08 November 2005 @ 10:21 pm
Bet You Thought I'd Forgotten, Huh?  
I guess writing fic on the bus has its benefits after all.

I spent today finishing typing up the 'Seuche' bits I've had lingering in my Bus Notebook for the last few weeks and was rather surprised to discover, when I'd typed everything up, that my God, there was an entire goddamn chapter in that notebook. And I hadn't even realized it. Good job I got it typed up, it means I can start on Chapter 24 without having to worry about potential length issues, which were beginning to get become an issue. Anyway! Enough babble! I've kept you people waiting long enough so here: have a link.

Seuche Chapter 18: Jagd

If you were hoping I'd never update 'Seuche' again - too bad. It's a Work in Progress, damn it!

I'm afraid I couldn't do personal responses to the reviews this time round. Sorry. I really wanted to, but it's already half ten at night and I had major uploading issues - something happened with the ff.net upload and all the punctuation was stripped from the fic and replaced with question marks, meaning I had to go through and re-add all the damned punctuation to the fic just so it looked like an actual story and not some jumbled alphabet soup of alphanumerics. I thought you guys would rather have the update out than have to wait even longer simply for the sake of my babble.

*laila is beaten round the head with Guilt-Pillow and collapses under the desk twitching; eventually staggers back up and returns to keyboard feeling groggy and, well, guilty. Damn you, Guilt-Pillow!*

Right. Brilliant! It's out. And hopefully, please, dear God, chapter 23 will come out one helluva lot quicker than this last one did. Writer's block and having to chuck about half a chapter's worth of scenes in the trash because they just didn't feel right was not a happy experience for me - it's all to the good now, because I'm pretty satisfied with what I've got from Chapter 22 now, though I am kind of surprised by the angstsap quotient. Oh well, I've put Ken through hell for 15 chapters, I don't think anyone will mind if he gets a hug after all that.

I was a bit iffy about chapter eighteen (I know it's not as good as the last one with all the angst, but that chapter was something else - I mean, I really thought that one came out quite neat) but there is one positive - it ends on a cliffhanger and next chapter stuff actually starts happening again.

Oh, and by the way, for completion's sake I uploaded the drabble. Yeah, the one about the underwear. It seemed like a perfectly safe thing to have on my ff.net profile after all. So, in case you missed it the first time, here it is again.

TMI (Too Much Information)

Now people can poke it and see how it reacts - unlike, of course, The Ebil Story of SchuKen Ebilness that I uploaded with it a couple weeks ago. Which I am starting to feel I want to archive somewhere else after all because all things considered it isn't that bad of a fic after all never mind that I couldn't put that thing on ff.net. And I'm probably not going to put it on aff.net because the boards there seem, if it's possible, even more full of idiots than the ones at ff.net. Funny. You're supposed to be 18 to even enter that site, andf the amount of teeny stupidity I've seen there scares the life out of me.

... what I wouldn't give for a fanfic site which only archived good Weiss fic. To which I could try and submit my stuff, provided it was found to be good enough. There is good fic out there, but damn me finding it is difficult.

Right. Must answer comments before bed. Work tomorrow - another three-shifts-in-a-row deal, and then I'm back on bloody nights. Which is why I was rather eager to get the update out. Oh well... at least I managed it!

R&RPLZKTHXBAI. ^^
 
 
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[identity profile] bluestalking.livejournal.com on November 9th, 2005 01:11 am (UTC)
Nothing to do with your post...
Hi. This is in fact Kye Syr/PK from ff.net. I just wanted to thank you for the amazing review you left today on my "A Sense of Dark". You definitely made me feel like I was accomplishing what I was trying for. It made my day, and this has been one fabulous day to make.

In answer to a couple things: yes, there will be more Farf. The next chapter is Farf, and it's actually one of my favorites (although I felt really odd when I'd finished it...POV writing for Farf is dangerous). And also, I'm glad you like the way I've done Weiß so far. I hope the way I portray them in the next scene isn't a disappointment. I think it makes even more sense considering their characters, but it might seem like it's falling back to cliche. I hope not. Guess we'll see.

In case you're wondering, I know exactly what's going on. Better yet, I even know how it ends. Oooh, scary. ;P

Thanks again!

~PK
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on November 9th, 2005 09:07 pm (UTC)
Re: Nothing to do with your post...
I'm glad you're happy. I meant every word of that review - I genuinely do not understand how come a piece like your own can be ignored, and yet some idiot writes a piece of stupid, OOC fluff featuring the Crazy Slash Pairing Du Jour and bashing several shades of Hell out of perfectly decent characters just because said character happens to possess a second X chromosome - and people are all over it. Your work deserves more attention than it's gotten, and I for one hope you get it.

I admit I'm pretty dilatory about leaving reviews. I have to be either really impressed or absolutely disgusted to find myself reviewing anything, but when I read a story like yours, then discover it being largely ignored - well, then I feel I have to say something. You're definitely achieving what you wanted, the atmospherics are wonderful, and I'm certainly going to be only too eager to see where you take this next.

Of course, I'm indecently interested in seeing your next Farfarello chapter. I'd never dare trying to write in the first person for him. In fact, I'd never dare do it for any of Schwarz - I've only actually dared with Ken and that porobably won't be changing any time soon (Ken comes worryingly easy to me). I admire the way you've characterized them, though, and even more so since I'm not usually a one for Schwarz fics. And do whatever you have to - your fic, your vision, your rules... within canonical reason, of course. I'm sure I'll be able to handle it whatever you do next - it's worth it just to see where this is going. Good luck!

And I am both interested and alarmed about where this might be ending up. But I won't press for detail. I like being kept in the dark - and keeping people in the dark likewise. I used to spill everything about my fics to anyone who asked, but I've learn the value of silence...

You don't have to thank me - it was my pleasure. Thank you for writing such an intriguing, atmospheric fic. :)
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[identity profile] vermachtnis.livejournal.com on November 9th, 2005 08:03 pm (UTC)
read&reviewed omg i luv ur story plz wrte more.

No, really.

And I shall poke TMI with the review stick when I get home from class tonight. I'd be loathe to upload something at aff.net as well. I don't even like the layout of the site. It irks the obsessive layout side of me. If I knew of any good fic archvies, I'd tell you- but all the ones I used to go to shut down long ago.

And oh god no, I wouldn't mind if Ken got a hug. Hug him, Youji!
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on November 9th, 2005 09:24 pm (UTC)


Thanks! I think you deserve a long service medal for the way you review this fic. It's always nice to know what other people think of my writing, and I'm inordinately flattered that you'd bother flinging feedback at me for what, eight consecutive chapters? That both impresses and delights me and makes me a very happy crazed fanficccer.

(There is more Schu coming up shortly. I enjoy writing for him, even if I do make him into The Bastard of All Time every time I get, fanfictionally speaking anyway, anywhere near him...)

I know what you mean about aff.net. I almost considered archiving there, but the layout of the site is so atrocious it puts me off. It's like falling through a time warp into the late '90s - to borrow a phrase, 1997 called and they'd like their page design back. It would have been absolutely fine then, if still a little brain-mangling, but not now. Come on, it's 2005. Surely we can do a little better than that, can't we? The layout sucks, the color scheme sucks, and the format for ratings and reviews just leaves me cold. I do not like the idea of 'star ratings' - especially not when most of the five-star fics on that site are pure and unadulterated crap.

Oh, good, I am glad to see someone isn't going to be put off by my coming up from the angst-pool for a while for a brief bask in the bright sun of sap. Well, angstsap. But given what I'm working with, total fluff would be out of place. What I've got is about as fluffy and I'm going to get, and it's probably no bad thing...

And Ken needs hugs. Prefereably from Youji. Yes.
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