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I have almost no friending policy. If you friend me and I recognize you from the Final Fantasy fanfiction/fanart community, I'll friend you back. Otherwise, leave me a comment and say hi!
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In light of me posting an epic Master WIPs just a few minutes ago, this meme seems appropriate:
THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME
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Normally I f-lock my WIP update postings but this might be of interest to readers who anonymously stop by??? (feel free to say hello!)
( Resurrecting older FFXII WIPs: Blindness, Scars, & The Death of Lady Bunansa ...plus ongoing work on My Brother the Traitor and Invisible Sun )
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I feel so much more organized now. ^^
EDIT: Just made a writing schedule for posting the completed versions of Scars, Death of the Lady Bunansa, Discipline, plus revised Chapter 1 of Blindness and new Chapter 2 of Blindness all before the end of THIS MONTH. At that point, I'll feel caught up. It is so wrong that I feel behind on a hobby...
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The second of two oooooollldd stories that are finally seeing the light of day.
REMAINS: Next Time He Must
Ashe/Basch, NC-17. Non-consensual sexual activity.
810 words. 720 O.V.
Third in the REMAINS series. [here are one . two]
( Basch should be a dead man. )
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Cleaning through ooooollddd fic bits that I never posted in 2008 and won't be using in longer stories.
REMAINS: Ashes from the Fire of Hatred
Ashe, Basch, PG.
500 words. 704 O.V.
Part of the REMAINS series.
( Ashe hates Basch... )
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Plot issues resolved: Basch+Noah's father now has a very important, mostly off-screen role. Socio-economic/Political issues make catalyze my long-hinted at Basch/OC/Noah drama (really, Basch/OC, SameOC/Noah) have been nailed down.
Count down to one month of mad writing: 60 hours 20 minutes away (assuming I'm home at midnight on the 1st of November. currently unlikely).
Plot issue that wants to resolve within the next 60 hours: Step-by-step realities vs misinformation in the Archadian overthrow of Landis.
Me acknowledging reality: Rather than plot more in the next 60 hours, just use the mad month of mad writing in November to work through the twisty mess of Archadia's overthrow of Landis, which will happen anyway no matter how much I pre-plot.
Current concern: My internal editor called in this morning while browsing a bookstore in an airport. Her flight was rerouted due to freak snow storms. "Not sure if I can make it to the Bahamas," she said. "So, try Tahiti instead!" I yelled into the phone.
When I write in uber-fast bursts under strict time limits, my style ranges from okay to sucks balls. Must keep reminding myself that November is for finding this long on-hold story, not for exercising my stylistic writing. ...editing in Dec/Jan will be a bitch...
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Recent decisions: 1. Handle the suspense aspect in current 1st person memoir narrative by including alternate POVs via documents that Gabranth collects later in his life once working for the 9th. 2. Mist fountains.
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Timed pre-writing (an interview with a character about Ivalician mist/magick mechanics) resulted in 1760 words in 60 minutes when fueled by coffee, chocolate cake, and generic late afternoon cafe atmospherics. 'Tis good. 1760 words per hour of off the cuff writing is happiness. (grumbles at cafe's Internet going down...)
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Helm On, Eyes Forward
Final Fantasy XII: OGC. Gabranth, Drace. PG.
200 words. 706 O.V.
( Helm On, Eyes Forward )
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No convoluted subplots. No convoluted subplots. Repeat after me: no convoluted subplots.
If anyone is NaNo'ing and wants to buddy me, I'm here as 'sarcat' on the NaNoWriMo site.
( Sending my inner editor on a month long vacation )
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Last Look at Landis Behind Him
FFXII: OGC. Gabranth (Noah). PG.
200 words. 688 O.V.
Noah's family walks across Landis to the Archadian border.
( The land bleeds people and pack animals... )
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The Nature of a Coward
FFXII-OGC: Balthier, Ashe, Fran, Vaan, (Gabranth). G.
1560 words. Rabanastre, 706 O.V.
Written as a short fic in response to ellnyx's prompt Balthier, Noah, (Ashe), Lowtown, the nature of a coward. Prompts for short fic world-building still open. Feel free to leave a prompt.
Six years pass before Balthier finally decides to do something about his father. Things do not go as planned. A brief vignette occurring in game, in the Garamsythe Waterway, on the way back to Lowtown.
( Balthier knows Amalia isn't Amalia. )
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I'm looking for brain-food in the form of prompts to help me about Invisible Sun/Surveyors of the Past headcanon. You supply prompts, I'll write something that fits in a comment or two.
( Calling for prompts )
Prompt call is ongoing until I feel prompted out. :D
( Prompt List )
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One more double drabble and then back to my towering pile of work.
Managing Migelo
FFXII: OGC. Migelo, Penelo, Vaan, Gabranth (Noah), G.
200 words. Post-game, before RW.
Takes place in my Invisible Sun/Surveyors Ivalice in which a crippled Noah survives post-game.
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Life (that thing called grad school) has been way too busy as of recently ... so busy I never posted links to these drabbles from a couple of weeks ago plus one new drabble from today.
Today's Drabble:
Welcome Home
FFXII: OGC, Gabranth (Noah), Penelo, Vaan, Kytes, G.
200 words. A few weeks post-game.
Takes place in my Invisible Sun-Surveyors Ivalice, in which a crippled Noah survives post-game.
Older Drabbles:
A Ninety-nine Year Lease
FFXII: OGC, Penelo, Gabranth (Noah), Vaan, Filo. G.
200 words. Approximately 20 years post-game.
Takes place in my "Invisible Sun"/"Surveyors" Ivalice (mildly AU post-game). Comes a few years after Ignoring the Truth but before Transfer of Energy.
The Magickal Child
FFXII: OGC, Vayne, Venat, Dr. Cid, PG.
200 words. 700 OV.
Knights' Prayers
FFXII: OGC, Basch, Vossler, PG.
200 words. Some years pre-game.
Carry Nothing
FFXII: OGC, Ashe, Vossler, PG.
100 words. 704 OV.
A Ninety-nine Year Lease
Final Fantasy XII: OGC. Penelo, Gabranth (Noah), Vaan, Filo. G.
200 words. Approximately 20 years post-game.
Takes place in my Invisible Sun/Surveyors Ivalice (mildly AU post-game). Comes a few years after Ignoring the Truth but before Transfer of Energy.
The Second Funeral
FFXII: OGC/Post-game AU, Filo, Vaan, Noah, PG.
100 words. 756 OV.
Also in my Invisible Sun/Surveyors Ivalice (mildly AU post-game).
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Other than the half dozen drabbles I posted on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ff_fortnightly one week ago, I really *have* been writing fanfic over the past 4+ months but it just isn't obvious. :)
Mostly, I've gone back to planning and plotting epic fic and taking stock of projects I've started over the past year but haven't yet had time to continue. Over the past week I started organizing all of my writing "to do" lists.
So, here are a few observations on different approaches I've used in 2009 while plotting and planning.
( My Story Brain Prefers to Localize a Reasonably Small Idea... and develop it into a novelette (7500-17500 words) or let it grow into a novella (17500-50000 words) )
( Organically growing drabbles into a novella (feels like a win) )
( The Great Story Unifier Meets Linear Decomposition into Novelette/Novella-sized Chunks (takes forever to bake but also feels like a potential win) )
( Rolling a Story Forward Using 100 Prompts (and get tangled in the skein of yarn) )
( Upcoming Experiment: Writing like Playing Jazz )
( From Shared Hallucination To Non-linear List of Story Episodes )
Quick Summary of All That Crap Above
1. Evidence on my harddrive says that my brain likes to think in story lengths that run 12,000 to 25,000 words BUT my brain also likes to link or weave two or more of these stories into much larger epics.
2. It is a very good thing that I am fandom monogamous because one canon has spawned way too much fic. Plot bunnies run wild on their own with no prompting at all. My stories feed each other. While it means I am sometimes slow to produce finished fiction, I don't think this is a bad thing at all.
3. Seeding ideas by writing vaguely connected drabbles and double drabbles seems to work well for me.
4. I live and die by the outline. ...And I can bang out a 8000 word outline in one sitting.
5. My stories want to bake very slowly. Outline fast and then let the outline sit and bake. Draft parts of it and then let the draft sit and bake some more. My stories are in no hurry to be written. While one bakes, it spawns more ideas and others grow.
6. Prompts interfere with my story brain. This isn't new news but now I've touched the fire enough times now to assure myself that it burns. ;)
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A Ninety-nine Year Lease,
Penelo, Noah, Vaan, Filo. Rozarria, 727 O.V.
200 words. G.
( No words needed to be exchanged. )
Takes place in my "Invisible Sun"/"Surveyors" Ivalice (mildly AU post-game). Comes a few years after Ignoring the Truth but before Transfer of Energy.
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My summer has been insanely busy. Although I've been silent in fandom, I've been doing a plot of plotting and planning for my various epic-length fic commitments. Hopefully something longer than drabbles will get posted sort of soon?
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