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June/July 2013: Cold Snap
12 years ago
Commission Status: WAY too busy
Current Writing Focus: Furry Visual Novel (Void Dreaming)
Current Writing Focus: Furry Visual Novel (Void Dreaming)
Heya fuzzies! Let me start this journal entry off with an idea of how my body works.
I go through cycles. Most people do, in some form or another! In any given year, certain things happen to me. I get really horny for a month in summer, I find myself unable to stop gaming for a couple weeks straight in the autumn, I can't stop putting words to pages for most of my spring, and in winter... well, in winter I get sick.
This isn't news. People get sick! Happens all the time, really. But every year, without fail, I always contract and suffer in a long, painful and snotty way through one really nasty cold. Most of the time when I get sick, my body beats it away after one really shitty day. Lingering effects can last a week. But once a year, with tedious inevitability, my body just shuts down from an influx of disease. This is not tasteful, attractive or desirable in any way, shape or form.
This winter is mild as fuck where I live, and as a result I think the cold hit me in such a way as to compensate for that. Last year's cold also happened about this time, when I was on a week-long ski trip. That was not pleasant in the slightest, and everyone around me was content to point out how much I complained about everything (Fun Fae Fact #9236: Fae loves to complain about anything!). This time, there's no fucking snow for me to ski on, so this cold has hit me before my truncated ski season starts. Small blessings where you can find them, I suppose.
What the hell does this have to do with my writing projects? Well, June was set to be a month that I wanted to work on a new novel idea, using a discarded Shadowrun character. I have done this! Not finished it, mind; I don't think all the support in the world would get me through NaNoWriMo with the kind of cold I had. In fact, it barely got off the ground properly before I came down with the Black Death. I managed to make it a chapter and a half in (and shorter chapters than I'm used to, too!) and make a map of the setting itself, and then I was struck down by the angry hand of the gods in punishment for my hubris. "No making worlds!" they wrathfully cried. "That's OUR thing!"
But I'm an arsehole to all, deity or otherwise, when I'm sick! So I kinda wanna keep working on this particular project throughout July as well. I was going to work on Compilation #SC1 here, and I may well make a poke at it, but I don't think I'll finish it off this month. The whole free-form creative process around this novel I didn't plan to write and didn't outline at all has made things very difficult for me, but now that I'm well again I relish the opportunity to leap back into it.
What does that leave me to do elsewhere, though? Well, I promised someone I'd write them a story in exchange for them doing something for me that they have already done. Yay them! So I can't exactly keep working on my Non-Furry Novel Project #2 right now. Instead, I need to finish their story. This IS something that'll be on SoFurry and FurAffinity, so keep your eyes peeled in the next couple of weeks. I'll actually upload more than a journal!
Beyond that, I've been mulling an idea in my head that's significantly affected by the behavior of a friend of mine. Vague statement, I know. I'm playing that one close to my chest at the moment, but I'm willing to divulge that it's a new project, furry based, short-story focused and could either be its own little mini-series or my 2014 entry for M-Preg March. I don't have anything nailed down and I don't have any solid plans, but it's entirely like that if I don't do anything on it this month, I may do so NEXT month. After all, August was meant to be a month off for me, but I took that a little earlier. About time I got back to work and produced something you guys could actually see!
So, that's it, really. Sick dragon, well dragon, writing dragon. I'm gonna go get ready for work now, come home, write furry porn for a bit and then work on a novel after it. And just maybe, if I'm lucky, the alluring glow of Guild Wars 2 will leave me alone long enough to extricate myself from Tyria again, if only for a short time.
Stay fuzzy!
- Fae
I go through cycles. Most people do, in some form or another! In any given year, certain things happen to me. I get really horny for a month in summer, I find myself unable to stop gaming for a couple weeks straight in the autumn, I can't stop putting words to pages for most of my spring, and in winter... well, in winter I get sick.
This isn't news. People get sick! Happens all the time, really. But every year, without fail, I always contract and suffer in a long, painful and snotty way through one really nasty cold. Most of the time when I get sick, my body beats it away after one really shitty day. Lingering effects can last a week. But once a year, with tedious inevitability, my body just shuts down from an influx of disease. This is not tasteful, attractive or desirable in any way, shape or form.
This winter is mild as fuck where I live, and as a result I think the cold hit me in such a way as to compensate for that. Last year's cold also happened about this time, when I was on a week-long ski trip. That was not pleasant in the slightest, and everyone around me was content to point out how much I complained about everything (Fun Fae Fact #9236: Fae loves to complain about anything!). This time, there's no fucking snow for me to ski on, so this cold has hit me before my truncated ski season starts. Small blessings where you can find them, I suppose.
What the hell does this have to do with my writing projects? Well, June was set to be a month that I wanted to work on a new novel idea, using a discarded Shadowrun character. I have done this! Not finished it, mind; I don't think all the support in the world would get me through NaNoWriMo with the kind of cold I had. In fact, it barely got off the ground properly before I came down with the Black Death. I managed to make it a chapter and a half in (and shorter chapters than I'm used to, too!) and make a map of the setting itself, and then I was struck down by the angry hand of the gods in punishment for my hubris. "No making worlds!" they wrathfully cried. "That's OUR thing!"
But I'm an arsehole to all, deity or otherwise, when I'm sick! So I kinda wanna keep working on this particular project throughout July as well. I was going to work on Compilation #SC1 here, and I may well make a poke at it, but I don't think I'll finish it off this month. The whole free-form creative process around this novel I didn't plan to write and didn't outline at all has made things very difficult for me, but now that I'm well again I relish the opportunity to leap back into it.
What does that leave me to do elsewhere, though? Well, I promised someone I'd write them a story in exchange for them doing something for me that they have already done. Yay them! So I can't exactly keep working on my Non-Furry Novel Project #2 right now. Instead, I need to finish their story. This IS something that'll be on SoFurry and FurAffinity, so keep your eyes peeled in the next couple of weeks. I'll actually upload more than a journal!
Beyond that, I've been mulling an idea in my head that's significantly affected by the behavior of a friend of mine. Vague statement, I know. I'm playing that one close to my chest at the moment, but I'm willing to divulge that it's a new project, furry based, short-story focused and could either be its own little mini-series or my 2014 entry for M-Preg March. I don't have anything nailed down and I don't have any solid plans, but it's entirely like that if I don't do anything on it this month, I may do so NEXT month. After all, August was meant to be a month off for me, but I took that a little earlier. About time I got back to work and produced something you guys could actually see!
So, that's it, really. Sick dragon, well dragon, writing dragon. I'm gonna go get ready for work now, come home, write furry porn for a bit and then work on a novel after it. And just maybe, if I'm lucky, the alluring glow of Guild Wars 2 will leave me alone long enough to extricate myself from Tyria again, if only for a short time.
Stay fuzzy!
- Fae
