So, way back when in this post, I outlined for a massive Archanea fic-project dubbed "Tales of the Unified Kingdom," a good-faith effort at showing a positive, if complicated, outcome for the continent after the War of Heroes.  The idea first arose from the 'fic "Homecomings," an Abel-centric story that takes place a whopping four decades after the ( Read more... )

 Today wasn't terrible by any means but it did leave me drained and frustrated.  Basically, I spent the day immersed in corporate politics (the CEO came to visit), navigating rival cliques whilst trying not to offend any of them, naming guilty men, and fretting over how to save people who are their own worst enemies.  Also one of my former ( Read more... )

 I haven't written a word of 'fic since posting "Namesake" last week.  Part of it is that I've been crazybusy, part of it is that it's been HOT and sitting in front of a computer screen in this weather is no fun, and a big part of it is that FE12 and all its revelations has more or less short-circuited the fandom part of my brain.

( FE12 musings wrt 'fic )

 I had a feeling that reading about Custer and Sitting Bull would unlock something in my brain, but I'd hoped it would be a 'fic involving actual in-depth battle scenes, like "To Freely Serve" (Norne 'Fic) or "Widening Gyre" (Peg Sis 'Fic).  Instead, I ended up flying through the second installment in my planned Caeda Trilogy, "The View From A ( Read more... )

It's been two long, rough days at the negotiating table, and this one is going to drag out a while.  The company is saying "no" across the board (okay, they agreed to a couple of tiny symbolic proposals) on every major issue, monetary and non-monetary alike.  We're not asking for a whole hell of a lot-- is it THAT crazy to think that one week of ( Read more... )

 I think I need a certain amount of external pressure to be productive.  The pressure is on now, and my brain is flowing over.

Here is an exploration of Caeda I wrote 80% of last year and have polished up for publication.  It's my attempt at depicting her between the wars, based on a curious glitch in the Archanean timeline.  It would appear that, ( Read more... )

 No, it's not my fe_contest  entry.  That's stalled out at 437 words because I got sidetracked by one of the minor characters and went off on a separate tangent entirely.

This is 100% stress-relief on my part.  I don't even know if it's good; I do know that the music I listened to while writing it (big sweeping power ballads) was irredeemably awful, not to ( Read more... )

 Holy hell, ffnet updated their site to include a "world" filter for Fire Emblem!  Um, yay?  Um, where does my crossover story go?

But hey, that makes it easy for me to locate a story like this without adding yet another character to the drop-down menu.  Anyone remember that drabble I wrote for the first fe_contest  challenge?  This covers some of the same ( Read more... )

 I hate having to deviate from a cherished master plan, but... foolish consistency, hobgoblins, et cetera.

Part Three.

In this installment, we have a wedding, some holidays, and a masquerade ball, but almost nobody appears to be enjoying themselves.  Other highlights: Cain cleans house among the Temple Knights, Princess Caeda finally makes her ( Read more... )

 Ugh.  It's March already?

February was pretty productive.  I still haven't retooled "Troublesome Insects" to my satisfaction, but at least I took a stab at it.  I blasted out four chapters of "No Saint to Follow" and feel some reduced pressure from that project.  I think I temporarily got the Tiki bug out of my system with "Eternal Spring," which ( Read more... )