Okay, need one more person to beta the fable-thing. (I have one lovely volunteer already) (yay!) It's almost ready. So, any takers?
Random comment: I love Japanese class.
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Hey, I managed to surprise someone. Will wonders never cease?
...not sure how I was being surprising, but hey, I am now bemused.
On a totally random and Completely Unrelated note, I have bad 70's porno music running through my head. Bow chicka wow wow.
::snicker::
No idea why. It might be because I've drank a mello yellow (suggggggaaaarrrr) this morning and Nothing Else. I need food.
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It occurs to me as I edit that I'm going to have to put an author's note explaining my decision on captitalization so that people won't bitch at me. I'm *right* damnit.
You'll see when you see. I may have more than one person beta this. As in, I may take volunteers along with my regular beta. Any takers? Email me. First two people get it. If two people even bother. I'll be wanting people to give content-comments as well. Telling me whether I'm an idiot for writing this. It's a...departure. I still like it though.
Gah. I'm in a bad mood. I guess I should sleep.
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Yay! I finished the fable-ish oneshot! Go me! But. Now it needs extensive editing. Then I need to enter it in Sharon's contest. (which was the jog I needed to get the "voice" going for the idea I already had) I think I'm not going to post it on the 1x2ML (well, okay, I'll put up a link), but I will post it on the page and on the 1x2x1ML. It seems like a weird fic for me to write. Kinda...sappy.
::twitch::
I just don't feel like writing any Porcelain. I think it's because I've just been bugged to finish the damn oneshot. Whatever. I feel like a Bad Person. Of course, I feel like a Bad Person for not seeing all the James Bond flicks, so this is a frame of reference for you.
:p
I'm still pissed off about the commenting thing...I know it's free. I'm still debating on the livejournal thing. I don't exactly have 25 dollars right now. See, that's how much it costs for a year's subscription, and let's face it, I'm not paying for two months at a time for 5 dollars a pop. I'm lazy. Sure, I could get a code from someone who already has a livejournal, but I'm a dumbass with no people skills and am not going to ask anyone.
Ugh.
I'm going to go edit my oneshot now.
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:: Sunday, August 25, 2002 ::
::WAVES ARMS IN THE AIR::
People who are coming here from a direct link to Asylum! Hello! Where are you coming from that has this direct link up? See, I was checking the blog's hit counter thingy, and it has a referral reference guide, and a few people have been hitting the blogger from the "inframe" page that they can get to from the asylum frame adder page. You know, if someone had decided to direct link to Asylum for a contest or something. I do this for anything that has (to my knowledge) a direct link to a story. It's rare that I actually see it used, though.
So. If you're one of those ::points up:: people, drop me a line. You don't have to be elaborate, just let me know because I'm a curious Spooks.
....anyway.
I haven't done a damn thing today. I have a sour stomach. I've been watching Saiyuki all frickin' day. I'm about to work on one of my oneshots in a few minutes, though. I saw Hedwig and the Angry Inch with a friend. We rented it. Wonderful movie, very interesting. I might have to buy it and watch it again a few times. Or just watch the gummy bear scene over and over again.
I'm still deliberating on the live journal thing. I like my blog. I've had a blog for a long time. But damnit, I want commenting. Reliable commenting. Even if people ignore it. I'd join deadjournal, because it's cheaper, but no one I know's on that and I don't know how reliable it is. Advice, anyone? Please?
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:: Saturday, August 24, 2002 ::
Now I suddenly *desperately* want a live journal instead of a blog. Their commenting systems don't go die. And they can connect to each other and have friends lists and stuff. How neat.
I really like Saiyuki. I'm off to watch more of it now.
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Okay, time for a tad of rambling. I got my Saiyuki DVDs today. Yay. When I'm done with this I'm going to take a shower and then go watch a few episodes. Hopefully I'll like them, other wise I'll be reselling 'em on ebay. Guess we'll see, eh?
I didn't get a chance to write today. It pisses me off that I had to deal with peace keeping on the 1x2ML when it's not even my place. I have no frickin' power. I'm just a popcorn eater. Which makes me feel more like an idiot than I normally do. I don't really care, and I know that many people had good intentions with what other people were getting pissed about. (see, there was this big long, mostly off topic thread that had some very long, very big posts in it. if you had a small inbox, most likely you'd be in trouble. bad. but, it was bringing people out of lurking and reccing fics and giving people fic ideas. good. so whattcha gonna do?) So I get emails thanking me or whatnot for opening my stupid mouth. It wasn't really my place to say anything, but people who had previously been lurking got over their shyness in the blinding torrents of randomness and were going to retreat again because they seemed to be hurt or afraid they had hurt someone else because people were complaining about the high volume of mail. I don't know. Ugh. I ended up telling people to either post if they want to or not post if they don't but to just keep their stuff ontopic.
Time out: Isn't this Common Sense? Feh. ::dances in circles:: (yes, for those of you slow, the previous statement has a deeper than obvious meaning)
I just hate it when people get bruised feelings because of a few heated words thrown out. Both sides had...points. I've literally seen a fandom die because of this sort of thing, so I always hear warning bells when people get pissy. It seems like this fandom gets so confused sometimes without realizing its doing so. I don't even know if that ::points up:: makes any sense. Ugh. So writing email took up my time today. My eyes hurt. This is why I never talk to anyone. The whole thing had good intentions, but it went about things in the wrong way without a lot of rational thought.
Fuck it. I shouldn't participate in conversations.
Enough of this silliness of online crap. Real life silliness ahead.
I went to dinner with friends, which was fun. I had the "Mountain of Ice Cream and Chocolate" dessert thingy. (we went to Chili's. if you know what I'm talking about, then you know that this is a whole lotta chocolate. chocolate makes me hyper. I will never need drugs.) Then we played Trivial Pursuit. We never finish that damn game because we're all stupid.
^___^
So I have homework this weekend. I have to learn a few hiragana for Japanese class, and I have to do some elementary matrix operations for math. I have no idea what that previous statement means, but it didn't look too difficult.
As for writing, my friends all have marching band practice tomorrow all frickin' day, so after I get out out bed, I get all day to write. Huzzah. Character development time in Porcelain. Then plot-things that have been basically set up. You know what's coming if you've been reading. then a few new plot things. seeds and s setups. then.........Creepy! MWHA. FUN THINGS happen in this next part. At least, I think they're fun. Of course, I have a skewed sense of the word fun. Let me check my notes right quick...yup, things are about to happen more and more quickly. I guess I should shut up now.
In the realm of the oneshots, I probably won't get the inclination to work on either one this weekend. We'll see. It depends on how Porcelain goes and if I get bored with it and just need to move onto something else.
I took a nap today and I'm still tired. Damn.
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:: Friday, August 23, 2002 ::
Hm. I joined the 1x2ML on November 11, 2000. Damn. I didn't realize it was that long ago.
Maybe I can consider myself a not-newbie?
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Ugh. Now I have email to answer. More on this later, if I remember. See, the reason I'm putting this in here at all is so that I'll remember to share something later. Hopefully it will work, but it probably won't. I'm weird like that. I have to pick a name for Japanese class. I don't really care. I want to be Spooks, but that's just not very Japanese, now is it? ::snicker::
Right now I'm off to lunch and then class.
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:: Thursday, August 22, 2002 ::
3 plus pages of porcelain done. on a roll, but need to go to bed. hopefully this chapter will be a quick one. interesting character things are happening. can't wait to have some stuff happen, and i'm sure that some people will be surprised at a few things. yay. writing a baby is fun. all they do is baby things. no deep motivations other than hunger, poo, sleep, and play. not necessarily in that order, of course.
capital letters suck.
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:: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 ::
I love Wufei. He's so interesting.
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Holy shit! It also says: Not for transfusion.
bwhaahaa.
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::falls over in a fit of laughter::
oh...my...God....
Snerk.
I just got my Hellsing DVD, with collector's box...this is kind of a story. See, someone stole the first one off of my porch. A felony. Fucker. No, I'm not still pissed about that...not at all...nope....grr. Anyway. I just got the replacement. (go amazon.com!)
I had forgotten that the collector's box comes with...get this...fake blood.
This red packet thing fell out onto my lap and I swear I fell out of my chair laughing. It's so cute! Bright crimson, and it has the Hellsing logo thing and a pentagram looking thing. It even has a warning: not for consumption.
I repeat. Snerk.
How cute! I think I'm going to hang it on my wall. It has a convenient little hole punched at the top of the bag, I guess for the very purpose.
Bwha. It's good to be patient.
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Well. It seems that the commenting thing is sorta back.
Sorta.
Anyway. I'm going to start on Porcelain 10 tonight. Yeah. I know I said I was going to work on it Monday, but the oneshots kept bothering me. No, they're nowhere near finished. But. I'm working on 'em.
First day of new classes has been wonderful so far. Applied Matrix Theory looks like it'll be fun. Japanese 101 has two people I knew from high school and one person I kinda know from band. I also learned that my university has an anime club. I feel like a moron for not knowing earlier, but hey, I know *now*. So, happy me. I have English 300 (big course for my major) in a couple hours, then I need to boogie over to the band field (quickly) for that. I'm not marching this year, but I'm going to be a manager, so I have to go to band "class."
But now! Food! And Porcelain 10's objectives/order/outlinething.
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:: Sunday, August 18, 2002 ::
Well, it seems the commenting thingy's server is down. Hm.
So! I'm in a much better mood than yesterday. I started a completely new and completely different oneshot. That puts me up to two oneshots in progress and the giant multipart thing that Porcelain ended up being. I really like the new story, it's probably going to be short, but the voice and tone are both a big departure from my normal stuff that it's interesting. It's kind of a fable thing. The idea hit me a few weeks ago in Geography class (wow, it's a wonder I got an A...) and the voice came to me in whispers last night. I'm excited about it.
As for the other oneshot, it's coming along as well. It's on page 15, and things are slowly happening. Mwha. I can feel the story starting to roll...soon...there will a ten page block of text added. I have to edge my way up to this ten page block, though. This always happens when I'm writing a suspence story. I edge along, and edge along, and them BAM! The story is suddenly finished. I worked on 11:11 for months, stalling and adding a paragraph here and there, and then in the space of two nights the damn thing finished itself underneath my fingertips. Drums...which I just realized I wrote over a year ago (woo.) was a bit easier, but that story really needs revision and I feel like I've come a long way since then...so I don't really compare anything to that.
Okay, off to write. (well, among other things)
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:: Saturday, August 17, 2002 ::
I am so pissed off. Fuckin' IE. ARGH! My old site design for the doujinshi page doesn't work properly on it. FUCK.
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a n y w a y
when it comes back it will have a couple of new doujinshi(s?) scanned in an posted, as well as a new site design/layout/whatever. Pardon me while I beat my head on something. That means I'll have to get my scanner working again. See, it decided it would rather not work when I got my computer back (after the crash) at the beginning of the summer. This sucks, because I *like* my scanner. I like it immensely. I don't want a new one. I want *this* one.
Oh well, maybe I'll finally get some of the other pages I want to put up...em, up. ::stupid grin::
Got a few pages done on the oneshot.
that is all.
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:: Friday, August 16, 2002 ::
Because I know you really and truly care: I bought a fountain pen. Yay.
Now. Onward. I have decided to work on the oneshot this weekend and start the next part of porcelain on Monday. I've had a few people express interest in the oneshot, therefore it gets worked on. Page 12, folks. It's a fun fic (for me to write).
I took a walk today. It energized me. It made me hungry. Just thought I'd share.
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:: Thursday, August 15, 2002 ::
Wow. I feel incredibly lazy. I have my apartment completely to myself and no classes until the 21st. I don't want to do a damn thing.
Except take a nap.
Gah.
It can't be healthy to feel so lethargic. I just want to sleep and sleep and sleep and then eat and read a little and maybe sleep some more. Am I turning into a cat? I hope not, how inconvenient.
Weird.
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:: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 ::
::cheers::
Yay! Now I have three responses to porcelain 9!
Three is better than two, and better than one. Much better than zero.
I should be patient. 22 pages is a lot. People forget things over the space of 22 pages. thus the lack of reviews. And school just started back for lots of people, thus they are busy and have better things to do. I understand that. and sometimes people just don't have anything to say other than "I liked it. More?" (which, btw, if you are one of those people...we authors love you too. go ahead and send that. seriously. ask any other writer and they'll tell you the same thing. sure, well thought out commentary and criticism and shit is WONDERFUL, but a few lines just saying you've enjoyed something is also lovely and helpful.)
I feel bitchy saying this, I really do. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything cheap/stupid/pathetic like that, but....damn! the 1x2ML has over a thousand people (last time I checked). Surely more than one person can respond. (if only to say, "You suck!" ...that would be better than silence...) I'm a fine one to talk, though, seeing as how I suck at reviewing as well. Ack! Bad karma, bad! ::smacks karma::
Eh. maybe smacking karma isn't such a good idea...?
naw.
At any rate, it's not like this really discourages me. It just kind of ticks me off. Not much though. The story will be told, whether or not anyone reviews or not. Call me stubborn. I am.
Okay, I'm feel better now.
on a slightly related note, I'm really considering adding a new section to the fic page. Rants or opinions or something.
Off to buy a fountain pen.
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Le sigh.
I have a headache. I am sleepy.
Nothing to do tomorrow. Yay.
This means writing.
Hopefully.
I think I'll work on the oneshot instead of Porcelain. The next part is still fermenting. Therefore must work on something else for a few days.
Ugh. This is what I get for hanging out with my parents. They go to bed early...like 10 instead of 4 (cough::am::cough). Now my sleeping patterns are all screwed up.
I want a fountain pen. I actually want a quill (major coolness factor just for the way they sound on paper), but those are hella expensive and I have little to no extra cash. So a fountain pen.
Okay. This was random.
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:: Monday, August 12, 2002 ::
Okay, back in the internet cafe. Went on a ghost tour last night. Properly disturbed. Inspired to write a few things.
I seriously had a hard time falling asleep last night. This never happens. So when I get a chance...I will share the creepy.
Went to the aquirium (I know I spelled that wrong). It ruled. Love those fishes and jellies and corals and such. I could look at them everyday and never bored with it.
Got the beta-ed bit of Porcelain back. This morning. Yay. I saved it to a floppy so I can edit and revise tonight, then post when I get home tomorrow afternoon. Bless my cable modem.
Leaving now.
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:: Saturday, August 10, 2002 ::
Further reflection from a few minutes later: Change the colors on the website. Ugh. It looks mega-shitty on this computer. Maybe I'll just go back to the old version. We shall see.
And I managed to check my email. So far: don't have Porcelain 9 back. Still waiting. Not that it would do me any good today, but...well. I'm impatient. I want lovely beta-person to do a good job, though. ^_^;;;
Moving along...I'm going on a river cruise in about forty-five minutes. I think it's a riverboat thing, you know, with the big paddle wheel in the back? At any rate, it'll be windy as hell...not that hell is particularly windy...well it might be...fanning the flames and all. Oops. Tangent. Anyway...oh, there it is out the window. Nope. No paddle. Unless that's not the boat. I could be wrong. That happens frequently. Oops, another tangent. Windy. Yes. Which means my hair has to be pulled back. Ugh. I have lots of hair (waist length and thick) so that means I'm going to be in danger of getting a headache.
But! I have aspirin. Bring it on.
Oh, and since I can't get online, that probably means that I'll get some writing done on the oneshot. No internet = no distractions.
I'm going on a ghost tour tomorrow, so that should give me random and wild ideas. They might not be workable, but they'll be there.
Huzzah!
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Okay, I'm sitting in an internet cafe in New Orleans. My parents decided to drag me away for a family vacation, so here I am. AOHell's access numbers have been busy for five hours staight, so I gave up and came here. I can't check my email. Blah.
But! New Orleans is cool. It may even be inspiring. We'll see.
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:: Monday, August 05, 2002 ::
Thanks to: Katie and Vega for the encouragement. I needed it. ::wink:: A long chapter you will get. And the Master Plan unfolds a little bit more. You shall see. Mwha!
Porcelain 9 has just been sent off for beta-ing.
Whew. 21 pages long.
Anyway, in the meantime I'm going to go back to working on the oneshot. I have a feeling that I'm at the peak of the hill with it, and if I just push the boulder over it will roll rapidly down the slope very soon. I've just hit the "creepy." Now the fun!
But first, sleep. Ugh. And I've got finals this week. Two o' em. That means I have to study. But! That also means I will need stress relief. Which basically equals writing.
Huzzah! Off to sleep now.
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:: Sunday, August 04, 2002 ::
I feel like such a loser for not having the next part of porcelain out. L O S E R . It is going to be long, though. Lots of interesting stuff. And by putting certain things in this part I can move on in the next part more quickly. Of course, I could have ended this current part about five pages ago, but damnit! I wanted to fill my chapter objectives. I couldn't help it if things happened to take more pages/space than I thought they would. Such is the creative process. Anyway, I'm almost done, only two more short-ish scenes to go. Then editing. Then beta. Then however long she takes. Then final read-through. Then posting!
Sigh.
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:: Saturday, August 03, 2002 ::
Oh, on a side note, the latest part of Porcelain is going to be really really really loooooonnnggggg. Upwards of twenty pages. This is how I make myself feel better about not finishing it more quickly.
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Oh, holy shit. Everyone must see Signs. (new movie, in case you didn't know).
It's the best written script I've seen in years. Wonderful. Far outshines the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. It's scary as hell in a lot of places, creepy, intriguing, funny in a realistic way, emotionally satisfying, and still has a nice underlying message. Everything comes together beautifully. The acting is superb.
And it's genuiningly Creepy. Damn. I wish I could write fear that well.
Go see it.
I'm going to go again as soon as I get the chance.
