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There's this tumblr page I follow - imagineyourotp - that posts little shippy prompts. A recent one made me think of a fic of mine that's been stuck in limbo for I won't say how long, so I posted a snippet.

I just got this in my Ask:

You wrote that "imagine your OTP" Royed thing about Ed being in a coma? OMG. If you finish it, maybe you could have Roy finally give in and kiss Ed and Ed wakes up because he got put in a coma by some sort of alchemy that works as a Sleeping Beauty sort of deal, and omg I can't believe I just wrote that. This is what my OTP does to me. They make me actually like terrible romantic clichés.

XD That sort of begs to be written, doesn't it? Problem is, crack really isn't my forté and the fic itself already has a planned ending. So does anyone want this? Please? I'd love to see it written!

For those who didn't see my sudden bitch-out on Twitter/Facebook last night: I thought I was done with the next chapter. I'd even compiled it and exported it to RTF for beta'ing. But when I glanced through the RTF document, none of the rewrites I'd done in the last few days were there. So I looked back in Scrivener, and - gone. Vanished. It's like nothing I'd typed had registered. It's basically back to the rough-draft word-vomit stage. I've never had it do this before so I have no idea if the problem is my computer or the Scrivener application itself. Scrivener is usually really, really good about saving. But all of it got switched off last night just in case. We'll see. But I can't really deal with this until maybe Tuesday.

I'm really sorry about this, but I've hit a rough patch that is making it hard to write :(. Be assured that nothing has been abandoned. I'll get back onto things as soon as I'm sure it won't mean sub-standard work, I promise!

Rewrites partly done. I will want to run these through a beta, if anyone's up for it. A good harsh beta, preferably.

And on that note:

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

"Feedback" means tear into it. You can post anonymous.

And a bit lighter:
Name one of my fics in comments (or a scene from one of them) and I will (try to) tell you what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the characters' heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

(The challenge will be to see if I remember.)

Good news for writers, Scrivener for Windows is coming! This is an excellent writing program and I've raved about it before so I won't repeat myself, but up to now its main drawback has been that it's Mac only. The folks at Literature and Latte have been working hard at changing that and they're almost ready to go into beta!

Seriously, ficcers, give this program a look. It's not that expensive (much cheaper than Word!) and it was designed by a writer to work the way writers think. Personally, I adore it.

(Okay, I'm done gushing now.)

My urge to write manga-fic seems to have been smothered. I'm assuming it won't last, but .. interesting.

Yeah, so, back to the first anime.

I'm tempted to join Facebook just to be able to join the Respect my Privacy Facebook group.

Seriously though, convince me here: what would be the advantages of having a Facebook account? It still strikes me as kinda redundant, but it comes up so much I'm starting to wonder. Do I need yet one more social networking site y/n?

Other than that, I haven't really been able to sit down at the computer for more than 10 minutes at a time since last week. I've got a fic backlog (again), not to mention the half-edited chapter sitting open in Scrivener. But hopefully this won't last long. But on the down side, then I'll have no money again :P.

We have bright shiny new double-paned argon windows! Unfortunately the clearing/installation/cleanup has pretty much eaten up both yesterday and today (as well as several hours earlier in the week) and my computer time has been limited. Yesterday my computer was off and pulled away from the wall for the whole morning and well into the afternoon, until I finally got to where I could shove the furniture back into position.

Of course this all means I didn't really get any writing done ^^;. But! I'm into the rewriting now.

I did get a start on the postcard which is my other obligation for help_haiti. That's going to have to go slowly, though.
(Zakai, I am working on that other picture, too, I haven't forgotten it! It's just, well, going to go slow.)

All right, my computer has issues whenever it's turned off for an extended period of time (it seems happiest when I leave it on for days and days, go fig) - I thought it was doing okay, but just now I noticed the Finder is not responding, and it wigged out when I tried to open iTunes earlier. So I'm going to have to restart, and then put it to sleep for the night, because it's gotten late.

Night, all.

1000 words down - on a totally random one-shot that has nothing to do with anything. Oy ^^;. I actually am getting somewhere on Silver - there are words being entered onto the page at least - but after trawling job postings and fighting with my computer I needed to work on something that didn't require so much thinking, where I could just write. So, random one-shot. I'll probably clean up this bit - the first half of it - and post it tomorrow.

Night, everyone.

I remember reading in Stephen King's On Writing the idea that we all write for a "perfect reader." His is his wife. It made a lot of sense to me because that's exactly what I do, or did. For original fiction, my perfect reader is my mom. She's also my editor.

But I realized I don't have that for fanfic (either one). I've unconsciously fallen into thinking I did a few times, only to be disappointed. I've tried to distance myself from it, but doing that is not easy and feels unnatural. I think it's only normal to write with someone in mind. So who am I writing for? Does it matter?

Not that I've been writing. I've been doing a lot of thinking about writing the last few days, but I haven't been able to get myself to sit down and put words to anything. Part of the problem is that I'm going to feel guilty no matter what I work on, and I haven't really wanted to deal with that. I know people are waiting for the fanfic, but Silver has been sitting for so long that anyone who might have been following it has probably given up. As far as I can tell, anyway. But this is my baby and I need to finish it.

Not that I've been completely unproductive. I rediscovered the joys of velour and pastel dust, and impossible to open fixative cans. I can't even express how it feels to be able to draw again. I still have to be careful, but it's not making me want to curl up and weep afterwards.

Tomorrow I will get back on the writing. Though on what, I'm not sure.