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Let’s writer’s blocking!

WillyFourEyes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:47:22 +0000

Don’t you just hate it when you feel like you have a great idea for a project, leave it alone for a while, try to start writing it again, but can’t think of any great ideas on how to write it? It’s happened to me a couple of times. I kept telling myself that I’d get back to writing It’s Never Lonely at the Top since August, but writer’s block hit me like a shoryuken to the chin, and I haven’t been able to continue the damn thing. Rather than try to hammer out a new chapter and have it wind up sub-par, I believe it might be better if I simply cancelled it and started anew. Sakura and Karin deserve better. The copy that I’ve posted on FanFiction.net will be deleted, along with my other orphaned story so that they don’t take up space (though the copy that’s on this website will stay put for history’s sake). Despair not, though, faithful readers! I do still plan on writing Sakura/Karin stories in the future, both friendly and…not. They’ll just take on a smaller scope than this one. I’ve decided that I won’t post any of it online until I’m totally satisfied with what I’ve written down, and then I’ll upload it chapter by chapter, and make changes accordingly. Now that I think about it, I probably should have done the same with my other novel…

Fanfic plus two

WillyFourEyes — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:50:08 +0000

Two more entries have been added to the fanfiction archive since last night: Dark Wave (Final Fantasy IV) and Pucker Punch (Street Fighter, Karin/Sakura). It’s weird…I was told by one reader that Dark Wave sounded like a good intro to a longer story. I responded by saying I’d think about doing it, but I didn’t know where to start. It’s also been a while since I’ve added to my Karin/Sakura story, so I wrote Pucker Punch in hopes of getting something jump-started in my brain.

Never Lonely, not dead yet

WillyFourEyes — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:59:26 +0000

Yes, I still am working on that Sakura/Karin fic I started at the non-hyphenated 30kisses LiveJournal community a while ago, but I’ve since moved on to make it an independent story. Some chapters will still be posted in bits and pieces of about 2,000 words, but this will get done…definitely not this year, but it’ll happen. Anyway, time to pimp out the usual sites for reading Chapter 2, Part 1 of “It’s Never Lonely at the Top“:

My website (Red Mage Needs Food Badly)
FanFiction.net
MediaMiner.org

Down for the count

WillyFourEyes — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:37:30 +0000

Well, it looks like I’ve been trying way too hard with my Sakura/Karin regular-length story, It’s Never Lonely at the Top, so I’ve pretty much cancelled my work on it. I wanted to make it into an actual novel-length story, but the muse just isn’t coming to me. Maybe I’ll have better luck writing something for it outside of the confine of a LiveJournal list. Indeed, I’ll actually start working on that, plus another (shorter) Mai/Natsuki story soon.

Mall is well

WillyFourEyes — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:44:51 +0000

How weird. I was expecting there to be a really big downpour this afternoon, but I managed to get to the mall and back within two hours before anything bad happened. It’s still pretty cloudy outside, but there hasn’t been much rain yet here.

From today’s excursion, I managed to salvage Mai-HiME Vol. 6, Mai-Otome Vol. 3, and box sets for Full Metal Panic! and Gunslinger Girl. Suffice to say my DVD player will be very busy this week. In hindsight, I probably could have saved myself money by grabbing the Gunslinger Girl episodes individually from iTunes…they only cost $2 there. They’d probably be gone within a few months, though, so I think getting the actual DVDs might be better for me in the long run.

On the literature side, I got the Azumanga Daioh omnibus, which packs all four volumes of the manga into one gigantic 600+ book. It’s drawn in yonkoma (four-cell comic) format, which should still make it an easy read. Along with that, I also picked up Ouran High School Host Club Vol. 4 (in anticipation of Friday’s announcement of the anime version’s release) and Chibi Vampire Vol. 2 (while simultaneously lamenting Geneon’s collapse, which left the anime version of Karin unfinished). No boredom for me this week, no, sir!

Cutting it close

WillyFourEyes — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:03:44 +0000

Oh, man. I was two days away from missing the deadline for my Sakura/Karin claim at the 30kisses Livejournal community (the one without the underscore). I know I’m supposed to post an entry there at least once a month, but I’ve fallen behind on it due to my other projects. I don’t know whether or not anyone’s clamoring for the particular pairing I’ve written for, but I knew I had to post something in order to prevent myself from losing it.

In case you’re wondering, the piece I added is the third and final part to the first chapter of the story. Copies are available at this website, LiveJournal, Fanfiction.net, and Mediaminer.org. You might want to read the previous entries (there are only three so far), but it’ll surely make a little more sense if you do. Good night, everybody!

It’s nice, but…

WillyFourEyes — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:20:36 +0000

We’ve reached short-sleeve weather in the Philadelphia area, if only temporarily. So, what the heck am I still doing inside? Continuing my claim for 30kisses on LJ, that’s what. If I had waited five more days before posting it, I’d lose out on an opportunity to provide the world with more Sakura/Karin goodness. Anyway, this makes 3 entries out of the 30 I’ve claimed for that pairing. This new entry is actually a continuation of Chapter 1, so readers can pick up and go where they left off. I’d better be more careful about this in the future. If it looks like I’m slacking off a bit, slap me in the face or something.

Anyway, here are ze links:

It’s Never Lonely at the Top, Chapter 1 (part 2) at this website, FanFiction.net, Mediaminer.org, and LiveJournal

Have a good weekend!

EDIT: The original version of this post linked to an HTML page that no longer exists on the server. The link has been changed to a place in the “Fiction” section of the blog.

I’ve got the creative spirit…do you?

WillyFourEyes — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:04:50 +0000

A new entry for my “other” project, It’s Never Lonely at the Top, is now available online. This chapter isn’t really racy, but that shouldn’t really matter. We’re only two entries in so far, anyway, and the fun of making a relationship work is the build-up, correct? Anyway, I think I’ll be most comfortable sticking to a biweekly schedule with this story, and we’ll see how well that works out.

LINKS:
Chapter 1A of “Never Lonely” at 30kisses
Chapter 1A of “Never Lonely” at MediaMiner
Chapter 1A of “Never Lonely” at FanFiction.net

EDIT: The original version of this post linked to an HTML page that no longer exists on the server. The link has been changed to a place in the “Fiction” section of the blog.