Third From the Truth

This is me needing sleep

Nov. 4th, 2007 at 5:43 AM

I needed to write something. Anything. I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with my NaNo... though it might. Who knows. Maybe it'll be one of those prologues that you forget about until it comes into play in the last chapter and everything suddenly makes sense. ...Though, knowing what I just wrote (while you still don't) I think I can safely say that wouldn't be the case. No matter how cracked out my NaNo becomes. And so... here. Writing. Writing that will hopefully lead to more productive writing tomorrow. It does, however, sit squarely in this year's theme. This year's theme is catharsis through writing. Hello, catharsis through writing.

( Also, I think I told someone that I'd write this... )

Mood: accomplished

Argh

Nov. 1st, 2007 at 10:57 PM

Oh geez. I haven't touched this journal since March of last year. But! This is my first official post of NaNo '07, to say that I officially have nothing written yet. Who would've guessed! But, it's still the first. And I aim to get my 2,000 words done today. As soon as I get rid of this headache.

Also, a word to the wise... don't title your novel before you've started writing. I have a title that I like right now, and it's screwing my plot up because it doesn't fit.

Mood: sore

Tags:

nanowrimo

Fic Dumping

Mar. 1st, 2006 at 2:36 AM

Just dumping off an old ficbit I'm never going to continue. It tries too hard to be witty. You can ignore it. ^_^

( A Proper Mary Sue Parody )

Then there's this old fake film noir-style thing that I wrote down last year sometime, and didn't realize I still had half a bunny for writing. It doubled tonight, and though I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it, the almost-purpleness of it amuses me. I just kind of hope it isn't taken to be seriously trying. It's... kind of like asking if Sterne's sentimentalism was real or fake.

( It's oh-so-purple )

Mood: accomplished
Music:Flaming Lips - Fight Test

Fic... er... yeah

Jan. 23rd, 2006 at 5:57 AM

I couldn't sleep. So, it's six in the morning, and this is bad, but it decided to harass me earlier, so I figured I might as well write it down, since I had nothing better to do. It's creepy. There is, actually, more to it later. It's evil. And you know what? I blame this on my rp muse being so emo right now that he's not talking to me. So there, Hughes. I resolve that by turning you evil. And if I can't sleep tomorrow, I'll write the second part of this. Which is worse, since it addresses the actual bunny I had today. Oh, and spoilers for the manga, though at this point if you've read up to 16 you're good, even though I reference something that happened in the early 50s. If I write the next part, there will be spoilers for 54 and 55 or so, but that's the next part.

title: Untitled, for now
characters: Roy and Hughes, later Riza and Bradley
words: 1,036
rating: PG-13, because Roy tends to swear a bit on me when I'm not careful. and for creepy.

( I should call this something like Betrayal... like all the 8th homunculus sues )

Mood: tired
Music:Asian Kung-Fu Generation - 12

Darts

Nov. 23rd, 2005 at 2:32 AM

Whoa! It's fic! Bet you weren't expecting this! I've been working on this for weeks, and now it finally exists. Yay!

Title: Darts
Rating: G
Genre: pre-series genfic, semi-AU because of timeline problems
Characters: As if you'd expect anything from me that didn't involve Roy and Hughes
Summary: For lack of a proper summary, I will tell you what I intended. See, I've been in deep on various backstories for Roy and Hughes for a good month or so now, and I had to get one down. This one's a little weird because 1) I don't believe in a military academy and 2) I'm pretty sure that when they were 18, Ishbal was already going on. But, well, you can't have 16-year olds hanging out in a bar this way, so I've broken the timeline a bit. And I haven't even read over all of this myself, so feel free to crit to your heart's content. ^^

( Equal and opposite reaction... )

Mood: accomplished
Music:Pinataland - Ota Benga's Name

Darn writer's block!

Nov. 5th, 2005 at 9:53 PM

NaNo is making me angry, but I don't have the energy to have an emo crisis over it.

Word Count this morning: 1190
Word Count now: 1567.

This != progress. So... I think it might be back to fanfiction with me. Because I can allow myself to forget about things being absolutely pretty... which I keep doing with this, since I sort of like the gimmick. >_< It's something I should write when I have time to do it, and can actually come up with a proper outline and follow it.

So... all right. Tonight I am going to attempt the nebulous, sprawling Hughes and Roy backstory that I've been letting stew in the back of my mind for a while. And if I can get a first chapter down, I'm going to throw it at some sort of group and actually get feedback on it, because without that (and a fair bit of it), I know I'm not going to be able to keep myself writing this time. Ahh!

Number of Writing Crises: 1

Mood: anxious
Music:New Pornographers - Jackie, Dressed in Cobras

Hello again, NaNo!

Nov. 2nd, 2005 at 1:30 AM

It's November again. And that means I get to re-awaken this journal! I still need to throw myself into the social scene in the forums and all, but that can happen later. Right now, I have a vague, vague premise. It works for me. So, part 1, because I'm busy. 1,049 words, because I am doing 1,000 words per state heading, and +49 more because Alaska is the 49th state. Yes, this is going to kill me. But it'll do it interestingly, I assure you.

( Part One: Alaskan Forget-Me-Nots -- Lake Alaska, 4:00am )

Also, allow me to renew my hatred for rich-text mode. You'd think I'd know better by now.

Mood: accomplished

Holy Crap, a Post!

Aug. 31st, 2005 at 1:19 PM

Wow... I can't believe I wrote this. It didn't even really bunny me... it just needed to be written, since I had to prove to myself that Havoc/Hughes was possible without rape. Oh my goodness. So... I'll warn you now - this is a pairing fic (omg!)... which puts it way outside my comfort zone in writing. Which is also why it sucks. And why there is a nice shiny set of ellipses somewhere in the middle there where actual smut would go if I could bring myself to write it. But... there are lines I just can't cross. If I actually wrote it, it'd be full of the most horrible euphemisms ever, and would basically be painful. Someone else can write it for me if they want. I'm not doing it. >.> And this still needs a lot of revising, especially in the character-motivation department... but I can deal with it. I just want it posted and over with. It took me like, wow... at least five hours to get through, and a good part of that was on paper once my laptop battery died. Anyway... enough of my rambling. Here you go...

Title: ... I can't even title this.
Characters: Hughes and Havoc
Rating: PG-13 for themes and not much else.
Summary: (Gah, I can't write a summary, either. I think writing this has killed my brain for a while). During a war, there are times that one has to seek out an impersonal kind of comfort. Something that is easily left behind and forgotten when it is all over...

( Sometimes, he wondered if he remembered at all... )

Mood: accomplished
Music:Jump Little Children - Cathedrals

Let it Be (You Pesky Thoughts!)

Apr. 20th, 2005 at 11:35 PM

Odd, innit, that I get hit by three or four bunnies at once? And none of them really related to each other at all. It also hurts that I want to be in bed in about half an hour and thusly have very little time to write them down. I've been pondering on my final project for Tolkien all day today, and word has come down that it is to be basically fanfiction. I can deal with that. It's just that Tolkien's massive freaking canon is a little intimidating. Oh well, I imagine I can throw it to deleterius to spork it afterwards. And heck, my profs won't care if I write a Mary Sue, as long as it's decent. Which is totally what I'm going to do. On purpose. Because, right now, I think I want to look into the Ents. But there's no way I can write from an Ent point of view because it would take for-freaking-ever and no one would ever read it (or if they did, they'd kill me afterwards if someone didn't beat them to it). I think that's a much preferable way to go in comparison to the "Let it Be" thing that hit me while I was doing my reading. (Oh come on, like one can't expect some little tickling of a songfic when the words that start the universe with music no less are "Let it Be." I mean, heck, didn't that song come to him in a dream or something anyway??) And right now in my mind it's all about creation myths. And myths in general - like the one that hit me during our discussion of Poe's Man in the Crowd (of all things)... which, in the oddest way possible of course, tries to explain why this poor man who does nothing but wander and look suspicious is really the Genius of Deep Crime. The actual creation myth is sort of fun, too... I wonder if it'd fit into anything I'm writing now (no). It's awfully agnostic/atheist if you look at it wrongly, but I actually sort of like it to for fixing up the gaping hole in things that bothers me. Plus it makes the whole creation thing so much cuter (okay, at least in my head. Cute little thought-particle, awww). I wish I had the time to write these down properly... but I think I'm going to head off to bed and hope that noting them down as something to look back at will be good enough to remind me what I was going to write. Hopefully I can jot these down properly over the weekend (and start to outline my final project, since this seems to be the perfect weekend for doing that). Yay!

Mood: artistic

Philosophical Stone (1/3 or 4ish)

Mar. 24th, 2005 at 12:36 AM

Title: Philosophical Stone
Words: 700-some right now
Why?: Bored, feeling pseudo-philosophical, and haven't posted anything here in ages. Need writing practice.
Characters: Starts out Ed/Al. Ends up running the whole military, probably.
Summary: Ed and Al find a mysterious stone that's really an excuse for me to do odd character exploration.

( Why? )

Mood: awake

Karma Police

Mar. 5th, 2005 at 8:11 PM

Title: Karma Police (working title)

Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Drama

Character: Military-centric

Summary: Suspicious among the suspicious, a new serial murderer may be loose in Central. As if the military didn’t have enough on its hands with Scar, this killer is also targeting those who served in the Ishbal war. Armed with the Death Note, this killer has been picking off high-ranking military officials one by one in a style almost indistinguishable from Scar’s. Set shortly after episode 15, but AU for plot devices and character deaths. Bonus points for not really needing any working knowledge of either series, yay!

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( This is what you get... )

Mood: un-writers-blocked!

Unusual...

Jan. 31st, 2005 at 12:45 AM

It's not like me to post memes in here, but this made me laugh:

A very "special" dictionary. by lily22
Look up:
Definition:	The sensation of suddenly feeling that your entire life is a plot device.

Quiz created with MemeGen!

I'm not sure if it's scary or just makes it more amusing that

sketchyheart got me as a plot device in one of her memes, too. Wtf, memes?

Mood: amused

Edification...

Jan. 30th, 2005 at 3:42 PM

While I was writing, I got hit with another drabble-type thing. What is with me and randomly musing on Roy Mustang? Ah well... guess I'm just a fangirl. Anyway... this is one of the little fics that will, sometime later this week, get thrown into the series of random drabbles I'm posting up on ff.net (because that's the cool thing to do now).

Title: Flame and Fullmetal
Characters: Mustang
Genre: Angstish Introspectionish?
Spoilers: None. Unless you don’t know that Ed’s the Fullmetal Alchemist.
Notes: For some reason, this started eating me in the middle of the chapter I was writing, and decided, since I’m posting up little drabbles anyway, why not just write it down. It’s typical NP-type Roy character-exploration at its finest. And the definition of “finest” is up to your own interpretation.

( Names... )

Another filler chapter

Jan. 30th, 2005 at 3:42 PM

Does it still count as "filler" if it's really there to shore up the plot? Anyway... I'm starting to feel concerned for my sanity as far as this is going... this chapter contains far too many references to Hitchhiker's Guide. And lots of really rather bizarre attempts at humour. And some strange subconscious relation between Kakashi and Iruka that reflects Naruto and Sakura in like, the third episode. Wtf? Oooh well, I'm having fun with it so it should all be alright in the end. And after I finish this insert and fix up the continuity, I can pimp this to the community and move on to the end with (hopefully) some good concrit behind me. Wee!

( In which Kakashi is Zaphod Beeblebrox and Hughes always has his towel with him... )

Yes, I imagine you can tell that I wrote that out of order (bottom was written first), so stuff's going to be added in between there. I've got a feeling that I'm being way to flippant with some things in this chapter, but that's okay. It's mostly filler. I think it leads to a bit of Havoc!angst somewhere in there, and makes him less of a Gary Stu, too. So... yes, just shoring up the little things that bother me about my plot right now. At least this is being nicer about being written than most of the other chatpers have been. Yay! I think this will be the chapter that finally pushes me over 60,000 words, too.

[Screw the formatting! Stupid LJ!]

Mood: cheerful

Writing vs. My Sanity

Jan. 25th, 2005 at 12:06 AM

Unfortunately, tonight it looks like I'm choosing my sanity over writing, even though I've got that evil pesky Naruto-type fic still itching at me. And if it wasn't me that was writing it, it'd be the sort of fic that would make me scratch my head and go "why is this person writing this?" so we'll have to see how it goes. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow afternoon sometime. That is, if I don't get a start on my paper instead. I feel so much more caught up with things now, to the point where I could probably clear up the entire nano in a few weeks (barring midterms, which start showing up next week, anyway). Hooray for forcing myself to do work and be slightly more organized! So... since I have nothing else to offer right now, here's a re-post of the ficlet-ish thing I left on fm-alchemist last night. ^_^ There are a few sentences that irk me, and my abuse of commas in what otherwise would be my favourite sentence has me stumped. Ah well.

Title: These Eyes
Summary: Riza muses on the true colour of Roy Mustang's eyes
Spoilers/Warnings: Yes. Because I am clinically incapable of writing anything that doesn't contain a spoiler for Episode 25. It gets a little purple-prosey, too. And I'm not intending to take a side, nor do I wish to stir up the debate again... just... you know... writing stuff.
Characters: Riza/Royish, if you want to see it that way.
Words: Seven 100-word paragraphs (provided Word's word count wasn't being stupid again), because I am a nerd.

( Eyes, some say they are a window into the soul. )

Mood: tired

A List

Jan. 23rd, 2005 at 1:34 AM

Mostly for my own benefit, here is a list of all the sections I need to write/am currently writing in that poor Nano of mine. It's now officially up to 58000 words, and, well, look at this list.

( Cut to make the front page prettier )

Mood: exanimate

Insert Chapter 1

Jan. 23rd, 2005 at 1:11 AM

There are two more of these little insert chapters that will get thrown into my poor Nano. This one here has been irking me for days. I actually started it back in December, but haven't found a good way to tie everything up in it. Luckily, I finally go things straightened out tonight, so you get yet another one of those lovely long rambling explaining-things chapters. I only hope I've made this one more entertaining than some of the others. And darn Yondie for not having a real name! I'm not exactly happy at this point about the fact that all my characters sound the same when they're telling stories, but that's mostly because I don't work accents into my writing well, I think. I'm working on the whole personality-showing-through-in-dialog thing, really. Marvel as I bring Naruto canon down around its ears!

( That blasted chapter that still needs a lot of work but is at least semi-done )

Mood: whoosh!

Darnit, LiveJournal!

Jan. 15th, 2005 at 10:47 PM

Now I've got to ramble here, because I can't log into my other account because the cluster's still down (... yes, I remember offhand which cluster my journals are on. I'm that kind of dork. I even remember this one's on Porkchop). Anyway, rather than wasting a lot of time with the entry I intend to post on my real journal later today, I should just tell you what I've been doing writing-wise. And really, that can be summed up in a few words... "lots of slacking off." I'm sorry... mostly. But if my heart's not in it, it's probably best that I don't write. On the plus side, however, I've hit a compromise with myself. For some reason, I hate working on the ending, but I've got a myriad of ideas to throw into the middle to make the ending clean up nicer... so I'm switching back and forth between the two. Thus I've probably added another 500 words today, but they're split between two totally different places in the story, so it's sort of pointless to post them right now. When they turn into two seperate chapters like they're supposed to, then they'll go up. Oh, and the new chapter up on ff.net also has stuff that's not posted here, because I was lazy.

So, judging by things in general here, I think at the end of November I said this would turn into a 60000-word fic. Now it's looking more like 75000, since I've got about three new chapters in the middle (all, happily, a bit more Naruto-centric than the previous) and most likely a good four chapters to go before the epilogue. If there even is an epilogue, the way I'm doing this. It's likely to have one of those "and they were locked in battle eternally" endings. Alright, so not quite that. Though the thought to trap Akatsuki and Hohenheim in an endless time circle, battling it out did cross my mind tonight (I was heavily under the influence of Chinese food), and I thought it would be a nice justification for reality TV but you know... that's sort of silly. Hehehhee.

Dude, I totally need to just go force myself to write in my bedroom or something. Roomie is way too freaking quiet. Yeesh!

Mood: awake

A little fun thing

Jan. 9th, 2005 at 11:01 PM

Just wasting time on my birthday, getting the 500 words out of the way early. I figured it would be easier with something to inspire me, so with the help of the Mary Sue Generator, I present to you a rather (I hope, since I haven't written it yet) amusing story.

Title: Butterfly Wings of Time
Characters: Margarita Papillion, Professor Severus Snape, and some of those Harry Potter kids.
Genre: Parody, natch.
Physical Attributes of Sue: Swirling Sapphire eyes, Tousled Raven hair with a Streak of White, a Summersweet Night-Blossom scent, and a Master Diplomat able to Time Travel. Oh, and ~~I'm~~ she's Professor Snape's Commanding Officer. (It was either that or QuiGon's Lawyer, and I realized that I couldn't write Star Wars).
The Fun Part: Seing how horrible I can make this without the help of my sister and her obsession with Passions and Nascar. Oh, and making my Mary Sue not only bizarre, but a bizarre version of Roy Mustang. And breaking canon. Mwahahahahaha!

( It was the Gathering!.. I mean, Final Battle with Voldemort! )

You know... this is fun. But I've got to go to bed. I think I'll write more of this if I find myself stumped tomorrow, but chances are if I have any reviews when I get up tomorrow morning, I'll feel sufficiently inspired to write more of the ending to Which is Home. Dear goodness someone suggest another title for that, please?

Mood: creative

Just Because...

Jan. 8th, 2005 at 4:48 PM

My sister and I wrote this over break, and it's just too horrible to not post somewhere... (It actually accidentally got posted for about five minutes under my ff.net account, but I had to delete it or fear flames and lots of confusion). It's sort of on the level of Teh Worst Narutofic Evar, but much, much shorter. And less to do with Naruto.

Title: Bluebirds sing (or something of the like, I can't remember what she called it)
Subject/Genre: Passions/Highlander Crossover (with bits of FF7 and other things thrown in)
Words: 409
Badness (on a scale of 1-10): 8.5

( Kim Kimberly of Kimberlington )

Mood: badfic'd