What's going on...
So, I haven't posted since Thanksgiving, and here we are, already two weeks into December. Christmas is just two weeks (literally 14 days!) away. Odds are fairly good that I'll be absent...invisible, if you will...for most of the month. I've got a lot to do before Christmas comes rolling down the pike, and my mind's not really focused on "The Blogosphere" right now.
Fact of the matter is, I'm busy working on the final chapter of my Harry Potter fanfic, AFTERMATH (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4466132/1/Aftermath). I'm not exaggerating when I say this is going to be the longest chapter of the entire story. I'm already pushing nine THOUSAND words, and I'm nowhere near finished yet. Theoretically, I could probably split it up into three or four separate chapters, but I really want to end on a nice, round number...so Chapter 40 is it.
I'm also working on other stories. My George Weasley fic has stalled, but I haven't cast it aside YET. The problem is, my Writer's Malaise, caused by too much time spent at family dinners, sucked the FUNNY out of the George Weasley fic. Who writes a George Weasley story that ISN'T funny?! Me, apparently, so until I can find the funny again, I'm leaving it alone.
I'm also working on a Christmas fic that I absolutely want to get out BEFORE Christmas. I was thoroughly pissed with myself that I wasn't able to get a Thanksgiving-oriented Harry Potter fic out before the big day. That idea was scrapped. See, I've read some fics where the writer has the people of ENGLAND celebrating Thanksgiving...the holiday that celebrates the Pilgrims' making it through the hardship of their first winter in AMERICA. So, I got it in my head to write a sarcastic little tale essentially making fun of those people out there who are stupid...or maybe just ignorant...enough to think that if it's celebrated in America, it must be celebrated around the world. I'm still looking for the Harry Potter fanfic where the gang celebrates the Fourth of July. I'm sure I'll find one. If not, I'll bloody-well WRITE one!!!
I'm a dick, right? Right. Pretty proud of it, too.
Other stories are planned, one-shots mostly, but I'm also working out the logistics of a story that I've been contemplating since before I started posting AFTERMATH on FanFiction.net. It's going to be a multi-chapter fic, so I'm going to have to put a lot of time and effort into it once I start on it. I hope to begin posting that story sometime in January...of course, before I can post the first chapter, I have to finish writing the first chapter! Funny how that works, huh?
So, if I'm not around to regale you with stories from the Life and Times of BlackHawk, you'll know that I'm busily working on stories to entertain the great masses of fans that Lemondrop claims I have. I'm also trying to enjoy the Christmas season (I need to get a tree) and rest my injured back. That's where I'll be if I'm not around to post blog entries.
But I promise to be back with at least one entry before Christmas. Think of it as a Christmas gift!
'Hawk
Fact of the matter is, I'm busy working on the final chapter of my Harry Potter fanfic, AFTERMATH (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4466132/1/Aftermath). I'm not exaggerating when I say this is going to be the longest chapter of the entire story. I'm already pushing nine THOUSAND words, and I'm nowhere near finished yet. Theoretically, I could probably split it up into three or four separate chapters, but I really want to end on a nice, round number...so Chapter 40 is it.
I'm also working on other stories. My George Weasley fic has stalled, but I haven't cast it aside YET. The problem is, my Writer's Malaise, caused by too much time spent at family dinners, sucked the FUNNY out of the George Weasley fic. Who writes a George Weasley story that ISN'T funny?! Me, apparently, so until I can find the funny again, I'm leaving it alone.
I'm also working on a Christmas fic that I absolutely want to get out BEFORE Christmas. I was thoroughly pissed with myself that I wasn't able to get a Thanksgiving-oriented Harry Potter fic out before the big day. That idea was scrapped. See, I've read some fics where the writer has the people of ENGLAND celebrating Thanksgiving...the holiday that celebrates the Pilgrims' making it through the hardship of their first winter in AMERICA. So, I got it in my head to write a sarcastic little tale essentially making fun of those people out there who are stupid...or maybe just ignorant...enough to think that if it's celebrated in America, it must be celebrated around the world. I'm still looking for the Harry Potter fanfic where the gang celebrates the Fourth of July. I'm sure I'll find one. If not, I'll bloody-well WRITE one!!!
I'm a dick, right? Right. Pretty proud of it, too.
Other stories are planned, one-shots mostly, but I'm also working out the logistics of a story that I've been contemplating since before I started posting AFTERMATH on FanFiction.net. It's going to be a multi-chapter fic, so I'm going to have to put a lot of time and effort into it once I start on it. I hope to begin posting that story sometime in January...of course, before I can post the first chapter, I have to finish writing the first chapter! Funny how that works, huh?
So, if I'm not around to regale you with stories from the Life and Times of BlackHawk, you'll know that I'm busily working on stories to entertain the great masses of fans that Lemondrop claims I have. I'm also trying to enjoy the Christmas season (I need to get a tree) and rest my injured back. That's where I'll be if I'm not around to post blog entries.
But I promise to be back with at least one entry before Christmas. Think of it as a Christmas gift!
'Hawk