Santa Paula: The Road so Far # 6

It's finished, ok! Almost.

Santa Paula: The Road So Far # 5

It's been two and half months since my last update, and I still haven't completed the first draft. But, I do have a complete second draft of the first three acts—the finished story will have four acts. With the way Santa Paula is structured, I wanted to get a good grasp of the character's journeys and the major plot developments before I start writing the final act.

Santa Paula — The Road So Far # 4

The Road So Far: Part 1 - Part 2 — Part 3 Draft: 1.5 Months in Progress: 8 Word Count: 70K-ish Estimated Final Word Count: 120K 130K (ish) Named Characters: 9 State-of-Mind: *blows raspberry* Number of references photos on my Pinterest: 84 194 228 255 Currently, yelling at myself: Peddle, Bitch. Peddle.  I've missed my …

Santa Paula — The Road So Far # 3

The Road So Far: Part 1 - Part 2 Draft: 1.5 Months in Progress: 5 Word Count: 70K-ish Estimated Final Word Count: 120K 130K (ish) Named Characters: 5 State-of-Mind: Do I have to? But it's booooring. Fine. Currently Researching: N/A Number of references photos on my Pinterest: 84 194 228 Currently, yelling at myself: Was …

Santa Paula — The Road so Far # 2

Draft: 1 Months in Progress: 4,5 Word Count: 50K-ish Estimated Final Word Count: 120K 130K (ish) Named Characters: 5 State-of-Mind: Fine. I give up. Let's suck the joy out of everything and embrace the angst. Currently Researching: Dissociation. Vining vegetables. Squash Tunnels. Chicken breeds. Cover Crops. Bohemian Clothing. Silk Robes. Mexican food. Pig Breeds. Tequila …

Santa Paula – The Road So Far # 1

I had a conversation with my beta, TrendyKitty a while back; she proposed that for this new story I'm writing, I save a copy of every draft so I can go back and see the entire process from the first draft to ready-to-post.  I think it's a good idea. I thought it would be interesting …

Happy Birthday JADE

Happy 10th Birthday JADE; you'll always be special to me. (Yes, I know it say's 2015 on AO3, but I first posted JADE at on April 15th, 2011)

Q&A Writing # 1

I've been gettings some amazing comments and feedback from Soulmates-for-real, and we've had some brief conversations about my stories. She recently asked me two questions: Have I ever been tempted to write Sam & Dean fics? Would I ever consider writing J2 Non-AU? As I began answering these questions, the length of these answers—as it …

Procrastination they name is writer

Isn't it weird that even when you love to do something you end up procrastinating? I love writing; I love the buzz in my head from all the people and plots that swirl around in there, bouncing off the inside of my skull. Sometimes it feels so busy it's like I can't concentrate on anything …

About Fandom and the True Meaning of Comments

Alright, so there's been discussions about fandom and getting back to our roots and LJ and I'm always waving my flag saying I miss the old LJ. Well, I can't well be all loud about it and then do nothing myself keeping this journal quiet. So, here's my thoughts on fandom, LJ and commenting. Just …

Bitching About Big Bang and Some Other Stuff

Well, I've turned in a first draft! There will be a story! A damn monster of a story, I don't know what happened, or how anyone is going to be patient enough to read all 75-80.000 (depending on how the rewrite goes) words of it... but I did it! London was good and bad, bad …

Handling grief – fandome style

I want to start by thanking those of you who's commented on my two previous posts about my mother I have not had it in me to reply, but I need you to know I read them all over and over and they are very much appreciated! I've been in a constant state of limbo since …

Five months later…

Ok, so where do you start when you've not updated for like 5 months? Let's just do cliff notes shall we. Spoilers for pretty much every show on tv under the cut So, I'm thirty I've been thirty years old for almost three months. Not really freaking out, only about certain things like still not …

Time For A Change

So this stared out as a comment on Jamie's I'm back post but then it came out a bit long so I 'm posting it as a short update instead. So I didn't get the group manager position which I'm frankly very happy about. I'm not ready. But I'm glad I went through the process, …

Happy New Years…

Happy New Years Everyone!!! Here in Sweden we have one hour left of 2010. I just got home from work and like always (I've noticed that all my New Years post include the lines. I'm going to work or just got home form work...) But anyway, I'm not gonna take up a lot of your …

Boring

You know what my problem is? I have no problem thinking up stories; some of them are even pretty good. My problem is that I think typing is so insanely boring! I wish someone would invent a machine that can just read your mind and type the story up for you, my productivity would increase …

Help With J2

No I’m not dead. Just busy, I worked 54 hours Friday-Monday, had today off and tomorrow I start at 9.30 am and don’t finish until 9.30 am Thursday... stuff is happening, I’ll get into that this weekend when I have time to post. The reason for this post is that I want to ask a …

Looong update

I don’t update enough… So what’s happened over the last few weeks? The renovation is mostly done, all the work is finished but my mom and her man is going all the way with new furniture and stuff. What else, well work is busy now, as you might remember or not because it’s boring we’ve …

Fanfiction.net?

Quick question, what do you think about Fanfiction.net? Finding a beta in the Buffy fandom is not the easiest thing anymore and I found a really long list on their site, but I've heard so many bad things about it (basically that they're all a bunch of flamers with nothing better to do then to …

Me, me and me the cliff-note version…

I’ve noticed that I don’t really post a lot these days, I think the main reason is that sitting down and writing the post that is needed to explain my life at the moment is just to exhausting even to think about… but then, because I hate not taking to you guys, and because your …

Rainy Day’s and Life

Raindrops keep falling on my head... or actually it's pouring down making it impossible to go out unless you want to be completely soaked in less the 30 seconds... and I'm loving it. The downside about living in a country where the summer is so short is that when it's finlay warm and sunny you …

Hi *waves*

Um... just realized that I didn't let you guy's know I was going away for two weeks (oh ho you've all suffered... not.).. so, hey you know what I've just been in England for two weeks. I went with my mom and we've had a great time, ten day's in London and five day's in …

Just dropping by

God, my neck is killing me… I don’t know how I slept last night but obviously not in a good position since just turning my head makes me cringe. Life is as it should be I suppose… work, computer, work, computer… friends, work, computer… basically the usual. Although I’ve been in a Sims 2 mood …

The first post in 2008

Right, so for those of you who read my “poor me I’m so lost” post, I’m fine. I’ve finally realised that trying to accomplish anything academic when I’m so clearly not even remotely motivated at the moment is a waste of time so I’ve talked to my employer and I’m going back to work at …

How come?

How come you only feel like writing late at night? I don't know what time it is were ever you lovely people are, but here in Sweden it's about ten past eleven in the evening, I've never learned the whole am pm thing you americans use. Any way, I've had the whole day off (ok …