the trick is to keep breathing

Things!

• Valentine's Day Meme. I've left some prompts; come on, guys, don't leave me lonely! (Other pairings you know I like such as Rydia/Quistis or Ellone/Anyone are totally fair game guyz.)


• ff_exchange could still use your feedback in the poll, if you want to be a part of the SUPER COOL FINAL FANTASY EXCHANGE this summer!


• If I can figure out how to work it, there might be a porn meme in ff_smutathon for Valentine's Day. Requires thinking though. Any interest?

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JanNoWriMo -- Final Summary!

Words Written: 15,867 / 15,500 - win!
Days Written:
    - Total: 22 / 31 (71%)
    - Excepting for Ohayocon: 22 / 28 (78.5%)
Out Of Days I Wrote, Days I Wrote More Than 500 Words: 15 / 22 (68%)

Nerdy Pictoral Representation Of My Progress:


( Notes on JanNoWriMo )

Goals for February:

• Write 15,000 words, total. This is so I get ahead on getyourwordsout in Feb, because in March I'll be drawing.


• Finish Seifer/Irvine AU, 0tp Prompts, and get at least halfway with Beacon outline.


• Write at least one freaking piece of porn.

Anyway! I've seen a few JanNoWriMo Summaries on the F-List, so~! Let me know how you did in the comments if I haven't talked to you yet (or just point me to the entry). :) Go our team, guys! OI!

The Last Order, Chapter 9.

Go read it. It's the best one yet.

New FFIV fic in the works, ladies and gentlemen!

Hunter
Authors: first_seventhe and rosencrantz (Sev and Enkida)
Fandom: FFIV
Characters: Kain, Rydia, Edge, Cast
Rating: M / R
Spoilers: Whole damn game.

Summary: Heroes aren't always automatically granted a happily ever after... sometimes, winning is only the start of the battle. Kain, Rydia, Edge - and the aftermath of victory.

Part I: Penance (01)
LJ: http://brokenprism.livejournal.com/19137.html
ff.net: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3622929/1/

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The fic is a gift for katmillia, or at least it started out that way. It's now the hugest, most tl;dr gift ever.

I'll be updating it in brokenprism, and I mean it this time ;), so I probably won't post about it here every time because I don't want to spam people. Consider this your introductory post! This is basically just blatant self-promoting spam. SPAM SPAM SPAM. I know some of you on my F-List are FFIV people, so please take a read and let me know what you think. <3 THERE WILL BE PORN IN THIS STORY, LATER

It's about writing, specifically endings and resolutions.

Follow the fake cut!

It'd be cool to get some input from different people in different fandoms, so - yeah, please do it.

GO check brokenprism or ff.net for the latest installment of "How Not to Date Blondes". This is the best one yet. I literally giggled through the entire writing process.

Also, if anyone here is still reading "Shine Like Gold" (and hell, it's okay if you're not, I'm barely reading the damn thing), there's a new chapter up at ff.net, Chapter 15: The Cracks in the Ice.

It's mostly fluff, but it serves its purpose. After writing HNtDB with Enkida, I've gotten the bug for writing long multi-chaptered fic again. However, I insisted to myself that I finish SLG first. It's hard to pick up a story after not touching it for a year, dude! But I did. I'll wrap it up, and then I'll be able to continue on some of those other projects (all the shit Rina has bunnied me for, mostly).

SO, yes. Also, in better mood than last night. Thanks to those who left happy words.

Note: this entry is fandom-only.

I'm probably going to hate myself for this, but - whatever.

So I've realized that I only mostly write female characters. This is probably because I like them best. However, I've decided that I need a bit of practice writing male characters, since writing them (other than Irvine, apparently) kind of scares me. So! This is where I hire other rabid fannits to present me with plotbunnies, plz.

You:
Comment with a request. I write Final Fantasy fic based on any games from IV - X2. (Keep in mind, my fellow FFVII-girls, that my knowledge of BC/DoC/anything that's not game or AC is shaky at best.) Your request has to have a dude in it because this is the whole point. I will take a character or a pairing (and technically, the pairing can be hetero or homo, your choice). I will also take a setting, or a situation, or some other kind of prompt. I am not picky. I am asking for fun things. You can make as many requests as you want, really. Um, start with two?

I:
will write you a (probably) 200-500 word ficlet based on your prompts. (Unless my brains run away with me, in which case you will get a novelette and can feel free to beat me with it.) This will be done this week in the order that they are submitted. I have a fairly boring week ahead of me, so this should be fun.

Even though they're short ficlets, I'd still appreciate hearing about it if I get any male mannerisms/characterization/etc right or wrong. The whole point of this thing is for my own good - to help me become more comfortable with guyspeak.

So, c'mon. Somebody give me something.

0 Made an extensive list of current works / plotbunnies over in brokenprism. I need to write more. A lot more. AND I NEED TO STOP HAVING SUCH CRACKALICIOUS PLOTBUNNIES THANK YOU VERY MUCH lassarina. I am going to need more claims just to take care of all these crazy ideas.

0 I like peaches.

0 I currently really, really, really want to write more Beacon. However, it's going to have to wait. I've had too much work today to write, and I really have to practice tonight (we're up to four new songs a week, so I should totally be churning out the practicing).

0 My brother is coming to visit me this weekend! YEY! Saturday we've got a huge jam session planned with a bunch of my friends, and then we're going out on Justin's boat for a late-night swim. FREAKING AWESOME. It will be the coolness. PLUS GRILLING. I LOVE GRILLED THINGS.

0 Sunday we're recording a new demo. Our old one features our ex-drummer and one extra guitarist who is no longer with us, so it's about time. Plus I've learned a lot about Cakewalk:SONAR and recording in general, so it should be way better. Again, I have to practice.

0 Why am I not motivated to write any of these ideas? I know what will happen -- I'll get home, spend like three hours reading TIME and eating dinner, and then maybe play for like 20min. And I won't write at all. Laaaaaazie.

0 Fiona Apple is pretty awesome.

0 ...that's about all I've got.

I appear to be slowly but surely working my way back into writing - despite someone who takes up all my at-home time! - mostly due to assorted challenges and comms and such, but also because I've discovered the trick to writing at work. (My job has a lot of 10-15 minute down-times, which, if you can avoid being a scatterbrain, ends up being perfect wordvomit time, and that's what I started brokenprism for.) And I'm starting to feel the urge to launch something multichaptered again.

Although first, I must finish SLG. Liek woah. Stupid, stupid me.

I've been struck with plotbunnies for FFIV, FFVI, FFVIII, and FFX; and I still have a ton of one-shot FFVII-fic running around my head; and that doesn't include the crossover of doom that I am dying to rewrite just to prove that my teenaged ideas weren't entirely shite. I need to learn to finish my stupid projects first and start new ones second. Damns!

In other, unrelated news: I think the 100 Cans of Blatz party is going to be postponed for the moment, mostly because we haven't come up with enough friends to drink 100 cans of Blatz in one evening. So I have a feeling we'll all just be going to the Dugout for Jeff's birthday. Unless hilldo wants to loan his house out for a barbecue? HINT HINT.

So this is cool.

I got an email this morning from a fan who wants to translate the "Warming Up" series into Italian!

OKAY. SRSLY. WOW.

She also said nice things about the series, which always makes me feel super awesome.

She also had an interesting comment about my writing style which I assume would never have been noticed otherwise by a native-English speaker, as we tend to gloss over things like that: apparently I tend to repeat words, mainly simple words like "said" and "says". This is the kind of thing that probably sticks out a lot in a translation, but most other readers would miss and/or not comment on (unless doing real beta-work, which I kindasortadon'tdo). So that's awesome, as well - something I may never have thought of had she not come along to translate!

(I'm not really sure how true it is as I haven't read my own work in a while, but it's something I'll keep in mind as I continue to write. I am just easily amused.)

Also, it makes me want to get back to "Warming Up"...

Well, just for fun, lookie what I got. brokenprism. My very own purty fic-writing journal. Mostly because I've been writing short little spurts for my claim at mount_ordeals (Rydia) and am thinking of picking up something else at fated_children (possibly Quistis/Rinoa. OMG) and I want to keep track of all of it in the same place. Also because ficjournals are pretty.

All that'll be in there right now is my Rydia stuff, but I'll throw some more stuff in. I'm getting into these drabble-ish little pieces ...

P.S. I stealed this icon from somewhere yesterday and just got distracted before I could mark who it was from since I am at work, people! - if it's yours, tell me plz cause I LOVE IT.

I'm going to see the Charlie Hunter Trio tonight!! OMG Charlie Hunter is so freaking good. OMG OMG OMG. They are so amazing.