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[estirose]

Whew! I did finalauraburst!

So, you've probably noticed I haven't been writing much fic the last few days. There are a few reasons for this.

1. I really don't like "Useless Things" 29 right now. I know what needs to be done (the last section needs to be expanded badly, and there needs to be more tension), but I'm not sure what to do with it. And dangit, I need to get my pairing in bed, finally.
2. Useless Things, Second Son, and Promoted Pawn have the same general... well, not idea, but similar themes. Useless Things is Wataru changing into a Fangire in order to become the Checkmate Four King, while Second Son is Taiga trying to find Wataru a pair of wives in order to avoid killing him, and Promoted Pawn/Pawn to Queen is Wataru being Taiga's Queen. One of them, anyway.. I'm having to remember what's going on in which. I think figuring out Useless would be a good thing.
3. I wrote an Aya flashfic, and then I decided it needed expanding. Bad idea.
4. I keep meaning to finish up a Kiyoe fic, but then I don't and I guilt trip a bit over it.
5. I hopped into kamendressing, which is very fun but has sapped some of my energy. (I'm currently playing two characters there.)


I've been agonizing about the_lifeboat because I just haven't been able to get into it, but I just can't bring myself to write a goodbye post on the OOC. As an experiment, I joined kamendressing to see if it could revitalize things. It did, but it's not helping me get back into Lifeboat.

One of the things that I like about kamendressing is that I don't have to figure out how to explain how my character speaks english (because they're not). Everybody in the RP speaks Japanese as a common language. And I don't, for the most part, have to explain who in the heck my characters are. One of them is a bit unfamiliar to the other players because she's from a series earlier than Kiva/Den-O (where most of the characters are from). I shouldn't be doing well, because I'm bad at just jumping in, but I am.

(The only downside of that RP is that the players *are* heavily Den-O/Kiva. There are three characters that are not Den-O/Kiva based, and I'm playing one of them.)

It's also liberating to not worry about whether I'm going to break things if I get something wrong/move someone (which you can't, basically, so it's not a problem). Being a dressing room RP, you can be having multiple conversations at the same time, and if you want to forget something, or do? Not a big deal.

(Teal Deer/tl;dr: I seem to do better in basically either one-fandom or cracky RPs.)

Oh, and I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, so I do need to wrap these stories up by then.

This will be my third year in NaNoWriMo. My first year was the fanfic "Discovering The Sun", which may get done one of these days. The second year was "Sloshing Along The River", which I managed to get through without introducing any canon characters until the very end (though not without introducing any canon species), which was pretty good, considering it was set vaguely in the "New Dawn" RP universe and featured various and sundry of my OCs. (I accidentally signed up last year and had to come up with a plot fast, and fikgirl was kind enough to let me kidnap her universe.)

This year, my novel is very loosely based upon a pre-Kiva plot bunny. I've got my Main Character named, and I have a vague idea of the plot, I just have to figure out the rest of it. This will be interesting.

Anybody else on my Flist doing NaNo?

Comments

[verusmayaii]

I've decided to jump into NaNo this year, but as it'll be my first attempt I'm trying hard to sort all the plot points and characters out before November hits so I'm completely prepared. @_@

[starandrea.livejournal.com]

Ooh, me! I'll be doing NaNo! ♥ Did you see the new site? They launched early this year!

[finnyb.livejournal.com]

I'm NaNo-ing, possibly along with a co-worker (if she can figure out a way to write comfortably on breaks; I'm allowed to borrow gavic's Eee PC, which will make things easier on me, though I really wish I could get my own in time, but that's just not feasible, sadly). I am to actually finish this year, unlike the last time I tried, back in 2005 (or '06--I can't remember!).