing and tiring me out further. I imagine I'll lock the most spoilery of these blogs behind a paywall, but those paywalls should be infrequent. I really hate locking people out of content, which may be a big character weakness on my part. IDK.

So yeah, that's all for today. I hope you guys enjoy MWTX's final piece of artwork. It's sad, but true. He won't be drawing for Cryopod anymore. :(

Thanks for reading! New blog posts coming in the next week or two!