| Why it sucks to have your birthday in late april as a student: |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|10:51 am] |
You will most likely be
a) writing papers
b) taking exams
c) going through final season.
Ugh. But I'm 21 now, and I'm going to maybe go for drinks with a friend Friday night, and I am going to block myself out a week after the current semester ends to just do almost nothing :P |
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| Have got groove back |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|04:11 am] |
Now need to decide on where the hell to WRITE IT. Choosing between Scrivener and Textmate (with its super-adorable, super-useful Projects function, and Markdown goodness) is haaaaard. Maybe I should plot in Scrivener, and write in Textmate?
Otherwise, though, yes, I am rewriting AST. Still. May go into more detailed reasons later on, and will probably put up appropriate notice about it on FF.net, but main thing is:
THE BACKSTORY SUCKS. It needs to be beaten with a sledgehammer.
THE PLOT MAKES NO SENSE. I need to decide on what I want to do plotwise, and stick to it.
NO END IN SIGHT. I need an ending, dammit; I need a goal to write towards, and a place to stop at.
NEW CANON. As much as I hate some things about DH, I want all of the shiny in my fic.
Current plans/structure: Two stories. First one covering Antares' first and second year at Hogwarts, and the second one covering the years after. That's about as detailed as I can get; I'll be using similar elements to what is currently in AST, AMF and AFY, but I will be changing A LOT. I'm going to leave the current stories up as they are until I'm done with the first one, and then decide on where to put what and all that. I may end up renaming the universe to something less generic and posting the new stories alongside the old, and leaving the old ones up for everyone to see.
It took a long time to get here, to a place where I can say this and feel reasonably certain that this is what I want to do, but I'm here. |
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| Update |
[Feb. 24th, 2008|07:41 am] |
I am:
- alive
- thinking a bunch of things through
- not writing fanfic right now. Will put up a notice about all currently unfinished stories on FF.net sometime later today.
- reading A LOT. |
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| Just a status update |
[Jan. 27th, 2008|05:13 pm] |
Here, not dead, etc. Just did some flist pruning today, so if you noticed me defriend you or whatnot, don't take it personally. I've been thinking about my spare involvement with LJ fandom lately, and just suddenly realised I was wasting my time on here*. So, new deal: news posts about my fic will be here for the time being. Everything else-- well, there wasn't really much of an anything else *left*, was there? I'll keep this journal for commenting purposes, and maybe post the news here when I write something new, but that's about it. *shoos* go back to your day, and I hope it goes as awesome as mine is right now.
* By "wasting my time", I mean just generally posting here about things neither you or I care about. I love reading what others post; I love reading essays and stuff. But I don't have any great drive to write my own, so what's left? I doubt half of you reading this can remember very clearly who I am, much less that I write (those of you who do, hey, I'm not talking to you :P) AUs that torture me in a fandom that tortures me. This IJ is going to become (for now, while I beat back my urge to move to Tumblr) what my original LJ was for: a way to maybe answer anon reviews, and keep readers up with my stories. And if you think this a bit of a dramatic way to do things, well, don't you know, that is me all over. This is just the first time I feel like I can just let go of that urge to fit in, to create somehow, even when I don't have the inclination to. |
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annoyed
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