FM-PMS

[akk]

current chapter word count: 4910
scene currently written: Interrogation with Kali
scene finished? No!
character being mentally elsewhere: Subaru
character being surprised: Kono
character feeling vindicated: Kobayashi
research of the day: plastic cups, interview room designs
quote of the day: "Did you kill Sakurazuka Seishiro?"

unrelated side-note: three (3) dentist appointments in two (2) days are a serious obstacle to one's (1) creativity.
note related to the unrelated side-note: First hand experience in PTSD symptoms - even if dental-related - is very useful for writing post-1999-Kamui.
related to the note related to the unrelated side-note: I don't believe I admitted that...

Comments

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Haha, no rush, no rush, the anticipation is sweet. But when you give us lines like THAT, well. Well. I'm not sure if I want them to be subversive or not. And that's good.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

when you give us lines like THAT, well. Well. I'm not sure if I want them to be subversive or not.

::evil trademark smirk (currently being improved)::

"Yes."

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

...

Just for spite (and to COPE with that) I will get to work on my epic that can't be posted until October. I've been considering doing something akin to your progress reports with it, if that's okay.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Progress reports are ♥.
I found that sometimes the half-baked ideas that go into them transform and fester into the best of scenes, though not necessarily for the chapter (or fic) the PMS was intended for. :)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Does make sense.

At this point, what Epic needs is an outline. I have a rough one, but don't know how many scenes fill it or what order they are in. So a progress report might be conducive to that, helping me streamline and plot. Since I'm more used to writing shorts, in general.

Thing is 7000 words as of this morning and I have not yet begun to fight.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

:)
My average chapter length (more or less; the things tend to get longer towards the end).

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

I'm expecting this thing to be 30000 words at least. Conservative estimate. Epic is Epic. Well, for me. This is totally not my usual territory.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Good luck.

When I started writing 36°, I thought it was going to be a short story. Well, didn't quite work out (http://akk.insanejournal.com/79039.html) that way...

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

So wie man denkt, so kommt es nie.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Und andernfalls, geh in die Knie. ;)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Ha!

I'd never heard any continuation before. :grins:

[akk.insanejournal.com]

we don't really have that much respect for proverbs, hence... ;)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

I hear snapped maxims make a good appetizer.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

sorry, I don't get the line. :(
appetizer for what?
snapped maxims?
...confused.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

maxim is another word for proverb or portentous statement. You say that proverbs don't have much sanctity--I imply that they're best chopped up into little pieces and eaten? I think.

It is morning and I am cranky and tired. :pout: And writing Kanoe.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Thank you for explaining despite tired crankiness. :)

Kanoe...
don't remind me. That's also a future case of Subaru's. :/

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Oh good lord. That's going to be fun.

And is more than okay! Cranky is conducive to this fic. I mean, it really works for Kakyou, and Kamui...

[akk.insanejournal.com]

For some reason I now see two old guys - one once on serious drugs, the other once being nailed to various buildings - sitting in an old folks home, annoying the nurses and talking about the decidedly not good old times and their various death wishes / love interests / rapes that all didn't quite work out as they should...

Eek. Crackeritis.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

"Cut yer damned hair."

"Cut yer damnned wrists, Shirou."

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Unfortunately, neither was going to happen. The personnel at the "Home of Mercy" retirement housing was much too well trained to allow anything like a useable tool towards good ol' Kamui's hands.
And though Nurse Aiko complained regularly about Kuzuki's hair length, she wouldn't chop down the few, feathery strands still attached to his head behind his ears.
However, she seriously wished the old man wouldn't always going about dreaming of his love interest and enemas in the same sentences. It disturbed her lunch breaks,

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

DEAD. DEAD OF LAUGHTER.