Four Pages and Counting

I wrote some today before I got distracted on youtube. I was at a good place to stop and think some more. It's not a hard scene, but I want tension. The chappy starts out a bit chipper, but hopefully gets tense. :) I made everybody pissy. And it hopefully made things darker. Since I also got requests for longer chapters, I'm working on that. It'll be a bit before an update. But, I did work on it. I should be working on the other story, but eh. I need to back to get ready to leave. So, we'll see. I'm tired and grumpy. That should lend the proper scene to the chapter. Huh.

Saw the new Underworld movie. I liked it. In fact, it made me want to rewatch the other two, which I didn't like. I was dragged to the prequel, since I figured it would suck just as bad as the others. Of course we all knew what was going to happen - they revealed all in movie two. But it was done really, really well. I liked it a lot. Good movie. And I now have a crush on the lead werewolf. :) I think I'll buy it. And now I'm going to go watch movies and pack and whatnot.

Toodles.

I love hot, fierce, supernaturaly men. :) *sigh*

BK

Squeeness

Squeeness, I remembered my French. I was worried there for a bit that it had all floated away with break. :) Cheers. I'm not gonna fail the class I signed up for in a moment of weakness. :P

Woefully depressed...

So I was woefully depressed yesterday. I moved out again - back into the dorm. That had me a mite sad. Then, everything went wrong and I almost broke the microwave. I think I either gave it a heartattack or killed it and brought it back. THEN, I was stupid enough to watch Fight Club. The movie is good, great ending, but damn if it didn't seriously depress me! I was damn near feeling suicidal. Depression is scary, thank god I don't really have. Those nasty death thoughts are gone. Whew. I started classes today, have some homework. So, write when I can. :)

~BK

Night!

K, so I wrote an eensy bit. 800 some words. Clearly I haven't gotten far. But I'm off to bed. When I get around to writing more, I'm going to try and make it darker. Yes, darker. Tis all.

~BK

Happy Post!!!!

My Counter is back up!! Woot!

I left the title blank in an attempt to see if I need to make one up each time. We shall see if it works.

Author's note: I’m going to try and make chapter 22 a longer chapter. I know the last couple have been short, so I’m making the attempt. That probably means it won’t be posted for a while. It’s a toss of what people like best. I expect everryone to review and tell me what y'all think.

So that means I've started the new chapter. But, since I'm starting at 15 minutes to 1, it probably won't be a lot. I'm also finally starting school next week, so we'll see how that goes.

Probably won't watch the inaugeration. I might. We'll see. The event kind of felt like it happened already when he won the election. The hype is gone. I'll have to watch just to make sure all goes well. I live in fear (at least in the back of my mind) that something bad is gonna go down. Those in charge of security, please send lots of backup. :) Living shields - not a happy concept, but I'm for them.

And... I think that is all. I started writing my idea. It's still small, but fleshing out each time I go to it. I've discovered I hate realworld research. Not a good thing when you know nothing about the career of your new character. Bummer, that.

Have a great night!

Can't wait for Skin Trade!!

~BK

Progress

I made some progress writing today, it just wasn't on Ultimatum. I wrote on a story that I've kind of had floating around in my head for a while. I had started it the other day - it had been under a page then. I fleshed it out today. Nothing major, changed a bit of what I've written, and am now satisfied with what I have. It's got quite a different tone than Ultimatum, and I think I like that better than U. Course, U needs lots of work, or it would have a set tone as well. Oh well. I'll finish U, I'm sure, but I don't think I'll ever rewrite it. It's stuck as is, mistakes and all. I'll just have to do better on the next fanfiction. I'll probably take one of the ones I've already written and go off of that. I don't even have any new ideas right now. Of course, I have to finish U first, which could take awhile.

Anyways, just wanted to say that I did write something today, if not on the desired material of all. But, I figure I gotta work on that writing career eventually.

~BK

So...

Soooo.... I didn't really get the reaction I wanted about switching the minds. I'll be honest, I wasn't thinking dirty or comedic thoughts at all... And I don't want them to be dirty or comedic... Of course, I'll have to write a brief dismissal of the typical gender switching issues, which I was going to do anyways. Hiei is going undercover... Geez, I can't even think of anything else to say here. So, I'll end the post. I'll definately have to work up this chapter. Yup.

~BK

Squee!

Squeee! Everyone loves it!!! I am sooo excited!

I guess if I just make the chapters interesting, that people will review more. Good thing to note. :) I can't wait for the reactions later on.

The one issue is the shortness. I know, I know. I hate short chapters myself. :) But, I wrote it, and I just had to post it! I hate waiting to post things.

Anyways, I'm going to try and write more tonight, so hopefully it shall be longer. I'll make a valiant effort. I might even wait to post it. I just love getting immediate feedback, though... :)

~BK

A Chappy!

I posted one! It is the start of my evil idea. :) I like it quite a bit. I pruposefully haven't discussed what happened to Hiei at the end, and you'll get the gist on Kagome later. The chappy is short, but I wanted to post it since I was so excited! Enjoy and review!!!!

~BK

Devilish Idea

I just got a seriously devilish idea for Ultimatum. >:D I think I'm going to do it. Mwhahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Edit: Wait, maybe not. I just ran through like five different scenarios in my head, and I don't think it fits in. :( Dang.

Edit 2: WAIT! I have another idea! Christ, this thing is going to end up being never-ending since I keep making up new endings... >.>

Oh No!

My free counter is broken!! And I have no clue where to get another one. Damn!

Also, I have written nothing. Hopefully tomorrow, something shall be done. Even just my room. That'd be nice...

Rough Drafts

The thing I am regretting most right now is not being able to go back and change anything and everything in Ultimatum right now. First, it is posted. That means to me it is done until further notice, of which I might redo the entire thing and edit it. Will I ever do that, most likely not. So all the mistakes are going to have live long and strong. Second, you don't edit until you are done. Since I am not done, I can't edit anyways. Moot point. I am just seeing stuff that could have been done better, in many ways. I think I would have toned down Hiei and Kagome's dreams - the tension of possibilty instead of actuality would have been better, I think. Kagome's memories would be adjusted, especially since I've come to realize more and so on. Naraku and Kurama would have to be adjusted. Also, I think I would have to make the team figure things out in a bit of a faster way or something, since everyone is shocked that they are this stupid. I'm afraid I dumbed them down for the story. :( It wasn't intentional, that's for sure.

Also, everyone keeps bringing up instances of stuff that I say have never been attempted!!! The soul insertion! Argh! For the life of me, I don't even remember half of what everyone is talking about. I've never seen the full show of either cartoon. :( I still don't own them all. I'm sort of working on it, just slowly. I guess that would be a problem for all of fanfiction - you have to account for EVERYTHING in the world. That's darn difficult. I want to just go, you know, it's my world. But it's not my world, so I can't really say that. I want to say that it's my story, but these instances help - they help me tighten the story and what not. I dunno what to do. Do you guys think/read around it without difficulty, or does it bug the hell out of you??

That's it for now. I'm totally planning this long blog of all that I would change if I ever finish it. I'm sure I will. I don't, however, think I will ever edit it. That's a lot of work, and honestly, I would want to save it for a book-book. Not something that will never profit me. Also, who's going to go back and reread the whole thing if I post it all edited??

Over and out!\
~BK

New Chapter Woot!

I have a new chapter! Woot! Woot! Woot! I actually like it, too. I didn't know where I wanted to go with it, really, just that I needed to go. I figured, why not start with Keiko? She hadn't had any screen time in a bit, so Keiko it was. I ended up having two scenes, and the chapter is a bit short, but certainly not my shortest. I liked how I portrayed both Keiko and Kurama in this chapter. Thought I did a good job with everyone. Answered a few questions that lovely readers brought up. You guys are totally my beta readers. The answers may come a bit late that way, but more gets pointed out. :) I left a few things hanging last time, and corrected it this time around. I thought it actually seemed pretty logical. I shall have to wait and here from you guys. Unfortunately, still didn't completely answer last time's cliffy. :) I acutally got quite a few right guesses in the comments, which was cool but sad, since I wasn't going to be able to surprise many people. But, I had the idea from the beginning, I swear. :)

I can't think of anything else to point out on this chapter, so that's it for now. :) I'm off to bed, I have to get up a bit earlier tomorrow. :P

~BK

Second Post of the Day of Stuff I Forgot to Mention...

The Title says it all.

First, go check out Carrie Vaughn's website, her journal to be specific. She has a nice couple of blogs about what is and what is not urban fantasy. :) Very amusing stuff. Although, I have to say this, some of that stuff is pure fantasy, like fanfiction fantasy, and that is the way I like it. :)

Crap on toast, I forgot what I wanted to say next!!!!!!

Also, Julie Garwood's new book. It was ok. It was good, but not great. That's obviously a preference. I read it in a day or two, so good enough for speed. It just didn't catch me. I am more of a fan of her historical romance for sure. Shadow Music was great. It's not my favorite, but it was good. I love her historical figures. She embodies romance for me. I love it. However, I did love her contemporary book Mercy. Maybe I am just falling out of love with this author??? That would depress me so much, because I love her earlier works. It could be happening, but I'm pretty sure it's not. Anyways, it was a good book. I felt I needed to say that for whatever reason is out there. I'm in a total chatter mood today. No idea why...

On to writing...

~BK

PS - like the new template?? I like the more colors. Pink now looks good on here, too. :)

Happy Belated New Year!

I already broke the one resolution I made - no more candy, which didn't include homebaked goods. Gone. I plan to lose weight, but that wasn't really a resolution. I fiddled with the idea of losing soda pop, but please. I drink so few things that limiting my choices that much just would have killed me. I think that if I ever gave up candy and stuff like chips, I could do it. But not now. Now is too overwhelming.

After I'd read a few books this week, a little into last, I realized I would need to make a new list. Huh. Came as kind of a shock that a year has passed. I read 129 books last year. Nice. Thought I'de read more, but nice. That includes comics, whether you think they count or not - and by comics I mean graphic novels that take me an hour to read. Those do not include American comics that taken minutes. While good, I didn't add them. I might do so this year. I also didn't count fanfiction. That one seems obvious to me why, but I do waste hours on fanfiction. Just so you all know. :) I don't know how long that list will stay up there. If I knew a way to do so, I would shrink it all and have it open only when you ran over it. But I don't, so it shall have to be deleted at some points.

I want to heavy duty clean my room and start eradicating it of junk. I'm a junk-aholic. I collect everything, save everything. That stuff builds up! My walls are covered, and I have knicknacks everywhere. I want to get rid of some/most of it. Turns out, I have no more room for movies on my movies holder. That's a wee bit depressing, since that means they move over to my bookcases, which are already strained anyways. Part of this cleaning gig is to get the knickknacks off my books cases so I have room for books. And now dvds. I want to get rid of said items that I bought and didn't like. I also want money, petty cash, so selling some of this stuff at a garage sale might afford me enough for two smoothies at Jamba Juice. Yeah! :)

I did end the year on a good note, though. I donated a hundred bucks. I hadn't donated in a while, so I was past due. I don't donate that much often, but I was in one of those moods where I feel like I have so much and everyone else so little. Sooo...

Ok, I lied. I have another resolution. I'm trying not to just buy junk. So far, since before New Years, so good. No more cute stuffed animals, no more clearance crap, no more Mom is buying it so ok (although that one needs some work, and I did need some little tree ornaments for the fake tree I need to get...). Books and movies are not on this list. They don't count as useless stuff but valid entertainment. I'm trying not to get any more dust collectors, or clothes that I don't wear often or at all. Or shoes. Or bags. Or Disney stuff. believe it or not, I'm even curbing my useless book binge. There were two books I wanted to buy today, that were cutesy but nothing I would really pick up again. I didn't, which was good since I laid down thrity bucks later online at BN. *sigh*

I think that is it for useless rambling. I might have to buy a plant for the New Year. That doesn't count as junk, but oxygen. :)

For Ultimatum, I GOT SOME REVIEWS! I was so pleased when I saw the notices in my mailbox. :D It made me so happy that I wanted to post something. So, directly after I finish updating my blog, I plan to write. Not sure how far it shall get, but I'm going to write. Because, dammit, I want more reviews!! :)

PS I've been fleshing out my story idea at work - as in book-book. Daydreaming while scrubbing floors does wonders. :) It has made me giddy.

~BK