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frostflowers' InsaneJournal:
| Monday, October 6th, 2008 | |
| 6:10 pm | Writing season rolls around again Yes, I know that writing doesn't really have a season - but if it did, now would be it. NaNo approacheth, and all that. NaNo is this vague, shapeless and kind of scary thing for me this year - I'll be in college, it's my sixth year, I have no workable novel-length plots, I'm incredibly busy, etc., etc. So I've decided I'm going to write short stories. Mainly steampunk-verse shorts, but it'll be all over the place, setting-wise. It'll be healthy exercise for me, too, because I rarely write short stories, and rarely have ideas that aren't expanded to something novel-length. But this year I'm going to do it - I get to play around with characters, get a feel for them and play with the setting before I commit myself to anything longer. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  excitedCurrent Music: "Stockholms Pärlor" - Ebba Grön |
| Monday, July 21st, 2008 | |
| 9:13 pm | TWWD - what else? Bits and bobs. Fun fact; my Open Office spell-checker doesn't recognise the word "popsicle". ( Read more... ) They get along beautifully, don't they? :P Current Mood: happyCurrent Music: "The Dirty Glass" - Dropkick Murphys |
| Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | |
| 10:17 pm | TWWD, again Snips of the pants-dropping kind. Perfectly worksafe, I promise. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: extatic Current Music: "No Angel Lay Me Away" - Hellacopters |
| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 | |
| 8:33 pm | Surviving the horror More TWWD! Because I've finally wrapped up the third chapter, and it's Ivan's POV again and it's kind of funny and it's kind of wrapping-things-up and it's kind of, well, there. .... Anyway. ( Read more... ) Current Music: "Som En Doft Av Napalm" - Slutstation Tjernobyl |
| Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | |
| 2:06 pm | Poetry Sometimes, I write poetry. I'm not very good at it, because I rarely pay attention to form and syllables and stresses and whatnot (also, I'm not very good because I do it so rarely), but sometimes, I end up with something I like to keep. ( Such as haiku-ish poetry relating to one of my imaginary worlds ) Current Mood: poetic Current Music: "Tom Joad Blues - Part II" - Woody Guthrie |
| Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | |
| 9:06 pm | T.S Eliot+monster story = OTP Yes. Seriously. ( Read more... ) This is slightly ruined by the fact that I can't reproduce the awesome fonts that the story-title and chapter-title is written in - it's gritty and type-writerly and very survival-horror-ish. Current Music: "Daidai" - Chatmonchy |
| Friday, June 13th, 2008 | |
| 1:37 pm | TWWD snippery. By popular demand - a TWWD snip! ( Read more... ) Ivan - coping mechanism: relentless focus on practicalities. Sorelia - coping mechanism: cracking somewhat inappropriate jokes. Current Music: "Magic" - Bruce Springsteen |
| Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | |
| 6:52 pm | Snip, snippy, snippet! TWWD again. ( Sorelia meets Ivan, finally. ) Yes, that is Ivan cursing in Russian. To be specific, it means "damn". Russian is a very long-winded language. ( And here's a bit of chapter two... ) Ivan is the close-mouthed sort, but at least a part of his tacit behaviour is due to the fact that he isn't entirely confident about his English skills. Therefore (and I hope this shows up later, when I post Ivan-POV snips) he spends a lot more time thinking than he does talking. No rambling internal monologues, but still. Sorelia is a Southern girl, and I'm trying to get that through in her speech patterns without falling entirely into caricature. I usually write her dialogue and italicised thoughts with a tab open on Wiki's article on Southern dialects, trying to keep in mind grammatical quirks and words typical of the dialect. Since she's from Somewhere-Imaginary, Georgia, I can't exactly settle on a specific regional dialect, but I'm doing my best. Current Mood:  satisfiedCurrent Music: "Repeal of the Liscencing Laws" - The Pogues |
| Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 | |
| 9:59 am | So.... survival horror. One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do something crazy with my writing. So I made up an off-the-wall urban-fantasy-survival-horror thing which I've dubbed The Night The World Went Dark (or TWWD for short, because it'd be an awkward acronym otherwise.). I've only written a little bit so far, but I thought I'd put some snips up. How my main characters are different when dealing with dead bodies: ( Sorelia goes first. Warning, this snip contains gore. ) And.... ( Ivan goes second. Warning, this snip contains even more gore. ) Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: "Union Burial Ground" - Woody Guthrie |
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | |
| 10:49 am | Random fanfics attack! So I'm watching One Piece again (and Bleach, but never mind that) - I've started over from the beginning of the Arabasta arc, because that's where things start heating up (and because I cry like a baby every time I watch the Drum Island arc >.>). So my fingers started itching, and before I knew it, I was writing a drabble-ish one shot. I seem to have this almost unhealthy fascination with Nico Robin - and, by extension, Crocodile - since all of my One Piece fics so far (yeah, all three of them) seem to involve her in some way, even if she's not physically on the scene. ( This is short, and has no plot ) ( Explanations, for those who give a damn ) Next up is Current Music: "The Wanderlust" - Flogging Molly |
| Monday, May 5th, 2008 | |
| 2:52 pm | Quest-fantasy, take four. My post. Let's hope IJ's database issues have cleared up. ( This discussion-thing is fun, isn't it? ) Current Music: "Stag-o-lee" - Woody Guthrie |
| 9:04 am | Quest-fantasy again. Aki's post. ( witty text goes here ) Current Music: "Love of the Common People" - Bruce Springsteen |
| Sunday, May 4th, 2008 | |
| 6:49 pm | Quest-fantasy, round two. My post. ( Speaking of discussions... ) Current Music: "Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way" - Woody Guthrie |
| 6:23 pm | Is it? Can it be? Yes it is - another discussion! After writing half a NaNo's worth of posts thoroughly thrashing Eddings (26929 words! Fo' serious), Aki and I decided to move on to something else. "Something else" turned out to be a genre-staple - quest-fantasy. We begin with Aki's post: ( Quest-themes in fantasy, cut for possible length and not for any spoiler-ish reasons ) Current Mood: slightly hay-feverish Current Music: "Home" - Foo Fighters |
| Friday, May 2nd, 2008 | |
| 2:08 pm | The last Eddings-post! Rejoice! My post. Edited, because it's "Gar og Nadrak", not "Yar og Nadrak". ( *is delighted that you're delighted* ) Current Music: "Lucinda" - Tom Waits |
| 1:55 pm | Eddings (it's soon over, I promise). Aki's post. ( I am delighted to produce amusing rambles! ) Current Music: "Monkey Wrench" - Foo Fighters |
| 1:47 pm | |
| 1:34 pm | Eddings again - are you tired yet? Aki's post. I'm trying to post all of the Eddings discussion entries today, so I can move on to the next topic (quest-fantasy) tomorrow. ( sleepy, early-morning, hurried rambling? What fun for you! ) Current Music: "Kofångare" - De Lyckliga Kompisarna |
| 1:20 pm | The Eddings discussion goes ever on and on. My post. Veers slightly off topic. ( *unjinxes any possible jinxes* ) Current Music: "Long Time Comin'" - Bruce Springsteen |
| 1:06 pm | It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the return of the Eddings discussion! Aki's post. They keep getting longer and longer. >.> ( Real-life snackery is now OVER! (Unless I just jinxed myself) ) Current Music: "Children's Story" - Tom Waits |