Log: January 17, 2011 01/17/2011
Updates 2011 Catch-Up: Moments, chapters 96, 97, 98, 99, and 100. Pedestal, chapters 23 and 24. Like Day Follows Night, chapter 14. Impressions in Lavender, chapter 3. "Remembrance," "Means to an End," "Let Me Worship at Your Altar," "Belonging," and "A Map in the Rain." The Burning 2c: "Ashes." 1.17.11. Moments, chapter 95. 12.29.10 "Home for the Holidays" Evo one-shot (finally found a use for my Evo header), and some drabbles up: "Expectations," "Torn," and Moments chapter 93 and 94. Sorry it took me so long. :blushes: 12.29.10 Moments chapter 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92. "Belief," a Rogue/Gambit drabble. 12.08.10 Talk about catch-up! Pedestal chapter 21 and 22, Glitch chapter 7, All's Fair chapter 17, Like Day Follows Night chapter 13, and Moments chapter 84, 85, 86, and 87. 11.18.10 Forthcomings Lots of UNBOUND entries gone up today: Fight and Shadow, Son o' de Guild, Glitch, Carnal, The Way of the Rogue, and Going Omega was already started. Going to push to get these chapters done in November. Wish me luck! 10.20.10 Add Comment Miscellany No. 10 12/29/2010
It's Been a While Or on the excessively long absence of aiRo25 from routine fandom activities. Let's just say that my LiveJournal (http://aiRo25.livejournal.com) swallowed me whole and I'm just now coming up for air. Okay, that's not entirely it, but trust me: that's been a big part of it. It was the 100 Words community (link coming soon—Weebly's easy linking in blogs just went on the fritz again) that started that. I finally figured out how to do the headers and the linking and voila! I'm sucked into wanting to post everything on LJ. :headdesk: You'd think I'd know when to quit by now! Also, I'm changing jobs. My last day of real stability on that front is Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Needless to say, part of me is freaking out big time, but another part of me is so excited, I can barely sit still. I'm going to be publishing original fiction. If you love me, buy some. JK Sort of. Also, getting health in order. And it's tough, but I think I'll survive. :grins: So between all of the above and the holidays, I'm more than a little behind and don't foresee getting all caught up right now either, but I'll just keep doing my best and hopefully y'all will love me anyway. Log: October 19, 2010 10/19/2010
Updates New banner for X-Men: Evolution Rogue and Gambit. 10.19.10 Impressions in Lavender, chapter two. Pedestal, chapter 20. Like Day Follows Night, chapter 12. Moments, chapter 82 and 83. 10.15.10 New images in the Mystique image gallery. Part of my research for Going Omega and for Secret Project. 10.15.10 New wallpaper in two sizes. 10.15.10 A couple of one-shots that ran over my muse with a truck and demanded satisfaction: "Entertaining Angels" in the Broken universe and "Remix : : Ice." 10.11.10 Additions New image gallery: Carol Danvers. 10.12.10 Forthcomings Lots of UNBOUND entries gone up today: Fight and Shadow, Son o' de Guild, Glitch, Carnal, The Way of the Rogue, and Going Omega was already started. Going to push to get these chapters done in November. Wish me luck! 10.20.10 Wrote in Going Omega. 10.15.10 Secret Project. Coming along nicely. 09.2010 - 10.2010 For more news, see Log. Log: September 27, 2010 09/27/2010
Updates Pedestal, chapter 19. Moments, chapter 79. 09.27.10 All header images updated and on Banners page. Don't like Guilded yet, but we're already on draft 3. :headdesk: 09.26.10 Moments, chapter 77 and 78. 09.23.10 Moments, chapter 76. Pedestal, chapter 18. Like Day Follows Night, chapter 9 and chapter 10. Impressions in Lavender, chapter one. 09.21.10 Added a couple of new headers to Banners page. 09.21.10 Updated Ariesque's entry in Inspiration and Community. 09.20.10 New Livejournal icons and moods. New header images for The Gambit and Love & War. 09.18.10 - 09.19.10 Additions New story, "Remembrance." Posted for the Days of Awesome collection on Jewish characters. It's a beautiful and amazing collection. 09.23.10 New story arc: Generations. 09.21.10 Forthcomings Wrote in 52. 09.20.10 Miscellany No. 9 09/22/2010
Decisions, Decisions... Or on the matter of what to do in my extremely limited time for the day. I need to write "Body Heat." I should work on my original short story for the week, "The Price of a Tin Shot." I could work on the series of blog posts I'm getting ready to embark upon: The Art of the Drabble. I'm going to update my new profile at http://archiveofourown.org/users/aiRo25. Why a new fanfiction site? Because this one is awesome, with awesome features, and a whole lot of awesome fanfiction that isn't on fanfiction.net. And because I love my primary's services and functions (www.fanfiction.net/~aiRo25), but I don't like their service or some of the limitations. This one's in beta. They listen to users. It includes images. It looks fun. :grins: They Locked the Door and Threw Away the Key Or why I'm not working on the beta for Merr2's Scorch Well, the other big issue with fanfiction.net just now is that my work's internet filter is partially blocking the site. It does this every so often, but usually not for three days running. So I can still read (even if it's ugly) and private message, but doing any real intensive work has to wait until I get home. At home, I only have snatches of minutes instead of whole breaks, until the weekend. So see you all on that site on Sunday! Log: September 15, 2010 09/15/2010
Updates Done a bunch of little things. More images for Gambit, Emma, Kayla Silverfox, and The Secret Garden. New Livejournal mood theme images up. New header image for Heat. Remy's eyes aren't done right, but I couldn't get them how I wanted them, so I'll work on it later. Much later. :grins: 09.12.10 - 09.15.10 Pedestal, chapter 17. Like Day Follows Night, chapter eight. 09.13.10 Pedestal, chapter 16. 09.12.10 Moments, chapter 75. 09.10.10 Moments, chapter 74. 09.09.10 New banner for Circle. 09.09.10 Several new banners up in multiple fandoms. Many pictures added in Image Galleries for Beast, Angel, Gambit, and Rogue. 09.07.10 New wallpaper up: Forgotten. 09.06.10 Additions New section: Lessons from Heavenmetal. 09.06.10 Forthcomings Planning and writing "Body Heat" for LithiumLaughter. 09.15.10 Writing 52. 09.13.10 Log: September 5, 2010 09/06/2010
Updates Two wallpapers in added. Added a new icon in LJ and FF sections. 09.05.10 Diable, chapters one and two, finalized. Moments, chapter 73 posted. 09.05.10 Pedestal, chapter 15. Like Day Follows Night, chapter 7. Moments, chapter 72. 09.03.10 Added two fansites to Inspiration & Community. 09.02.10 Working on Image Galleries to get it fully transferred over. 09.02.10 Moments, chapter 69, 70, and 71. 09.02.10 New images in the X-Men Comics section of Image Gallery. This section now defunct and transferred. New resources for "Old New England Saw" in Canon and Resources under Gambit. 08.30.10 Additions Other Stories: This is the home of all my fanfics not granted their own story arc. 09.02.10 Log: August 31, 2010 09/02/2010
Updates Added new X-Men Banners. 08.31.10 Like Day Follows Night, chapter six. Moments, chapter 68. 08.31.10 Moments, chapter 67, now up. 08.30.10 Added info on favorite author Merr2: FF | W. Her website is new and nice! 08.30.10 New images in the X-Men Comics section of Image Gallery. New resources for "Old New England Saw" in Canon and Resources under Gambit. 08.30.10 New header images for Domestic Encounters and The Returning story arcs. Added new banners. 08.29.10 Like Day Follows Night, chapter 5. Pedestal, chapter 12, chapter 13, and chapter 14. Moments, chapter 66. 08.27.10 Pedestal, chapter 10 and 11, and Like Day Follows Night, chapter 4, and Moments, chapter 65, now up. 08.26.10 Moments, chapter 64, and Pedestal, chapter 9, are up. 08.24.10 Additions New Canon and Resources section for Mystique. Hardly anything in it, but it's started. 08.30.10 Forthcomings Researching and writing "Old New England Saw." 08.30.10 Writing and designing for 52 and wrote three drabbles in Moments, just not the next ones. 08.29.10 Miscellany No. 8 08/25/2010
The Strike of the Eureka! in the Form of Cosmic Lightning Or on the bestest best post in my blog reader this morning Justine Musk of Tribal Writer just answered a dozen of my conundrums at once. Go here to read the original article: http://www.tribalwriter.com/2010/08/24/7-ways-to-navigate-the-middle-of-your-novel-and-maybe-your-life/. "...forces clash, wrestle with each other, throw off sparks, transform." Like Day Follows Night has been giving me absolute havoc. In short, I've written three next drabbles and trashed all but one paragraph, which might not even belong to the next drabble. But here she's just stated exactly what I want to do with Kitty and St. John's relationship. And there you have it. Next stop: forces clash. :rubs hands together gleefully: "So it is with novels. Don’t pack in one hundred things and fail to carry through on all but one or two of them. That only dilutes the power of your tale. Your novel has its own identity, and whatever doesn’t reflect and manifest that identity should get the hose." Folks may or may not know that I'm considering a revision of the first sixteen chapters of Without a Trace (call it a Reader's Cut), but if you have a preference please vote in the poll for it on my profile. But the real problem for me was how to do it. And here it is, don't pack in the threads without following through. Now I'm starting to figure out what to do with those threads, how to weave them and expand and figure out just where everything fits. Very exciting. "It’s easy to stuff your story with too many ideas (and I’m as guilty of this as anyone), too much backstory, too many characters. There’s the feeling that, if we throw enough stuff at the wall, something will stick – and even if it doesn’t, we’ll have it if we need it. The impulse is to add when the true power is in subtraction." Ember being a classic case in point. I knew from the beginning that I was going to have my work cut out for me because it's EIGHTEEN chapters long—not a hundred. Streamlining this baby has been tough, but I'm giving four subplots the axe before I even sit down to write them. There are certain themes of sacrifice, loss, and choices that I want to address and the best parties to address these are:
That is it! :hammers into the muse's head: Skipping all other subplots, 'kay? "When you reduce your story to the essentials, you have the time and space to drill deep. To explore your ideas and take them all the way through to their logical conclusion. The middle is about revelations, complications and reversals. This is the time to identify each conflict and build it out to the extreme, to move your characters toward the very edge of whatever scares them, and reveal to us the fullness of who they truly are. " And that has always been my strength. Good time to start remembering that, huh? Makes me feel ready to write again. :grins: Call It Like Is: I Build My House o' Cards Or on why I love story structure and am itching to finish out Pedestal I have found my story structure. :sappy, goofy, totally thrilled grin: But first, why that's important. I live for challenges and they make me much able to write in a way that please me. Part of the whole equal brained, creative-logical-literal-mathematical-think every part all at once-way my brain operates. I literally have no preference between right and left sides and can't imagine what it's like to. But because of this, stories like Whispers that require exactly 100 words per chapter and like He is Fire, He is Pain that require strict adherence to the poem and quotes it's built around, motivate and delight my little musing self. So here I've found my structure on Pedestal. Six 100 word chapters: Bond, Attraction, Certainty, Touch, Training, Denial. In any order. 1 200 word chapter: Double __. Repeat until we reach the Final set. Love, love, love. Ready to run. Er... Write. Color Me Cards, Put Black and White to the Artist's Touch Or on combining art and words to create the fic I want. Fifty-Two started out as a simple idea: take each card (52 in a standard deck) and write 52 words about some facet of Remyness based on the tarot meaning of that card. Well, went through a little trouble, but Heavenmetal has corrected the first half of my meanings and we're working on it. The rough bit was deciding that I really don't want to expand them. That whole structure thing? Yeah. That. It applies. The challenge is to turn out something meaningful in 52 words for each card. And now that I've been doing graphic design en masse again, the idea has expanded. I want to put them on cards. Real cards. Or illustrations of them, to be more specific. I am on the hunt for illustrations of cards that I can use in graphic art. If anyone sees any, please let me know! Also, does anyone know whether the suits should go in a preferred order? I mostly played with Rook cards growing up, so don't know all the details here. Black as Sin in the Big Easy Or again! getting a break on "Body Heat" I have never, ever written noir. Let me repeat: ever. "Body Heat," LithiumLaughter's birthday present has run me through the wringer. But coworker has blessed me with Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars. It has saved me. I'm finally getting a feel for what I'm looking for and how to combine female PI with male suspect and make the romance work. I think I'm getting somewhere. At least I'm feeling it. Wish me luck. Rant No. 2 08/24/2010
Good Enough for Government Work?! Or on the painfully ridiculous difficulty in getting a full-size wallpaper on this site! I have tried every single way of uploading an image onto this site and it refuses to give me access to the full-size wallpaper of "Indian Princess." Rather it consistently, in every single form truncates my 1440 x 900 pixels to 800 x 500. ! :engaging primal scream therapy: Preparing again to contact weebly support. Thankfully, they are always helpful—unlike some sites like www.fanfiction.net. | The LogA diary of updates, changes, and miscellania. ArchivesJanuary 2011 CategoriesAll |
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