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Miscellaneous: updates on current WIPs and a look ahead
Do you ever feel like you have fifty million ideas bouncing around your brain, so much that you can't make real progress on any one thing because the little voices in your head can't decide which one to work on?
Yeah, that's totally the reason for this post: I (or rather, the muses) need priorities, dammit.
I have varying degrees of satisfaction with the progress (or lack thereof) on my various fics. Right now, my main priority is to finish the sequel to Memento Mori. After battling for almost three months on the damn thing, I am finally satisfied with the plot line I've chosen for the oneshot sequel; now it's mostly a matter of actually writing it out. Unfortunately, most of my "free time" of late has been on generally unproductive writing days. Sometimes I feel like I can write freely and sometimes, I got nothing. It sucks, but that's creativity for you.
Luckily, the term ends this week, so I will have more time to devote to creative pursuits very, very soon. Yay!
I am hoping to have this piece out before Christmas. Why? Because the piece I'm planning for the Advent Calendar is actually a little sequel to it. That piece is due December 23rd, and I really don't want to have to change the idea now that it's kinda fleshed out and is just waiting for my muses to cooperate :P
Next on the list is reviving/revising Nihon Idol. This fic got pushed to the wayside between finishing Every Heart and starting to write more heavily for contest prompts. I also lost a bit of interest, as the characterizations didn't go the way I wanted. However, I have relaxed my own rules for the fic (it's a crossover) and this has allowed me to find new ways to save the characters and the story, and make it more of my own. This is quite exciting, but it means that the whole thing (32K+ words) has to get a facelift before it can continue. This will also constitute a lot of work off-screen...
The next big, multichapter project that I feel is looming on the horizon is "The Wrong Ending", which is a continuation of a contest prompt that has the potential to get really big really fast. I'm still working on a plausible storyline (I know where they start, and where they end, but not the reason for the journey quite yet), but I'm quite excited about this chance to explore the Sess/Kag pairing in a rather strict canon universe. It's not going to be strictly Sess/Kag, but that's where its going to end up.
In the meantime, I have been bitten by a plot bunny for the Eternal Destiny contest, inspired by some lovely fanart. This is another piece that is more or less already planned out, but needs to be written on a "creative" day. Luckily, the due date that for that contest is after Christmas, so I have some lead time yet. It's hard getting back to writing Inu/Kag after focusing so much on the possibilities of Sess/Kag...but it's an interesting challenge nonetheless :)
And then there's the still-simmering plans for the sequel to Every Heart. This is still not completely clear quite yet, but I did have an ingenious brainwave during one of my classes a few weeks ago that will help spark it. It's going to be a quest story, focusing on Sess/Rin/Snegura, with the other two couples/storylines taking a definite backseat. I'm still tinkering with the mechanics for the main storyline.
I'm very content with the pace of updating on "Fleeting"; every ten days has a nice symmetry to it (and it gives me time to contemplate my next move, and how it fits into the prompt table!). I like this idea of writing a serial, not being tied to a particular style or strict timeline, or even form - though, admittedly, I find it much easier to write oneshots than drabbles and will probably continue in this vein, at least until things heat up.
My other claim at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
un_love_you is for Ouran High School Host Club. I am hoping to receive the glut of anime and manga as Christmas gifts, so I'm waiting to see if that comes true before resuming this table. Ironically, I had an overall idea for that table, whereas I was just going to free-form the Sess/Kag claim...and now those two have reversed. My brain = totally weird.
Let's see, is there anything else?...as if that wasn't enough, LOL.
There are still a ton of contest drabbles I've written that I've contemplated expanding, but none of them have been fleshed out as these have. I speak mostly of the ones I've written foriyissekiwa, and a few of the interconnected dokuga_contest ones as well.
Yeah, that's totally the reason for this post: I (or rather, the muses) need priorities, dammit.
I have varying degrees of satisfaction with the progress (or lack thereof) on my various fics. Right now, my main priority is to finish the sequel to Memento Mori. After battling for almost three months on the damn thing, I am finally satisfied with the plot line I've chosen for the oneshot sequel; now it's mostly a matter of actually writing it out. Unfortunately, most of my "free time" of late has been on generally unproductive writing days. Sometimes I feel like I can write freely and sometimes, I got nothing. It sucks, but that's creativity for you.
Luckily, the term ends this week, so I will have more time to devote to creative pursuits very, very soon. Yay!
I am hoping to have this piece out before Christmas. Why? Because the piece I'm planning for the Advent Calendar is actually a little sequel to it. That piece is due December 23rd, and I really don't want to have to change the idea now that it's kinda fleshed out and is just waiting for my muses to cooperate :P
Next on the list is reviving/revising Nihon Idol. This fic got pushed to the wayside between finishing Every Heart and starting to write more heavily for contest prompts. I also lost a bit of interest, as the characterizations didn't go the way I wanted. However, I have relaxed my own rules for the fic (it's a crossover) and this has allowed me to find new ways to save the characters and the story, and make it more of my own. This is quite exciting, but it means that the whole thing (32K+ words) has to get a facelift before it can continue. This will also constitute a lot of work off-screen...
The next big, multichapter project that I feel is looming on the horizon is "The Wrong Ending", which is a continuation of a contest prompt that has the potential to get really big really fast. I'm still working on a plausible storyline (I know where they start, and where they end, but not the reason for the journey quite yet), but I'm quite excited about this chance to explore the Sess/Kag pairing in a rather strict canon universe. It's not going to be strictly Sess/Kag, but that's where its going to end up.
In the meantime, I have been bitten by a plot bunny for the Eternal Destiny contest, inspired by some lovely fanart. This is another piece that is more or less already planned out, but needs to be written on a "creative" day. Luckily, the due date that for that contest is after Christmas, so I have some lead time yet. It's hard getting back to writing Inu/Kag after focusing so much on the possibilities of Sess/Kag...but it's an interesting challenge nonetheless :)
And then there's the still-simmering plans for the sequel to Every Heart. This is still not completely clear quite yet, but I did have an ingenious brainwave during one of my classes a few weeks ago that will help spark it. It's going to be a quest story, focusing on Sess/Rin/Snegura, with the other two couples/storylines taking a definite backseat. I'm still tinkering with the mechanics for the main storyline.
I'm very content with the pace of updating on "Fleeting"; every ten days has a nice symmetry to it (and it gives me time to contemplate my next move, and how it fits into the prompt table!). I like this idea of writing a serial, not being tied to a particular style or strict timeline, or even form - though, admittedly, I find it much easier to write oneshots than drabbles and will probably continue in this vein, at least until things heat up.
My other claim at
un_love_you is for Ouran High School Host Club. I am hoping to receive the glut of anime and manga as Christmas gifts, so I'm waiting to see if that comes true before resuming this table. Ironically, I had an overall idea for that table, whereas I was just going to free-form the Sess/Kag claim...and now those two have reversed. My brain = totally weird.Let's see, is there anything else?...as if that wasn't enough, LOL.
There are still a ton of contest drabbles I've written that I've contemplated expanding, but none of them have been fleshed out as these have. I speak mostly of the ones I've written for
iyissekiwa, and a few of the interconnected dokuga_contest ones as well.
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That being said, you can *definitely* tell who's reading/writing fanfic based on the manga, or based on the anime, by the way they characterize their key players. I'm glad I wasn't around for the big Inu/Kag vs Inu/Kik shipwars...
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I can understand that. I've always been a reader so just the appeal of the written story really got me.
That being said, you can *definitely* tell who's reading/writing fanfic based on the manga, or based on the anime, by the way they characterize their key players. I'm glad I wasn't around for the big Inu/Kag vs Inu/Kik shipwars...
I totally agree with that! Kagome is a snotty brat or just a "woe is me" type. Kikyo is an extreme bitch with no redeeming qualities. That is the thing that always got me about the Sess/Kag pairing. They either made Inu such a bastard that Kag had to run to Sess or that she was just so cold hearted that she was with Sess behind Inu's back. I'm glad we missed the war too. It seems to be heading to the Inu/Mir vs Inu/Kag now! LOL
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Same here, though I've always had rather strong feelings about what could and couldn't translate to the screen. For instance, I think Jane Austen's books do much better in a visual environment than on the page.
I totally agree with that! Kagome is a snotty brat or just a "woe is me" type. Kikyo is an extreme bitch with no redeeming qualities. That is the thing that always got me about the Sess/Kag pairing. They either made Inu such a bastard that Kag had to run to Sess or that she was just so cold hearted that she was with Sess behind Inu's back.
To me, the believability of the Sess/Kag pairing rests on the characterization of Sesshoumaru. He does a lot of growing himself in the manga, the sort of growth and breadth and depth that allows for this alt pairing to venture somewhere near the realm of reality. If you just base your knowledge off the anime, you'd *have* to twist Kagome's character to fit his because its obvious how much she hates him, LOL. Whereas, I feel they would be mutually more sympathetic to each other at the end of the manga because of everything they *both* went through.
I'm glad we missed the war too. It seems to be heading to the Inu/Mir vs Inu/Kag now! LOL
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Suddenly I'm rather glad I don't read a lot of yaoi...LOL.
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It's not that I have a problem with the male/male relationship. It's just that why make her so evil if you really just wanted the boys together?
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I don't have any sorts of issues with gay sex of any variety, but I must admit, I don't understand the female fascination with male gay sex. But then, I also don't read fanfic for the porn, and that may have something to do with it LOL.