Still no time

[cornerofmadness]

Between yesterday and today all I've done is grade and make exams. I'm done with that now. Thank god because I need next week to catch up on Nano. I go back to OH tomorrow.

Today I went to my aunt and uncle's. They took in a stray cat, all black with copper/amber eyes and she is friendly as all get out. She feels like my Iktomi did, like mink. I hope she has a nice long life. She's a doll.

Then we were at my brother's all evening. I played the best game of Uno in my life, ending up with only 41 points in the end.

But that also means I've had almost no time to write. I FINALLY put a story here in my journal though. After all that whining about losing all my stories from before about 2007 because all I did was link out I realized I was STILL just linking out (to Ao3 this time which does seem more stable than those from 15 years ago).

Also I can not figure out WHY DW isn't crossposting to LJ but only with the write every day posts. Is it the picture? Is it teh cut text? I have no idea.


Here more of the story, Arria's chapter, time jumped a decade. I'm still unable to get her to do what I want. I dont' know why. Even the villain is easier to wrangle. Though all the back story I wrote the other day for one of the supposedly secondary character worked better than I thought. I assumed it was something I'd cut later but then I realized it paralleled the villain's story line

Arria stretched feeling the muscles in her back twinge a bit. She felt a bit more like she was fifty instead of twenty after that sparring match, she'd gone through with Siaq yesterday. Her sister was tiny but mighty, quick as a squirrel. Neske, their mentor in the cadre, had put them through their paces, no doubt of it. She glanced at the clock. She was going to be late if she didn't hurry. In the ten years since she and Mom had brought Zvon home, he hadn't gotten any more relaxed about certain things. Being late was one of them. With who his friends were, she'd have thought he'd learn to loosen up, given that Caeles couldn't be on time if his life depended on it.

She pulled on fresh clothes and all but jogged into town with Ui, Hoku and Nani clinging to her hair for dear life. Those crazy little magic eaters would have been better off just flying but they were lazier than Caeles's cats. She did have time, however, to stop at Sweetness and pick up a box of chocolates. She wanted to give them to Zvon now because he'd know she'd never forget his birthday and if she didn't want him to suspect there was a surprise party in the works, he'd need to get them now when she met him for lunch. There was a party, of course but it wouldn't be too hard to nudge Zvon to it. He had to go home sometime after all. He'd be a brat and go to a pub if he knew people were fussing over him. Zvon was like a feral cat most days, wanting love but also really wanting to bite the crap out of whoever got close. They hadn't been able to love that out of him. Maybe he'd been too damaged at a young age.

35754 / 50000 words. 72% done!

Comments

[auroracloud]

The LJ posting issue is probably because the tally is so long that upon import, it becomes an unimaginably long mess of code and exceeds the character limit on LJ posts. It keeps happening towards the end of the month for everyone. My solution for it has been as follows:

1) post the rest of the post on DW as usual, but cut out a part of the tally
2) edit in the cut part of the tally in the DW post; the edit won't crosspost to LJ, but it updates on DW
3) go to the LJ post and either edit in the cut part of the tally, or some other way to get it there (the last time, I'd cut out the early part of the tally, and put in a link to the last post that contained the whole tally, so people on LJ can access the early part of the tally there)

Good luck catching up on your writing and stuff!

[spikedluv]

Have a safe trip home!

(Do you get an e-mail notification from DW that your cross-post succeeded (or failed)? That might help when you're making posts like that to make sure they're cross-posting without having to remember to check.)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks

No I haven't gotten a single notification and it's crossposting EVERYTHING but that. It's strange.

[cornerofmadness]

Ah, thanks. That makes sense. It's no issue to just copy and paste both places. I just didn't realize it was happening because I've been too busy to scroll through anything.

[notasupervillain]

This world needs magical therapists.

Yo, what's Arria giving you trouble about?

[cornerofmadness]

Hahahaha all three of the men in this could use a therapist (four if you include the villain)

What's giving me troubles with Arria? that's something I'm contemplating on the drive home. It seems like I've created a character that doesn't quite fit the story or should I say, I'm not sure how to fit her abilities into the story line

[notasupervillain]

One of the concerning points in my story is the characters who ends up playing therapist to their friends are no less Villainous. "Here's how you can manage your panic attacks with slow, meditative breathing. When you feel up to it, we can get back to blackmail. Pace yourself."

I don't feel like I understand your problem enough to help. If you want help. No worries either way, I should be doing Science so I'd rather do fiction!

[cornerofmadness]

Okay now that's funny.

My problem sort of is, that Arria's a mage with defensive/offensive spells (sort of fitting for any high fantasy or Hogwarts) but the story is more of a murder mystery so I'm not entirely sure how to make them dovetail.

[notasupervillain]

First thought: have you read Dresden?

Second thought: is the killer using magic? Are his victims using magic? She could be involved in helping to reconstruct the crime scene. Like Dexter recreating blood splatter patterns. I can flesh out this idea more if you like it.

[cornerofmadness]

read all of them.

That's a possibility, thanks. And yes the villain is but they don't know that yet.

[notasupervillain]

Dresden uses offensive/defensive spells, but he's constantly getting attacked by the murderer so it makes sense.

Is there a magical equivalent of gunshot residue that she could look for? Forensic wizardry?

[cornerofmadness]

Bingo. That was my exact thought in driving down here. Actually the drive was good for me. I came up with several ideas.

[notasupervillain]

Wait which one?

[cornerofmadness]

that they can detect magic