Black Feathers revamp, DONE (sorta)

By done I mean, I finished the prologue lol. What I originally had slated as the 2nd chapter for the new Black Feathers will probably now be bumped to 3 or 4. Overall, I like how the prologue sounds. I suppose it a bit of an epilogue almost too since it shows a bit of how the ending looks. Kind of. It's one of those stories where the prologue will make sense once the story unfolds.

While I am on break from school until January, I have a feeling I might not get a lot done on this since I've spent my break playing Skyrim so far. I will probably take a break of Skyrim some time though to play some Assassin's Creed or just give me xbox some love in general lol.

Bitches need to stfu and Black Feathers will get a revamp :P

Class pissed me off today. I don't know if this girl was just stupid or lazy (probably lazy) because every damn class she always takes up the teacher's time. "I need help with this, I don't know how to sew that, nothing makes sense" For fucks sake I think you should just stop coming to class. She had been doing that all semester and for the most part it's just annoying, but now that everyone needs some help it's not only annoying but pretty damn rude.

I try to keep my questions short. "Is this right? Do I just sew here?" because I know other people have questions as well. I actually needed some genuine help this time because I just wasn't getting something (dat button hole) and I apparently did some things wrong without realizing ... This bitch kept nagging the teacher while she was helping me. Fucking rude.

Anyways, that little bit aside ... I started working on the fourth chapter for Black Feathers and then decided I wanted to write it a little differently from the last few chapters ... and then decided to rewrite the whole thing lol. Luckily, it's not that long so redoing it won't be that bad. I'm basically going to condense the first three chapters into one and what was going to be chapter 4 will now be chapter 2.

Um ... I'll probably finish that up by next week. I have my final projects to work on still so ... yeah >.>

In other news, my boyfriend gave me back my xbox but I haven't had time to plug it in yet. I will probably do that next week as well lol.

While reading some stories on ff.net ...

I was wondering to myself why I didn't put some sort of long monologue in Black Feathers about why Marlisse is the way she is. I also wonder why people worry so much about writing a Mary-Sue. I personally do create Sue0ish characters, of that I have no doubt. If someone rips me out for it, all I have to say is "Yeah ... I know, I couldn't think of anything better at the time and it sounded nice lol"

I don't like it when people get really defensive about their characters though. They're characters on paper, not living breathing children :/ Which is a shame, really, because some stories could have been much better if they just tweaked the character a little.

One in particular bugged me a lot because the author got extremely defensive and basically said "It's fanfiction, so I can do whatever I want!" All power to you, but doing whatever you want doesn't make it good or interesting. While it could draw in some people, it alienates a lot more. She was all "My character's not a Mary-Sue! she has this flaw" Yeah ... except that flaw does not come into play at all. It's not even much of a 'flaw' as it is just some usual teen angst. Plus, the character in question has no growth whatsoever. Growth is what makes them interesting, but no, despite having plenty of opportunities in the story for growth, there is none. She is exactly the same as chapter 1, and that's pretty boring.

I know I'm no expert and I know my characters could use some work too, but that's just my opinion.

ANYWAYS, it's November. That means NaNoWriMo has officially started. The novel I decided to write centers around Telvana and Demetri's life. It takes a much different direction from Dancing With Swords because the novel is more about the canon I created for these characters. For example, Dancing With Swords features a Logan/Telvana coupling. Canon is actually Demetri/Telvana. Marlisse's canon pairing though is questionable XD For Black Feathers is Reaver/Marlisse, but canon is Marlisse/???????? I'll make a husband for her eventually >.> (or not, cause I like the idea of her remaining unmarried)

Hm, I don't know what to do tomorrow morning since my first class got cancelled. Maybe finish drawing the clothes on my figures?

Stories ... wat?

For several days I've taken small breaks from doing school work and trying to finish a chapter for my Fable fic, dancing With Swords. I managed to get one a couple weeks ago and have been working on the next one. Only thing is, I got a little stuck and my workload got a little difficult. It doesn't help that I've been distracted by another story idea. It popped up a while ago while I was drafting Dancing With Swords. I've decided to turn that idea into a story and will probably be posting that up some time soon perhaps. The chapters are supposed to be a lot shorter than DWS but updates will most likely be just as slow since I'll need to be in a certain mindset to do them :X

In other news, school is progressing well. Still have a lot of work but I'm progressing so it's now just a matter of sitting down and doing it. I recently realized though that I have an extremely tight schedule. Trying to plan a get together with a friend and when trying to figure out when I have some free time (like, lengthy free time) there was none ._. It's a little depressing.

That on campus bar is a life saver I tell ya