General Ramblings

I updated Call My Name, The Dragon's Jewel and Train Wreck yesterday. It'll probably be a while before I post another DP one shot for that last series. I'm still plowing ahead with Call My Name and my Persona 4 stories. I'm also working through the Haunting Ground stuff, so as always I guess we'll see what ends up being posted. I won't make any promises because there's no point - things change too quickly for me.

Writing update aside, I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the Playstation Network. I've spent several days now trying to update profile information and game lists and whatnot, but every time I try to leave the page I have to log in again. Now I'm at the point where I won't even stay logged in from the sign in page to the home page. What gives? I have things that need to be documented, people! I can't be waiting around for this forever.

I think I'll stop my rant there before I go into overdrive. I need to focus on this weekend anyway. BJ Penn is fighting on Saturday and WWE Survivor Series is on Sunday. I have to focus on something else besides the Dolphin's embarrassing loss yesterday to the Bears. *Think Dashing*

Why Job Hunting Is Useless

My resume-sending count this week is up to 57. This is insane. I can't get a job in my field because I don't have office experience, and the places that could give me office experience don't want to because I'm out of state and heaven forbid we conduct a phone interview. If this keeps up, I'm seriously going to consider a move to another country. No one here is willing to take a chance on anyone or anything. We wonder why our economy continues to suffer, and yet we spend all of our money sending people to school to train for jobs that are skipping the country. Screw this...I'm not spending anymore on college.

Oh, right, story updates. My bad. Chapter 11 of Call My Name and chapter 18 of The Dragon's Jewel are undergoing revisions. I'm about one page into chapter 12 for the former story. I'm tweaking the next oneshot for Train Wreck, although that probably won't make the Thursday update. I've also been spending a lot of time writing bits and pieces for the inevitable Persona collection. So far I've finished the Fool and the Magician, I've got a few paragraphs left of the Emperor, I'm halfway done with the Priestess, I've written a few pages for the Empress and Fortune and I have ideas/outlines for Justice and the Chariot. So far so good, I think. Look for some new stuff on Thursday since I'm actually on track.

Now I'm going to go back to sulking about my job situation. Toodles!

Too Many Stories!

I finally got around to posting new chapters of Call My Name and The Dragon's Jewel. I'm currently one page into the next chapter of the former and doing minor edits on the latter. I've set aside my Sarat updates for the time being. There's just not enough focus. I really love those stories and that universe, but I've discovered that I need to be 100% focused on it to make any progress. I'm not sure when I'll get back to it, but as always I have a ton of notes to help get me back in the groove.

I'm kind of torn about where I want to focus my attention right now. Its the curse of having too many ideas in a tiny brain. A majority of it will stay in the RE universe until I'm further along there. I have outlines and ideas for that story; its just a matter of wording everything correctly. I have a couple of chapters for my Haunting Ground story and the Persona oneshots, half a oneshot for my Prince of Persia series, one and a half oneshots for the Deadly Premonition universe and New Kingdoms looming over me. For right now, the rest of my attention is with Persona, but only because I've been playing the fourth game and researching the third one. I'm familiar with the first two (including both Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment), but I'm not entirely comfortable writing about those characters yet. I guess we'll see what happens.

I think my real confusion is that I don't want to post another story without having the majority of it written. I fell behind with Call My Name and now I'm struggling with it. The DP oneshots don't worry me because I have enough to keep my interest when I'm having trouble with my other stories (that's how the first two were written, in between chapters for my other works). Both the Haunting Ground story and New Kingdoms require research and checking some terminology, so progress there is slow. PoP is stuck until I start another run-through of the game. So that leaves the Persona stories. My fear there is that I'll get three, maybe four stories posted and then become distracted as usual. This isn't a oneshot collection where the number of stories is irrelevant. The number needs to match the arcana.

Hmph, this makes my head hurt. I guess I'll keep going with my RE story and see what I end up doing for the rest of my stuff. Whatever takes my attention will be next, I guess. The worst part is that I have about 10 other folders with story ideas related to fanfiction, and I could pick up one of those at any moment. Ugh. Its one thing to have a creative writing streak in you...its another thing when you can't control its flow.

At any rate, look for more regular updates with Call My Name and The Dragon's Jewel. In all likelihood, another story will be posted once I'm done with Dragon. And now I need to lie down. I think I have stories leaking from my ears...