wherein Liz wonders exactly when her imagination got away from her

[edenfalling]

Shoot me now, please.

I finally got around to starting the sequel to "Tides," which is titled, with my usual vast imaginative skill, "Leaves." We begin in River Country, with plans for an assassination mission, as seen by Sakura. I might be done with that chapter by next weekend.

Also, chapter 16 of "The Way of the Apartment Manager" is now half-finished. The final fight scene is kind of anemic, but I figure I can go back and spruce it up once I get the rest written. Then there's just chapter 17, and I'm done! *Liz takes a moment to savor that thought*

I have far too many WIPs: "Secrets," "Apartment Manager," "Lemonade," and "Leaves" are the big ones. "Strange Likenesses" is still on hiatus, but I should haul it out for Halloween, especially in light of the wonderful Tom Riddle backstory in HBP. "The Guardian in Spite of Herself" will go into the queue once "Apartment Manager" finishes, but fortunately that's a shorter story. (I hope.) And "Locked Room Problems" is not a chaptered story, but I want it done before the end of September, and hopefully within the next two weeks. (But sex scenes are massively embarrassing to write and they're a logistical nightmare, especially when both participants are the same sex, so you can't just differentiate with pronouns. *grumble*)

"More or Less the Same" doesn't count, because it exists only for my own amusement. And the other HP one-shots I have floating around unfinished on my hard drive also don't count, because they haven't gelled enough for me to make any sort of regular progress on them.

I figure I'll be doing a lot of writing this coming week, since I'll be in Jersey, won't be in much of a position to job-hunt, and really want some of these stories off my back. Feel free to yell at me if I don't have a fair amount of stuff up soon. :-)

Then I can get back to Ekanu, my novel, and "Finding Marea," all of which might actually make me money someday. A girl can dream...

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My landlords have moved out, and I seem to have new downstairs neighbors already. Thus far, I have not had a good opportunity to greet them, but I plan to knock on their door tomorrow morning, before I head off for Madison. (Damnit, if I'd known there would be people in the house, I wouldn't have bothered to stop my mail. *grumble*)

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

'lemonade?"' finding who? lockeddoors? 'strange likenesses"?
if ymy experience ofseeign yo ustruggle with storie sotmeism telsl me enough the 'it will be ashorter story' acutal yemasn it wi lbel ogner, adn the 'onl ychatper 17" wil go on to at least 20 because of the 'unexpecedn ew ideas" )this courtesy of an toher friend I know to write sort of in tandme iwht whathte story wants her to do becasu eveyr time she TRIED to force the story it allc ame out forced)

[edenfalling]

"The Way of the Apartment Manager" can't go past 18 chapters at the outside, because there simply isn't that much time and material left before the inevitable conclusion. *beams*

"Lemonade" is a completely insane crossover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gundam Wing, and Naruto, in which Faith, Duo Maxwell, and Uchiha Sasuke get sucked into a hell dimension and have to find their way home.

"Finding Marea" is an original story.

"Locked Room Problems" is another insane crossover, in which Giles (from Buffy) gets trapped inside a central American temple with Indiana Jones, and a demonic fertility goddess forces them to have sex. Yes, really.

"Strange Likenesses" is a story I started... oh, a year ago? It's a Harry Potter alternate universe fic, in which Voldemort doesn't drift around for ten years, waiting for Quirrell to stumble across him. Instead, he notices his link to Harry, and tries to possess Harry. It goes rather badly wrong.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

ok. no mroe quesitosn form me. half of htis icna't red becausei don't know anything aboutthe fandoms, the rest soudns too out for me or to ocreepy .adn i'l wanttto yread yoru orginal stuff ,adn what yv'e posted already ,adn other peoel's fics )like over 5000 or so) and many many books and texts (liek over six thousand or so adn that is JUST what's on my disc. ther is ACTUALLY stuf inbraille lie kthe slwo infux of voluems of hbp which is yo uknow..jsut largei nbraille print.) I thin kI' mdrowning in words.
Butthanks for al lthe explanations .n omore questiosn now. although, wow. wht do the ycal this ? aprolific writer? eclectic?
I knwo only one guy who semsto write liek this. hp, good omens, peter wimsey, origina lstuff, het slash gen crossovers poetry...
soemtims..it scares me. and whe nhe ystartto listtheir wip's invarious states...I imagien the bulk of tha and i jsut think 'waaaaaa!!"