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[queenofzan]

First of all, this was the best April Fools' Day ever. I didn't get a chance to pull any jokes, but there were chances! And I witnessed some amazing ones.

But mostly, my day is summed up by this text I sent some boy in Wisconsin (if you are reading this, I love you):

argh one day i will live in a house where all the animals use the bathroom outside and i have to clean up far less feces everyday.

...yeeeeah.



So I wrote and typed and revised and sent out a review of the play of To Kill a Mockingbird which I saw Saturday. It was late and I don't think it was very good review-wise, but it was fairly entertaining to read and write, so I'm going to pretend it was okay journalism. Because I'm not a journalist. I don't want to be a journalist. I tell lies recreationally. I want to tell lies for a living. Forget telling the truth and all that crap! That is for losers who want to actually make money and eat sometime this month. Pshaw.

So the other week, I went through all of the things I have been trying to work on and meaning to work on for the last few months (except Silver Chain because Sunny and I have an understanding that I can put the actual story on hold while I get better at writing climaxes and plans and fight scenes as long as he features in comics I write). SO ANYWAY made a schedule. It's working pretty well, actually, as long as I stick to it. It guarantees that I get some work done every day, it guarantees I get some work done on everything I want to work on every week, and it makes me a lot more productive overall. Last week I wrote several thousand words, two thousand of which were on For Want of a Physicist, which should be getting back on schedule shortly and is getting away from those two boring exposition chapters that I am now quite unhappy with and is getting into the weirder alternate universes and character development things. I cut out a Ford making out with himself scene to make room for Ford's confusing thoughts, but I think it will make it better when (omg spoiler) he seduces himself in...oh, two chapters. (such major spoilers, I know. Anyone who didn't see it coming should probably be shot.)

So! Mondays I am actually working on two projects which are ridiculously interwoven. They take place in the same high school in the same year. Continuity takes place mostly in the first part of the year and actually, I lied, it takes place halfway in a college. But anyway. Then there is Existential Blues, original home of Chay, the fan (singular) favorite from an early chapter of For Want of a Physicist. It is also complex. Both stories are very slice of life high school drama, only crazied up because that's the sort of world I live/write in. It is all I know, really.

Tuesdays are arts days because of my art club. I already have to take all my art things to school, may as well not try to work on anything else. Got some drawing, some inking, some random gender-bending comics done. It was sweet. The more I think about it, the more I think Max the person should have been born a girl, but he wasn't. And thank God for that, because if he had been, he would have grown up, on the whole, more well-adjusted, probably not fallen in love with Edwards (if indeed he ever even met Edwards and got involved with the Underground), and thus not gone crazy. Which would mean I wouldn't have a story for Silver Chain, which would mean I wouldn't have a book, which would mean---well, the moral of this tangent is that Max the person should have been born a girl, but Max the character is definitely supposed to be a man.

ANYWAY tangent aside, Wednesdays are my days to work on Quint, which is a story ABSOLUTELY NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD HAS EVER HEARD OF except for nehi, who never heard what the title was, because the last she knew, they were just folks I was drawing. Anyway, it is taken directly from the Five-Man Band trope, and I am having a lot of fun with it. It is also horribly character based, because I never write any other way, now do I? And I am doing a lot of playing with tropes in it, actually. The Hero is chasing the Dragon, while the Lancer is after the Big Bad like no one's business. And the Chick is a guy, who happens to be very very very gay (I mean, gayer than any character I've ever written, except for the way I write Remus, because yes). And the Big Guy is a skinny Goth chick. And--well, suffice it to say it's fun. It's a combination of everything I've wanted to write for the last year or so. It's all cyber-punky and kind of...it's a lot of fun. And...it's a lot of fun. I look forward to Wednesdays.

THURSDAYS are...crap, what are Thursdays OH YES The Legend of Hyrule, which is a shared universe scruffbunny is working on with me. Or I'm working on with her. We had a huge argument over Zelda and timelines and continuity while she was here, and started working out a way that it made sense to both of us. Now, we are embarked on a journey down the road of derivative fantasy epics (well known to readers of the Weekly Hyrule News (which by the way all Zelda fans should be)), which means I get to invent gods and goddesses and foreign lands all while writing within the rules of Zelda canon and with Zelda characters. BASICALLY IT IS AWESOME and exciting, but we are still hammering out the universe and writing backstory stuff and I have NO IDEA when either of us are really going to be writing and recognizably Zelda fics in that universe but THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET GOING we just get carried away. Anyone who knew either of us in real life would know exactly what I'm talking about. You, who happen to be reading this, probably know regardless based purely on the structure of that last sentence.

Fridays and Saturdays are FWOAP days, though I must admit, not a lot of work got done last Saturday. Working on it.

I also have plans for contingency days! Half days are FWOAP days, testing days are art days, and Sundays are whatever the hell I feel like days! Also apparently once I get home I am free to work on whatever I want. All last week, that meant comicing while watching Angel, which was great! But now I am done with Angel, and Buffy, and Firefly and...I AM OUT OF JOSS WHEDON but I guess I still have commentary so I should be okay. Also we have the Addams Family on DVD, so I totally shouldn't complain.

ANYWAY THE POINT IS if anyone is reading this who isn't me from the future, good god, what is wrong with you? And also you should be looking out for an indunation of writing from me rather shortly. I am writing it all out by hand at the moment (except for FWOAP, of course) but each segment is so far rather short and thus it shouldn't be too difficult to type up. I am, in fact, planning to flood the interwebs. I will possibly stop up the series of tubes with my prodigious output as a result of my being unexpectedly prolific!

YES THAT ENTIRE THING WAS JUST AN EXCUSE FOR THAT LAST SENTENCE. SO WHAT.