half-baked theories about Naruto, and a writing update

I'm having temporary issues with all my stories (fanfiction and original) and have spent most of my writing time fiddling with background information and whatnot, and periodically checking to see if any story has deigned to unknot itself in the back of my head when I wasn't looking. So far, no luck. *sigh*

However.

I did manage to squeeze out about 300 words of "Undertow," thus bringing it to a grand total of 1,000. The mechanics of the assassination mission are starting to come clear despite Tsukimaru having no clue what's happening to him. And I kind of chickened out on bringing the squicky stuff on right at the beginning, but I think it actually works better this way: as a slow build, mostly unstated. I need to add more sensory details, though, for atmosphere if nothing else.

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I've been thinking about summons, demons (okay, bijuu), and giant animals in Naruto, and it seems to me that the best explanation is a sort of side-dimension to the normal world, wherein some sort of 'demonic' beings or essence existed. They either mimicked animal forms from the normal world, or possessed them, and this leads to animals with funky powers and the intelligence and language of humans. My guess is that the giant animals are the distant descendents of those beings, and have mostly lost any intelligence. Summons are the descendents who still live in the side-dimension. And the bijuu would be, perhaps, the original beings, or ones that grew too powerful and/or went mad.

I dunno. There are holes in that, but I have a persistent feeling that the three phenomena should be linked somehow.

Thoughts?

half-baked theories about Naruto, and a writing update

I'm having temporary issues with all my stories (fanfiction and original) and have spent most of my writing time fiddling with background information and whatnot, and periodically checking to see if any story has deigned to unknot itself in the back of my head when I wasn't looking. So far, no luck. *sigh*

However.

I did manage to squeeze out about 300 words of "Undertow," thus bringing it to a grand total of 1,000. The mechanics of the assassination mission are starting to come clear despite Tsukimaru having no clue what's happening to him. And I kind of chickened out on bringing the squicky stuff on right at the beginning, but I think it actually works better this way: as a slow build, mostly unstated. I need to add more sensory details, though, for atmosphere if nothing else.

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I've been thinking about summons, demons (okay, bijuu), and giant animals in Naruto, and it seems to me that the best explanation is a sort of side-dimension to the normal world, wherein some sort of 'demonic' beings or essence existed. They either mimicked animal forms from the normal world, or possessed them, and this leads to animals with funky powers and the intelligence and language of humans. My guess is that the giant animals are the distant descendents of those beings, and have mostly lost any intelligence. Summons are the descendents who still live in the side-dimension. And the bijuu would be, perhaps, the original beings, or ones that grew too powerful and/or went mad.

I dunno. There are holes in that, but I have a persistent feeling that the three phenomena should be linked somehow.

Thoughts?

[Meme] author identification

Gacked this from isiscolo:

How to identify stories written by Liz, or, those things I do over and over and over again and can't seem to stop even when I know I do them.

( How to identify my writing )

[Meme] author identification

Gacked this from isiscolo:

How to identify stories written by Liz, or, those things I do over and over and over again and can't seem to stop even when I know I do them.

( How to identify my writing )