Expecting Trouble is going to an end.

I’m working on the last part to Expecting Trouble right now in fact. I took a break when my keyboard melted from the heat. Days like this are why I hate living in Florida.

Did get a chance to catch up a little on PPMB, now I’m only two or three weeks behind.  I did notice that Doggieboy posted another part to Scarlett’s Tale. I’m a sucker for all his Apocalyptic Daria tales.

I have to mention the funest Daria tale I read in a while. Don’t Wound What You Can’t Kill. I loved it. It’s by thatLONERchick. It’s out on PPMB or FanFiction.net.

 

I’ve got to figure out what I’m going to do after I finish Expecting Trouble. Should I go real world like Expecting Trouble or something more flashy like some of my other stories. (On the Clock, Of Metal and Men, Avalon etc etc.) Maybe both. Ummmmm.

 

I’ll have to think about it for awhile.

Been Another While

Well I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off but I finally managed to post an update to Expecting Trouble.

Also in case anyone is interested I’m posting a Neon Genesis Evangelion story over on FanFiction.Net. Balanced Returned. It’s not to bad.

Well another day of beautiful weather down here in Florida. For a duck maybe.

Now I’ve got to go get caught up on the posts over at PPMB so have fun.

Been Awhile

Welcome to another wonderful week.

It’s been awhile since I posted and I’m pretty sure there are hordes of people who have been crying their eyes out over that. Ok maybe two.

one?

Anyway. I’m running a few stories over at PPMB at the moment.

On the Clock is a Watchman style superhero tale. Mostly about Quinn joining a superhero team setup by Daria after years of being a Punisher/Rorschach type. Part 4 is up currently. I think there is going to be six parts in total.

Complications is a take off on the events of My Night at Daria’s with one tiny little change. (Sorry Tom)  It’s on part 8 of ten at most.

Expecting Trouble, this is a little angst fest that hopefully is going to stir up some trouble. Quinn is knocked up at fifteen. She’s keeping the baby and the whole town is about to offer up a piece of their minds. Part 3 is the current.

Lots of good stuff out there on PPMB. Doggieboy is running Things Fall Apart so that’s worth a stop over there just for that.

Turnabout Confusion seems to be heading for a grand finale after going for what? Over a year I think. I’m going to miss that one when it’s done.

I’m doing Script Frenzy this month and with half the month gone I haven’t made much progress. The format is taking some adjusting to get use to it.

Everybody take it easy and have a good week.

The Horror oh the horror!

I decided to replace my three year old frankstein computer and just as I was doing so, my "never going to die" hard drive did just that. 300 gigs of data gone in a blink. Now I had a backup program that I had free access to for awhile and all the data is safely backed up but it apparently uses parity to increase compression time. So I've spent the last two weeks trying to decompress and piece together file chunks to rebuild things like oh lets say ... all the freaking Daria episodes. I went insane three days ago by the way. That plus a few people I work with have granted me access to their music and movie files to give me something to run on for awhile.

 

But I digress, I managed to update Complications and Other Side finally.  Lots of great stuff being posted so I've got to catch up on my reading now as well.

Still waiting for the booties announcement.

 

Hope everyone is having a better week than I am but hey here's some motivational messages that work for me.

"Smile, it's going to get worse."

"Just keep telling yourself that you're a bad person and you deserve this."

"Someday you will tell people that these were the good old days."

"The wheel turns, it just never feels like it when it's on top of you."

Not really a reason.

Ok so I have this thing. Lets call it an internal alarm clock. Every morning I wake up before whatever time my alarm clock is set for. It usually or rather used to be about fifteen minutes. Now it's exactly an hour. Understandably this is a good thing in that I don't ever over sleep but it leaves me with an extra hour that I'm to out of it to write, work or do anything. Needless to say it's driving me crazy.

But that's not why I'm posting. I'm posting about the booties. Last year I got a lot of noms and didn't win anything. This year same thing and lets be honest. Kristen Bealer is going to have to kick her cat out of it's bedroom for all the booties she's going to get. I went through the list and could only find three that even I could bring myself to vote for my stuff. Sorry I really like Avalon and An Overlooked Flaw. Those are the ones I bore the people at my work with despite the fact that half those people don't even know who Daria is. I'm working on it but they're really slow to see the greatness of the show. Only a few people have changed jobs to get away from these talks so I'm still trying.

So once again I'm expecting not to win but, that's not the point either. Kristen deserves to rest in the knowledge that she was overwhelmed with votes and that means you need to get off your collective butts and vote.

NOW

Don't sit there and think you have plenty of time because you don't, you really don't. Go vote.

 

My predications are Kristen Bealer ruling the world with a chocolate covered fist. Doggieboy and NightGoblyn smashing down a few innocent villages themselves.

And of course if anyone wants to throw me a few sympathy votes while ensuring that Kristen, Doggieboy and NightGoblyn get their just due feel free. It'll be just between us. Besides it's my birthday (Jan 31) and wouldn't a bootie look cool next to a cake.

 

Go Vote or squirrels will eat your toes!

I've been busy

I haven't posted in a bit because I've actually had a few things to do. I also see that there is a lot of great activity over on PPMB and of course Daria Fandom Blog II.

I got an update to Order and Chaos up and posted. I ended the series there because I'm not really wanting to do an outright war fic at the moment and that's where it would go next.

The Other Side will be getting an update later tonight and I'm probably going to be starting a new fic tomorrow. I'm not going to let out any information but it's going to be fun.

TAG asked a question about improving the fandom so if anyone has any suggestions that don't include getting rid of me then click on the link over on the right and give them to him.

Income tax refund should be here next weekend so I doubt I'll have any chance to write for at least a week afterwards.

Doggieboy posted an update to his Apocalyptic Daria: Scarlett's Tale.  Go read it, nuff said.

Good Evening.

It's been another wonderful week in the amazing adventures of ... Ok that just sucked.  Actually hasn't been to bad of a week though. Couple of great stories being posted over at PPMB. People like undefinedlust, Disco316, Dark Kuno, Gene and a few others are posting up a storm. Great stuff too.

I finally started my SteamPunk story Other Side and the next part is finally going to get Steamy. Hope (One of the characters, check out TAG's character project, Chipmunk to see what she looks like.) Is going to take Daria and Jane on a tour.

Order and Chaos is working toward an ending I think. I'll let you know in two or so parts.

 

I've been sort of busy lately, starting out the new year and all that same old tired excuses. I'm looking out over the year and hoping to get a chance to do a couple of stories.

Number one is to try a completely Canon based story, nothing extra. Something that could in theory be added to Canon without any change in the existing story but at the same time be mind blowing. I'm hoping to base it off one particular scene in Lab Brat.

Number two is a look at Tiffany and what the concept of being Fat means in some cultures.

 

Hope everyone had a good weekend and has a good week.

And it's a new year. Hello 2009.

Another year gone by in the blink of an eye.

I posted some updates and actually think I might have stunned some people with the current part to Arrival. No death threats yet but I'm sure they're in the mail. The next part to Order and Chaos will have some fireworks. Daddy isn't going to be pleased to find out what his little girl's have been up to.

You HAVE to go over to the Daria Fandom Blog II and check out TAG's current project with a few others. I already have an idea to use one of the characters in my Steampunk story that should be starting soon.

Hey what happened to TAG doing interviews of some of the people in the Fandom, I really liked those. I was hoping he'd do Brother Grimace or Doggieboy and NightGoblyn. Maybe I should start a web petition to try to convince him to restart them. Now where did I put those pictures of the blonde penguins.

 

Lesser non important news.

Anyway. I actually started selling a few copies of New Moon. Why didn't someone tell me there was this book by a really popular (currently) author out there with the same name. I had to find out from a twelve year old. Anyway I'm currently in hiding from the people that have bought copies. Remember I live in the midwest, in a shack, in the middle of a federally owned wildlife reserve. You can't get here, so don't try. Don't believe fictitious reports of me living elsewhere. They're lies, lies I tell you.

It's over at last.

Sorry but I'm happy that the holidays are over, now I just have to start worrying about normal stuff.

I posted some updates and hope to get some more done later or tomorrow. I finally figured out what my Steampunk Daria story is going to be about. Of course it won't go steamy until the third part but still it's going to be pretty cool.

Order and Chaos is up to part 16 and Arrival is at part 5

I also did a oneshot for Christmas called Murphy's Christmas. I'm not going to say where but there's this link over to the right.

Did anyone else get a tiny shiver when reading Quinn: Quinndy-Lou Who. Knowing this is part of the prequel to the HD series. It just seems like I got the tiny foreshadowing of Jane/Daria but I can't figure out what seemed to imply that. It really showed off why neither daughter likes Helen much. I was sort of wondering about Amy and Daria's relationship in the HD verse and this answered that with a really loud bang.

 

 

 

Alright, I wasn't going to mention it but I have to. I did the NaNoWriMo and finished it up. (In case you missed that fact.) One of the prizes/awards (whatever) was getting it set up on Createspace with a free proof copy.

So I did. It's up there now but I'll be honest. This is actually the last story I would have intended to publish. Even this kind of publishing.

Also they make the price way to high. If anyone is really bored and has absolutely nothing else to read. I mean nothing, I'm talking you've already reread the boxes of dry goods in your pantry. You can check it out here.

https://www.createspace.com/Customer/EStore.do?id=3361688

I'm back!

Two weeks without writing was hell but I'm back in action. Takes a bit longer to write something but I managed to get some updates to both Order and Chaos and Arrival posted up on PPMB.

Lots of great stuff being posted by a lot of new people.

Disco316, ninetwelve, Roxanne M, NapalmKracken, Dark Kuno to name a few.

It's great getting all sorts of different takes. I'm the kind of person who like staring at every single facet of a crystal to see what changes. I won't be happy until every single possible variation on the Daria mythos has been explored in detail.

 

Back to the keyboard.

 

Hope everyone has/had a good weekend.

 

PS- Voice software might have come in handy but the text might end up looking like one of the kids TV shows.

Just checking in.

I'm going even more nuts than I was already. Not being able to type is terrible. I see that several people have been posting some great stuff to PPMB.

Hopefully I'll be back writing after I get to switch over to the smaller bandage this weekend. The one without metal in it.

Not exactly a public service announcement

I managed to get my little DAYLIGHT and Tales of the Ringbearers blurbs going and had just named my LATIFA story. Then I was called briefly away from the computer and broke two fingers in my left hand. The ring and middle fingers and I'm left handed to boot. There goes typing for awhile.

(I'm currently typing this one handed and I can confirm I am not ambidextrous.)

Going to be a few days off.

I'm sure Doggieboy will fill the gaps with updates to his work.

Countdown

I realized a little while ago that there was only 31 more days left in 2008. I can't believe how fast this year has seemed to go by.

Didn't manage to get much writing done this weekend. A bit but nothing to post up yet.

So not much to chat about but hopefully I'll get some writing done during the week. I did figure out where I might be heading with the SteamPunk Daria story I'm looking at. Can't tell you yet but it's coming. sooner or later it's coming.

Have a good week everybody and don't let the shoppers get you. I hear they can smell fear from a block away.

One more Holiday down.

Thanksgiving is over. No serious injuries so all an all not a bad holiday.

I finished up Bet and posted more parts to Arrival and Order and Chaos.

There's this great little tale called Welcome Back over on the PPMB that I'm digging just a bit.

 

Some people are looking and talking about SteamPunk for Daria, the whole concept just screams Daria to me. I can just see Daria in the workers boots and khaki pants with that square lantern on a belt. Smudges of grease on her shirt and face. Oversized wrench as she puts something together. What's funny is I just saw  a SteamPunk movie. The Mutant Chronicles. I didn't even know it was supposed to be SteamPunk until I saw the airship with coal burners.

I'm taking some notes down for both a Daylight and Tales of the Ringbearers story. The Daylight one is going to be set in Desperate Seasons and the Ringbearers tale will take place on world being overrun with Left 4 Dead zombies.

After them I am doing a SteamPunk Daria story dammit. I don't care I need to write one of those.

I'm also looking at an idea for LATIFA. Really sketchy in my head right now but I think it's going to have something to do with Daria, Quinn, Jane and Tom are the reincarnations of aliens born into human form.

 

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

 

Oh and now that the holiday is over we can go back to harassing Doggieboy for more of his Apocalyptic Daria stories. Brave New World and Scarlett's Tale.

Release the hounds!

One down, forty thousand or so to go.

Look I know it's a tiny thing but it's a biggee for me. I'll just be over here looking unexplainably happy.

I have to say that NaNoWriMo has been one of the cooler things I've done in a while.

I have to go brag to some other people now.

 

Have a good day.

I don't have a cake to send.

I hear it's birthday party time over at the Daria Fandom Blog II. I'm sure I just misplaced my invitation somewhere. Well anyway.

Happy Birthday. I was going to look for a picture of a cake or something but that might have meant work.

Oh what the hey.

 

I did manage to get an a post for Bet up and it's got one more part to go. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Go check out the Lovestruck Atomic Teenage Invaders From Mars pages. All the cool fanfiction writers are doing it. You want to be cool don't you?

 

Oh and I just finished up my NaNoWriMo at over 66k. It's been one hell of a ride.

Real Life is storming the beaches

Managed to get an update to Order and Chaos up and I hope to get one for Bet tomorrow. Damn real life is getting in the way.

Just a second.

Sorry for the delay. A division of what changes are you going to make to your insurance this year were storming the fences. A platoon of Daddy everyone is going to see Twilight took out my command center earlier today.

 

I'm up to 65k on my NaNoWriMo story and I'm looking forward to Script Frenzy in April. That's a completely new medium for me to try.

 

I see TAG is gearing up for Lovestruck Atomic Teenage Invaders From Mars.

Only bad thing is I sat down to write something up in this verse and drew a complete blank. Now normally I can come up with something under any circumstances so this is unsettling to say the least. Hopefully some people will throw out some stories and I'll get inspired.

 

More tomorrow.

50,000 and beyond!

Sorry but I'm overjoyed. I just wrote 50k words in less than a month and I didn't even have to take a day off work or duct tape any of my kids to a wall.

The 2nd to the 15th. Wow, sorry but that impresses the hell out of myself but that's not really that hard to do.

 

Anyway I'm going to go bask in the wonder that is me. I do need a new keyboard now. I think I killed this one.

Oh in real news that actually matters.

The Sidhe and RLobinske both just posted stories to PPMB.

Go check out Daylight: Recruitment Day and The Other Side of Time: Unfinished Business.

Unless you're so full of good writing that more great writing just doesn't matter to you anymore.

It's Saturday!

Ok I couldn't come up with anything snappy for a title.

I posted up new parts to Bet and Order and Chaos last night.

Bet actually surprised me, it's the first story where I've made a major plot change to the background on purpose. But I did it and I'm keeping it. Maybe I'll kill someone extra off in another story.

Lots of good stuff being tossed up on PPMB lately. Go read some of it.

Brother Grimace is proving how cruel a person can be by posting tidbits of his not yet posted stories on the Dariawiki. There's something wrong with that.

 

I'm trying to hit the 50k mark on my namowrimo story and it's been fun. I think I might hit 55 to 60k total before I start going back and trying to add something that resembles descriptive text. It's actually sort of fun. After it's done I might post it somewhere for people to shred into tiny little pieces. But that's the best part.

More later in the weekend. Have fun.

Once again it's Sunday.

Another weekend goes by and I think I'm only two or three days further behind that I was when it started.

I did manage to get a couple of posts up and I'm up to 25000+ on my NaNoWriMo story New Moon.

Couple of stories active over on PPMB and I have to recommend going over there and reading them. Of course no surprise Doggieboy has a heavy hitter running the bases already. The newest Apocalyptic Daria: Scarlett's Tale is killer.

Remember to check out Order and Chaos and Bet after you're done reading his stuff.

Just for fun I'm going to show off some of my sketches. I've been trying to capture a few scenes and I just can't seem to get them right.

 

I'm not saying what characters they were supposed to be because then my shame becomes even greater but they aren't bad enough to blind anyone.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.