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08:50 am: Family in Need
I don't post here often any more, but only because I don't often have much time.

However, if you haven't heard of this family, in need, I wanted to pass this information along.

I don't know them, but I found out about their need through the LJ community.

Back in October I was in need of $3,000 for repair of my car, without which, in southern California, I'd have been helpless.

Some of you, plus the LJ community, came running to my aid. I will be grateful FOREVER.

This family has it much worse and a friend has come to their aid in an attempt to help them keep their home and get their car fixed.

I understand if you can't help with money, but there is something else you could do, if you feel moved to do so.

Would you pass this link along? Post it in your journals? Tell everyone you know?

Nobody should have to lose their home.

http://blackperson.livejournal.com/207448.html

Thank you!

01:04 pm: Happy Mother's Day!
To all the mothers on my FL!!!

07:45 pm: Please to Click?
So that dragons might live.





AND

http://manga-queen.livejournal.com/13135.html

THANK YOU!

08:47 am: I Must Decide What to Do Here
I hardly use this journal at all, which is sad.

I guess most of the reason is that I've traditionally used my LJ for writing contacts, to post word counts, detail my day to day life.

I've had that journal a number of years now, made a number of friends.

There are very few people on my FL over here who would actually have any interest in my day to day life, very few who would be interested in my original writing or word counts.

MAYBE, there might be a few interested in my fanfic, though I don't really hang with any particular fandoms or hold to any groups' conventions, and mostly only have time to write fanfic these days for comms.

My main focus is my original fiction, though I do still like to write fanfic when I have the time.

Another problem I have is that, for some odd reason, my primary e-mail account will NOT accept comments from IJ, so I have to use my gmail account for that. Sadly, I don't check my gmail every day because I can't seem to get it set up to download into Outlook, though I have tried several times.

Which means, I'm usually late responding to comments, if and when I have any. That makes it hard to get to know people over here, too.

If I had more time or didn't write original fic, everything would be easier, but...those things aren't going to change any time soon.

So, for now...I don't know. I like IJ and would like to find some way to participate. I just don't know how I'm going to manage it yet.

08:36 am: Dragons Need Your Help to Hatch
My daughter, manga_queen has gotten me into this site where you attempt to get dragon eggs (on the hour...people are often there to nab them first) and then encourage them to hatch.

What it takes is for people to click on the egg. At a certain number of clicks, they hatch. It's random with each kind of dragon. If they don't hatch in the allotted number of days (normally 7), they die.

Sometimes, they die before hatching for other reasons, too.

The odd thing is, someone has gone to a lot of trouble with this site. They've set up ratios where, if a dragon egg gets viewed too many times by the same people, but not enough new views and clicks, they die.

Anyway, onto my eggs. I'd appreciate it much if anyone feels so inclined to click. :)





Thank you!

07:06 pm: AWOL
Wow, I haven't posted here in forever. Four months.

I've been too busy to keep up with things.

Trying to finish an urban fantasy novel in one month.

Trying to get ready for Springkink on LJ.

Trying to get ready for kinkfest here. Last time I tried to participate in kinkfest, I became very ill and had to back out. I want to get my stories done ahead of time this time...in case of disaster, cause they happen.

Most of my journal friends are still over on LJ. I don't really know many people here that would really be interested in reading my posts anyway.

08:41 am: For My Sister


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09:38 am: Moving in Slow Motion
I've been sick for almost a week now and I still feel like I'm moving in slow motion. Sometimes, life seems engulfed in a fog.

I can't really get long enough periods of sleep to help with the recovery process. Mostly, I get an hour at a time...if I'm lucky.

That wasn't too bad over the long weekend, when I could mostly stay in bed, but it's making it difficult since I'm back at work.

I lament the loss of my beautiful four-day weekend when I was going to write an amazing amount of kinkfest stories and start work on my novel-in-one-month.

At this point, I'm wondering whether I should admit defeat and drop kinkfest ::sob:: or whether I should hang on until the weekend and see if I feel well enough to catch up.

The weekend approaches quickly and I don't feel well yet. Sometimes, I have more energy than others, but the pain and the sickness return. Night is the worst with more of both, plus no sleep.

And, yet, I know (from having had this once or twice before in my adult life) that it can vanish as quickly as it came and I might be feeling like a million bucks come Saturday.

I could still finish my novel this month. My original goal was to write one 3,500 word chapter per day, for a total of 30 chapters. At this point, if I upped the daily goal to 4,200, I could still finish if I started tomorrow.

Or, I could just change the goal to 30 days from the date I start.

All depends on how I feel.

::laments::

The important thing is getting well. Everything else must take a back seat to that.

06:31 am: Posted!
Got my first story posted to kinkfest.

I had trouble with my tags, though. It only took two of them. Did anybody else have that problem and what am I doing wrong?

Help?

Because I've been pretty sick, I'm behind on my stories and I hope I feel well enough to get a lot of writing done today..

So far, I have two of my stories complete: today's and one for tomorrow. The second prompt for tomorrow will probably be kinda short...because it includes things we just don't want to see, LOL.

So, my prompt meter now stands at a pathetic:

2 / 61 (3.3%)

I also want to start work on my novel today. Have to see if I have live brain cells, though. It might be that I have to put it off. We'll see. We'll see.

Off to breakfast. I think I need food.

08:08 pm: One Down
SIXTY more to go!!!

I've finished my first story for kinkfest.

It's not for the first day, of course, but it's for the SECOND, so that's not so bad.

Countdown to kink!

1 / 61 (1.6%)

05:49 am: Samus Kicks Ass!
I can't wait for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption!

After getting the latest issue of Nintento Power in the mail yesterday, oh, man, it sounds amazing.

The reviewer gave it a 10 out of 10 and the concept art pics are astounding. Beautiful work.

I wish they'd put out an art book for it.

Why can I never find other Metroid fans? Oh, that's right, because they're all teenage boys. Sigh.

06:56 pm: Dinner, A Movie, and Fanfic
Oh, wait! That should be Dinner, DVD's, and Fanfic.

Boys served manga_queen and me leftover spaghetti and we're watching my Dresden Files DVD's so I have inspiration for the Morgan/Harry fic I'm writing for choc_fic over at Live Journal.

My favorite ep, and one that includes lots of Morgan, is Things That Go Bump. Of course, I love Ancient Mai, too, and since she's in that one, it's a bonus.

dragovianknight posted a Harry/Ancient Mai prompt for me at kinkfest, so I need to work on that story, too.

Tonight seems to be mostly relaxing, though I do have Word open. I think my brain is bleeding from writing, proofreading/revising, and posting 7 stories to Springkink over the weekend. A couple of them were pretty long.

I was doing well until I hit the last story, an Edgar/Terra prompt for the 27th. By that time, it was 2:00 or 3:00 and I needed to have them posted before evening EST, so I stressed BIG TIME. I ended up starting over FOUR times on that story before I came up with something decent enough to post.

So, now I wonder, did I do the wrong thing by claiming 61 prompts for kinkfest? I can write that many without any trouble, even if they average 1,000 words each. I've done more than that a couple of times for NaNo. My big concerns are whether there could be any more real life disasters to slow me down and whether or not it's right of me to claim that many after I was so late with Springkink. I guess I just feel guilty.

My first three days of kinkfest are actually pretty easy. It's not until the 4th that I have four prompts in one day. That happens one other time, later in the month.

However, I am taking Friday off work, so I have a four-day weekend and plan to do lots of writing.

So, I guess I'll consider for the next few days and see what I decide. I claimed some really, really, really GREAT prompts and I'd love to write all the stories.

04:33 pm: I Did It! I Did It! I Did It!
I FINALLY got my last LJ Springkink prompt claim story posted about an hour ago!!!

HOORAY!

That was 56 prompts I posted over there in all.

I felt so terrible for being late with some of them. I want to say that there were maybe 16 that I finished in August. Maybe it was 19.

7 of them, I just wrote and posted between yesterday and today.

But, the last two months have been made of DISASTER since there was a merger at work and then I was summoned by the IRS to testify (and possibly be held liable) about payroll taxes unpaid at a company I worked for that went under TWO YEARS ago.

So, it was only with the greatest of willpower that I continued to write while trying NOT to become a mess of nerves or a basket case.

I was determined not to give up on any of the claims I asked for, so I feel a great deal of satisfaction that I was able to FINALLY complete the last of the 56.

Having said that, I have 61 claims for kinkfest, but things seem to be moving along better now. I'm starting to un-stress. I have a four-day weekend next weekend. I think I can get ahead.

Whew!

12:54 pm: Writing, Writing, Writing
I took today off work so I'd have a three-day weekend.

I'm also taking off work NEXT Friday so I'll have a four-day weekend.

The intention is to commit WRITING, and lots of it.

I'm getting ready to join yet ANOTHER fanfic comm, because I have absolutely NO self-control. NONE!

So, I need to get a jump on prompts that have set deadlines, so I can work on those that don't.

Also, September is write-a-novel-in-one-month for me.

I have committed plotting, plan to do more this weekend, and I'm going to start off fresh on September 1, with the intention of putting that final period on place on September 30.

I shall write one chapter per day. 3,500 words. That's my best guesstimate.

And, I'm really excited.

So, I've got two stories I'm working on now...yes, I do work on stories at the same time. And, hope to finish at least 4-5 today.

Fingers crossed.

Back to writing.

08:21 am: I Think I'm Addicted to Fanfic Comms
Well, addicted to PARTICIPATING in them, that is.

I love to read other people's work and stare with wonder at the artwork submitted, but I haven't had a lot of time to do that yet. Mostly, I write and post, write and post, write and post, though I do ultimately expect real life to slow down enough to do more than just that.

I hadn't written fanfic in, wow, a LOT of years (it might be embarrassing to admit how many) until my sister introduced me to Springkink, over on LJ.

I needed a break from my original fic and from a lot of the writers I'd been hanging around with on LJ. Their negativity had infected me, my soul felt tainted, and I found myself filled with nothing but thoughts of suckage for my work. I needed the freedom to write and write and write and feel good about myself and my writing again.

So, I joined Springkink and promptly claimed 56 prompts because...well, writing is what I do.

Real life struck in some really disastrous ways and I went down for the count. Got back up, kept plugging, but I still have 7 prompts left to post for Springkink. Fortunately, 5 are already started and mostly finished, so I should be finished any time now.

Whew!

Then I came to IJ and, OMG, so many comms. So many beautiful, lovely comms.

Of course I joined kinkfest. How could I not? Especially when my sister posted lovely MMPR, Metroid, and Legend of Zelda prompts. And, the Transformers: Movie prompts...oooooh, oh, so tempting.

Then, there was het_challenge, which I'd also joined and completed on LJ. And, 30for3, which looked like so much fun I couldn't resist.

More and more and more.

To my credit, I resisted the urge to join one I really wanted to participate in, ironman7, even though I copied down the first week's prompts and started to work on stories, LOL.

After Wednesday, when the worst of my real life disasters is hopefully over, I'll really be able to dive back into all my writing with real earnest...get ahead on my kinkfest prompts (OMG, I claimed Godzilla/Mothra...how funny is that!), and finish up the plotting for the novel I'm going to write in September, Gateway to Eternity.

The novel was actually written once, under pressure from other writers of original fic to do it by their rules, so it didn't really possess the heart, the soul, the spirit I wanted, even though it got a good review from an OWW editor and the story is sound. Now, I'm going to do it the right way, with new material (I almost said footage...dudes, that's what I get for being a screenwriter for so long.), new heart, and MY soul.

The more I write, the more I write.

I can't help it. That's just the way I am.

I don't really know a lot of people in fanfic comms yet, but I hope that, the more I participate, the more people I'll get to meet and know. So far, everyone has been lovely and I've enjoyed everything I've participated in a LOT.

There are so many comms between now and the end of the year. It's very exciting. I wonder if this addiction will level out, or if I'll keep finding more places to participate, more stories to write. :)

07:14 pm: I'm Pleased to Announce...
My fanfic journal.

I finally found time to start moving stories into it. Most are stories I wrote recently for Springkink over at LJ. Some are from other comms. Ultimately, I'll post fanfic not written for communities, too.

But, I wanted to warn anyone who has ninjagold friended that I'm going to be posting 5-6 stories there every day until I've finished migrating them. I don't want to seem like I'm spamming that journals friends list.

Most of the fics over there so far will be Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Dragon Quest 8, Dresden Files, Legend, Sailor Moon, Lord of the Rings, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Rurouni Kenshin.

Soon to add Transformers (Movie), Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Ghostbusters, Real Ghostbusters, Sky High, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Godzilla, Inuyasha.

One thing I really want to write because I've heard so much WONDERFUL about it and because I've watched my sons play is Final Fantasy XII. It seems to be made of all kinds of goodness. I just haven't had time to play yet. Hopefully soon.

No telling where I'll go from there.

Tags: fanfic journal

09:37 am: I Can't Believe I Lost My Mind
I had already requested SIXTY prompts for kinkfest last night.

I just requested another one today.

Dang!

07:50 pm: YAY!
The Dresden Files DVD's I ordered arrived today. manga_queen and I are watching the special features while I work on my stories for an LJ fanfic comm.

I love the books and loved the show, too. I was very sorry that they cancelled it.

07:51 pm: Soooooo....
If I purchase a paid journal, do the ads go away?

07:42 pm: Tough Decision
Now that I have a regular journal and a fanfic journal BOTH (well I do at LJ, too, but haven't had the fanfic journal long enough to have done anything with it yet), it's hard to decide whether JUST to post fanfic on my fanfic journal and keep discussions about real life, original writing, and fandom/fanfic writing all over here...

Or what.

I do want to get fanfic posted on my other journal. Definitely.

But I don't think that's going to happen in August. This month is tooo CRAZY.

I know it's pathetic, but I like these cute little mood bugs.