Writerly Ways

Okay so yesterday I corrected mom when she said it was sunday. I knew it was saturday when I was planning to watch Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins and yet when I sat down here I thought it was sunday and I had missed my writerly ways.

Not that I have much to say anyhow but how about this theme? Titles? Or OMG I HATE titles. There's a title for you. I know some people love them and have them before they even start a story but those people are insane (looks at evil_little_dog. Most of my titles are lame or stolen from song lyrics or poems or something. I don't know why I hate them so much but I do.

So why am I ranting about this now? I DID start camp nano with my Vampires in Vegas story. And right now that's its title. I can not keep calling it Vampires in Vegas (but that shall forever be its tag because who knows I probably have more than one story for Luc and Arri).

Here's the synopsis. Arrigo is an ancient vampire, currently living in the Sky apartments right on the Vegas strip so yes, rich, bored, a member of the Chiaroscuro a group of supernaturals and magic users who police their kind for the evil-doers. He sees a displaced Cajun, Luc and falls in lust with him. Luc and his nasty father and brother moved to Vegas to work for a friend of his father's post Katerina.(mostly because with Poppy Brite, Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris, Louisiana doesn't need another vampire story). Luc is uneducated and pretty much trapped by his family who pretty much equate women, minorities and gays as punching bags. Luc is extremely conflicted by his bisexuality, brought up to think he's more or less going to hell just for thinking about it.

Enter Eleni, a caput lupinum, wolf's head as far as the Chiaroscuro is concerned. Some time in the past her and her lover ran afoul of the Chiaroscuro and Arrigo and they killed her lover. She decides it's time to prick at his sides again and sets her sights on Luc thinking he means more to Arrigo than he currently does.

So yeah, it needs a title. I'm open to suggestions and readers!

You know what I'm going to do when I come back from Wales? I'm hopefully going to see the Bryn Celli Ddu burial chamber and it's near the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch. I'm not even joking. I'll set a story there and it's title will be It Happened One Night in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch.

Yearly word count -

44809 / 75000 words. 60% done!

I edited everything but Ties that Binds. I've made progress on the Scarred Soldier story which really does need someone to read it all the way thru shortly. Started two other stories besides the vampires, Sacrifice - a lesbian fantasy and Nine's story, m/m novel/novella/who knows.

Took a half a day 'me' day

Oh I did some work, like going grocery shopping (that's okay, it's one of the few forms of shopping I like) and I spent quite a bit of time looking through an interactive map to the standing stones and burial chambers of Wales. I have learned a few things. A) my research has been modified to include burial chambers since what is left of standing stones amounts to a few circles and mostly one or two lonely stones in some farmer's field but there are plenty of burial chambers. B) I'm not interested overly much in a lonely stone in a field and would never have time to visit them all. C) I can do THAT part of my research online and document it as such.

I wrote up a long letter and will send it to a travel agency in Wales specializing in archeology. I would like to take their 3 day tour which does the main sites in the south PLUS the castles (because I wanna see a castle dammit) then do a personalized one in the north.

I also watched a lot of stuff I had recorded. When I get thru it all, I hope to do up a TV post.

Kanda was less happy with Soul than I realized. I noticed when Soul was at the vet's Kanda was more playful. Now that Soul is becoming more and more a ghost in this house, Kanda is going nuts. He's playing with me. He's chasing his tail. As I type this he's trying to catch his shadow. He even tried to catch the water filling the tub. Soul is not doing well at all.

In better news this amused me. Thanks to ES for pointing it out to me.

"Buffy Angel fanvid - The Hand that Feeds - Faith, Connor" (Watch on YouTube)

I might actually get to 8K on nano by tonight. whee me.

eta -

7619 / 50000 words. 15% done!

Fic - Pay Attention

Title -- Pay Attention
Author-- cornerofmadness
series -- manga/FMA:B
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- soft R
Characters/Pairing -- Roy/Maes
Timeline/Spoilers -- set in their Academy days
Word Count -- 443
Warning -- suggestions of sex
Summary -- Roy never pays attention to anything but his alchemy books.
Author’s Note -- I wanted to do something more serious this time. Maes, being Maes, refused to comply. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta. Written for fma_fic_contest’s prompt of ‘nerd’ and won first place. Thanks to remaintobreathe for the lovely banner.

( You are such a nerd )