I made it back from the two feet of snow I was buried under in Jersey! Yay! However, due to the extended time away from my laptop, the next chapter for Call My Name may have to wait until next week. I'm going to try and finish it tonight, but we'll see what happens. The Dragon's Jewel will have its regularly scheduled update. I also took down the Persona 4 one shot due to lack of interest but I have a random PoP one to take its place. Nothing on Sarat or Spitfire yet.
In gaming news, I'm about halfway done with my Apocalyptic run of Darksiders. I couldn't help it. I'm already going to have to put Splatterhouse down because my mom hates it and I want to focus on Call My Name. For whatever reason, though, she's okay with Darksiders. I need to play something or my head will explode. Next on my list is Enslaved, which I finally picked up, until she goes back to work next week. Then its back to Splatterhouse. Cheers!
Although it may sound weird, I'm kind of relieved that my running stories are dwindling down to just one. It gives me more time to focus on my job hunt. Seriously, guys, this is the worst possible thing anyone could experience right now. There are hundreds of jobs out there that I qualify for and yet no one is willing to take a look at anyone who doesn't have 5+ years of experience. The problem is that this round of college graduates doesn't have the experience so their skills are rendered useless. None of us are going to get good jobs until we're thirty, and by then the market will be looking at the graduates after us for their energy and enthusiasm. This generation got the major shaft. Its awful. I wouldn't wish this on anyone, much less myself.
I apologize for the depressing nature. But its the position I'm in right now and I hope this will explain some of my lack of energy and motivation for Fanfiction and FictionPress. Thanks to everyone who's poked at me to finish my current stories and encouraged me to write new ones. You guys keep me going. For reals.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The end is here?
Guys, I'm seriously thinking about giving up on FanFiction and FictionPress. I'm just not getting the same kind of feedback and attention that I used to and its getting a little depressing. Sure I have one or two people that constantly let me know that my stories are being enjoyed and that's great. But its hurtful when I ask for reviews and no one takes the time to leave me one, and yet there are stories written by people who don't grasp the concept of punctuation and grammar who have hundreds of reviews. I don't understand it. I don't think I ever will.
At any rate, the last round included chapters for Call my Name and The Dragon's Jewel along with a one shot for Persona 4. I'm thinking of taking the latter down because no one's reading it. Call My Name probably won't get any more love until after Christmas but look for new Dragon chapters by Thursday.
At any rate, the last round included chapters for Call my Name and The Dragon's Jewel along with a one shot for Persona 4. I'm thinking of taking the latter down because no one's reading it. Call My Name probably won't get any more love until after Christmas but look for new Dragon chapters by Thursday.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Current Plans and Future Stories
For those of you who still check my FictionPress.Com page, I apologize for the update taking so long. Sarat stuff is moving slowly and Punch Down even more so. I'll talk more on that in a minute.
For the Fanfiction.Net crowd, I'll definitely have the next round for The Dragon's Jewel up by Thursday. The next chapter for Call My Name will have to wait until next week since I'm only one page into it (still).
I spent a while thinking about what I wanted to do with my pages on both sites this past week - helped by my resolve to halt the job hunting and resume tweaking until the holiday insanity is over. Here is the plan I've come up with regarding both for the near future: First, I'm going to get the rest of Dragon posted. There's a note dangling above my computer to remind me that this story needs love every Thursday until it is completed. Second, I'm going to take Train Wreck and divide the 'chapters' up into individual stories. Its just not getting the attention I thought it would as a story. Any more one shots that I finish for Deadly Premonition will follow this vein. The same will go for any Persona 4 one shots I've done and will finish in the future. This will require some maintenance for my profile section, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Third, I'm going to focus solely on Call My Name when the first two parts are done. Anything else will only get attention if I'm suffering from writer's block and need to get into the writing groove.
Once I have my currently-running stories taken care of, I plan on starting an ambitious project. If I can prove to myself that I can stay on a writing schedule for more than a few days (a.k.a. everything I've said above goes to plan), I'm going to start New Kingdoms and pick back up with Sarat. That way I'll stick to one story on FF.Net and one story on FP.Com. Spitfire will be updated periodically, most likely. Depending on how well I keep up with both of those stories, I'll slowly introduce more of them. This will also depend on what happens with any possible jobs that come up and the completion of my copyediting certificate.
I still have plenty of FF.Net stories planned, including the Haunting Ground one, a Harry Potter fic that I doodled on vacation back in July, a full-blown PoP story that incompasses both storylines and a rewrite of my first ever DW story (written for a friend's website that, unfortunately, stopped taking submissions a week before I was ready to send it). I also found notes for stories in the Ronin Warriors and Reboot universes. I'm a sad, sad woman, folks. I have a bunch of stories that might make it to FP.Com, but I'm more hesitant to publish those. I do plan on pursuing publication for most of them. There are some that I could spare for FictionPress though.
I think that's all for my writing updates. Now I must return to my video game juggling. I'm finally wrapping up PoP: Forgotten Sands and slowly working through Splatterhouse. They're both gorgeous and wonderful to play, but the latter is my favorite so far. I'm a horror girl at heart. Plus I really enjoyed the arcade versions of the game. My next project is the new Castlevania, which I started but had to stop in favor of Splatterhouse. Sore thumbs, here we come!
For the Fanfiction.Net crowd, I'll definitely have the next round for The Dragon's Jewel up by Thursday. The next chapter for Call My Name will have to wait until next week since I'm only one page into it (still).
I spent a while thinking about what I wanted to do with my pages on both sites this past week - helped by my resolve to halt the job hunting and resume tweaking until the holiday insanity is over. Here is the plan I've come up with regarding both for the near future: First, I'm going to get the rest of Dragon posted. There's a note dangling above my computer to remind me that this story needs love every Thursday until it is completed. Second, I'm going to take Train Wreck and divide the 'chapters' up into individual stories. Its just not getting the attention I thought it would as a story. Any more one shots that I finish for Deadly Premonition will follow this vein. The same will go for any Persona 4 one shots I've done and will finish in the future. This will require some maintenance for my profile section, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Third, I'm going to focus solely on Call My Name when the first two parts are done. Anything else will only get attention if I'm suffering from writer's block and need to get into the writing groove.
Once I have my currently-running stories taken care of, I plan on starting an ambitious project. If I can prove to myself that I can stay on a writing schedule for more than a few days (a.k.a. everything I've said above goes to plan), I'm going to start New Kingdoms and pick back up with Sarat. That way I'll stick to one story on FF.Net and one story on FP.Com. Spitfire will be updated periodically, most likely. Depending on how well I keep up with both of those stories, I'll slowly introduce more of them. This will also depend on what happens with any possible jobs that come up and the completion of my copyediting certificate.
I still have plenty of FF.Net stories planned, including the Haunting Ground one, a Harry Potter fic that I doodled on vacation back in July, a full-blown PoP story that incompasses both storylines and a rewrite of my first ever DW story (written for a friend's website that, unfortunately, stopped taking submissions a week before I was ready to send it). I also found notes for stories in the Ronin Warriors and Reboot universes. I'm a sad, sad woman, folks. I have a bunch of stories that might make it to FP.Com, but I'm more hesitant to publish those. I do plan on pursuing publication for most of them. There are some that I could spare for FictionPress though.
I think that's all for my writing updates. Now I must return to my video game juggling. I'm finally wrapping up PoP: Forgotten Sands and slowly working through Splatterhouse. They're both gorgeous and wonderful to play, but the latter is my favorite so far. I'm a horror girl at heart. Plus I really enjoyed the arcade versions of the game. My next project is the new Castlevania, which I started but had to stop in favor of Splatterhouse. Sore thumbs, here we come!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Frustration
Unfortunately I'll probably only get one update this month. At the very least I'll get the next chapter up for Dragon. The goal is to get the latest chapter done for Call My Name, but I haven't really made any progress with it yet. We'll see what happens. Nothing new for any of the other stories. Its been a stressful couple of weeks. I'm still out of a job, my family is in a spending frenzy and my mom responded to having her house cleaned and decorated by handing me a bill. I'm a little miffed right now. Many apologies for letting the stress get in the way of my writing. That's just how its going to be for the time being. Keep checking back for updates. And for those of you who celebrate Christmas (I don't, but I know I'm a serious minority here), many good tidings and blessings to you this holiday season!
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