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I'm not playing Jar Jar. Ben said I could play Guitar Hero.
There are not enough hours in the day. D:
So right now I want to be writing something like three fics simultaneously: my dark!Ahsoka fic, my PJO older!Nico fic, and now there's a PJO fic battle going on that I just got the world's most random idea for that. It will require some research and may fail because I have not ever actually been to the event about which I would like to base it. Though I suppose that's what research is for? I'm sure I can find a firsthand article on what I'm looking for. Besides, doing research for stories is fun. I totally spent a lot of last night staring at schematics of Star Wars shuttles in order to get things as "accurate" as possible. XD I am so laaaaame. Man, I wish real research was this much fun. XD Downloading Spitzer data is not nearly as exciting as looking up Republic shuttle schematics.
Oh, and if I add in my original PJO fic battle idea, that makes four fics. ::faaaaail:: Thankfully I have until the 4th to write anything for the battle, and I'm hoping to have the book finished by the end of the weekend, maybe. Though I can write the fics now anyway, because both would take place before this book. I'm trying to finish the book before I actually check the prompts for real, but I glanced at them and they seemed pretty general, anyway. So I think I can work my fic ideas in and if not, hey, more random PJO fic for the world. Never a bad thing, right?
Speaking of the book, it's... kind of like a weird parody of what I thought should happen (well, if my recent fic is any indication XD), so that's kind of cool. XD Except for the part that I just read. That was kind of not cool, as in bordering on rather scary. :x Do not do this to me, Riordan! I'm 150 pages or so in... I think I'm somewhere approaching halfway. I am still experiencing trepidation, but I think that's probably because I just hate finishing things for good.
Anyway. I digress. (Haha, I never get to say that!)
The SW fic finally has a coherent plot (thanks muchly to meta-ing with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
noctaval~), and I have some supposedly brilliant ideas for some visions I want to torture Ahsoka with. I'm thinking Ventress is going to have to drug her, since all the torture mask will do is cut her off from the Force. So if she does that, and pumps in some drugs to see her weaknessess... yeah. I wonder if there's a Sith mind-reader device. There might be. Or maybe I could make one up... I mean, there are lots of shady Sith artifacts, right? XD;; Hm. (This is the problem with SW fic - there is SO MUCH CANON that it's hard to just make crap up. XD)
I also want to get those meme drabbles done soon, too. And I noticed something while I was working on the drabbles the other day - I totally have a different writing style based on what I'm writing. As in, I try to write, say, Percy Jackson to make it sound like Rick Riordan wrote it. When I write Star Wars fic, it's much closer to (but maybe not exactly?) my own personal style when I'm writing original fic. Merlin!fic always comes out sounding... not British, but that's probably somewhere in the back of my head. More proper or flowery or something, maybe. In any case, Merlin!fic is different from PJO!fic is different from SW!fic is different from everything else. I suppose this isn't really that exciting a realization, but it was kind of interesting to notice. And at least it means that if I get fed up with my "real" writing style, I can easily start incorporating aspects that I like from other authors into it, right? (It kind of comes down to that "sketches" excercise we did in Lightman's class, actually.) Because I looooove words, but then things end up sounding too wordy and ridiculous and I must say, writing PJO has really helped me shorten up my sentences (which is a good thing!). My mom always laughed at me and my paragraph-long sentences, after all. XD
Wow. I think that's all I wanted to say about writing. I hope. :D;
akdjlafd, where did the day go? No wonder I'm tired. D: I had issues falling asleep last night (probably prompted by getting up late yesterday.) I really had better try to get to bed soon, though.
Other things I need to do include actually starting my slew of Dragon*Con costumes (Ahsoka! NTS: Try out Model Magic for the outer part of the headtails? And look into makeup!). I also need to finish cleaning my house (it's half-clean? :D;) and finish getting ready for the teacher workshop on Monday that I'm kind of running-ish. (Well, Vicki and Anthony are usually in charge but they're both out of town, and while it really doesn't require much organization, I think I'm it.) At least I've got most of the stuff for it done today, though. I plopped myself down in the student center with a venti iced green tea and my laptop for about two hours and got the links list and talk done.
I also need to get my Brazil ticket so I can apply for my travel visa. I think I'm going to have to take an overnight flight, whee. -_-; I hope the AAS is okay with me flying out of Orlando rather than Gainesville, though I suppose I should probably look into the latter even if I hate taking small planes. :x I don't think I'm really going to stay more than a day or two at most after the conference, though; I think I'd be paying out of pocket for that, and I honestly don't really know of a whole lot I want to do in Rio. If anyone knows of anything I should do while I'm there, though...?
Aaand maybe if I hadn't been writing this, I could've gotten more fic written. Alas. I think it's almost bedtime.
So right now I want to be writing something like three fics simultaneously: my dark!Ahsoka fic, my PJO older!Nico fic, and now there's a PJO fic battle going on that I just got the world's most random idea for that. It will require some research and may fail because I have not ever actually been to the event about which I would like to base it. Though I suppose that's what research is for? I'm sure I can find a firsthand article on what I'm looking for. Besides, doing research for stories is fun. I totally spent a lot of last night staring at schematics of Star Wars shuttles in order to get things as "accurate" as possible. XD I am so laaaaame. Man, I wish real research was this much fun. XD Downloading Spitzer data is not nearly as exciting as looking up Republic shuttle schematics.
Oh, and if I add in my original PJO fic battle idea, that makes four fics. ::faaaaail:: Thankfully I have until the 4th to write anything for the battle, and I'm hoping to have the book finished by the end of the weekend, maybe. Though I can write the fics now anyway, because both would take place before this book. I'm trying to finish the book before I actually check the prompts for real, but I glanced at them and they seemed pretty general, anyway. So I think I can work my fic ideas in and if not, hey, more random PJO fic for the world. Never a bad thing, right?
Speaking of the book, it's... kind of like a weird parody of what I thought should happen (well, if my recent fic is any indication XD), so that's kind of cool. XD Except for the part that I just read. That was kind of not cool, as in bordering on rather scary. :x Do not do this to me, Riordan! I'm 150 pages or so in... I think I'm somewhere approaching halfway. I am still experiencing trepidation, but I think that's probably because I just hate finishing things for good.
Anyway. I digress. (Haha, I never get to say that!)
The SW fic finally has a coherent plot (thanks muchly to meta-ing with
noctaval~), and I have some supposedly brilliant ideas for some visions I want to torture Ahsoka with. I'm thinking Ventress is going to have to drug her, since all the torture mask will do is cut her off from the Force. So if she does that, and pumps in some drugs to see her weaknessess... yeah. I wonder if there's a Sith mind-reader device. There might be. Or maybe I could make one up... I mean, there are lots of shady Sith artifacts, right? XD;; Hm. (This is the problem with SW fic - there is SO MUCH CANON that it's hard to just make crap up. XD)I also want to get those meme drabbles done soon, too. And I noticed something while I was working on the drabbles the other day - I totally have a different writing style based on what I'm writing. As in, I try to write, say, Percy Jackson to make it sound like Rick Riordan wrote it. When I write Star Wars fic, it's much closer to (but maybe not exactly?) my own personal style when I'm writing original fic. Merlin!fic always comes out sounding... not British, but that's probably somewhere in the back of my head. More proper or flowery or something, maybe. In any case, Merlin!fic is different from PJO!fic is different from SW!fic is different from everything else. I suppose this isn't really that exciting a realization, but it was kind of interesting to notice. And at least it means that if I get fed up with my "real" writing style, I can easily start incorporating aspects that I like from other authors into it, right? (It kind of comes down to that "sketches" excercise we did in Lightman's class, actually.) Because I looooove words, but then things end up sounding too wordy and ridiculous and I must say, writing PJO has really helped me shorten up my sentences (which is a good thing!). My mom always laughed at me and my paragraph-long sentences, after all. XD
Wow. I think that's all I wanted to say about writing. I hope. :D;
akdjlafd, where did the day go? No wonder I'm tired. D: I had issues falling asleep last night (probably prompted by getting up late yesterday.) I really had better try to get to bed soon, though.
Other things I need to do include actually starting my slew of Dragon*Con costumes (Ahsoka! NTS: Try out Model Magic for the outer part of the headtails? And look into makeup!). I also need to finish cleaning my house (it's half-clean? :D;) and finish getting ready for the teacher workshop on Monday that I'm kind of running-ish. (Well, Vicki and Anthony are usually in charge but they're both out of town, and while it really doesn't require much organization, I think I'm it.) At least I've got most of the stuff for it done today, though. I plopped myself down in the student center with a venti iced green tea and my laptop for about two hours and got the links list and talk done.
I also need to get my Brazil ticket so I can apply for my travel visa. I think I'm going to have to take an overnight flight, whee. -_-; I hope the AAS is okay with me flying out of Orlando rather than Gainesville, though I suppose I should probably look into the latter even if I hate taking small planes. :x I don't think I'm really going to stay more than a day or two at most after the conference, though; I think I'd be paying out of pocket for that, and I honestly don't really know of a whole lot I want to do in Rio. If anyone knows of anything I should do while I'm there, though...?
Aaand maybe if I hadn't been writing this, I could've gotten more fic written. Alas. I think it's almost bedtime.