Writing Meme!

"“Challenge on Infinite Earths” is a 30-day challenge where you take your favorite ship (or character(s)!) and place them in various “what if” scenarios and alternate universes.  Feel free create artwork, graphics, stories, playlist or anything in between while exploring how different environments could potentially create a new experience for characters. 

(Hover over the prompts for ideas or to clear up any possible confusion.)

1. Hogwarts
2. Zombies
3. Medieval
4. Spies
5. School
6. Mythical Creature
7. Fairy Tale
8. Futuristic
9. Aliens
10. Parody of another Fandom
11. Slice-of-life
12. Deserted Island
13. Buddy Cops/Detective
14. Allegiance-Swap
15. Sex-Swap
16. Superheroes
17. Gang
18. Military/War
19. Idols
20. Species-Swap (Animals, insects, etc.)
21. Fantasy
22. Horror
23. Pre-21st Century
24. Apocalypse/Dystopia
25. Children
26. Seniors
27. Family
28. Race-bending
29. Pirates
30. Your Life

Please tag your posts under “#30dayAUchallenge”!"

So, I am going to do this. It sounds like it'll be potentially fun! I want to break out Lyre Westreach for this. Perhaps Spooky and Dane as well. Maybe some of my other characters that I haven't finished their stories. Oh, the possibilities!

Editions and What Not

2/16/14

If anyone noticed: I did have an excerpt posted from some of the new edition of COB. I left it up for an appropriate, I think, amount of time before taking it down. If anyone actually read it, hope you enjoyed. If you missed it, sorry.

Also, I have been doing a lot of rewriting. A lot. Like whole new chapters. I was getting a bit worried that I was branching too far off from the original story (but so much had to be included to fill in glaring plot holes!) Then I decided on doing something with the narrative, a kind of experiment if you will, that will hopefully work as a sort of detour. We'll still be pacing with the original story, and see some new things on the way, but eventually meet back up at a certain point that doesn't need as much fleshing out.

I'm actually quite excited about this as it was worrying me and causing a bit of a delay in chapter out-put.

Just another bump overcome in the great process that has become Calling of Blood.

Out.

Well, Hello There!

01/04/14

Yes, yes. I know. It has been a bit since I last wrote.

Many a thing has happened within the silence. Most of it not so exciting. Anyway--

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday and a great beginning to the new year. My holiday was good, my new year not so much. Some personal things happened. We experienced a death in my family. All we can do is help each other grieve and remember our loved ones. I am not an overly superstitious person, but I am worried that this will be a flavor of the coming year. All I can do is keep, keepin' on.

I am getting back into the swing of things again. I know, I say that a lot. Finished another chapter just a few hours ago. I can't wait to get this all finished so I can cut all the fat.

Hope to see you all around!

Possibly a Snippet to Come

11/13/13

Hello, all!

Whoa my goodness, it's been a bit since I last checked in! Know that COB has been being worked on in the time I've been silent (and a few other things too!) I received a comment on the last entry asking about the progress of COB and a possible date on when it will be finished.

While I can't give a precise date, know that this will be finished. It is technically a finished story, but I don't want to release it for possible publication without filling plotholes and tightening the writing. It doesn't sit well with me the idea of trying to sell something a few people read and enjoyed for free. That's not how I roll.

Also, I've been fighting with myself about posting a piece of the new story on here. Just a snippet. A scene. I'm liking the idea more and more but have yet to decide on what to post. That might be the next entry. We'll see.

Thank you, Anon who wrote me on the last entry. It's nice to be reminded that there are people interested in Dane and Spooky, who want to hear their story. Sometimes I forget. That gave me a nice good push when I wanted to slack off. And it made me smile.

Out.

Greetings!

8/28/13

And exactly one month since the last time, I am updating. Woo! That takes some sort of talent to do that without trying.

So I don't know why I got it into my head that the COB manuscript needed to be less than 100k words, but I have been dreading having to cut once I'm done with the second edition. I've been trying to think what could go, where the extra fat is. Well, I am pleased to say that there isn't actually a maximum. It has to be 15k or more. I'll still edit the crap out of it ('cause I actually think that part is fun) but now I can write to my heart's content, add all the plot I've thought up to flesh things out. So far, so good. I want to post a snippet but I can't decide which passage to choose.

Nothing else of mine has seen much light, that's going to be published anyway. And that's where I'm at. On writing the new Chapter Fourteen and at around 103-thousand-some words.

Out.

Real Life Crazy Times, Progress and Writing Amnesia--Oh My!

7/28/13

So much has been happening since last I wrote. What was it, the end of April? Well, May started off normally, however... It's not really a big secret that I'm from Oklahoma so I'll just say May ended in chaos for those that have been following the news or are familiar with the term "Tornado Alley." Thankfully, I wasn't directly affected by the destruction but it hit pretty close and many friends and family weren't so lucky. Then I found out I will get to move back to my old house. Huzzah! You guys don't even know how happy that makes me, well maybe you do if you have had the pleasure of reading my rants on LJ. :p The bad news in all of that is that the tenants who were renting my house completely trashed it. Like, thoroughly turned my sweet home into a crackhouse--broken windows and all. Also, they wouldn't leave. They stayed the whole month of June (without paying rent) and a week of July. We've spent the remaining month trying to clean up their filth and get rid of the flea infestation they caused. It sucked, but the house looks so much better than it did.

Through this all I have been editing, cutting, pasting and rewriting. Also, I have been reading quite a bit. Most of what I've read has helped in the way of what I won't be doing with my own style. :) I'm really excited about the new bits and baubs that are added in now. Monista is so delightfully rounded. Killius has more to do, and I think that will make an even greater impact on readers once that thing happens. I've also been having fun editing out all the superfluous details and imagery. We really don't need to know every single facial expression. Once or twice is fine, but we don't need to be reminded of the color of this character's eyes, do we? That's the fan fic writer in me wanting to overdo it. People who write fan fic yet also are familiar with original works will know what I mean.

I keep experiencing what I like to call "writing amnesia." This is when one looks back over certain things they've written and finds something they added once while editing and think, "Wow, did I write that?" So far, it's mostly been in a good way. I'll go back and see new dialogue I put in for Lu'Bella and the flow of the scene is just so much better, or the completely new scene makes everything more interesting.

I have received over time a few lj messages saying they were recommended AIF through the Slash Pile community and what my plans are for the story. Sorry you missed it the first time, but I am planning on releasing the story again. Just a better version of it. The only other thing I can say is, check here or my lj once in a while to see what I'm doing if you're still interested in my works.

Foreshadowing

4/8/13

What I wouldn't give for a writing circle right now! I know someone out there reads this, and you still can be all quiet lurker on me ;) but just so you know I flicked the "anonymous" switch on commenting, so please feel free to come by. Onto what I need to know...

For those that have read "An Indigo Feather" and now "Calling of Blood"--or also for those who are good at hypotheticals: how allowable is foreshadowing? I have this new, awesome, conversation happening between Spooky and Dane. I mean, there's a lot of Spooky peeking into the wonderful and terrifying place that is Dane's mind and his reasoning for some of the monstrous things he does. Let's just say that Spooky asks a question that those that have read will know hits frighteningly close to home later in the story. My question is, should this moment exist at all? Is the risk of foreshadowing, though I swear I tried not to bash readers over the head, worth it?

I may post the exchange and see what readers think? Is that cool? If I hear static I'll just keep it to myself. No worries. I'll eventually work something out, it'd just go along swifter and smoother if I had a practice group.