Beware: The Chibis Have Taken Control!

R-chan: *whines* This is hard.

Tasuki: *twitch* Actually, I think the problem is that it's not.

Nuriko: *groans* *slaps hand to forehead*

R-chan: *blush*

*throws hands up in the air in frustration* How the hell do you get two characters to stop talking and start doing something interesting without it seeming contrived? This feels entirely too fake. *grumbles* And I think I've read it before. Damn it. *kicks story*

*wanders off muttering about having boredom-fried her brain during observations today*

Doesn't help that I have to leave to go to class in like... 30 minutes, either. *sigh* I don't write well under time pressure... last year's NaNoWriMo excepted.

In other news: I want Prometheus Bound icons. That is all. ^_^

So... I was really in the mood to sew tonight. I have a patchwork corduroy skirt that I've been working on forever (that wouldn't actually take me so long to finish if I actually sat down and did it), that I'd actually like to get done sometime before the winter is over. As it is, my waist has decreased an inch or three since I initially measured myself for it and I'm not sure where that's going to leave me when all is said and done. *twitch* Anyway, I finally sat down and starting piecing together the last of my patches so I could trim the seams, repin them and finish the other half of the French seams. And on my third to last row... I broke the needle on my sewing machine.

D:

Noooooooooooooo.

Damn. It.

Of course, Brother doesn't answer their phones at 8:30 PM on a Sunday night (though, goodness knows why, right?) and I'm sure no one's going to be in tomorrow because it's President's day.

Double damn it.

And what's more, I'm sure it can't be that hard to swap out the needle on a sewing machine. In fact, my Uncle probably even knows how to do it... it's just that I'm too embarrassed that I broke it in the first place to even ask him. >.<;;;

So, now I find myself in this quandary of wanting to engage in a creative pursuit and being denied my first choice. I'd like to give my hands a break from knitting because I'm getting some mild finger cramps, so that's out. I wouldn't mind writing, but my mind has been in a constant state of flub this month and on top of that I'm having fandom ADD. Not. Good. :-P

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions of any kind? Is it cheating to use a 15_minute_fic word when I'm the mod who's been posting them this month? ^_^ Maybe it's time to try out my favorite song meme, again...

Nuriko: *growls* Or you could just, you know... work on Part 5 like you started to do last week.

R-chan: *ponders* Noooooo... I don't think I want to do that.

Nuriko: *fumes*

Claude: *scowls*

Tasuki: *twitches at Claude* What the hell's your problem, anyway? You might actually get sex sometime this millenium.

Claude: At the rate she's going and where she left me stalled in the two Hair fics she's "working" on? Not likely.

Nuriko: *walks over and slumps down next to Claude* Join the club, pal.

Claude: F. M. L.

Georgie and Kelly: *startled* *twitch* *snerts* *in unison* OMG, Uncle Claude that was fucking awesome! *giggle madly*

Claude: *sigh*

O_O Yeah... I'm pretty sure this had no point. Movingonnow. Later!

Edit -- 9:37 PM -- *scowls at Nuriko* You win.

Nuriko: O_O Really?

R-chan: *sigh* Really. You and Tasuki may even see a little action in this chapter if I can maintain motivation long enough to get you there.

Nuriko: *fistpump* YES!!! :D :D

*heavy sigh* Oh, thank goodness. We finally got past the truly horrendous part. Some of the part I'm at now is actually usable. Needs to be tweaked... but it's usable. *thud* O_O

10157 / 14017 words. 72% done!

Taking a break to go run errands, then will try to do more later. :-P

10:07 PM --
Tackling this monster again. Only 4 pages left to go through and a decent amount of the last two pages was actually salvageable! ^_^

11401 / 14400 words. 79% done!

10:50 PM --
So close... Can almost taste it... O_o;;;

13113 / 14777 words. 89% done!

11:26 PM --
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...

14766 / 15125 words. 98% done!

11:36 PM --
Oh, thank G-d. It's done. O_O I'm shipping this damned thing off to the beta-reader before it rots my brain. :-P

15279 / 15279 words. 100% done!

And after two days of steady rain, my head has so had enough. O_O Please to make it stop, now? *wince*

In other brain-hurting news, still plugging away at the rewrite of Chapter 4 of OB... O. M. G. It's... it's just bad. *cries a little* I keep having to stop and pull up a Hair fic to reassure myself that I actually do kind of know what I'm doing. You sure as hell couldn't tell from the non-quality of writing I did in this damned thing. How did it get any fans again? *falls over*

Word count check:

7157 / 13293 words. 54% done!

Oh... thank goodness. We've gotten over the halfway hump. O_O That's a relief. Now if I can find more than two sentences in a row that are worth keeping, I'll be happy. Tearing entire page-long chunks out of a fic and writing them from scratch is getting awfully tiring. :-P

And I leave you with this segment from an interview that Gavin Creel did for Oasis Journals the day before leaving for London, because I have so much love for this quote and it makes me want to fic!

"Even anytime you and Will would be next to each other onstage, just looking at each other, you just felt that these guys have been friends all their lives for some reason."

"Oh, I love that. I love that! I was so worried about that, because I actually saw the show and I was like, 'God, did I invent that relationship?' Because, to me, it's the most important thing. But when you step outside of it, you think, does the audience even see this?

"So, I'm glad you said that. Berger, to me, and Will specifically, is just the most important on that stage for me. I mean, they're all important, but I'm kind of nothing without him. It's an amazing relationship."

So much love! *ponders* Maybe I'll put OB back down and churn out a little Hair fluff...

Update, 11:02 PM --

8203 / 13556 words. 61% done!

2 more pages... and I can't do anymore. O_O I need a break, but at least I got a decent chunk done, right? O_O *wanders off to see if she's awake enough to write some Hair fluff*

So, I just realized that it's been a while since I did a weight loss update. So, here goes. *sigh* While my body seems to be readjusting itself to fit into smaller and smaller clothing (size 14 jeans and fairly consistently in size L -- and one or two size M!! -- shirts), my weight loss itself has been fluctuating like a mad bitch. O_O Up 0.6 one week... then again the next week. Then down 1.4... then back up another 1.2, then down 1.6. It's driving me absolutely batty, let me tell you. *sweatdrop* At least most of the "bad" weeks I could figure out what I did wrong. And since this week now marks the second loss in a row, ( TMI below the cut ) hopefully I'm back on track now. ^_^

For the record, because the total still impresses me... 31.8 lbs. gone. Hopefully never to return. *beams* Thankyouverymuch. *mutters* Now if I don't screw it all up between next week's trip to Delaware and the Passover seder after that... I'll be immensely impressed. @_@

In other news? Very sad that the original new cast of Hair is officially gone. *sobs* I wish them all the best in London, I really do... but I can't afford to go there to see them. ;_; This makes me sad. As a result, I may take a bit of a break before starting the next Hair fic and do something totally different, like... work on OB. I think I've put off tackling that damned fourth chapter long enough, don't you? O_O

Oh, and for those of you who don't read my ff.net page (who could blame you? O_o;;;), I'm going to send the general plea out here, too. "A Rose by Any Other Name," the sequel to "Forget Me Not," is done. But I'm so sick of looking at the damned thing that I can't even begin to beta it myself... and having been written over a span of 10-11 years, it desperately needs a beta to check for continuity. And since my beloved beta for my PR fics is very deeply immersed in her own life at the moment and I really don't want to harass her... that means I need to find someone else to do it. If you're willing, or know someone who is, please e-mail me or leave a comment and let me know. Thanks! ^_^

Just keeping track of progress. I'd like to finish this chapter before New Years. ^_^ I think it's doable. *opens up MS Word and goes back to plugging away at Chapter 3*

On another note, it amazes me that I'm just over halfway through this thing and it's already almost 7000 words longer than it was when I started. O_o;;;

11619 / 16647 words. 70% done!

5:15 PM -- Making progress, slowly but surely. I finally got to rework that ridiculous scene where Nuriko gets beat up by the lords of the Court when they return from Taiitsu-kun's place. That scene has always bothered me, because even if Nuriko were distraught, if he'd even flung out an arm, he could have taken out half the people attacking him. O_o;;; Of course, the only obvious answers were to remove the scene entirely... or to have it happen because Nuriko decided that he deserved it and didn't want to fight back. Eh-heh... Gomen ne, Nuriko... I was supposed to be removing angst, wasn't I?

13579 / 17678 words. 77% done!

Oh my G-d, Oh my G-d. *flails* *flubs* The next section has an "Arigato gozaimus" and a "Daijabou". *wince* For goodness sake, they're not even spelled right! *falls over* May G-d save me from fangirl Japanese. I knew not what I was doing. -.-;;;

Just a quick update, because I'm impressed that I'm maintaining this level of inspiration. ^_~ The remaining 2 1/3 pages of the old Chapter 2 are now rewritten... 8 pages later. O_o;;; Good grief. I've gotten wordy in my old age. *sheepish grin*

Original number of words to be rewritten in the combined end of Chapter 2 + Chapter 3: 9,960
Total written for today: 1,436

6049 / 13936 words. 43% done!

And the night is still young. ^_^ I'll update you again if I write more later. Just gonna take a break to get a snack and put on warmer socks. *waves*

Tee-hee. ^_^ Now that ARBAON is packaged off to the beta and I can't do another thing with it until I get it back (which won't be for a while), I have turned to other projects. Two scenes, and nearly 2000 words, into Chapter 3 (which is actually the last 1/3 of the original chapter 2 + chapter 3) and I realized something rather funny. So far, I have kept nothing of this original section. O_o;;; In the first two chapters, there were parts I rewrote completely, parts I left alone completely, and parts that I mixed old and new... but I don't think there were any spots that I had completely scrapped 2 1/2 pages and rewritten them. *laughs* Then again... of all the parts of OB I had written before, this entire section (the first trip to Taiitsukun's) was one that I liked the least. One might even say I hated it. It was not good writing, it was very choppy and I didn't take the time I should have to try to fix it. Hopefully this will come out better. ^_^

*waves* Ja ne!

((Actual word count to be posted when I'm actually done working for the night.))

Eiji: You know... I don't know whether to be grateful or insulted that rewatching PoT is making her fic for FY. Didn't she owe us a sequel?

Oishi: Well, Eiji, whether she did or not... I think the answer is that you should be grateful. I hear that Nuriko's already started therapy again.

Fuji: *nodnod* It really is pathetic. I almost feel bad for the man. He was walking around earlier mumbling in disbelief, "Miaka is a yaoi fangirl? Not that it doesn't make things easier, but really... What the hell? Where was that written in the manga?" I was torn between giggling at him and pinching his cheeks for being so cute.

Eiji: *sweatdrop* Perhaps we should introduce her to Emi and Noriko?

Oishi: *blush*

Inui: *eg* Ii data...

Oishi: And where the hell did you come from?

Eiji: *impishly* Perhaps from the icon one entry down?

Fuji: *sagely* Inui is everywhere...

Started plodding away again. ^_^ Word counts as I go! For the record, the initial word count on Chapter 2 was 10811. ^_^

11:14 PM -- Risking staying up late, because I just got brand-new blackout curtains. Hopefully I won't be up at 5:30 AM tomorrow morning! ^_^

5153 / 13050 words. 39% done!

June 2, 2009

12:09 AM -- Eh-heh... got distracted by Star Trek ficcage and Kaulitz-twins picspam... Sorry. ^_^

5270 / 13171 words. 40% done!

And it's that time again. O_o;;; For some G-d forsaken reason, I've decided I'm ready to tackle Chapter 2.

OK, the reality? My week has really sucked, then someone wrote me fanmail. *dimples* Reminded me that yes, I do indeed have 7 other chapters to rewrite... *cries* ...and I should get a move on.

*cracks knuckles* So... here we go. Original word count on Chapter 2 is 10822. One word into the first scene and I realized... it's all gotta go. The whole damned scene. *boggles* The basic plot structure can stand, but not one bit of the actual wordage can remain. Dear Lord, I hope the rest of this thing isn't that bad...

11:42 PM -- And away we go!

675 / 11201 words. 6% done!

12:29 AM -- Hellfire, Mother Night and may the Darkness be merciful! I found almost two whole sentences that I could use! @_@;;;

1622 / 11786 words. 14% done!

12:59 AM -- First scene done. *falls over* That was... really almost tragic. :-P And now, I'm tired and I can't do any more tonight. *sigh* 'Til tomorrow!

2187 / 12050 words. 18% done!