To the Sixes

Currently writing a fic starring (a living) Yue for someone. I'm having a devil of a time trying to write her. She's just so... boring. There's only so much milage you can get out of the dutiful, self-sacrificing martyr. 

Anyone have any advice for writing Yue? How do you view her personality?

I learned this workaround from JoeHundredaire on the SpaceBattles forum.

On FFnet, when you click on your story link to upload a new chapter, you're probably seeing a broken page. On that broken page, there's a section of the URL -- "/story/story_edit_property.php" -- that needs to be replaced. Use "/story/story_edit_content.php" in the URL instead of "/story/story_edit_property.php" and press enter. You should now be able to upload new chapters.  

I'm swamped trying to get my Mini-Bang, Maiko Bang, and Rare/Crack Pairing submissions done by their alloted deadlines, BUT my brain needs a bit of distraction now and again...


Via beckyh2112:

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

I'll be limiting this to the AtLA and Neon Genesis Evangelion fandoms.

This draft is looking pretty solid. It's nearly double the length of previous ones, weighing in at a hefty 5900 words so far. I've managed to incorporate pieces from nearly every previous draft in a non-sucky (I hope) way. The thing I'm happiest about is that I've finally managed to juggle the six characters present for the Iroh/Toph mutual verbal smackdown.

Now I just need to write the big Iroh/Toph fight sequence, the Aang/Zuko fight, and then wrap everything up. Needless to say, Chapter 3 is going to be damn big.
 

On a completely unrelated note, here's some awesome fanart that has Zuko and Aang taking bongs hits.

I'm writing fic for Queensland flood relief fic-a-thon.

Anyone here interested in shaking me down for new fanfic made to order can head over here and plop down $10.

I'm offer 1 oneshot fic, 1000 word minimum.

I'm willing to write in any of the following fandoms:
* Neon Genesis Evangelion
* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* The Ciaphas Cain series (Warhammer 40K)

* I've begun the 612044th draft of the next chapter of Full Metal Bitch. I very much want this chapter to be finished already.

* Fanfiction.net is now practically unusable if you don't have an Ad blocker installed. 

* I finished the newest Caiphas Cain book and found it lacking in the back-half. By the last half dozen chapters I stopped caring completely about what was going on. Definitely the weakest entry in the series.
 
* Apparently AtLA has a kink meme (NSFW). Who knew? Sadly it's pretty much dead. Not a great loss since the prompts are pretty boring, although I'm morbidly impressed by the sheer number of permutations of "Zuko gets raped" there are. 

* I'm trying to bring myself to start reading Nobody Dies again, but I got really fatigued around Chapter 70 when it seemed like the story went several chapters without finishing a single damn conversation because there were so many ongoing plot threads. 

* I'm in the mood to do another fanfic mini-meme but I don't think now is the time for it. I have -- three? -- projects ongoing that need sunlight and watering.

Stolen from John Scalzi's blog:

"The end of the year is not a bad time to think about some of the things one would like to try one’s hand at moving forward. And to that end, here are some things I’ve been thinking about doing at some point in the future. Note that this is not a list of things I am making a resolution to do, or things I necessarily have planned to do in the next year (and yes, I have things planned for the next year). It’s just a list of stuff that I’d like to get around to before I, you know, am hit by a bus and/or get bored with creating stuff and just pack it all in to do nothing but watch movies on Netflix for the rest of my life."



Here's my own list:

1. Write a full-on romantic shipping-centric fic. I've hemmed and hawed in this field of fanfic, racing up to the line but not crossing it when expected to. I always feel very awkward writing romance-centric fanfics because I'm not particularly romantic myself, so I instinctively keep pulling back in my stories. I only vaguely had Mai and Zuko get together in 'His and Her Circumstances' because of this issue. I was much more interested in the story's worldbuilding and individual character arcs than the Mai/Zuko arc and it shows.

In 2011, I really want to do a fic that has a strong romantic/shipping element as its spine. I've been kicking around a few ideas in particular -- Loopy suggested a Sokkla fic I'm prepping as one possibility for this year's Big Bang, I've got a Maiko Big Bang to write for, and I'm currently chipping away at a TyZula fic -- so there's something to look forward to. 

2. Get back to writing Evangelion fic. I wrote very, very little fanfic for this fandom in 2010. I still need to finish Taking Sights, and my Nobody Dies genderswap, and I have a new Evangelion long-form fanfic that I'm excited to start called "Her Smoke Rises Up Forever". I really enjoy the Evangelion fandom. It was the first one I really got into hardcore, and fanfic-wise it offers opportunities that AtLA doesn't with its setting.

3. Finish All My Existing Projects. I'd like to be able to close the door on all the unfinished crap I have posted on FF.net. I don't want to become one of those authors. 

4. Write More Reviews. I'm a bad reader. I don't nearly review fics often enough. I need to work on that, providing fics I like or find interesting with decent analysis.

5. Write More Regularly. I've gotten really bad at this ever since I went on my hiatus with Facing Fearful Odds. I used to regularly crank out a thousand words a day on FFO. Now it's an exceptional day if I can hammer out five hundred words. I only write a lot in occasional splurges, not with any regularity. That's bad.