4 posts tagged “fanfiction”

So I've been a bit MIA lately. I have no excuses. Shame, shame.

Basically, most of my time online anymore is spent on my writing, and frankly, I haven't come across much in the news that's fired me up politically. I'll say this much, it is much easier to stay up to date on the news around the world when you have cable, which right now, I don't. (That's right - I'm going to miss the 24 finale tomorrow night. GRRR.) Yes, the internet is a far more exhaustive and helpful tool with regard to the news and politics than television, but it's not what I'm used to. I've missed all of the debates - I'm sorry, YouTube with its maddening skippage is painful, and I'd rather read blurbs than torture myself there - and I hardly feel as if I'm qualified to comment anymore unless it's some mildly abstract principled issue rather than a hot-button, up to the minute issue. It may also be that I'm mildly burned out.

But I'll be back in my groove soon enough. Frankly, I'd rather let this blog waste away for a little while than just answer Qotd's and bore everyone with inane details about my life (or the lack thereof).

One word on the 24 finale: if the spoilers I've read are true, oh my God, I am going to cry both tears of fangirl joy and tears of utter devastation for not being able to watch it myself. I mean, we are talking the greatest ending to a season ever. You may never hear from me on this blog ever again because I'll be too busy furiously writing my dream version of Day 7 to notice anything else happening in the world. It's that good.

See? This is why I should step away for awhile. I'm already boring everyone.

EDIT: I should also mention that I am absolutely keeping up with my neighborhood. I love each & every one of you and you all brighten my day. I'll probably end up leaving more comments than writing actual posts for a little while. But you all are awesome, and I shall keep up with you, burned out or not. :)

I really do. Is it the computer's fault that it got hit with some worm Sunday and shut down, leaving me panicked and HIGHLY unhappy for 5 too many days? No, but I still hate it. It just isn't enough that I work off of a crap, lightless monitor - nooo, hows about we add freshly data-free and back to square one? I've only had this thing since December - is that relatively soon for all of this crap that keeps happpening? I don't know because I can't compare it to past experience, since this is my first computer. There's my Qotd - what's your general timeframe for a computer going belly up?

OK, OK, so it didn't exactly "go belly up" - at least I was able to reinstall Windows and get this thing working again. And, my mood was instantly lightened - nay, transformed into utter ecstaticness (is that a word?) - by the discovery that a story I wrote for a 24  fanfiction challenge...OMG....WON.

*jumps up & down*

Oh my God I won something! And for something I wrote!! *squeals*

What did I win, exactly? Well, not much, besides the praise of fellow Jack/Chloe fanfiction writers, but each winner got a banner made to look like their story. This is mine:

Glorylinnemann

It has my name on it and everything! Whee!

(For those of you who haven't figured as much, fanfiction is the act of ripping off whatever you're a fan of and doing it your own way. For me, it's taking the show 24 and writing stories pairing Jack Bauer with Chloe or with...um...well, another character. If you really want to know, I'll tell you, but you probably don't. Especially if you don't watch the show, in which case you care nothing of what I'm currently babbling about.)

Anyway, one look at that banner and the accompanying title of "Best Plot", and suddenly, I heart my computer.

I'm way behind on the news and my neighboorhood, but I shall remedy that soon. "Soon" being tomorrow, since it's about 8 AM and I need to go to sleep.

Happy day to all. :)

When is the last time you stayed up all night?

Ummmmmm......I stay up all night, like, a lot.

The earliest I'll ever fall asleep is just before 2 AM. The latest I go to sleep is 8 AM. There's generally no in between, for a number of reasons. One, if I have absolutely no reason to stay awake, I do. If it's Saturday and time to call this late night political talk show,on the other hand, I'll conk out against my own will. It's a problem.

One reason I'll often find myself awake at the crack of dawn is this fanfiction crap I've gotten sucked into. I say that with the utmost affection, by the way. I'll tap away furiously at my keyboard into the morning hours, telling myself, "Okay, there's chapter three - you should finish by tomorrow night." Then the next night I go over my handiwork, and I wind up hating the whole thing and starting over again. I love writing, and I've loved it all my life, but I don't think I'd ever choose it as a profession. If ripping off TV shows can be this maddening, I don't want to even think about how I'd go about actually being original.

Well, I have jumped on the group-creating bandwagon. I have created not one, but two new groups. If anyone reading this has ever dabbled in songwriting or poetry, then I invite you to join my new group, Songwriters. And please, feel free to shock me and actually put my member count over 1. And if you don't write but for some ungodly reason want to read the stuff I write when I'm inspired - mainly when I'm miserable (you know, the tortured artist thing) - that's fine, too. And if you don't care, that's quite fine - I probably wouldn't either.

My second group is dedicated to fanfiction, for all fandoms. I'll be posting some of my "24" stuff there. Again, everyone's invited.

I would have sent individual invites, but I don't want to bug anyone not interested.

Just putting it out there to my lovely neighborhood & beyond...