I can't believe Thanksgiving is this week. This past year has gone so freaking fast! Hope things are all right with all of you. I really should be better about responding to your posts. Maybe that can be a goal for next year.
I've been in the new house for 6 months now. Decorating is going slow but coming along. This owning a house shit is expensive! But it's been great. I got a new kitty in June. Her name is Liath (pronounced like Lee-eth) and she's a torbie and white (tortoiseshell + tabby + white belly), which I didn't even know existed until I got her. She's a brat and exhausting and a cuddle monster and a huge dork. Everyone always raves about how pretty she is. Someday she'll calm down and stop getting into stuff!
Yesterday I started writing something for the first time in MONTHS. Is it one of the dozen stories I have unfinished? Of course not! Oh, well. It feels good to get words on paper again. I missed it. Hopefully I can actually finish it, even if no one else ever reads it.
All right, back to writing I go. Have a great Thanksgiving/random Thursday in November, flist! <3
I've been in the new house for 6 months now. Decorating is going slow but coming along. This owning a house shit is expensive! But it's been great. I got a new kitty in June. Her name is Liath (pronounced like Lee-eth) and she's a torbie and white (tortoiseshell + tabby + white belly), which I didn't even know existed until I got her. She's a brat and exhausting and a cuddle monster and a huge dork. Everyone always raves about how pretty she is. Someday she'll calm down and stop getting into stuff!
Yesterday I started writing something for the first time in MONTHS. Is it one of the dozen stories I have unfinished? Of course not! Oh, well. It feels good to get words on paper again. I missed it. Hopefully I can actually finish it, even if no one else ever reads it.
All right, back to writing I go. Have a great Thanksgiving/random Thursday in November, flist! <3
I've had a very busy, very stressful couple of months. Adulting sucks.
Let's get the bad news out of the way first. Just before Easter, my baby cat Lizzie died. She was one month shy of being 19 and it wasn't entirely unexpected, but it's still been a really tough week. It's been just the two of us for the past nine years. She was a very good cat, very attached to me. I keep expecting to see and hear her. It's lonely without her. It was time for her to go, but it still hurts.
Good thing I'm distracted by the good news, which is that I went insane and bought a house! (Though all the financial shit makes me want to say fuck it and forgot the whole thing. Why is it so expensive???) The house is beautiful, practically brand new, and in a great area. I already have so many ideas for decorating and organizing. If I can just convince myself that I won't go bankrupt in the process!
Needless to say, my grand writing plans for the year have fallen by the wayside. Sigh. Oh, well. I will soon have a fancy new office in my fancy new house. Hopefully that'll kick my muse into gear.
Hope everything is all right with you, my lovely flist. I've been mostly lurking, but I do read your posts when I can. <3
Let's get the bad news out of the way first. Just before Easter, my baby cat Lizzie died. She was one month shy of being 19 and it wasn't entirely unexpected, but it's still been a really tough week. It's been just the two of us for the past nine years. She was a very good cat, very attached to me. I keep expecting to see and hear her. It's lonely without her. It was time for her to go, but it still hurts.
Good thing I'm distracted by the good news, which is that I went insane and bought a house! (Though all the financial shit makes me want to say fuck it and forgot the whole thing. Why is it so expensive???) The house is beautiful, practically brand new, and in a great area. I already have so many ideas for decorating and organizing. If I can just convince myself that I won't go bankrupt in the process!
Needless to say, my grand writing plans for the year have fallen by the wayside. Sigh. Oh, well. I will soon have a fancy new office in my fancy new house. Hopefully that'll kick my muse into gear.
Hope everything is all right with you, my lovely flist. I've been mostly lurking, but I do read your posts when I can. <3
What sweet, wonderful, awesome person out there wants to write me the J2 fic based on this buzzfeed article? Where Jared and Jensen are elected to do this experiment but there boss is hardcore so it's not just for one measely week but for six months or something and Jensen is already secretly in love with Jared and Jared is maybe secretly pining for Jensen and of course they fall totally in love and at the end they decide to get married for real. I would write it myself (pretend-to-be-married fic, you know that's my jam), but I'm working on about 16 different things right now.
Speaking of which, I plan to to clean up the original fic I wrote six years ago (goddamn, time flies) and probably submit it to Dreamspinner. Those posts will get locked eventually. My goal for this year is to finish shit. No more being lazy or letting myself get distracted. I have a bunch of stuff started and a billion other ideas and I need to get them out of my head and no longer wallowing on my hard drive. Wish me luck!
Hope everyone is doing well! <333
Speaking of which, I plan to to clean up the original fic I wrote six years ago (goddamn, time flies) and probably submit it to Dreamspinner. Those posts will get locked eventually. My goal for this year is to finish shit. No more being lazy or letting myself get distracted. I have a bunch of stuff started and a billion other ideas and I need to get them out of my head and no longer wallowing on my hard drive. Wish me luck!
Hope everyone is doing well! <333
Wow, okay. I don't think I even remember how to LJ anymore. It's been donkey's years since I did this. And about that long since I've written anything, because the muse has fucked off to parts unknown and hasn't poked me for way, way too long. Sigh. :((( Why is it so fucking hard to write? I miss finishing shit.
Anyhow. I inexplicably got hit with a wave of nostalgia earlier and now I feel like reading J2 for the first time in I don't know how long. Years? But since it's been so long, I don't know where to start. If anyone is still out there and reading this and wants to play along, can you rec me your favorite fics? New, old, doesn't matter, just stuff you go back to or whatever you really loved.
I miss you guys! It feels so weird not being part of fandom. I miss reading and writing fic and getting excited over everything with all of you. But I think it's AWESOME that this fandom is still going strong after all this time. You guys rock, always and forever. <333
Anyhow. I inexplicably got hit with a wave of nostalgia earlier and now I feel like reading J2 for the first time in I don't know how long. Years? But since it's been so long, I don't know where to start. If anyone is still out there and reading this and wants to play along, can you rec me your favorite fics? New, old, doesn't matter, just stuff you go back to or whatever you really loved.
I miss you guys! It feels so weird not being part of fandom. I miss reading and writing fic and getting excited over everything with all of you. But I think it's AWESOME that this fandom is still going strong after all this time. You guys rock, always and forever. <333
I'm bored and feel like writing but not working on the two original stories I'm in the middle of writing. Come play with me, please! Give me a prompt and I'll write a comment fic. I can do J2, Merlin/Arthur, or something original. I'm also up for timestamps if there's a fic you want me to revisit.
A/N 1: Surprise! Random fic from me. I’d planned to post this a month ago, but RL got in the way. Better late than never!
A/N 2: I started writing this over two years ago, around the time I decided to concentrate on original stuff instead. It stayed on my mind, though, and it always kinda bothered me that it was wallowing on my hard drive, so close to being done. It also seemed a shame to not share
the_milky_way’s art, which she’s probably forgotten about since it’s been so long. :p I’ve added an extra 6k, trying to fill in the holes as best I could. It was a bit weird getting back into Jared’s head, but I think it turned out pretty good. A/N 3: Thanks to
the_milky_way for the gorgeous banner. I know it’s been years since you made it for me, but seeing it in my pictures folder is what inspired me to finally finish this fic.A/N 4: Jesus Christ, I forgot how annoying it is trying to post to LJ. GRRRRRRRR.
I did my own thing for NaNo wherein I challenged myself to write every day, and I can officially say I managed to write something for 30 out of 30 days in November. Woo! \o/ Sometimes it was only a handful of words and I'm still no where close to finishing anything, but it's still WAY better than I've been doing lately. Hopefully this'll continue on into December.
I watched the 200th ep of Supernatural, and it made me cry, mostly from nostalgia and sadness because I miss my show and how good it used to be. Jensen continues to be too pretty for words. I found out my teenage niece is now obsessed with Show. I wasn't brave enough to ask if she's involved in fandom. I never want to know if she's read my fic!
There may be a surprise coming next weekend. We'll see.
I watched the 200th ep of Supernatural, and it made me cry, mostly from nostalgia and sadness because I miss my show and how good it used to be. Jensen continues to be too pretty for words. I found out my teenage niece is now obsessed with Show. I wasn't brave enough to ask if she's involved in fandom. I never want to know if she's read my fic!
There may be a surprise coming next weekend. We'll see.
So I spent a big part of this weekend going back through my journal and reading random fics. I used to be able to write (and finish shit!). What's happened to me??? Ugh. The other part of my weekend (besides being lazy and rereading a book series I've read a billion times) was spent plotting out a new idea the muse blindsided me with. I will hopefully be able to finish this one quickly, which is what I always say, but there are truthfully not very many scenes to write. We'll see.
I suddenly feel guilty for not finishing my last pretend-to-be-together J2 fic I was working on before I stopped writing fanfic. I just skimmed through the doc, and it's actually good. I want to share what I have, but I'm also tempted to adapt it into original fic. It's over 14k. It seems wrong somehow to just leave it unfinished like that. I don't think I could get into the groove of writing J2 again (especially since this fic is from Jared's POV and that was always harder for me), but I want to do something with it.
Basically, going through my J2 shit has gotten me into the mood to actually write and get something done, and writing novels takes too goddamn long. I think I should stick with short stories. :D I'm not sure I'll ever complete my first novel idea (it's way too ambitious for a first novel at least), but I am determined to get my current one done. Someday. If the muse cooperates. Ugh ugh ugh.
Why can't the words write themselves? :(
I'm so tired. I hope this all made sense!
I suddenly feel guilty for not finishing my last pretend-to-be-together J2 fic I was working on before I stopped writing fanfic. I just skimmed through the doc, and it's actually good. I want to share what I have, but I'm also tempted to adapt it into original fic. It's over 14k. It seems wrong somehow to just leave it unfinished like that. I don't think I could get into the groove of writing J2 again (especially since this fic is from Jared's POV and that was always harder for me), but I want to do something with it.
Basically, going through my J2 shit has gotten me into the mood to actually write and get something done, and writing novels takes too goddamn long. I think I should stick with short stories. :D I'm not sure I'll ever complete my first novel idea (it's way too ambitious for a first novel at least), but I am determined to get my current one done. Someday. If the muse cooperates. Ugh ugh ugh.
Why can't the words write themselves? :(
I'm so tired. I hope this all made sense!
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