| The Year in Review |
[Dec. 31st, 2005|06:02 pm] |
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The year in review. Let's see, this is the year that I have finished working with fanfiction at the conclusion of Deconstruction. I have finished my first real novel and currently trying to get representation is hard. I've already been rejected, but that's one down many more to go. Currently, I have set aside that work as I start work on my new story that I have started. The next work that I have is an ambitious work that will be three books. I have just started and already have written pages of notes and even made a family tree. I'm also reading Asian Mythology.
For my next work, I will go away from adult mainstream and go to young adult fantasy. It happens to be my favorite genre and age group actually. My style is more adapted for that age group and the fantasy I came up with already is developing into an intricate plot. It will include Asian influences drawing from mythology, design, and overall culture. I am currently looking at different types of martial arts and dance as well as music. These are the sources I will be drawing from to create the worlds that I'm attempting to convey on the page. The plot will include magic, politics, and of course teenagers on the brink of discovering who they are and who they wanted to be. The name I came up with I couldn't just forget for my main character.
As I continue to write, despite such obstacles like work and rejections, I feel that I'm really meant to be a writer more than anything else. I keep writing and writing while I'm work. I'm an optimist and even if I never land a book contract, I would still write no matter what. But it still would be nice to be paid for it. ^_^
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| Long Time No See |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|12:43 pm] |
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I guess I haven't updated in ages for a couple of reasons. One, I
am working at my full time job and trying to keep my sanity at the same
time. Two, I was working on my own original work and I just
completed the first draft about two weeks ago. I had the whole
thing printed out at Kinko's for around $34.00. I am now in the
process of looking for an agent and trying to get my book published
which will take some more time.
My novel is pretty damn long. It's over 150,000 words and has 364
pages single spaced with only double spacing between paragraphs and one
ince margins all around. Whew. It's full of humor, action,
and a touch of romance. After going over the professional
writer's site, I realized that the thing might be too long, so the
editing process is going to start and I have to start taking it
apart. I have to also write some synopsis and do an outline,
depending on the agents I approach. I have an inqury letter
already typed up and ready to send. I also got self-sealing
envelopes for my SASE and a roll of a hundred stamps. I just need
to get some manila envelopes and a phone card so that I can call the
different agencies before sending out my inquries.
The inital plan of attack is to approach thirty because that's how many
address labels I can make at a time, which incidentally I have to make
at work. That means that I will use up around sixty stamps to
send out my inquires. I will attempt to approach some major
publishing houses, but that's not going to be easy. Most
publishing houses won't even look at a proposal from an
individual. That's where an agent comes in.
Thus far, the costs are mounting as well. Stamps, envelopes,
printing, writer's guides, and some other expenses I can't recall, are
really starting to add up. It's almost like starting my own
business. I consider these investments. Alas, I still get
no support from my family in anything that involves art.
They give me no moral support, which doesn't cost them a damn thing in
a monetary sense. To them, art and literature don't really
count. It's more than just a little frustrating to the starting
writer or artist. Damn the status quo.
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| A Mixed Bag |
[Jul. 17th, 2005|12:05 pm] |
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That's how I feel about the new book. It's a certain amount of
mixed feelings. It's good. But there are parts of it that
just bothered me. I should probably put a cut.
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| The Last Chapter is Up... |
[Jul. 14th, 2005|08:32 pm] |
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I decided to put up the final chapter for Deconstruction. Besides
later on tomorrow, I might not be able to do it at work and I wanted to
be sure that it was up before midnight tomorrow for obvious
reasons. I don't know if I'll be doing another story anytime
soon. More later.
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| Can you believe all the excitement? |
[Jul. 14th, 2005|07:39 pm] |
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There's so many people who are hyped up for the sixth Harry Potter book
and I'm trying not to get sucked in. But I've already made plans
Saturday to sit there and wait for the UPS guy to drop my book off so
that I can start reading it as soon as it comes. I won't be
attending any midnight releases because I'm getting the book for
cheaper than most people. I'm going my book has been shipped
already and should be on the way. It was shipped on the 7th of
July, giving it more than enough time to get here on Saturday.
Anyway, the film crew from last week has taken over my street
again. This time they've taken up more of the street.
Practically the whole block. If I had a car, I would have been
pissed off because they're not allowing people to park at the
sidewalk. Actually, they're blocking other things as well.
No one actually tells us when they're going to do it because it's
really up to the city. The city council doesn't live in this
neighborhood. What a wonderful city I live in.
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| Update - Chapter 16 |
[Jul. 11th, 2005|08:18 am] |
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As promised, barring no health complications, I have updated
Deconstruction. As anyone can tell it's the second to last
chapter of the story. On Friday, the last chapter will come
up. Now, I don't know what anyone else has planned for Saturday,
but I already have plans of camping out and waiting for my book to
arrive so that I may tear into the packaging and start reading.
Anyway, I'll have to go to work soon and there's a whole truck load of
work waiting for me. Physically, I'll try to take it as easy as
possible. If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
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| So, I lied... |
[Jul. 9th, 2005|10:34 am] |
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I wasn't feeling too well yesterday. In fact, I had to call in
sick at work for real. So, there was no update yesterday as
planned. It will be bumped to Monday or Tuesday. I don't
know much longer I can keep this up. I'm still sort of sick, but
I have to go out to be with my friend today as her family goes and has
a party. I hope that I can hold down the food. I had
breakfast and it's still down, which is I consider a good thing.
So, next week the last chapters for Deconstruction will go up.
The last chapter is due up on July 15 just before the book is due out.
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| Deconstruction Chapter 15 |
[Jul. 5th, 2005|07:17 pm] |
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I have updated with a new chapter and the next chapter will be posted
later this week. It's a great cliffy on this one. I like
how it ends. Anyway, that's really all I have to report.
Chances once the story is finish this journal will be on indefinite
hiatus because this is strictly a HP fandom journal this point. I
might post something when the next book comes out, but I don't see
myself doing anything for a while.
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| The Last Chapters |
[Jul. 2nd, 2005|01:38 pm] |
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The last few chapters have already been edited and uploaded into the
document manager of fanfiction.net. They are ready for posting
just as soon as the time is write. The last chapter will be up on
July 15th. I wouldn't mind stopping here with the
fanfiction. The point is that I know that I want to be a
writer. I have five pieces of original works to my name. I
am currently writing a long term story that's not going to be posted
online. I think that I might compile some of my original works
into ebook form so that people can read and enjoy them.
I have a long weekend ahead of me. I would like to wish Happy 4th
of July to all the Americans out there and for anyone who wants to take
the day off on Monday. ^_~ I'm off to Vegas, but the next
post should be Wednesday.
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| Deconstruction - Chapter 13 |
[Jun. 27th, 2005|08:15 am] |
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Chapter Thirteen is up for Deconstruction. And since it is nearly
July, my time does pass fast, I have decided to do the double weekly
posting until the story is done. I intend the last posting to be
on the Friday before the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince. That's all I have to say for now. I have to go to
work.
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| Deconstruction Chapter 12 |
[Jun. 20th, 2005|07:39 pm] |
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Chapter 12 is up, but I had to add the last paragraph. It was cut
off for some odd reason, and the next chapter wouldn't make any sense
without it. So, if it looks rushed at the end...that's because it
is. T_T I had to go to work, so I didn't have any time to
finish up.
On the job front, I've gone international. I'm now trying to
collect money from shoots all over the world. Today's latest
thing was to send a fax to Australia to get money from a
production. It just irritates me that they have to take the
freakin' accounting department with them when they go on shoots as if
they couldn't do things another way. No wonder it costs so much
money to film something. As anyone could probably tell, I really
don't care anymore about the Hollywood crap. Once you're in the
trenches, you tend not to care. They also have a zillion excuses
as to why they haven't paid you. They pay eventually, but it's
still a pain in the ass....
I'm definitely looking into this whole writing thing as a career.
It's still up in the air and it takes forever to write a story. I
write novel length works, so it's sort of hard to figure out when I'll
be done with any given work. Thus far, my new story is unlike
anything that I've ever written before.
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| Deconstruction - Chapter 11 |
[Jun. 15th, 2005|07:23 pm] |
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I forgot to say that I've updated the story. It's pretty good if
I do say so myself. The next chapter will reveal even more.
I'm glad that people are enjoying the mysteries in the story so
much. I also went back and did some mild editing because the "*"
that I use are taken out when I uploaded it. I completely forgot
about that and that's why the scene changes are hard to follow in that
chapter.
People are still wondering if I'll do another story. I don't know
yet. I am working on a new story about going off to the working
world and um...thievery. I don't plan on posting the story
online. I actually plan on working on it and seeing if I can get
it off to a publisher or something. It depends on how it turns
out, but if it doesn't turn out that good...then I'll post it
online.
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| Deconstruction Chapter Ten |
[Jun. 6th, 2005|06:55 pm] |
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The tenth chapter is now up and running. Some might wonder why
Oliver just doesn't force Percy's doctor, Dr. Shah to give him the
information that he wants, but it's a matter of trust. The point is
that Percy trusted his doctor and Oliver doesn't want to force the
doctor to give away the secrets that way. Besides, Dr. Shah also
knows about the wizarding world, but she's bound by law to keep it a
secret. That and she wouldn't look very good if she went around
saying that the wizarding world is real. She would probably look
a little crazy. ^_^
I'm still busy with work, and I'm working on other original work.
It doesn't look like I'm going to be doing another fanfic any time
soon. Like I keep saying, it all depends on the next book.
We'll all have to wait and see.
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| Theories and Ideas |
[Jun. 1st, 2005|06:38 pm] |
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I like the reviews and their ideas. It seems the big theory is
that Dr. McCoy is using Polyjuice Potion and is really Ali's the one
impersonating Dr. McCoy. Hmm...I won't say if they're right or
wrong either way. The question of why Percy is in the Muggle
hospital is still unanswered. That's because a significant
original character hasn't been introduced yet. Her role is small,
but she's important to the story. What I like about this story is
that a lot of of the intrigue is subtle and people don't know what's
going on. The plot is one of the best that I've ever come up
with.
I'm planning on doing double updates come July. June's already
here and the deadline's getting closer and closer as a result.
The story has a bit of a startling conclusion and things aren't what
they seem.
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| No Updates... |
[May. 31st, 2005|07:40 pm] |
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Chapter Nine of Deconstruction is ready to go up, but Fanfiction.net is
having problems, so I can't update just yet. The chapter was
edited yesterday afternoon, too. If it doesn't let me update this
week, then two chapters will go up next week since the July 16th
deadline is approaching. It's the chapter that answers some of
the bigger questions that people have been asking. I mean it's
fairly obvious that the scars on Percy's wrist are self-inflicted, but
Oliver's involvement hasn't been seen yet. Oliver was meant to be
a key player in the story from the beginning.
Anyway, it will go up just as soon as ff.net lets me put it up. I
don't really have another story planned yet thus far, but it depends on
what I see in the sixth book. Either way, I'm too busy with real
life to think of anything else other than my own original works.
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| Nothing really to update.... |
[May. 28th, 2005|12:32 am] |
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I don't have a new chapter up yet. In fact, I haven't even edited
it yet. Yeah! Go me. This weekend is Memorial Day for
those who live in the US, so I have a three day weekend. Thank
goodness. I was starting to get really frustrated with some of
these studio people. I swear if I have to be asked the question,
"Which production/film/show are you talking about?" one more time, I am
going to scream. It's up to them to tell me. How I would I
know? In the end, I know the names of two pilots and a new series
coming out this fall and details on a movie that is coming out next
year. The latter is a really big movie, too. Either way,
I'm frustrated with these people for their inability to organize
themselves better and making my job harder by having to call them and
be ask a question that I can't answer. I have a feeling I'll know
the crop of new shows that are coming out next year before the summer
is out and it hasn't even started yet. I'm not at liberty to
devulge the names and titles of the companies and their productions
anyway. I never thought I'd be working in this industry.
I've sort of hit a block on my own original works anyway. It's
almost done, yet I've hit that block. I haven't been very good at
updating this week. I come home from work tired from all the
stuff at work. Mostly people asking questions that I can't really
answer. I also came up with an idea for a story that most college
grads could relate to, especially the ones who are in so much debt that
it might as well be a million bucks. I looked at my finances
today after paying off my credit card and my two loans and my money's
gone down quite a bit. I'll be lucky to save any money at
all. I know that I should pay above the minimum with the
loans. God, it sucks being a grown up.
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| Deconstruction Chapter Eight |
[May. 23rd, 2005|08:20 am] |
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I've updated the latest chapter and on time, too. I'm good.
This chapter will change the direction of the story as it has been
written thus far. It is a very important turning point in the
story as I know that most people are wondering what Molly's reaction is
going to be. It's not going to end as one expect for the
chapter. The groups of people are restructing and getting ready
for towards the end.
I also saw ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) firewhiskey's entry in regards to what
Fanfiction.net did to her fics and it's horrible. There should
have been more warning and they took out all of her stories because of
song lyrics in them. I guess it's a matter of the law and
fanfiction.net doesn't want to get into trouble for posting song lyrics
without getting the rights to do so. I understand part of the
artists concern, but at the same time with all of their concern it
doesn't stop people from taking their music online. It's just
stupid. And sad.
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| Deconstruction Chapter Seven |
[May. 19th, 2005|06:48 pm] |
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The chapter's been up since Tuesday, but I forgot to announce it
here. My bad. Anyway, I like how people are wondering how
Molly's going to react to the news that Percy's actually been missing
for a while and that Tonks has been sent to investigate. Some
people are truly hooked on the story. I don't really answer the
questions because the answers come eventually. I also built the
story in such a way that there are smaller mysteries at work that most
people won't realize is really there until the end.
I'm tired from work for the most part so that's why I forget to update
thigns. It's easier when I just due the editing during the
weekend, but I forget to put up the chapter and announce it.
People should really just do the story alert.
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| Deconstruction Chapter Six |
[May. 10th, 2005|07:15 pm] |
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I'm loving some of the questions that are coming up regarding
Deconstruction. Most people are wondering why or how Percy ended
up where he ended up. It will be slowly revealed. This
particular chapter is important because it covers what happened to
Penelope. After re-reading the story, I began to realize how much
I downplayed how much she really meant to Percy, but I suppose it can
be left as implied. There's a lot of things that is going
on. And I doubt anyone will notice what I had planned for one of
the characters until the very end of the story.
At work, things are improving a bit. I consider this a paying
dues phase. Everyone has to pay dues to get to what they
want. Realistically, I need a job to pay off school loans.
I don't understand why the universities in the US have to charge so
much for their education. It's big business here. The state
collects so much money for each college and university. I don't
like my own university because of all the crap that it put me
through. I can't wait to get my new ring to replace the class
ring that I'm wearing. I only keep it on because I got used to
having something on my finger. I hope that I can pay off enough
of my stuff so that I can move on to more fun stuff like getting my own
apartment and car. I'm one those return kids who come back after
school because we can't afford to live on our own. It's a common
epidemic in most industrialized nations. I'm not proud of it
either. School pushes most young adults into poverty.
I'll update again next week. Chapter Seven will be up next.
I don't know if most people know my plan of updating and finishing up
the story by July 16. I just wanted to get the whole story up
before the next book is out. I haven't been working on any other
works. I have to devote my energies to work and to my own
original stories.
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| Deconstruction Chapter Five |
[May. 3rd, 2005|07:41 pm] |
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It's up and ready for you to read. Some people are liking the
story because a bunch of the side characters are taking centerstage for
it. It's odd because I tend to take the side characters and
develop them more. This is the first story that I've done where
most of the primary is side characters. The mystery is how Percy
ended up in the asylum and what happened to Penny. Tonks is the
central investigator. The story isn't over yet. It's just
getting started. It's one of my shorter works, yet it remains as
my favorite out of my works. I spent a good amount of time
reading even though I'm working. I read two mysteries and
currently I'm just reading one of those light hearted novels. The
next book I plan on reading is a classic. After that I'll read
another piece of children's lit. I read a whole gambit of
works. Each one has something that I like. I plan on
reading a lot of books this year as part of my thing of staying in
touch with who I really am.
Work is sort of a surreal experience. One sociologist said that
people play roles all the time. The only time that a person is
truly his or her self is when he or she is alone. I go to work
and while I'm there, I take on the persona of a bungling, klutzy and
very inarticulate person. I'm shaky and unsure of myself and it
still hasn't cleared up, even after about a month of work. It's
difficult to adjust from a world of words to a world of numbers, when
words are so much easier to me. I find that I can't express
myself nearly as well as I do here or anywhere else for that
matter. Time is also passing more quickly than I realize as I
spend most of my hours at work, wondering if there will be enough to
keep me occupied.
The more I think of it, the more I think of ways to escape, but then
the pull of responsibility and worldly wants comes back to me.
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