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.

 

Update.

I tossed up more posts on Order and Chaos 8 and Bet 3.

 

Still working on my NaNoWriMo story. It's going pretty well, you can check the meter to the right and hopefully it's working now.

 

More tomorrow. I'm going to bed.

Ok so I changed my mind.

It's like this. I went over and read some of the stuff about National Novel Writing Month. It didn't say anything about the stuff being good. So I'm doing it. I signed up and everything. New Moon is at 12,326 words even if the gadget says different. It worked before damn it.

 

I'm about to post a new part to Chaos and Order and Bet is at part two now.

TAG started a brainstorming thread. Some very useful ideas in there but I would never snatch any of these great ideas that have been so innocently put out there ... mine, get your own.

 

Doggieboy is melting my brain again with Apocalyptic Daria: Scarlett's tale. Someone go pitchfork him to speed things up a bit.

Well time to write a bit, hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend.

 

The end is nigh.

I managed to get a couple of posts up for Order and Chaos and I wrapped up Babysitting.

I have to admit I like the concept of Quinn and Daria having to deal with a child. I might try a story like it with a more canon take on the characters having to deal with the same, Wham, you have a baby. Can't you just see Sandi complaining that Quinn's baby didn't go with her outfit or Jane offering to paint the baby or complaining that Daria never cared about paint fumes before.

 

Got another story in the works called Bet. It's still at the outline stage but it's going to get at least a three parter.

I started the novel for National Novel Writing Month. At this rate I should be able to get it done in time, of course now that I dared to say that something is going to happen to prevent me from finishing in time. I did through some ... lets just say friends of mine  in it. And it's not fanfiction, this might be a very bad sign.

If you haven't been by PPMB lately then you really need to. Kristen Bealer just wrapped up Blood, sweat  and Cheers and RLobinske is working on John Lane 35. Also Roentgen and Brother Grimace are doing Erebus and some new guys, SoCalledGoodGuy and Disco316 are adding to the pile of good stuff to read.

 

I tried to do some artwork for TAG of Halloween but I stink way to much so it ended up really bad. I'll try again another time.

 

Hope everyone had a good weekend. If not don't worry, there's another one coming in just a few days.

I'm doing it dammit.

That's right, I'm hitting the biggest crossover (somewhat) in fanfiction. Order and Chaos is started.

I'm hoping to write a few parts for it tomorrow and maybe a part for Babysitting.

 

I'm feeling a little restless and I might try my hand at the National Novel Writing Month. Realistically I'm not going to enter the contest but I am going to try to write a 50 thousand word novel in a month. Once I figure out a concept I'll post info about it here.

Hope everyone had a good time this Halloween.

Trick or Treat II

Has begun.

 

Now a few words from our sponsor and national icon.

"Great, why is it anybody who throws a vampire or whatever in a story thinks it scary. Let me tell you want I think of that .. ."

 

Well seeing as she looks really busy at the moment, I think we'll skip that part.

Couple of things going on over at PPMB and TAG is covering all the angles this Halloween.

I wrapped up Ashes and Kisses and posted another part to Babysitting. (And of course the first of my Halloween tales.)

 

"Not one of them takes place on Halloween yet, you poser."

 

Don't mind her, she's just a little grumpy at the moment. Something about a shortage of eggs.

 

"Bite me."

 

Anyway ... hope everyone has a great Halloween.

 

"Jerk and it's Happy Halloween!"'