Getting Back into the Swing of Things
Sep. 21st, 2010 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lavanya_six So after about a month's worth of writer's block, I seem to have found my mojo again. The other day, I posted a new fic, A Pocket Guide to Ba Sing Se, which is some fictional in-universe propaganda for AtLA. It's been received pretty positively, so that's nice. I also wrote up a TV Tropes page for Another Brother. (Beware: link contains memetic hazards!)
I've fallen behind in the reading and reviewing, especially for all the AtLA Big Bang fics. I've been saving them as a reward for finishing FFO. If you're looking for some good fics, I recommend checking it out. Also of interest is sylvacoer's new Mai-centric fanfic project -- Danger, Deceit (alt link to ff.net). I did some beta work for her early on and it's got a really amazing story in store, international intrigue and mannerpunk. There is far too little mannerpunk in the Fire Nation wing of AtLA fanfic, so check it out!
I've been doing some tinkering on "Praise Be to Nero's Neptune", fleshing out the pre-story background of the Fire Nation Civil War. I'm still on the fence of how I want to unload some of the exposition -- a one-shot prequel, fictional historical documents at the head of each chapter, flashback interlude chapters, or not at all. I'm hedging towards only touching lightly on most of it. Last Firebender does awesome fake history documents in its header, and I don't think I could top it. Also, Last Firebender has the benefit of having a future to set its fictional documents in, and part of the point of "Praise Be" is that the world may be somewhat lacking in that regarding.
I may be using "Praise Be" as my kinda-sorta-NaNaWriMo project. Dunno yet. Gotta see what my RL situation is like in November first. Also, I might do FFO Book 2 or my new Evangelion AU instead.
Currently alternating on two primary projects -- finishing FFO and writing out Chapter 3 of FMB. It's been hard to return to FFO because I got really blocked up on it and sick of it being a money on my back. I only have four chapter remaining, though. FMB's third chapter had a big plot tumor in the form of the Iroh/Toph confrontation, so I split that chapter into two parts. Chapter 4 will focus on the AU rendition of "Bitter Work". Chapter 3 will consist primarily of flashbacks leading into the Iroh/Toph fight. In order to maintain audience sympathy for her character, I've decided to consciously avoid showing much of Toph's life before the Siege of Ba Sing Se.
I'll start posting FFO's chapters on a weekly basis, starting alongside Chapter 3 of FMB whenever I post that.
I've fallen behind in the reading and reviewing, especially for all the AtLA Big Bang fics. I've been saving them as a reward for finishing FFO. If you're looking for some good fics, I recommend checking it out. Also of interest is sylvacoer's new Mai-centric fanfic project -- Danger, Deceit (alt link to ff.net). I did some beta work for her early on and it's got a really amazing story in store, international intrigue and mannerpunk. There is far too little mannerpunk in the Fire Nation wing of AtLA fanfic, so check it out!
I've been doing some tinkering on "Praise Be to Nero's Neptune", fleshing out the pre-story background of the Fire Nation Civil War. I'm still on the fence of how I want to unload some of the exposition -- a one-shot prequel, fictional historical documents at the head of each chapter, flashback interlude chapters, or not at all. I'm hedging towards only touching lightly on most of it. Last Firebender does awesome fake history documents in its header, and I don't think I could top it. Also, Last Firebender has the benefit of having a future to set its fictional documents in, and part of the point of "Praise Be" is that the world may be somewhat lacking in that regarding.
I may be using "Praise Be" as my kinda-sorta-NaNaWriMo project. Dunno yet. Gotta see what my RL situation is like in November first. Also, I might do FFO Book 2 or my new Evangelion AU instead.
Currently alternating on two primary projects -- finishing FFO and writing out Chapter 3 of FMB. It's been hard to return to FFO because I got really blocked up on it and sick of it being a money on my back. I only have four chapter remaining, though. FMB's third chapter had a big plot tumor in the form of the Iroh/Toph confrontation, so I split that chapter into two parts. Chapter 4 will focus on the AU rendition of "Bitter Work". Chapter 3 will consist primarily of flashbacks leading into the Iroh/Toph fight. In order to maintain audience sympathy for her character, I've decided to consciously avoid showing much of Toph's life before the Siege of Ba Sing Se.
I'll start posting FFO's chapters on a weekly basis, starting alongside Chapter 3 of FMB whenever I post that.
