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Fic updates
Sep. 17th, 2004 03:35 amVisited my local used bookstore. Yes, I only have one. I'm sad and depressed by that fact, but there it is. The store was being redone, too. Shelves in completely different places, different people running it- anyone know the turnover rate for used bookstores? I'm wondering because 3 of them in my old town (a college town) went out of buisiness. One started up again, and then went out of business again. It's depressing.
ANYWAY, I went and bought 4 romance novels. I wanted to get a selection from different genres but some were just too painful. LOL I went through lists online to see what the best ones were... and then I got to the store and the list fell through. I ended up getting a 2 Scottish Highland romances (if no one has figured it out yet, I'm obsessed with 18th-century Scotland), a fantasy one, and an internet-related murder mystery one. One of the Scottish ones is a 4 short story thing. So it's sort of a variety, right? And I figure reading ones that appealed to me somewhat will give me a better idea of what I'd want to write anyway. Yeah. So I'm justifying it, but there we go. Mom saw my purchases and laughed. "A master's in computer science and you're going to write trashy romance novels?" but also said "You know, I think it's a great idea" so we'll see. It's a longshot, still. I can't market myself, so I doubt I'll get very far. But it doesn't hurt to know what I'd be getting into if I end up going for it.
Today's writing exploits, because I just know you're sitting on the edge of your seat waiting:
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ANYWAY, I went and bought 4 romance novels. I wanted to get a selection from different genres but some were just too painful. LOL I went through lists online to see what the best ones were... and then I got to the store and the list fell through. I ended up getting a 2 Scottish Highland romances (if no one has figured it out yet, I'm obsessed with 18th-century Scotland), a fantasy one, and an internet-related murder mystery one. One of the Scottish ones is a 4 short story thing. So it's sort of a variety, right? And I figure reading ones that appealed to me somewhat will give me a better idea of what I'd want to write anyway. Yeah. So I'm justifying it, but there we go. Mom saw my purchases and laughed. "A master's in computer science and you're going to write trashy romance novels?" but also said "You know, I think it's a great idea" so we'll see. It's a longshot, still. I can't market myself, so I doubt I'll get very far. But it doesn't hurt to know what I'd be getting into if I end up going for it.
Today's writing exploits, because I just know you're sitting on the edge of your seat waiting:
- Wrote some more mentally & more long-hand in that original fic. I plan to type it up before I go to bed
- Opened up the first Ronfic I ever started (The Vampire) and edited it a little. Didn't write much more, but added a couple lines and paragraphs here and there. And I cleaned up some problems I found with his age. He's 17 in the fic so technically an adult by wizarding standards.
- Tried writing a Wolf's Rain set of drabbles (no sneezing). What I wrote sucks. I just can't get Kiba's obsession with Cheza to work. It sounds too cheesy. *bangs head against monitor* I've rewritten it at least 10 times now and I'm thinking of just scrapping the whole bloody idea. If not for the bits with Toboe and Tsume which are slightly decent, I'd toss it away right now and not look back. Grrr. Stupid drabbles. You wouldn't think 150 words would be that hard to manage, would you? Damnit
- Am feeling the urge to pick up some of my Remus/Bill fics. I love Bill :-)
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- Oh! And I got some inspiration to write another Obi/Qui fic. I can't decide which is doing the sneezing (the muses are leading me to Qui-Gon but for some reason I'm fighting for Obi, LOL) So we'll see what comes of that.
