Sunday, May 25, 2008

one-shots and progress updates

Recently I've been working on a new challenge response for SKoW challenge #23 - So Many Songs, But I'm Feeling So Lonely! The title will be After The Rain Has Fallen (sound familiar, Sting fans?) and involves a thief, the necklace he's after, and the princess who wears it. It's actually about 80% done right now, and let's just say that its M rating is highly appropriate at this point. I just have to wrap it up and then go through it again and edit the things that need editing. My goal is to have it done, actually, in the next couple of days... as in, before my summer course starts. I think this class is going to be pretty intense so I'm not too sure how much time I'll have to spare for writing. At least, in the beginning I should have some extra time, but I know once June hits (and once, of course, round six of SKoW starts up) I won't have a whole lot of free time at all.

I've discovered that I like writing one-shots. It's a nice change of pace from my usual chapter-to-chapter approach, and it's also given me a chance to step back from Diamonds and Dust and The Ghost Stone and sort some things out there. I had really wanted to make another update to D&D before this class started but I don't think that's going to happen after all, especially since this one-shot idea got me so excited. Part One of Chapter Eleven is ready to go, but I have yet to really start Part Two and until that's done the former won't be uploaded.

I really have no idea what's going on with The Ghost Stone. I'm a few chapters ahead of what's on FP right now, but I'm kind of experiencing writer's block with that one. I know what I want to happen, but it's not connecting right now and I'm not going to force it. Kind of the same thing with Part Two - I'm pretty much waiting for inspiration to strike.

In the mean time, I put a new poll up on my FP profile - go vote!

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