He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole

Had a really lovely experience last night re: the unnamed project (which MAY have a name now due to said experience, need to toss it around a bit more) which I haven't had with any story for awhile. I wrote two more pages after my last post, then turned everything off and laid down.

Probably less than a half hour later, I bolted up and turned the computer back on because I'd figured out a minor character's purpose, a few plot holes got filled, and I got a quote that gave me the possible title. No real writing, just notes. But god, it felt good to be back in that position of 'crap, want sleep, but idea may leave if I sleep and it's too good to let go'.


Oh, and I didn't hear back from the people from the English club, so...yeah. But that's okay. There's always next year.

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Comment here and I'll give you a list of five things I associate with you so that you may elaborate upon them. If I don't know you well, I'll give you five random things from your interests list.





From splix, I've got these to talk about.

1. Fandom
2. Writing
3. Velvet Goldmine
4. Genderqueer
5. Les Miserables

I think I'll follow her lead and do a post for each, cause some of those are way more than a comment long ^_^ I know that Genderqueer and Writing are being tackled last since I've written papers on Gendequeer and Writing is life. So...hmm. I think Fandom will be first. Post will probably be up sometime tonight or early tomorrow.

Things are getting very desperate...

I'm sure any Toriphiles who read this have already heard, but we haz tracklisting and cover for Abnormally Attracted To Sin

Oh my lord, guys. I mean, my Tori love has waned due to emotional issues tied to her music (most of you know), but this may bring it back. That cover reminds me why I have hundreds of Tori pics on the old computer. *fans self* I'm also kinda psyched about some of those titles. Fire On Your Plain is really exciting me.

I may be one of the few people who liked TBK and who really dug ADP, but I'm still excited for this seeming change in style.

It's going to be really hard to wait this time since I'll have high speed and thus listening to leaks will be possible. But I will be strong! I swear! ...I'll just have to remember to get my Tori music back on the laptop before I go home to tide me over. Oh man oh man oh man.

Fandom

First of the topics from splix. Rambly, as is my nature.


Fandom and I have had a very love-hate relationship. My first foray into 'real' writing was fanfic, most of which never saw the light of day (except for a few that got used as things for school). The first fandom I really got into via fanfic was Labyrinth--and I think I learned a lot about how *not* to write from that. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of really talented people writing Labyrinth and other fanfic...you just have to trudge through a lot of crap to find 'em. Even when you suppose that Labyrinth, like many fandoms, has very young people writing fanfic...argh. So I think the best thing fandom ever gave me was many lessons in good and not good writing and how to tell the difference. Without those lessons, I might still be writing Mary Sues in original fiction (and no, thank God, the greatest example of that went with the other computer so you can't see it. Trust me, you don't want o).
Unlike many people, though, I've managed to mostly avoid the crazier side of fandom. Considering I'm into Twilight, this is quite a feat. I think a big part of it is I really haven't been heavily involved in any of my fandoms in an interacting with others way. Yes, my first real dive into fandom was through a (now defunct) Labyrinth chat group which I was in for...two years? Probably a bit less. The people there were mostly older and I made a lot of great friends and learned a lot about life that way (it was also a wonderful way to spend Sunday nights for a person who had no friends). But in recent years, outside of joining Velvet Goldmine groups which are largely defunct before I get there and talking with the occasional Twifan (usually I get to know them before I find out they're into Twilight) fandom has been a very private thing for me. And I like it that way.