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minervasoloI'm writing because I feel like writing. I actually ave an urge to open Word and write whatever comes to mind, but I'm writing here insteda because I lose anything I save on this computer by dint of forgetting i ever wrote it. I was about to say something interesting, but it has gone completely from my mind. Oops.
So what, then, shall i write? I found a short story competition, no more than 200 words, and I need something to enter for that. Most of the stuff I write is a bit, well, odd. Dark fantsy or sci fi, generally pretty weird. A lot of it is just experiments with writing techniques. I have something like fifteen finished short stories, but I feel i ought to try and write something a bit more mainstream, if I'm to have a hope in hell of winning the £200, £100 or £50. I do have a ghost-story-type-thing I wrote a short while ago, in fact, it sort of began here when i as on a writing kick a while back, but I've expanded it a lot now. I feel it needs more expansion, but it's hard to keep the thread of the plot when hte character keeps going off on tangents to talk about her husband's affair. There's not really a lot fof plot to start with. Of course, I can enter this competition as many times as i like, £3 a go, so as long as I don't enter 17 times, I could still make a profit with thrid prize. Of course, chacnes of me winning slim to none, but it would be most fun if I did.
Ah, note to self: try to remember what my sn on abctales was, and delete some of my fics. don't mind having some stuff up htere, but there's this whole 'first publishing rights deal which i didn't know about when i put them up, so anything I think i might possibly have a chance of getting actually published I'm going to take down.
Conversely, i've been thinking of putitng more of my origfic up on hte web. Build a website for it, and so on. If I'm going to put it on my Personal Statement, i damn well ought to have done it.I have a plan for how the site will look, but it's a very ambitious plan and best left til i can have the computer to myself for days at a time. Oh, and can email Anria ten, tweleve times a day about minutae.
Ah, found my thing on abctales. Funny, that's not hte username I thought it would be. Anyone interested in viewing stories I wrote two or three years ago (apparently the last time I updated anything on there was september last year, which surprises me, since I don't remember that whatsoever), feel free, but I'll be taking some down pretty soon. i.e. now. But I'll stick some more stuff up there, and I'll probably put some of Fictionpress, just to see what kind of reacion i get. I never got any kind of a reaction at abctales, but im okay with that. Didn't relaly expect to, though friends Sian teling me repeatedly that her essay and her stories were al being cherry picked got on my nerves a bit.I read them, and they all sounded like typical teenaged angst to me, but then, my stuff sounds like complete and utter nonsense, to me and anyone else, so i can't exactly complain. At least her stuff was accessible.
Funny thing about abstales, no text formatting. You either upload it as .txt, or you copy and paste it. I'd forgotten about that. Bloody annoying, really. If ff.n can take html documents, surely abctales can manage? They're about the same age, as far as I know. Ah, oops. Guess what? I'm submititng a story as an 18, but since I m not yet 18, i won't be able to read it. I'd forgotten about that. I think that might have been one of hte reasons I abandoned hte site in the first place, because I couldn't read fifteens (it's been a long while since I used it) but I wanted to post them. Who wants to bet they take that tale down? I mean, it deals with things that should make it an 18, but if they object I'll call it a 15 anyay and stick a warning at the top. Ah, sneakysneaky. Changed my date of birth instead. Changing my user name might hve been a mistake tho - can't get in as either nattk or minerva solo now. Oops... Should have thought that one through a bit more thoroughly.
No, really can't get in as either, and it hasn't sent me any emails to explain why. I wonder why the fics will still be under the same name? Ah! Finally found it. It suck a sneaky underscore in. I never typed any underscore *humph*. Ah, and now it tels me I may need to log in again if I alter my username. Funny how it didn't mention that when i actually did alter my username. Other things that annoy me about the site: sci fi and horror both exist as story categories, but fantasy doesn't. 90% of what I write is Fantasy, of some kind or another. Also, you can't combine categories, so something can't be horror and spiritual. Really, it's a site distinctly not designed for my kind of writing, which was polished with fanfiction.
*giggles* Suddenly found that you can see what people rated. I haven't got much up there, but for various stories I've had 1*, 3* and 4*. Impressed much with the 4*. Oh, and poetry's been rated too. I think I prefer the poetry I've written that's up. Ah damn, it's messed up hte formatting on some of the poems. Lines running into each other all over the place. Have to fix that. Damn, wish I'd thought to check what ratngs the Vampire stories had before I deleted them. I've changed most of them since I first put them up there, but it would have been nice to get some kind of quasi-feedback. *pous* i want to get cherry picked. For an example, most fics, read maybe 20 times. Cherry picked fic? Over 700 times.
Okay, now I have someone to talk to, so enough wafflige.
Funny how I've been tired all day, but suddenly I'm full of energy. Great timing, that. My sister just got back. She was supposed to be back before mum nad Harry went out, aorund 9, but she only just got back. Guess who's been asked to lie for her? I'm going to bed before th can ask, thank you very much!
ttfn
So what, then, shall i write? I found a short story competition, no more than 200 words, and I need something to enter for that. Most of the stuff I write is a bit, well, odd. Dark fantsy or sci fi, generally pretty weird. A lot of it is just experiments with writing techniques. I have something like fifteen finished short stories, but I feel i ought to try and write something a bit more mainstream, if I'm to have a hope in hell of winning the £200, £100 or £50. I do have a ghost-story-type-thing I wrote a short while ago, in fact, it sort of began here when i as on a writing kick a while back, but I've expanded it a lot now. I feel it needs more expansion, but it's hard to keep the thread of the plot when hte character keeps going off on tangents to talk about her husband's affair. There's not really a lot fof plot to start with. Of course, I can enter this competition as many times as i like, £3 a go, so as long as I don't enter 17 times, I could still make a profit with thrid prize. Of course, chacnes of me winning slim to none, but it would be most fun if I did.
Ah, note to self: try to remember what my sn on abctales was, and delete some of my fics. don't mind having some stuff up htere, but there's this whole 'first publishing rights deal which i didn't know about when i put them up, so anything I think i might possibly have a chance of getting actually published I'm going to take down.
Conversely, i've been thinking of putitng more of my origfic up on hte web. Build a website for it, and so on. If I'm going to put it on my Personal Statement, i damn well ought to have done it.I have a plan for how the site will look, but it's a very ambitious plan and best left til i can have the computer to myself for days at a time. Oh, and can email Anria ten, tweleve times a day about minutae.
Ah, found my thing on abctales. Funny, that's not hte username I thought it would be. Anyone interested in viewing stories I wrote two or three years ago (apparently the last time I updated anything on there was september last year, which surprises me, since I don't remember that whatsoever), feel free, but I'll be taking some down pretty soon. i.e. now. But I'll stick some more stuff up there, and I'll probably put some of Fictionpress, just to see what kind of reacion i get. I never got any kind of a reaction at abctales, but im okay with that. Didn't relaly expect to, though friends Sian teling me repeatedly that her essay and her stories were al being cherry picked got on my nerves a bit.I read them, and they all sounded like typical teenaged angst to me, but then, my stuff sounds like complete and utter nonsense, to me and anyone else, so i can't exactly complain. At least her stuff was accessible.
Funny thing about abstales, no text formatting. You either upload it as .txt, or you copy and paste it. I'd forgotten about that. Bloody annoying, really. If ff.n can take html documents, surely abctales can manage? They're about the same age, as far as I know. Ah, oops. Guess what? I'm submititng a story as an 18, but since I m not yet 18, i won't be able to read it. I'd forgotten about that. I think that might have been one of hte reasons I abandoned hte site in the first place, because I couldn't read fifteens (it's been a long while since I used it) but I wanted to post them. Who wants to bet they take that tale down? I mean, it deals with things that should make it an 18, but if they object I'll call it a 15 anyay and stick a warning at the top. Ah, sneakysneaky. Changed my date of birth instead. Changing my user name might hve been a mistake tho - can't get in as either nattk or minerva solo now. Oops... Should have thought that one through a bit more thoroughly.
No, really can't get in as either, and it hasn't sent me any emails to explain why. I wonder why the fics will still be under the same name? Ah! Finally found it. It suck a sneaky underscore in. I never typed any underscore *humph*. Ah, and now it tels me I may need to log in again if I alter my username. Funny how it didn't mention that when i actually did alter my username. Other things that annoy me about the site: sci fi and horror both exist as story categories, but fantasy doesn't. 90% of what I write is Fantasy, of some kind or another. Also, you can't combine categories, so something can't be horror and spiritual. Really, it's a site distinctly not designed for my kind of writing, which was polished with fanfiction.
*giggles* Suddenly found that you can see what people rated. I haven't got much up there, but for various stories I've had 1*, 3* and 4*. Impressed much with the 4*. Oh, and poetry's been rated too. I think I prefer the poetry I've written that's up. Ah damn, it's messed up hte formatting on some of the poems. Lines running into each other all over the place. Have to fix that. Damn, wish I'd thought to check what ratngs the Vampire stories had before I deleted them. I've changed most of them since I first put them up there, but it would have been nice to get some kind of quasi-feedback. *pous* i want to get cherry picked. For an example, most fics, read maybe 20 times. Cherry picked fic? Over 700 times.
Okay, now I have someone to talk to, so enough wafflige.
Funny how I've been tired all day, but suddenly I'm full of energy. Great timing, that. My sister just got back. She was supposed to be back before mum nad Harry went out, aorund 9, but she only just got back. Guess who's been asked to lie for her? I'm going to bed before th can ask, thank you very much!
ttfn
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Date: 26/7/03 08:02 pm (UTC)(Too many variations on "publish" up there. . . .)
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Date: 27/7/03 04:15 pm (UTC)Are you going to Keeley's tomorrow?
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