Fic update and Books

[zakai_]

Well, so according to the all powerful anon meme, the two things I really need to work on are updating fic more often and posting personal entries.  I can't promise super quick updates.  I know I have a bad habit of posting horribly slow, though sadly a lot of that is due to the fact that I tend to wander from fic to fic depending on which one

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[elegantpaws]

Woot! Glad to hear it. Absolutely one of my favourites (TEE). As to updating infrequently, I am with you on that one. You have to go with when your muse kicks in. Simple as that. We all actually have lives and we are not being paid for this. Now if there was a lovely fat cheque from a publishing company attached I am sure, with all due, alacrity you would be all over it lol. Seriously though, you do it for pleasure. Makes no point to force things you are not feeling at any given measure.

As to books. Personal preference spans the gamet from Historical treatises (Ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt, the fertile crescent in general actually - that was my specialty in university as well as ancient languages and dialects).

For pure plkeasure re fiction - espionage and books of intrigue and the flip side metaphysical things and with respect to romance, I am a hopeless romantic who happens to be married to another hopeless romantic, but here in lay the difference. I love a solid romance that is part of the story. Harlequin and that lot does not appeal. I find them infantile. Strong preference for bonds between intellectual equals and such and unlikely pairings that find each other. Makes for interesting. Love love...I do. So I don't tend to avoid it, but I do like it to be co-hesive.

More than you wanted to know, but you did ask.

[zakai_]

*laughs* ah well, even the prospect of money cannot force me to write for too long. I make sure I write on my novel every day, and while I do enjoy it, there are days when I'm really not interested in working on it. I still do, though I don't always get much done in that hour...

Romance as part of a plot is okay. That I don't mind at all, and sometimes it's nice to read. It's the Harlequin type novels that I've never been able to understand or stomach.

Not at all more than I wanted to know. ^_^

[elegantpaws]

*snicker* Wretched purist (wink).Say that now until you have a best seller on your hands. There are days I am sure when you will write to exhaustion. Just depends where you are in the piece.Like you, always give a bit of time each day to the original. I love it because it is a universe I create entirely with no asides, no preconceived notions...the universe of my making. I got bored with writing to anywhere near canon for my fandom. I wrote what I did not see, and wanted expressed. Huge surprise at the following...kind of scary sometimes, but that too is slowly winding down. I intend to finish all by summers end and be done with fanfiction.I say this now, but I give it this. It teaches so much about the craft and the overall audience interaction is a great deal of fun, particularly when you come across people who get the voice and ethos you are expressing. Those are worth a thousand "update soon" reviews.If what you write touches, communicates, reaches, resonates with just one other...it is a benediction.

Oh yes, romance has to work within the story. Romance is part of life, a very nice part of life. Partnership, sensuality, all the building blocks of human continuity and all the trials and tribulations inbetween...

I, like you, cannot pick up one of those without seriously wondering what in hell is wrong with its readership, other than the fact that they are clearly missing the bit about what makes a relationship work; partnership, sensuality, drive, companionship. The greatest gift we have ever been given as people.

That is my view and am sticking with it.

[zakai_]

*laughs* nope, not even the promise of money can get me to write for long if I'm not feeling the story. Though I have written for 14 hours straight once, working on a chapter of fanfiction... ^ ^; It was then that I started thinking I needed more than a metal folding chair as my computer chair (I still do not have a proper chair, 2 years later...).

I can understand wanting to be finished with writing fanfiction. Fanfiction is fun, and it's easy (compared to original fiction), but it's also limiting in many ways. I keep thinking that one day I'll give up fanfiction as well, and most likely FMA will be the last fandom I write actively for. When I finish Descent, then I'll probably be truly done with fanfiction, but who knows where the roads of life will take us.

[elegantpaws]

Now this is where I am going to give you hell!Get a chair, a spine is not a thing to be wasted. You will be regretting the wanton abuse of said one day when you are old Mrs!

Seriously, a good bed/matress and chairs are vitally important for the skeletal structure.Be frugal in other ways, not that.

We never know what road life takes us on at all...that is most of the fun...IMHO!

[zakai_]

^ ^; Yes, yes, I know. I'm still trying to talk the husband into it, though I think I almost have him talked into it. Before we moved, we didn't have room for more than folding chairs, but now that we do, I plan on us having real computer chairs before the year is over.

[elegantpaws]

Much better. I know I overstep, but as a writer, you spend an inordinate amount of time sitting upon your sit upon and it does have reprecussions. Good lady! Grab the check book and be gone (wink). I find it easier to be forgiven for my...whims...(wink). Yes, I know, far too practical for that, but as long as you do.Hugs and a peaceful night.