Things I overheard while talking to myself

Love this icon. And I tend to actually do stuff like this with pens/chopsticks/forks etc., so it's even more appropriate. Plus I just happened to get my hair cut today so I looked even more like Shigure as far as the hair near my neck goes in terms of sticking out slightly, though I think I've avoided the "wing head" look as my dad has dubbed it.

Will get back to Marco Polo at some point. I actually have it about 90% done, and am debating putting it up in parts. It's 11 pages long at this point, and I realize that if the entry gets too big it'll crash my inbox (Yahoo hates big entries) so I might split it up on LJ like I did with Chapter 5. I've probably driven a few people nuts with the hiatus, but this is the last chapter and is really just a wrap-up. I already settled the main conflicts, so now this is essentially a reiteration of the themes and everything that's happened. I tend to write like that, and I have no plans to continue with this universe. But will likely have more Kuro/Fay, God I love those two

I think I'll also include an additional brainspill that I've been doing on and off as I'm writing (helps me for some reason) in a separate entry. It's mostly just random notes that are too big/off topic to put in the Author's notes at the end of chapters and the various music I listened to in terms of getting into character's heads/seeing scenes. I guess I can do a sort of fanmix, though whether anyone will find it vaguely interesting is up in the air.

So yeah, probably will split the chapters. The first part is pretty good, but the rest needs some more going over. I'm frankly ready to end this project now, but I'm glad I didn't totally kill that plot bunny before I got the basic premise down.

About to head out for a week away, but as a supplement I'll leave the half-finished chapter 5. By the time I get back it and possibly 6 will be done.




( I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend )

This one took a little longer to finish, but now I'm happy with it. Dialog's tough for me to get right. I also finally had the sense to tag these as a series to help people navigate. I'm not sure at this point whether there will be 4 of 5 chapters, but I've got the ending planned out and 4 is at the nitpicking stage.

The second one was actually the working title of this thing, and it's the first multi-chaptered thing I've done in a while. I blame Mr. Gould for teaching us about Japanese history at the same time I was thinking about Tsubasa. So after much fussing with the wording here's chapter 1 of probably 3 (maybe 4).

( Marco Polo Chapter 1 )