Post a single sentence from each WIP or unfinished fic you have. No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence. (But I'm a Bad Girl, and if you ask, I'll probably explain.)

Meme stolen from minviendha. This is a little embarrassing.

( Seventeen WIPs, and those are just the ones that I've started writing already... )

There are two rather disappointing announcements that need to be made at this time too, I think.

-I will be less productive than I have been in the near future. I just started college, and I have a lot more work to do than I've had in the past. I'll do my best to keep on writing, and to stay engaged with fandom, but if something needs to be cut, it won't be schoolwork and it won't be IRL socialization time.

-Until further notice, Blurred Lines and Who You Are (In High School) are on hiatus. When I started both of these fics, I overestimated my interest in the storyline, and my writing ability--in short, I can't handle the plot and number of characters each of these stories addresses. It's very hard to handle subtle character growth in the midst of whole-cast interactions--and the sociology in Blurred Lines? Whooo, way too much for me. It's been one year and four months for one story, and two months less than that for the other, and it's possible that I could push myself to finish them, but I wouldn't find it enjoyable, and more to the point, I would not do a good job writing them. It shows when I'm not interested in a story--that's not something that I can fake very well--and I owe my readers better.

So I'm sorry, but I just can't handle those two fics in particular right now. All other fics will continue to be updated--hopefully sooner rather than later. I have no plans to abandon anything else at this point.

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Hello everyone!

Some news for you all!

1. I have started work on a collaboration with spotlight_noa, and that's all you get to know for now. It will be posted when we're a little closer to completion. (This is incredible, by the way! And also moderately intimidating--but perhaps I am too easily intimidated? Noa is wonderful, but also in a way a person in fandom that I've looked up to for quite a while--so this is very exciting, but also a little intimidating.)

2. It is summer! I do not have long, but I will spend what time I do have writing! It's all for you, my lovelies.

3. Saw Revenge of the Fallen. There were good bits (THINGS EXPLODE) and bad bits (FUCK YOU, BAY) and bits that can go either way (Constructicons!) and bits that make me angry (...don't get me started on racism, please) and also weird, weird fic-urges and OTPs. Or threes. Or, uh, mores, because y'all know me, right? Right.

4. I am considering discontinuing some fics. I've lost inspiration, and I'm not sure it will ever come back. I really, really hate to do so, but the thought is there. ):

5. I am a nerd. Deeply and truly. This is evidenced by my writing fanfiction. But! It gets worse. I give you ( the fishes that some 2007!characters would keep )

And also ( what fish selected 38 selected G1 characters would keep )

So, in conclusion, yeah. I know. XD

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THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

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1. If you’re a writer, comment to this post with your username.
2. Commenters, no drama please. Play like adults. And writers, be prepared for any comment.
3. Pimp the meme out by posting the above code into your journal.
4. Be honest.

Be mean, please!

Life is very busy, but I'm still finding the time to chip away at things. AP exams are over, thank God!

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I've had awful, awful writer's block. I literally did not write for most of March and April--I just couldn't.

I seem to have kicked it, though! I haven't been working on any of the things I really need to be working on, but I'm getting somewhere, at least. Expect a oneshot about the Constructicons getting to be a gestalt pretty soon, and another oneshot a while after that about pre-war basically AU Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker.

I'm working on Difficult Things, but I'm still blocked there, simply because I don't know what to do with the next chapter. Once I get past it I'm golden, but I just don't know where to go-- *frustrates* *yes, that's a verb, shhh >.>* Would anyone be willing to help me with this? I need ideas for the ending of chapter 4, and someone to bounce things off of. u.u

[Bad username: dayari"]: I'm so so sorry I keep on pressing you about this, but I really don't want to be too presumptuous! Is it okay if I post your giftfic here on LJ, FFnet and/or the main fic comms? Since it's your fic, I want to be sure it's okay, but at the same time, I'd like to post it around, if that's okay, so if I don't hear an answer, I might just go ahead and post it...Please, don't feel bad if you don't want it posted, I totally understand!

More updates soon, I hope!

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Taken from tricolora and eerian_sadow!

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudocanon.

I am all over this like butter on delicious, delicious waffles. Because personal pseudocanon? Just about my favorite thing ever.

Any fandom I'm familiar with, because the odds are good that if you ask me about a character I don't already have facts for, they will come into being when I start thinking about it. And then I'll want to write fic about them. Relevant icon is relevant, BTW. And feel free to ask about several characters, or OCs, if so inclined. (There are two characters in particular I really want someone to ask about.)

In other news, remind me to write up a rambling post about shounen anime. It needs to be done.

Also-also, as soon as I get review replies in, And Eyes is done!!! So remind me to write the epitaph/in memoriam post about that, too, after it goes up.

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I am rolling with the punches! And writing at the same time!

Actually, life is pretty fantastic to me, and on a related note, I was very prolific this past long weekend. I:

-Wrote 10 (and counting!) pages of the next chapter of Lovely;

-Wrote 3 pages of the next chapter of Difficult Things;

-Wrote 4 pages of the next chapter of Getting to Know You;

-Finished (!!!) the last chapter of And Eyes

and all this is notable because they were all unstarted before this weekend except for And Eyes. One of the hardest things for me is getting back into the groove of a fic where the last chapter let off--if I can get the first page, and absolutely-definitely the first 2-5 pages (depending on the length of the chapter) then I'm pretty much good to go within two weeks. Unless I get distracted again.

Things I need to do:

-Upload that Ironhide'n'Sarah oneshot;

-Edit and upload the next chapter of Sheer Dumb Luck;

-Edit and upload the last chapter of And Eyes, then write the memorial post;

-Start editing and posting Leaning Away in parts (but only if this is okay with you, dayari! It's your fic, after all! ♥ )

-Finish things.

In terms of finishing things, I'm getting really close! for three fics, and it's really really making me feel less stressed in terms of things I've agreed to do. So:

-Finish one chapter and write the last (and easy) chapter of Getting to Know You which will be sad, but I think I'm ready to move on--you know it's time when you start seeing all the things you could have done better;

-Finish one chapter and write two chapters (one an epilogue) for Lovely, which is really a good thing, oh my God the fic is three years old literally it turned three on the fifth of January I suck at updating so so hard ;_;

-And Eyes is actually done OMFG! I can't believe it! Because, you see, I thought I was done with it in October 2007 when I posted the first chapter which was, at the time, a oneshot. And then I forgot to mark it as a oneshot at tf2007fun and ended up with, like, 20 comments asking when I was going to continue it and then I realized that I could and then I plotted it out and yeah, totally over-estimated my muse, I think, but in the end, it's been good, and I really like the ending I think, even though it might only make sense to me. But uh that's not new, is it?

And then I'll only have Difficult Things, Blurred Lines and Who You Are (In High School) to worry about, aaaand two of those need some serious rethinking, I think (primarily Blurred Lines, ohhhh how I am having problems with it OMFG) but I'll worry about that when I come to it?

In the meantime, new projects are nibbling. I want to write 2nd-gen HP fic like you would not believe. I have so many very very bad ideas. Liiiike, Dudley is divorced and has a little girl who turns out to be a wizard! She is named Iris Dursley and is sorted into Hufflepuff! Along with Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy! And an awkward American girl who is essentially boring and uninteresting and kind of bad at interacting with her peers! And they fight prejudice with the powers of friendship and adorable! They are not the Golden Trio, they are the Gilded Quartet! And Albus and Scorpius end up gay for each other! And then they have awkward Weasley-Potter-Malfoy-Dursley-plus Christmas dinners! I really really want to write that last bit. And yeaaaah I need help please, somebody, please

Sooo we'll see if anything comes of that. And! I am probably going to start working seriously on the sequel to Sheer Dumb Luck. Because it isn't enough for me or something I do not know but it is going to be explosive and by that I mean Wheeljack/Ironhide romance and also Mixmaster will get in there and yes allll the other Constructicons and Ratchet of course and it is going to be the team dynamic fic about people outside of the romance and ohhhh yes I have plans. But no plot yet, which is kind of a problem but I have never never let that stop me. Usually I fix it by TURNING IT INTO A 20,000 WORD EPIC! that I then beat myself up over. I am some kind of literary masochist or something? NO idea

...And for the first time in my life I want to write songfic. It is for Vienna Teng's new album. Curse you, Vienna, curse you and your beautiful, beautiful voice and your history-themed album! No, no, wait, don't!

Sooo, off to write angst and magic and I do not think anyone over here at LJ is reading Lovely but shit is going down fuck yes! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SECTION SINCE CHAPTER THREE OMG

PLOT TWISTS! PLOT TWISTS!!! THAT NOBODY WILL SEE COMING YESYESYES OMG!!! (It is totally the best bit of writing a retelling. I am a secret secret plotter!)

Also, I kind of need sleep, apparently. I am sounding kind of giddy.

In conclusion: cousins forty people died today (long story) NATSUMEEEE ;_;

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Need to write, but can't. Partly because it's late, partly because it's hard, partly because I have less than zero inspiration for everything I should be working on *cough*sevenWIPs*cough* and I don't want to start anything new and partly because it's the break and I'm lazy. ):

And it's like my inspiration's gone all weird. I am having multifandom urges. Weeeeird ones. Like Young Wizards, Natsume Yuujinchou (YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING THIS) and Star Trek TOS. All at once. And then I got linked to an article about the manananggal on wikipedia. And I wanted to start writing weird mythology-related things. Which means that Assyrian/Babylonian mythology comes up again, especially since I'm rereading Snow Crash again. And I just reread Sunshine again, which means I want to write inverted dumb-muscle tropes, Now With Added Woobie. scans_daily is totally not helping with that at all.

In Other News: I am feeling deeply unhappy with how I've been handling Blurred Lines. I just--I honestly think I'm handling too big a cast. I really think my strength as a writer is in character interaction between 2-5 people--bigger groups and I start falling apart, especially when I can't structure it so I'm building up one-on-one interactions between multiple members of the cast. And I just think I've been pretty ham-handed in how I've been dealing with the whole thing, and it's not striking me as emotionally "real" yet, which is a problem, and yeah--serious structural problems to the story itself, because I can't figure out how to rearrange the structure so I can start focusing--meaningfully--on individual groups of characters.

I'm thinking of maybe just doing a total revamp and writing about the Decepticon group merging with the Autobot group in the caves on Alien Moon No. Whatever. I could handle that, and it would be really interesting. On the other hand, it take away some of the contrast I like so much in the current story--that is, that there's been this melding of otherwise incompatible groups, and they play off of the still-separate Autobot teams. It's about fucking with peoples' world views, in many ways. But, as mentioned, I could handle that story. Sooo, I have no idea.

I also need to get cracking on review replies for Sheer Dumb Luck. Especially since the sequel won't leave me alone. The sequel is hugely tempting for two reasons: 1, I get to write more Mixmaster/Bonecrusher/Ratchet/other Constructicons and 2, it will be Wheeljack/Ironhide and things will explode a lot. And I also want to write Ironhide/Chromia, because I came up with a headspace 2007 version of Chromia that is pretty much sheer undiluted awesome in kick-ass form, and I--kinda need to write her, yeah.

So that's where I'm at. I'll see if I can get a sort of fic-by-fic status update for everything up for New Years--you know, looking back and reflection and all that. And fandom New Year's Resolutions, of course!

(And dayari? I'm sorry, but part 2 of your giftfic will be late. I'm sorry, I thought I had it finished, and I went back to look at part 2 one last time, and I realized that there's a big huge gap that I haven't gotten to yet? I'm so sorry, I'll try to get it done in the next few days!)

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I just got an email about an old fic of mine, Mornings.

Mornings was a oneshot, for Naruto fandom, and one of my most popular fics to date. It's a oneshot, with 50 reviews as of right now. This is relevant.

( What haven't I had to deal with up to this point? Plagiarism. )

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I have an offer up at livelongnmarry, in case anybody is interested in donating to a good cause. You can read all about it here.

If you don't bid on mine, look around! There is some awesome stuff being offered up.

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Still alive--miraculously! (This is liable to change, however.) Anyways, plot bunnies are biting, still working on all my other stuff...

The major news: OMG I WON THE FIRST CHALLENGE OVER AT tfic_contest!!! So now my other account has paid usertime (!) and 100 extra userpics. (!!!) I... Honestly don't know what I'm going to do with them, considering that I only recently got icons at all, but hey! Awesome! I will also be getting a handmade Transformers pillowcase, which is so awesome I don't have words!!!

So, in individual fic news...

Alien: Not Over Yet chapter 2 is written and needs typing up and editing. This shouldn't take too long. ...Hopefully.

Blurred Lines 3 needs editing and possibly some rewriting, because I just looove rewriting it! So much! (This is a joke. Because I inevitably end up doing two major rewrites per chapter. Or more. And I've only done one major rewrite so far for chapter three!)

Chapter 2 of Difficult Things has been started, at the very least.

dayari: I am working on your giftfic! But I am not telling you what it is yet! But I am very excited about it!

I am still plugging away at chapter 11 of Lovely!

...Lord have mercy! I need to stop starting new stories! Like, six months ago! I mean, god. This is ridiculous.

Anyways: the challenge fic, Sheer Dumb Luck, will be posted here as it was posted at the challenge comm, although hopefully with my italics still intact. Then I will go through it bit-by-bit, do some editing and polishing, send those bits on to my beta (assuming you're willing, [Bad username: mmouse15!] and then repost them here and post them on fanfiction.net. (Although some will also need censoring for ffnet. I do not want to get banned there.)

So, that's that!

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