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[May. 25th, 2012|10:27 am] |
Or, Other People's Fic (in this case, True Tales from the American South and Nigeria.) Forgive the lack of SWTOR fanfic again today; life has been interesting lately and the writing has gotten scattered.
In the interest of making you laugh until tears run down your faces and thus distracting you from my fail, I give you a link to a recent blog post in which a gifted raconteur shares links to tales of his youth in Africa (The Ratel) and his service in law enforcement (Pink Gorilla): Law Dog Presents. Click through, then click on the story links. You won't be sorry, if you put down the coffee first.
More story will be forthcoming from me next week on fanfic Friday, I promise. |
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| SWTOR Fanfic - Jaeda and Torian |
[May. 11th, 2012|09:20 am] |
I am rummaging through the short pieces, looking for something to post today because the Masquerade fic is stalled, displaced by some other writing and RL. Hoping to get back to that and finish it out going forward. In the meantime, here's a bit of fluff featuring Torian and his gunshy Bounty Hunter.
( Language )
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| Snow in April |
[May. 10th, 2012|05:37 pm] |
We had a lovely time in Vegas at the beginning of April. Went and saw Terry Fator, the ventriloquist who won America’s Got Talent in 2007. Great show, corny in places, touching in others. J gave me a spa day for a belated Valentine’s Day present, which was lovely. I luxuriated by the spa pool, got wrapped and massaged and generally pampered for the day. It’s very odd, staying in an urban RV park; we were able to use cabs to get to the Strip so we didn’t have to worry about parking the truck or having a few glasses of wine with dinner. I’m not used to campgrounds with cab service! Plus lots of other services; we had the rig washed and waxed while we were there and they did a great job. Also took the truck in to an excellent brake shop, Professional Brake Service on Silvso I wouldn’t have to wait at the mechanic’s. After a very nice mini-vacation in Vegas, we headed for the San Francisco area. And I saw snow for the first time in two years. Yep, coming over the mountains into California, it was snowing. There was maybe two or three inches on the ground and more in the air, though luckily for my nerves, none on the roadbed. I took a few photos through the windshield; by the time we found a place that was safe to pull over so I could get more, we were below the snow line and the day was sunny and beautiful. (As always, click to embiggen.) Snow on the Mojave Freeway in April:
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| Delusional |
[May. 9th, 2012|10:47 am] |
If the Kickstarter campaign Steve Jackson Games is running for Ogre reaches 700K, they'll run another one for Carwars. J loves Carwars, and we both like SJG (and SJ himself if it comes to that.) It's fun to see him giddy as a schoolgirl in the updates.
So under the delusion that the people who read this blog will be interested in this, and perhaps interested enough to kick in some dough, here's the link to the Kickstarter Ogre campaign. Only 48 hours and 14K to go to Carwars! Make it so! |
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| SWTOR Fanfic - Adiira and her friends |
[May. 4th, 2012|06:47 am] |
EDIT: I got clarification from the person who's running ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1) het_bigbang, and no, with the thing I was thinking about 50 percent done, it doesn't qualify. Has to be started specifically for the challenge, even if it's never been posted anywhere else. So the question below is, in fact, moot. Please disregard.
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So, I have a question for the folks reading along on these little stories every Friday. I'm considering pulling together one of the stories I want to tell about Adiira and Malavai for a writing challenge called het_bigbang. It would mean expanding the fic out to 10K words, which it kinda needs anyway, to hang together and make sense to a reader coming at it cold.
More to the point, it would mean holding off on posting it here. Het Big Bang does a dramatic reveal of all the fic written for the event on August 31st. I have other stories to post about Adiira and crew before then, but not enough to last until the end of August. I could put up stories about other characters in the SWTOR universe, like Jaeda, my bounty hunter (see week before last) but I might wind up skipping a Friday or two.
What do you think? Go ahead and try the writing challenge, knowing that it means you don't get that story until after August? Or keep posting everything in sequence here, and you guys will see that story likely starting sometime in July? Let me know.
note: After rereading the requirements for the challenge, this may all be moot. The instructions say you have to start fresh for the 10K challenge aka the "Little Bang". I'll write and request clarification, but there's no entirely new story that I am so invested in telling that I want to write 10K words starting from scratch today.
No spoilers other than companion names.
( Naps and preparations )
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| OTW, the parent organization of AO3 |
[Apr. 21st, 2012|07:00 am] |
I've been reading fanfic on AO3 since a few years back when I ran into the Yuletide fic exchange, and posting stuff there since a few weeks ago. I like their overall look, the way they categorize things, and the general quality of the writing there.
Their parent organization, which also exists to promote and protect fanfic from a legal standpoint, is running a membership drive and survey.
I took the OTW Community Survey! |
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| SWTOR Fanfic - Jaeda and Torian |
[Apr. 20th, 2012|05:02 am] |
I'm a trifle stuck on the Adiira and Quinn storyline. Working on something to fill in between "Escape from the Manor" and later, pre-written pieces, but it's coming very, very slowly. In the interim, in the interests of keeping up with Friday Fanfic, have a couple of short pieces about Torian Cadera and the bounty hunter he'd like to woo. No spoilers other than companion names.
( Hunter )
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| In Lieu of Actual Content... |
[Apr. 19th, 2012|08:20 am] |
Owls!
Specifically Eastern Screech Owls in central Texas. This kind gentleman sets up a nest box every year; I ran across the site some years ago and have followed it off and on since.
Blogging about the owls
The nest cam site
He requests a postcard from your locale if you like the nest cam; info is at the bottom of the nest cam site. |
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