Still alive

Been drifting for a bit lately, not really getting much done other than a few thousand words on that new project (which is turning out much more complex than I expected it to be).

I am again considering moving to LiveJournal so that I'll have a better posting system, but think that over the next few days I may try posting something here just to see how it would work. Be on the lookout, iSpose.

Thanks to those who continue to support me.

New new project

So, in light of my recent hospitalization, I've decided to scrap that last project. I've had something in my head that I've been meaning to start on for an extremely long time, something novel-length and similar story-wise to the works of Greg Howell. Whether sections of it will be posted here remains to be seen.

SVT--ouch

So, I went into SVT during my performance Friday and had to be taken to the ER for examinations. They didn't find anything (which I think is actually a bad thing because now I don't know what caused it), and I got out about an hour or so later. Overall, that ranks number one on my list of experiences that I never want to have happen again. At the time, I was concerned for my life.

Working on something new

Working on a new fic as part of the workshop. Right now, plans are for it to be a quick short story.

It centers around Fox and Wolf, but not in a romantic fashion, though it might eventually turn that way if I continue with it enough, which I probably won't.

New link up

I've added a link to my daily writing journal in the Apocrypha Mini-workshop, hosted on FFN. Go there if you get tired of me whining about personal stuff in my blog and just want to see what I'm doing (or want to see proof of me doing anything).

Not sure what's going on

Having some stomach issues at the moment. Not sure if it's an ulcer, gastroenteritis, or possibly gallbladder/appendix issues. Hoping it's not the later. Surgery is generally unpleasant.

"Bed of Lies"/contest results up

I said a while back that I had completed a semi-rewrite of"Retribution." It's on FFN now for anyone who's interested, going by the name of "Bed of Lies." It took second in the Krystal's Forum oneshot challenge that ended a while back, judged by my accomplice FoxKong and bested by the FFN writer/apocrypha-goer Swiper's "Anthem."

'Grats to him, me, and Kookameter for top three!

Feeling even more accomplished

Last night, after that last post, I went on to write for another 2475 words, putting my total for that day at 4475 words. The short story is 12000 words, and it is now finished, though I doubt it will ever see the light of day. I do happen to like it quite a bit, though.


In other news, I am sick. Somewhat. I'm fairly certain it's gallbladder-related, as I'm getting all kinds of ridiculous digestion issues and some sharp pain from the gallbladder area.

I'm sure that if I complained to any medical professional, they'd have my gallbladder out within the week. I've had surgery one too many times this year, though, and I can't stand to be incapacitated for an entire week during band season. (That, and I think doctors hand out surgery far too often; people fail to realize that one half of what doctors do is to avoid lawsuits, and the other half is for money.)

At any rate, I'm hoping this clears up soon. Today, I'm hoping to get the challenges for the Apocrypha workshop written up and edit over the printed version of the short story. For those of you who are interested, I'm trying to keep a daily writing journal here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/65237/18267572/1/

Whereas this blog is a place mainly for news and excuses and personal stuff, it will be an actual log of what I do every night, and I might be posting some challenges and fic segments somewhere in the forum eventually.

Feeling accomplished

So, that 6,000-word original short story I was working on is now a 10,000-word original short story. I hit 2,000 words both today and yesterday, and am feeling kind of proud about it.

If only I could match this kind of conviction with fan fiction... or at least, do it more regularly.


In other news, I'm starting a mini writing workshop. Information can be found in my FFN forums.

A note on original works

Just want to let everyone know that I have been writing these last few weeks. Given, most of it has been in original works. I want to take a few minutes to say a few things about them:

I have two major ones in the works at the moment. One of them is 6000 words, the other 11000. The former is close to being finished, while the latter has about another 40,000 words or so to go.

For the moment, at least, these works are on a "you ask, I send" basis. They're not heavily edited and one of them is definitely not something that I will be able to send to everyone. I wouldn't feel comfortable posting these to a site where other people have it splayed out in front of them, but I feel that it couldn't to send them if someone asked for them.


In other news, my computer (somehow) fixed itself, but I'm having to rearrange a lot of my priorities this year. School is... demanding, to say the least. I try to spend most of my free time writing, but the actual amount of free time I get is variable. I've hit the 1000-a-day mark for two weeks straight now (except those times when I was away from home), and I think that's about to come to an end.

Update

Still no news on the computer front. I've been ninjaing a laptop and using it every once in a while, but it's not a permanent solution or something that I can do for ridiculously long periods of time.

I did manage to do something semi-productive while on it, though. I wrote around 3000 words of an Oblivion fanfic, realized that it was going to be much longer than I'd originally thought it was, and decided to publish the first 1000 words as a flashfic. It's up on FFN for anyone who's interested.

Computer explosion

Okay, welllllll. I've been having some computer issues, possible hardware-related. I can have my computer on for all of two minutes before it crashes, then it won't boot for about thirty minutes or so.

Which means that I don't have access to any of my writing, fanfiction or not. Greaaaaaaaaaat. I'm hoping to have this fixed soon, but... we'll see.

Computer explosion

Okay, welllllll. I've been having some computer issues, possible hardware-related. I can have my computer on for all of two minutes before it crashes, then it won't boot for about thirty minutes or so.

Which means that I don't have access to any of my writing, fanfiction or not. Greaaaaaaaaaat. I'm hoping to have this fixed soon, but... we'll see.

Echoes bug fixed

Okay, so apparently FFN wasn't as screwy as I thought it was.

I saw lots of updates today so I decided to reupload the chapter of Echoes, and this time I actually got the alert that it had been updated and can see it in the front page, so... I don't know? Maybe I broke it.

Anyway, it's up. Go check it out.

Redemption Chapter up

This is something I forgot to mention earlier.

The new chapter of Redemption is up (big shocker considering the title, loooool).

Star Fox section messed up?

Okay, so, I'm getting in reviews for Redemption and I got the little alert thingy that said I'd published a new chapter.

Problem is, I've gotten neither for Echoes. (If you have left a review for it, please tell me so I can confirm my theory.) I've also noticed that there haven't been any updates in the section for the past little bit and no reviews I'm making are showing up.

So, something must be wrong with the Star Fox section. : /

I cheated

Well, since submission didn't work, what I did was copypasta the contents of the Echoes chapter into an existing document and add that to the story. It gave me error messages like crap, but, for some reason, it worked. I think.

Anyway, go read. obai

ahhhhhh

And FFN is still broken today. I can log in now, but I can't submit the chapter. : /

ahhhhhh

And FFN is still broken today. I can log in now, but I can't submit the chapter. : /

FFN is broke, QQ

Okay, so maybe I won't be able to get the next chapter up tonight, meh. Still can't log in.

(Of course, I post this in hopes that FFN will fix itself as soon as I complain about it like it usually does. Makes me look like an idiot, but eh.)