It's been a long, long time since I've done this but it's really overdue. My brain breeds up more plot bunnies that I can keep up with, much less develop and allow to grow. I have a little booklet of plots that I keep around for various fandoms. Some get used, some get recycled but most get ignored because I never gave the idea anymore structure ( Read more... )

Due to real life issues (read catastrophes), I was unable to participate in NaNo this year but it did get me thinking for next year though. Currently I have two options that could be done in about 50,000 words or so. Based on how long I am capable of writing chapters (Sky Folktale's first chapter in a draft hit 4639 O_O), the story would at least ( Read more... )

M is a closet Xellos/Filia shipper, which amuses me to no end every single time he insists that they have a romantic relationship while I tell him to watch it (the scene in Slayers Try where Xellos says "Now that's the dragon I love") in Japanese with English subs because it's a different translation altogether (even though I am a shipper myself ( Read more... )

One of the best things about going home for a week was that I had a chance to get the notebooks I needed in order to piece together some fics I want to write. One of them being Vampire Princess Shuurei. Now reading over my notes, I had a completely different vision of what to write a year ago for the same story premise. The plot has changed a bit ( Read more... )

Here's where I usually fall through when it comes to stories, be they fanfiction or original works. It's the plot. The notion of what the story is going to be about and a plot are two completely different things. Currently Vampire Princess Shuurei is made up of three parts: the shimna plotline, the Shuurei plotline, and the underlying plotline that ( Read more... )

It used to be that my best thinking was done with a pen in hand and paper in front of me (usually overly cute stationery...like Cinnamoroll or Winnie the Pooh). Now it seems if I'm allowed to type endlessly, then I will do so. I think it has more to do with having a laptop for the last few years and using one extensively. One of the things I'm ( Read more... )

If we had instant teleportation, one of the first things I would get from home would be the loads of fanfic notes I left behind when I came to St. John's. Mind you, the word "notes" is misleading. They're more like napkin notions...it's a joke from a play I saw back in high school. Anyway, the term is more accurate as I have a habit of writing on ( Read more... )

The last couple days have been shit. It tells you something about your life if you can start naming the stages you'll go through after a disaster period. After the SCREAMING/VENTING Emotional in the forefront, Practical took over and it's going to be a uphill walk but not a battle. Even I'm not so unlucky to be unemployed for a whole year unless I' ( Read more... )

Now that I'm back on track, I can address fandom, something I haven't touched outside of gift fics (you know who you are. I fulfilled my duty...in a rather wayward manner. They should be up by next week if no more living disasters hit). Lots of things have changed since I've left things in the spring. While I was waiting with bated breath for my ( Read more... )

Bookstores are love and there's no debate on that. The usual argument from there is which bookstores? Do we go for the local indy bookstores or the big mass market chain ones? For me, that is easily determined by which bookstore gets my book in first because timing is everything to me. That is why for years Chapters/Indigo (the equivalent of a ( Read more... )