Yeah, it’s New Year’s Eve here still, but it’s time for an update, I think. Please excuse my tone; I’m feeling really down at the moment. 2024 was painful, in more ways than one. I had surgery in March to remove all the reproductive plumbing (growing fibroids had filled the unused spaces and were clinging on the outside.) Then I loom knitted two really nice afghans within four months. One was a commission from my mother-in-law and the other was…
Not for me. Not this year, anyway. As a former ML (Municipal Liaison), I’ve heard a lot about what’s been going on since last November’s challenge. I stepped back earlier this year because of burnout but had full intentions of participating in November. But… things have changed. Too many things. I’m soured on the current iteration of the organization and, truthfully, can’t see how it will make it past this November. If you want to know more, check out nanoscandal.com.
Some of you may know that I live in the northwest corner of South Carolina. Well, a hurricane came through about 10 days ago. She hit us hard — not as bad as Western North Carolina — but hard enough to cause flooding, uproot trees, and leave us in the dark for a week. Even now, my cable company is still working on restoring service to the area. (I’m using my phone’s hotspot on my tablet to write this. Its…
While shopping at Aldi today, I met a young woman with purple hair. Now, I’ve dyed my hair a dark blue and have kept it up since late May, so when I complimented her choice of color, she responded in kind. I also noticed a tattoo on her right forearm and asked what it was. She held up her arm for me to see. It was a tattoo of the moon, lined up in its phases. “Wow! You recognized it!…
One good thing about editing an old fanfic is finding the mistakes you never knew you’d made. For example, in order to tie a vignette in Burning Muses to Serendipity, I had John Tracy say something about his father visiting him… while he was supposedly on the International Space Station! Uh, no. That doesn’t happen, even if Jeff Tracy is a retired astronaut. What was I thinking? Now I have to figure out which darling to kill: the call out…
Yes, it’s well past time I did this. I’m editing my older fanfics for posting here and, eventually, at AO3, starting with Serendipity. This means I get to show off the pencil fanart done back in the day by my friend, MathGirl. I’m also looking at my all-but-abandoned WIPs with an eye to continuing/finishing them. Chapter 28 of Overtures is on my plate next, I think, though I should reread the rest of the arc before I finish that. (Hence,…
Uh, yeah, it’s been more than five months since I last updated. *winces in embarrassment* It’s not that I haven’t come around lately; I’ve been keeping an eye on traffic and updating behind the scenes stuff as needed. If you pop in every so often, you’ll see I’ve been changing out the homepage’s background seasonally. I really haven’t had much to say, I guess. NaNoWriMo kicked my butt. Did the ML (Municipal Liaison or regional volunteer) gig again–this after my…
I’ve been looking it over again and it’s okay. Wrote in a little bit to give a reason for protecting property that sounds feasible. I will, however, need to break up the chapters for posting–some of them are wicked long! Fortunately, that should be easy enough to do since I tend to write in scenes. And, of course, there’s finishing the damned thing! Some years ago, I was told that fanfic readers wanted their stories to focus on the main…
Well, I was thinking about it after rereading things I’ve already written. The thing is, I haven’t posted much of what I’ve got, so I can work on changing the plot if necessary. What I keep coming up against is the insistence IR has had of saving lives, not property. Not sure if it’s canon or not; it may be, but what episode it came from, I have no clue. If it’s fanon, then I can ignore it, really. I…
All the edits for The White Winds are complete! The whole thing is posted here and at AO3! I have not been updating it at ff.net as I should have but that will have to wait for another day. Month. Year, even. I’ll admit I haven’t been writing every day as I intended to. However, I have been writing. I’ve also been pondering and asking advice, particularly in regards to Resolutions Redux and Brainstorm. I have finally decided that Brainstorm…