Hap hap happy.

Today I like the internet. (Who knows how I'll feel tomorrow.)

I love my flist, I like LJ, I love the archives that voluntarily host my stories for free...I'm just happy.

Had lovely chats with fiesty girl aerynstales and fabulous Muggle hunter snapesforte, and they were wonderful.

Flist, if you see I'm online and want to chat, ping away. I may be zoned out or doing laundry, but if I'm there and I'm not working on Teh Ginormous Fic, I'll babble away.

Oh, and I applied for one of the Acolyte positions in mortifyd's New Alan Order. Here's the "Alan Rickman hymn" I came up with:

He watches. He waits.

His voice cuts glass, soothes hurt, strikes when you least expect, binds your very breath. His voice can crawl inside. His voice can slide around corners and illuminate the dark interior of the box under your bed. His voice drips with honey and its edge is keen. His voice is burnished, coppery, cold against your throat. His voice burns like brandy in your mouth.

In the dark, he is a lion. His growl pins you to the wall, bites at the back of your knee, the tender skin of your inner elbow, it makes you his. He will draw blood and sugar from you, let you thrum beneath his fingers, decadent and breathing holy.

Looking through my Amazing Thesaurus, I found that a synonym for prayer was "Holy breathing" and I am completely transfixed with that phrase now.

Okay, enough randomness for one entry. I hope you all have a lovely day. I'm off to work now.

Chapter 59, chapter 59...

Oh, joy, joy, joy, chapter 59 is done, uploaded, given to the review gods and goddesses.

The amazing joys of chat...

Yesterday I forgot to mention that I chatted with the ever-gracious mysduende as well. Please accept my apologies!

Yes, I chatted with both of the owners of my two favorite Snapesites...on the same day. I'm such a geek...squee!

Not to mention the bubbly aerynstales as well. She is quite the expert at derailing trains of thought. In a very, very good way.

I really have to finish the two long LJ entries I've been working on, and finish the last (and shortest) piece of the Australian entries. I need to finish my outline for tLS and bridge the gap so that I can take the audience to the next section, which is quite action packed and will be tremendously challenging.

I don't know how you guys write, but my process goes like this...I think of the plot, outline it all, and then whenever I have spare time I find myself "writing" the narration in my head for different key scenes. By the time I actually get to the typing part I've re-written the important scenes at least three or four times, though I have no record of it. But somehow it seems to help.

It used to be that I wanted to write, but was convinced that I shouldn't bother. Then I just kept writing in my head, for years and years. I always had three different stories going at once; a superspy story, a fantasy story, and whatever happened to be in my interest at the moment story. Then I wrote a bit of fanfic in 1999 or 2000, and I just felt defeated, like I wasn't good enough. (This was before I found the internet, thank goodness.) So I kept writing in my head again. And now, it just feels more natural to me, and if the flow is good, the words keep coming. Certainly I get stuck, but with the important scenes I've written them so many times in my head that I can usually work through it with more ease than scenes that are not plotted out. Of course, I'm such a newbie still, and I have a long path to tread in writing before I can call myself a writer, but for right now, I'm very happy that I've gotten to the stage where I've practiced the narrative in my head enough to be able to get through a bit of fanfiction without shouting "I suck!!" and pulling out all of my hair.

Another 750 words and I'll break the 100K mark for tLS...wow! Starting chapter 60 really made me feel like I've come a long way.

Only thing is...will I still have people who want to read how it ends? I hope so. Another two chapters of emotion and progress and long dialogues and such and then I can proceed to some of the meat of the chapter, scenes that I've been itching to write for months now. I just need to get through the next two chapters and the angstravaganza will continue merrily on its way.

Thanks for listening, flist.