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Post by moonmomma on Feb 17, 2010 21:54:47 GMT -5
When the characters from my current work-in-progress showed up and took over my brain, here's what I had to put on the back burner: "Starfire," a Nephrite/Naru fanfiction novel that I wrote for National Novel Writing Month this past November. It's actually a rewrite of an earlier, failed novel. I was supposed to start posting it in January, but my current project showed up and booted it to the back of the line. "The Rains of Urdaisunia," a fantasy novel I started and abandoned about 18 years ago. I picked it up again a few years ago and posted the first two chapters on my Worlds Apart site, then got sidetracked again. After NaNoWriMo, I got interested in it again and got my old outline notes organized and plotted out, but then this one also got pushed back by my current project. The characters are getting pretty ticked off at me for having to wait so long for their turn.  |
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Post by moonmomma on Mar 9, 2010 23:20:58 GMT -5
Updated to-do list:
Current: 1st revision of "Starfire." Hoping to be able to start posting this at my fanfiction site by the end of March.
Waiting: Revise "The Broken God."
Start drafting "The Rains of Urdaisunia."
After that: Another fanfic, "Solaris," and another original fantasy novel I started and abandoned a long time ago, "Earthsinger," are starting to percolate around in my mind. I've also got another half-written fanfic, "A Promise Kept," that I'd kind of like to finish sometime. The first part of it is too much like "Starfire," though, so I'm going to let some time go by before I get serious about it. And a short novel set in my original Sourceword setting is also starting to jump around in my brain. I think I wrote the whole thing, but I'm not sure where it is or what shape it's in.
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Post by moonmomma on Jul 15, 2010 15:05:24 GMT -5
Still revising "The Empty God" Eager to really get to work on "The Rains of Urdaisunia" (to be retitled now that the focus of the story has changed). Planning to cobble together a manuscript from old stuff I can still use, and new first draft, then see what I can do with it. "Earthsinger" is starting to take shape in my mind. I've been starting to get a lot more good ideas for it. I got most of it written about 15 years ago, but my critique group I was working with at the time had serious issues with the female main character's personality, especially her antagonism towards the seriously adorable male main character. and they laughed at the big love scene much to my chagrin at the time, but I've since realized they were right. These were such serious shortcomings that I would have seen them eventually anyway. Sometimes taking a big step back from a story is a good idea. For NaNoWriMo, I'm trying to decide between a fanfic tentatively titled "Solaris" and an original fantasy idea I've been kicking around for some time but haven't written yet. |
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Post by moonmomma on May 30, 2011 16:41:04 GMT -5
to-do list right now: finish the draft of Earthsinger. 1st revision of Solaris (my NaNo novel; this isn't going to be pretty) 2nd revision of The Empty God 1st revision of Urdaisunia (whatever it's called) further revisions of each of these as needed, ad nauseum  I've also got an idea for a new Sailor Moon Nephrite/Naru fanfic inspired by the old Sailor Moon Expanded site. ( sailormoonexpanded.nsamo.com/) |
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Post by *~MistressKeren~* on Jun 1, 2011 11:57:46 GMT -5
Can't wait to see your Solaris fic..good luck revising it. ^_^
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Post by moonmomma on Jun 25, 2011 19:24:48 GMT -5
Well, now that Earthsinger is back on the back burner for now (some of the ideas for it are starting to shift around into something that might be more workable, but I don't want to jump back into it too soon), it's time to work on other things. I've got a bunch of novels to revise, and some new ones I want to start working on. Revision list: 1) Solaris (my NaNo from last year; I'm still kind of scared to look at it, but I'm going to have to sometime ) 2) The Lost Book of Anggird (formerly known as The Empty God) 3) Urdaisunia New stories: 1) I've been wanting to write a western-fantasy for quite a while, and the ideas for one are starting to take shape. 2) A dystopian Crystal Tokyo Nephrite/Naru story loosely based on an idea from Sailor Moon Expanded. 3) A small fantasy novel that's been floating around in my mind for a long time, which would be perfect for a NaNo. Maybe I'll do it for Camp NaNo in August. |
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Post by moonmomma on Jun 25, 2011 19:25:20 GMT -5
Can't wait to see your Solaris fic..good luck revising it. ^_^ hee hee, thanks, I think I'll need it |
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Post by moonmomma on Jul 4, 2011 18:04:09 GMT -5
I've been making progress on the Solaris revisions, and also making more notes for a western fantasy. I haven't really read any Westerns before, so I downloaded some Zane Grey novels from Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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