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Ashes Index Post"Ashes" is my 2010 NaNoWriMo novel. I got to 17,700 words, which is a pretty good month's work for me, though not anywhere near enough to win. *sigh* I have decided to continue writing and posting the rough draft, in an attempt to avoid the fate that befell "The Sum of Things" (my ( Read more... )

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Two Guys and a Girl: Table of ContentsWhen Tifa Lockheart meets Zack and Cloud Strife outside Nibelheim, she's only expecting a minor break in the routine of a small mountain village. She gets much more than that. A story about friendship, secrets, growing up, and the birth of one girl's social ( Read more... )

Secrets is the second fanfiction story I started writing, back in May 2002. It's 15 chapters and an epilogue, of which 11 12 13 chapters are currently completed and posted. I hope to have the story finished by my 25th birthday. *crosses fingers* (ETA, 11/4/07: Okay, by my 26th birthday, maybe?)

4/22/08: By my 27th birthday. OR ELSE. (note, 1 ( Read more... )

Note: "Strange Likenesses" is... somewhere between an embarrassment, a guilty pleasure, and a challenge I am going to beat because it is there and I refuse to let it beat me. In other words, it's a story I started based on a 'hey, wouldn't it be cool if...?' scenario. Foolishly, I left things open-ended in a way that pointed to a WIP rather than ( Read more... )

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The Sum of Things: Index Post"The Sum of Things" is an unfinished rough draft of a long and complicated fantasy novel. It is, to borrow a phrase from Jim Butcher, 'swords and horses' fantasy, dealing with the internal politics and external wars afflicting a disintegrating empire ( Read more... )

Ekanu Thousandbirds, or Sulila Ekanu sur Shima nem Koshva -- child of the Domaris, Mistress of the University, scholar of musicology and languages, University diplomat, chapterhouse inspector, wanderer, mentor, mother -- is one of my favorite characters. She lives in a world I call Firsthome (its inhabitants call it 'Earth,' or just 'the world') ( Read more... )

Wherein I compare and contrast three versions of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: the original book by C. S. Lewis, the 1988 BBC miniseries, and the 2005 Disney feature film. (Comments are not mirrored from LJ to DW or vice versa.)

part 1 on LJ / part 1 on DW

part 2 on LJ / part 2 on DW

part 3 on LJ / part 3 on DW

part 4 on LJ / part 4 on ( Read more... )

Summary: Ariadne survived Nikolaos by keeping her head down and playing as harmless as a young master vampire can; Jean-Claude's rule is better, but she still dreams of freedom. When bounty hunters Arthur Levine and Dominick Cobb come to St. Louis seeking revenge for the death of Dom's wife, they set off a storm of events that may grant Ariadne's ( Read more... )