"The Ambassador" Preview

In light of a few asking about The Ambassador, I've posted the first chapter up on the stories blog. Find it at:

http://jaslazulstories.blogspot.com/2010/04/ambassador-preview.html

This is turning out to be a deep story, even though it started as something half-comedic. It's a thematic story with lots of allusions and careful diction to hint at its message. It is not a romance story, though it might have a few romantic subplots (with whom, I do not yet know; each person I've shown it to sees it spiraling in a different direction). It's pseudo-fanfiction, meaning that it's set in Lylat, playing heavily upon settings like Corneria and upon game events like the Command ending that ends in the settlement of Venom. All the characters, though, are my own.

My biggest issues right now are at the beginning and at my current point, trying to figure out what to do next. There are different ways I could take this story, all of which lending it different themes and plots.

In other words: tell me what you'd like to see, even if it's something silly. Or just say what you think about it--you guys have no idea how much just hearing an opinion sometimes can influence the path of a story. And if you're really good, you can suggest stuff for the beginning (the one that I don't like very much)!

Anyway--in the words of Guardian1: enjoy yourself; I know I do.

Newish Fox/Wolf in Progress

Well, since I've been at a standstill with some other fics, I've continued that old thing I started a while back. I'd estimate that I'm over halfway done at this point, so you can expect it on FFN soonish.

I've posted a sample of it over on the other blog, if anyone's interested. There may be another short sample of another upcoming fic coming soon.

Livejournal test

I've created a livejournal and transferred most of the posts on this blog over to it. I'm still working out the bugs and trying to figure out how to use LJ, but I think I'll eventually come to like it. For now, this place will be my primary updating page, but if you're interesting in seeing what the LJ looks like, check it out at jaslazul.livejournal.com. Give me your opinion if you like one journal better than the other.

Question

A quick question:

Is there anyone out there who would rather have my works posted on the blog than have to track them down on the site? Converting the documents from standard formatting to the HTML hybrid that Blogger uses takes a bit of time ("Reconstruction" does not have all the italic formating that the original document has), and I don't really want to go through and do that for everything if there won't be any interest. The way I'd planned to do it is just release original stuff here, but then I posted Sciophobia and kind of broke that idea.

I do like the idea of having all my stuff in one place, but I also like the exposure from FFN muuuuch better. Is there anyone out there who would rather have stuff posted here? If not, I'll just nuke Schiophobia and set it up for original stuff only.

New blog

I'm now going to host some of my stories at jaslazulstories.blogspot.com. Everything on this blog will remain normal, but I'll begin posting the occasional story over there. I might get something up tonight--albeit an older story.

Anyway, I've put up a link for it in the links section. Gogogo.