before i begin, i shall declare that i've been on 9gag too much, it's ruining my life XD

Then, some quick words to my reviewers:

TWA: i like kunsel, but im thinking that soon he'll stop appearing in my chapters, wahahaha!!! maybe someday i'll do a spin off :DDDD

LilPadfootChicky: thank you for the lovely review. (you've probably received a much longer review reply so i won't say more) i hope you'll continue to enjoy the story :D

woots, chapter 38! a long way we've come, yo? :3

at last! the junon episode has ended, time for some kickback and relax? nah, unfortunately it's gonna be hard for me to relax till the entire story is done, muahah XD

sometimes i feel like i'm shortchanging you guys. there are dozens of chapters (literally) where i wish i can describe and write more in detail but i can't because i don't want to waste too much time on too many unnecessary stuff. for example, when writing this chapter i had a hard time trying to cut down the scenes to fit in one chapter, but still have enough content to make sense XD

still, i pat myself on the back for another successful attempt at ensuring my story flows as if it's canon and keeping meia hidden (well, except some parts but... :X). every chapter is a cause of celebration for me, heheh.

kk, enough self-praise and complaints. back to story. yeah, i never really disliked heidegger so much till i read the script for BC. he really don't give a damn for the Turks. probably not anyone except his soldiers. In fact, I believe i carried out my dislike for Heidegger in the chapter, because I pretty much made him an a-hole, if you know what i mean.

Just so you know, the power hierarchy for the SOLDIER side is like so:

Shinra

|

v

Heidegger

|

v

Lazard

so yeah, no clashes. Lazard is the director of SOLDIER but Heidegger is the ultimate big guy overseeing SOLDIER and Security.

ahh yes, Meia being hot-headed again. I think her temper will remain a terrible issue, I do want to make it more realistic by getting her into trouble because of her temper. however i haven't written anything about it. all i mentioned was that tseng taught her (the hard way) of being in control of her emotions, but i think she's not coping well, huh? XDDD FYI, her usage of "MEANIE" to Heidegger is totally making a reference to Rikku from FFX, FFX-2. i absolutely adore her, she was my idol when i was a kid (i wanted to be like her! ... i still do XD)

i shall end by saying chapter 39 is when the main storyline starts to get a little serious. haha... not quite but you'll soon know what i mean, stay tuned for the update!

alright, here's me signing out. Please review if you like the chapter!

GYA HA HA!

just so you know...

updates on my writing on "I Want To Be A Turk!".

As some of you know, I love prefer to write at least 5-7 chapters ahead. (you didn't know? where have you been?) I'm currently finishing up the Costa del Sol scene (yes, the one shown in Crisis Core) and the Nibelheim scene (BC version) concurrently and...

I'm tired.

before you guys gasp and scream "not another incomplete story!", i just want to complain, that's all. i've been writing this story non-stop since May. Everyday (well, almost) I write a sentence or two to the story. Sometimes I get high on writing and churn out 4000 words a day (yeap, i finish chapters in a matter of hours!).

finally, after 45 chapters (yeap, I'm writing Chapter 46 now!), I'm starting to feel tired. It's really tiring to link and link and link canon details ACROSS different games. I had to switch on gunshotromance for BC content, sorumian's crisis core walkthrough and my own chapters to cross-reference, to ensure i'm not creating loopholes, to... GAHHH XD

i don't plan on giving up yet. i'm still damn determined to finish whatever i've set out to do. and damn well i want to finish this.

forgive me. it's just that the nibelheim incident, one of the BIGGEST milestones in FF7 timeline, is such a "pansy" to write. some parts of the story really flow through smoothly, then there are discrepancies between BC and CC themselves. *sigh* SquareEnix, Y U NO CHECK YOUR STORY?

anyway, the Nibelheim incident is just the tip of the iceberg to everything that I have in plan for you. I could only hope that you guys don't get bored and give up. (This is why I fight so hard to ensure I post a chapter once a week... it'll be hard to attract or keep readers if i update irregularly.)

also, I intend to cheat myself a little and jump here and there. Perhaps I'm not doing you guys enough justice, but I'll most likely cut some BC scenes and make the story go a little faster. So to those who knows their BC stuff, I intend to cut away the Wutai and Rocket Town scene. Yeah, Yuffie and Cid just got to delay their cameos a little later.

After the Nibelheim scene, which is Year 0002, I'm going to a particular BC episode in Year 0003. Then we'll jump straight into the juicy bit... when Zack escapes after being locked up for 4 years (Year 0006). Sounds good?

i've got a long battle ahead. *check Materia* i'm ready.

reviews are absolute LOVE

just sharing some messages that i received this week that seriously made me smile. (some names are kept anonymous. but you know who you are :P) the fact that i highlighted some of them shows what i'm aiming for in each story too, that's why they make me happy, because it means my objectives were met :P

Moves Like Jagger

"I definitely imagined them playing the song for real"

"that song is epic! it's really addictive.. been listening to it since reading this story."

The review above is what inspired me to write this blog post. this was not an aim of mine (to have readers liking the song because of the story) so when i read it, i cannot describe how pleasantly surprised i felt!

I Want To Be A Turk!

"I'd rather have more I want to be a Turk! chapters more than anything else lol :}"

"the ending [of a chapter] was absolutely AWESOME"

funnily enough, they all came from different people! :D i really feel thankful at how my small and humble base of readers have expanded. i started out in the FF7 fandom with only Samantha Sheffield and TWA (btw, i pronounce it as 'twah' XDDDD) to offer their reviews. then... out of nowhere... i see new names and names becoming regular reviewers.

i cannot say enough how thankful i feel that there are people out there who bothers to read the (ten thousands of) words that i write. surely i'm not the best, but i am glad that you gave my story a chance to exhibit itself. its playful side, its solemn side... the ups and downs of the story plot that also reflects the efforts that the author puts in when she writes.

it must the CHRISTMAS season, i feel extra appreciative. Oh, just so you know, Singapore doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, so our time of mutual appreciation is during Christmas :P

actually, i feel like writing a new story concurrently, but after much thought I decided against it. i'm starting to slacken on the pace of the Turk story, so I need to double up and write a little faster :P

okay, i'm going to sleep soon. hopefully i can force myself to write a bit more before sleeping. but i've got some stuffs to do first. MERRY CHRISTMAS, lovely readers! May things be brighter in our 2012 horizon!

I Want To Be A Turk: Chapter 37

Gya Ha Ha! Chapter 37 is out!

Just some quick author's notes!

Firstly, yes, I admit, the Takara cameo is really one of the randomest things i'll do to my story! but she deserves it, since she pointed out a loophole in my story :P i said i'll give her a chocobo plushie but i remembered that she likes tseng so... Takara, I hope you like the Tseng plushie I gave you :3

Next. This chapter is easy and difficult to write at the same time. Easy because well, half the dialogue is taken from the BC game itself (credit to gunshotromance!). So I enjoyed (fully) copying the dialogue into my word document and adding the apostrophes here and there. :P

Writing this (and chapter 38) is difficult because I still have to describe actions, emotions and setting. on top of that, the given dialogue limits my ability to add information here and there. It was tough manipulating what was given as canon and inputting your details that are required for your story. :P

example, to me it was weird that when heidegger said martial artist female (or leia) was asking stupid questions, i seriously believed that leia must be furious at his opinion, just wise enough not to voice it out.

of course, this story is best enjoyed if the reader knows his/her BC content very well, but oh well. i hope to those who knows nothing about Before Crisis, that you're not lost so far XD

there we go. enjoy this chapter, your christmas holidays and i'll see you in a week's time!

the habit of thanking fans?

in regards to my title, i've noticed that nowadays it has become necessary, even habitual that whenever i'm notified that someone alerted or faved my story. as long as the option to PM the user is available, i'll send them a message thanking them for their support.

why did i ended up being so... desperate to get reviews? hurhur, i admit. the initial aim of messaging everyone to thank them for their alerts and faves is to hope that they might realise 'if the author bothers to thank each one of us, surely i can write one review in return?'

heheh. sorry for such a selfish motivation behind this seemingly humble act. i guess if you must know, my messaging definitely DID NOT work. because my reviews did not increase exponentially or whatever :P soon enough, i couldn't bear to stop messaging and now, it's more of a habit than a selfish act.

of course, i DO want to thank you guys for even bothering to check the 'subscribe' or 'favourite' box. for all i know, you could very well just be alerting to see where i go with this story and dump me once u get fed up with it!!! sometimes i tell myself that if people bothers to fave and alert this, it is just as good as a review!

still... sometimes it would be nice just to know what you guys think. i don't believe that my story is perfect, and there will be times where you read and go 'oh, there's a loophole she missed out' or 'ahh... this could've been better written like this.'

that said, i am a pretty arrogant for an amateur writer! so i should say this: i AM affected by your criticisms and advice, but the wiser side of me chides myself to look past the negativity and work on improving. im not 100% immune to constructive reviews [so why am i so blunt in others'? :(] and everytime i see someone who points out my flaws, i'll tell myself not to be immature and go depressed about it. hurhur.

(okay why did i deviate to this topic?) ANYWAY. i just want to say that i PM everyone of you to thank you for your support... and i am genuinely thankful. there are many ways to make me smile, but seeing the amount of emails notifying me on who faved/alerted/reviewed when i check my mail at night definitely made me more eager to go home early, made me happier when i sleep.

so.... yeah. that's my random thought of the day.

P.S: it makes me smile when i see the visitor counter of this blog increase too :)

I Want To Be A Turk: Chapter 36

Finally, I've convinced myself to upload and not nitpick on my chapter anymore.

Yeap, chapter 36 is out!

Like I've said in my previous blog entry (anyone reading? :X), Chapter 36 is a huge mental obstacle for me. although i've read a million and one abduction scenes (okay, more like read AND watched), inclusive of scenes where the girl could've almost been violated, i find that i just. can't. write. one! i sat in front of my computer, ipod touch (While i was overseas) and all i did was stare at the screen and wonder how should the scene even unfold.

Months ago, I gave myself a mini challenge to write a sexually explicit story. The SDK readers will know as "Dress Off!" It started out as a 'let's do something i've never done: write (without planning) a sexually explicit story'. in the end, i couldn't because i just... chickened out everytime i want to write something sexy. XD yeah so in the end, my readers told me (gently) that it was not lemon. in fact, it's not even lime (WUTTT???) So i gave up on doing such stories, though it was a good experience :P

Back to our turk story. So yeah! i can't write it!! it's not like i don't know what's happening, it's just all my writing skills fail me when it comes to the intimate things!!! i wish that for this chapter i can go something like this (change is made in bold. adapted from published chapter):

Her head was pounding when she felt consciousness again.

What happened?

I remember that I’ve barely reached the doors of the Wall Market when… Ow!

Meia groaned and felt the ache on the back of her neck.

Someone knocked me out.

“Awake, my princess?” A male voice greeted her, chilling her to the spine. Meia looked up, her eyes focusing on a group of males in a room that she didn’t recognize.

“…” She stared at the group of men who were smoking, gambling or just relaxing. As soon as the male voice spoke, the rest stopped whatever they were doing and stared at her. They tried to have their way with her but Reno and Rude suddenly busted through the wall.

Walking over to the nearest man (who happened to be Pascal), Reno grabbed him by his collar and growled. “You dare to even lay a finger on our Turk?”

“T-t-t-turk??????” Pascal stuttered.

“She’s a Turk?!?!” Pero stared at Meia.

And so on.
HAHAHA! Obviously, that's not gonna happen!
Damn it >.<
So I forced myself to write it and err... this is the best I could do.
I admit, I took inspiration from "What's This?" by inu-shinai-kirara.
the whole feeling of the men wanting to take turns... why didn't i think of that? *smack forehead*

Anyway! I'm just glad it's over.

oh yeah, moving on. This chapter experienced one of the most changes from its initial stage. It's supposed to be shown that Reno spent the night with Meia (not in THAT way!), accompanying her till she fell asleep. But i did it away because... yeah, it's another long chapter. it's hard to keep the story short to grab the readers' interest, but good to make the story of quality. i believe that if i had my way of describing every tom, dick, harry, flower and bird, the story will hit 200 chapters (WOOOOOOOOOOOOTS!)

Lucky you, I won't hit 200. maybe a hundred :P

Am I scaring you yet?

P.S: my favourite part in the whole story? Reno saying "in the softest voice that [Meia] never knew [he] could muster", "It's all yours."

Moves Like Jagger: Chapter 6 (last!)

hurray hurray hurray!

it's over!

what started out as a frivolous earworm (that stupid song was stuck in my head for two months!!!!) resulted in a fanfiction product.

am i proud of it? well... i can only say that i can always do better. the story is kinda written in a way when i first started writing, which was girl manga style (shoujo). that was the main influence of my writing then and so you can imagine when i wrote "KISS Me!", it contained all elements (and more) of fluff and the whole... 'roses in the background' feel (only shoujo readers will get what i mean!)

ANYWAY, it wasn't meant to turn out this way, wahahaha. the very first Moves Like Jagger was supposed to be a one-shot on how Elena was dragged into training and then performing... all in one chapter. Of course, that would likely result in a 10 thousand word chapter so I figured I'll break it up into three.

Then, somewhere in the recesses of my old writing days (not that I've evolved much), the shoujo-manga side of me goes 'ooh, how about Elena get into trouble for hanging out too much with Reno and the guys?' and then, that's where it exploded into 6 chapters. wahahahaha XD

If anything, I'm glad that a simple thread of wanting Reno, Rude and Tseng to perform "Moves Like Jagger" could evolve into a decent work like what you see now, that's something I'm proud of. Also, from this fic I gained another plot bunny which I call "AVALANCHE!" (three guesses to what it is about!). However, i doubt this new story will be birthed so soon, because the details to starting the story is simply too little and weak. and yes, if you know me, i only write stories when i have the entire skeleton out so... nahh, not yet.

Back to the chapter. I don't really have much to say about the chapter per se. Just two things:

1. Tifa Lockhart. Why was she so tense with Elena? I guess Elena truly will never know... and you guys won't either till "AVALANCHE!" is written. Okay, no more about that. I won't have you all imagining possibilities, when the story is not going to be written in the near future.

2. Throughout the story I kept quiet about the settings and venues. The only thing you knew was Ackee (the school?) Well, only at the last part I mentioned Kalm. So yeah, I decided in the end the world is still set in the Planet, just that it won't be as... 'medieval' as in the game. It's a modern version of the Planet. Oh well, not that it matters in this story :)

Nevertheless, the story is over! And it wouldn't be possible without these people!

TifaRokkuhato

The Writing Artist

XXTakaraXX

Muffin7

zexydemyx66

Silver-x-Crimson

Thank you for reviewing my humble story :)

Not forgetting...

manga'slover1996

Etuvix

Agent.Kacheeky

Holly-Batali

little miss piplup

Who alerted and faved my story :) Yes, the ever-stalker me keeps track of who faved and alerted.

But of course I might miss out some more so... my sincere thanks for your support!

now to upload this and play Final Fantasy XIII :)

aichioluv, signing out.

COMPLETE!

Yeah baby, "Moves Like Jagger" is complete!

All that's left is to proofread and (hopefully) cut down words.

I've written 5000+ words for this chapter but I think you'll like it. There were some parts that I thought was a little... weird but GAHHHH i want to sleep already so I'll look at it again tomorrow =P

Yes, that means I'll upload it tomorrow! (i.e. Thursday 15 Dec!)

Yes, I know I should update...

But the truth is, I'm not really done with my chapters yet.

For "I Want to be a Turk", I needed to proofread my chapter. honestly chapter 36 was one of the chapters that i had a mega mental block. from the start of writing chapter 36, i've completed chapter 35 (yes i don't write chronologically!), 37, 38.... all the way to chapter 40 and half of 41 XDDDD

(now you must be thinking to yourself 'damn it, the crazy author is holding back chapters!!!' XD)

so yeah, after finishing chapter 40 i thought that i should force myself to fill up the gap in chapter 36. so i returned and finished it up in my trip back to Taiwan :P

being prepared (usually) at least 5 chapters ahead of what i upload, i'm a little insecure if i upload chapters immediately after i finish so.... yeah, give me a day or two (or three!) to mull over the chapter and convince myself it's worthy to be shown to you guys :P

as for moves like jagger.... i'm only halfway done. opps.

enough said, hehe.

... okay okay, i know what i intend to write already, it's just... getting down to write it :P

on a totally unrelated note, i realised one thing about my wardrobe as i was hanging back my recently washed laundry.

i have a lot of shirts. a lot.

i figured that if i wear a shirt everyday, i have enough to last me two weeks? or just a little less.

why so many? i've no idea.

most are hand-me-downs from my older sister, who prefers androgynous outfits as compared to frilly dresses and lace.

so that probably explains it. Come to think of it, about 7 of my total shirts came from her.

okay, unrelated issues aside.

i'll probably get moves like jagger up the following weekend (i.e. 17-18 Dec) and then the new Meia chapter slightly before that :)

last thing. i received a lovely surprise when i returned from my three-week trip (i went to Taiwan and Macau). i had a ton of faves and alerts :) i don't know why but seeing them always makes me smile. though i love reviews and would love to get more, i suppose that there are readers who are shy to review, or they don't know what to say because they don't want to give a un-constructive review like 'it's good.'

in some sense i've convinced myself to believe that if people bothered to fave and alert your story, that is an achievement in itself. :) so ANYWAY, if you are one of those who faved and alerted my stories,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I Want To Be A Turk!: Chapter 34 and 35

Yes folks, I'm back! I'd talk more about my trip but that's not the purpose of this post.

Two words for me: Happy Birthday!

Yup, it's 5th December, 1:15 AM. So to share my joy (which isn't a lot as of now because I'm dead tired from my Taiwan trip), I've posted two chapters for your viewing pleasure. It's also to compensate the two weeks that I disappeared.

Chapter 34 is pretty straightforward, in my opinion. Reno realises that he has feelings for Meia, and spends a laughable amount of time convincing himself otherwise. How would he behave from now on? The first climax of the entire story is fast approaching and I can't wait to see your (disappointed?) responses at the turn of events. XD

Just an FYI, I wrote in the chapter that Reno's birthday falls in August. It's not canon, I just thought that he'll be cool as a Leo. I've always thought his horoscope should be Aries, Leo or Sagittarius.

Chapter 35 is interesting in my opinion. I had a headache writing it because I have to try and reconcile the massive boo-boo that SquareEnix made. You see, in Crisis Core, Wall Market is in the Sector 5 slums but in FF7, it is technically in Sector 6. But eventually I found a way to weave through the loopholes and hopefully it works.

I was particularly not satisfied with the conversation with Cissnei and Meia. I was cringing from the fluff and all while I was proofreading it. So I kinda made Cissnei a little less.... giggly and chirpy. Still, it's not the best I have for you :(

the rod scene was pretty fun to write for me, i kinda like the dynamics i've tried to create with rod and meia. it's kinda like a frenemy (a portmanteau of friend and enemy).

Now that most things are said and done... I gotta say Chapter 36 will be fun :) I just finished the chapter today. I left a gaping hole in the chapter because I didn't know how to fill it up till today (yeah, it took me almost two months to come up with something!!)

Thank you for your reviews!

TWA: description, huh? perhaps. sometimes, when my chapters go all the way up to 4500-5000 words, i'll cut down on description. a lot. well, in the first place i never considered my writing to be flavourful and full of description. i simply don't have the stamina to keep the description muscle working :P i'll take note and will spruce it up... the next chapter :P

Takara: thanks :D now that i'm back for a while, i hope you enjoy the chapters I've posted!

On hiatus

Dear folks,

I'll be away from the 20th Novemeber to 11th December. My grandmother has just passed away and I'll be flying back to Taiwan (yes, my family is Taiwanese, though I'm born in Singapore.) for the funeral and stuff.

I can't guarantee that I can upload weekly while I'm away, so I promise when I'm back on the 12th, I'll upload my chapters TWICE a week till the year ends, as compensation :) I wanted to do so anyway, because December is my birthday month (5th). But oh well, are we such immature people that we insist on celebrating while a relative has died?

While overseas, I'll definitely still be writing. My hands are practically itching. But thank goodness in the last week I was not distracted by writing at all. I dared not read any of my chapters and it worked... because i ended up studying and doing my work pretty... efficiently.

Oh, but if you are curious to know, my paper sucked. no amount of studying could get me an A so... *sniff*

ah yes, that's about all. if there are any questions just... comment below :)

I Want To Be A Turk!: Chapter 33

yay, chapter 33.

nothing much for this chapter, i suppose :P but the next one will be yummy :)

yeah, once again, some BC scenes. there won't be any crisis core scenes till september 0002 (in the story!) :P

the more important post should be after this one.

i want to write...

no, not math theories and proofs.

not assignments and essays.

i want to write stories!!!!!!

it's a monday (okay now it's tuesday)...

and i'm looking forward to friday because i want to upload a new chapter :D

but then again i'm not looking forward to friday because my assignment AND exams are due that day.

obviously i'm not ready :P

i just spent 2 hours compiling stuff for my project mates. and it's tiring X.x

i much rather spend that time on 'i want to be a turk' but oh well...

just 4 days more.

on a random note, i'm quite heartened to see that there are people who actually read my blog XD honestly when i did this whole blog thing i didn't think that people would really read it (apart from some nice souls XD). but yeah, i'm glad that people gives a hoot about what i think. okay, so MAYBEEE i manipulated it a little by putting most of the authors' notes here but... :P

Oh yes, it did!

the eyelash miraculously came out while i was sleeping, that is :P

i woke up in the morning and the first thing i always do is to check my mail for reviews :P

my readers never fail me, because there are two already in my inbox, smiling at me.

the little joys that i look forward to every weekend :)

as i am blogging about this, i heard my sister in the next room watching 'Detective Conan'.

ahhh i want my exams to end quickly so that i can watch anime too!!!

okay, that was utterly random. i'm thinking of creating a label so that i can blog about some of my daily, random stuff. i don't wanna look back at this blog in ten years' time and have the misunderstanding that i was a committed, brilliant author who writes awesome stories XDDD well, at least the committed part is true (now.) So what should be the name of my label? 0__0 "daily life", "mundane happenings", "Non-writing stuff"... *sigh*

I Want To Be A Turk!: Chapter 32

has it been a week already? wasn't it just yesterday or something that i posted on... oh, moves like jagger was uploaded on tuesday XD despite my saying that i've stopped writing... obviously i haven't :\ but we're here to talk about the chapter so here we go!

i was quite surprised when i realised that i'm going to upload this chapter. the start of Year 0002, huh? this is the year where everything changes, for everyone actually. for meia, reno and "coincidentally", zack fair (nibelheim, anyone?) the feeling is like 'wow, the story has really gone a long way.' even though the story is NOWHERE near midpoint, it really has come thus far. i hope that i have the tenacity to finish everything that i want to finish.

it's pretty silly to read my authors' notes now. back when i wrote this (in september!!!), i was saying that my chapter is long... and that was 4000 words. now, i removed my remark, since 4000 words has been an average length for a very very long time XD

yes, the Icicle Inn scenes are from Before Crisis. :) it's really hard to fit Meia into scenes, i swear. XD that's why i feel extra proud of myself whenever i can do a canon scene with Meia.

Lifestream. One of the many concepts that i didn't understand till recently (what was i playing ff7 back then for???). it's a highly profound concept, kudos to the story developer. so yeah, the context of my story is the ppl don't know that Mako is refined souls of humans. i can't be bothered to research and watch through all the games to see if this knowledge is common or exclusive so... :P

yes, i know reno is kinda OOC here. fear not, i'll devise a marvellous plan to make everything alright. XD

this is my notes while i was writing... in September. I transferred them here cos it's not that important anyway XD

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(a/n: September)

Oh my gosh, do my eyes deceive me? Does Reno finally realize that he might…!? Gosh, after 32 chapters, if he’s not going to do something about it, even I will give him a virtual punch!

Haha, yeah that’s the part that I thought you guys might like. About time I add in some… mutual (?) feelings there. But the journey is far from over, wahahaha!

***

okay, i'm pretty much done with my talking and talking.

on a side note (though it's predominantly a writing blog, i DO write about other things as well.. wait till you hear me rant about makeup... oh look, there's a tag there already.), I have to stop wearing coloured contact lenses for a while. (let us not get started on the harmful things about coloured lenses k? XD)

Yeah, i was trying out a new brand and well... i find them a little too soft for my liking. so... the fact that they went a little too dry... my reddened eyes are more than happy to scream 'next!!' So yeap, as i'm typing i'm nursing my dry eyes with eye drops >.<

alright, i shall quickly upload my story (yeah i do this post before i upload) and then sleep, hoping that the lost eyelash in my eye will somehow be lodged out while i sleep XD

Movie Review (3): (just) in time!

if you only had a day left to live, what would you do?

THAT, folks, is what you get. yes, i went for another movie today. i don't think u need a summary or synopsis so i'm gonna just jump in.

Yes, the concept that time is money (literally) is very, very intriguing. I was very entertained for two hours :) just... just two things that made me a LITTLE unsettled.

1. loopholes??

not that there were loopholes but... it feels like there were some things that were left a little TOO vague. i mean, in real steel i suppose it was fine to leave things like 'yeah hugh jackman had some scrape that made him all messed up now' but THIS is simply tooo... off. they didn't explain what did will salas' father did, or why giving people in the ghettoes more time will cause disbalance... well.. i hope i didn't spoil anything there. all in all, i think some things can be explained a little more.

2. lacks depth

ahh. not that the story sucked, but it lacks depth. and it was such a pity too, because i thought that it had some potential to be a little more than what i watched tonight. story development was two-dimensional, there was practically no surprise element, no story climax, bleah. the characters were also kinda meh, though amanda seyfried remains hot in my opinion :P

okay, so comparatively, real steel is the better deal (rhyme intended). and off i go to do my powerpoint slides for my presentation on friday :)

Disclaimer: movie afterthought is not an in-depth review. opinions given are made in the context of writing a fiction story.

Moves Like Jagger: Chapter 5

This chapter is uploaded as a tribute to one of my first few supporters in my FF7 writing 'career'... The Writing Artist (or TWA). Happy Birthday, TWA :) I hope you managed to read this chapter before your birthday ends!

Okay, so I uploaded a little too quickly this time, the next update will be end Nov to Dec, but that would be the last chapter! Whoopee! I'm half done with that chapter so I can't wait till my exams are over so that I can work on it :D

Honestly, writing a RenoxElena fic wasn't as hard as I thought. I admit I didn't pay too much attention on character development, but it wasn't THAT bad right? I sincerely hope my characters aren't OOC >.<

I admit, I wanted to give you guys a surprise by writing that Cissnei is the saboteur instead, but I decided not to because I MIGHT be starting another story that is based on this universe! It’ll be a little tricky to have such a big character as Cissnei become the baddies =P Not that it's confirmed that Cissnei will be a big character in that new story, but I like to give myself less restrictions so that I won't find myself stuck when planning the new story... just in case.

Yeap, you've heard it. I might start another story, but no guarantee. I have dozens of plot bunnies waiting to birth, so… =) That being said, I'm quite excited about the new story I have in mind, so hopefully everything will work out :)

There we go! Chapter 5 and hints of a new story! Please read, review and comment! :)

P.S: GAHHH the log in page is not working!! i hope i can get this out quickly!!

Story Update Schedule

Hi all, if you're reading this, it's because you want to know what's coming up for the month of November!

Sadly, I (SHOULD, but it's easier said than done) gotta study for my exams (it's on the 18th) and there're tons of assignments in between, so on my side, I'll stop writing. Yes, so stories like "Moves Like Jagger" will be on hold till after my exams. Since "I want to be a Turk" has many prepared chapters done, updates will continue as per normal.

6 Nov: I Want To Be A Turk: Chapter 31

8 Nov: Moves Like Jagger: Chapter 5

11 Nov: I Want To Be A Turk: Chapter 32

18 Nov: I Want To Be A Turk: Chapter 33

25 Nov: I Want To Be A Turk: Chapter 34

Chapter 6 of Moves Like Jagger will be written and uploaded after 18th November... I'm not done writing it yet but I can be sure it'll be done before mid December.

I'll be available for PMing, so feel free to review and PM as per normal!

I Want To Be A Turk!: Chapter 31

My favourite chapter is finally uploaded! Rude's story is seriously one of the best chapters in the BC story. It made me ache inside to see him so heart-broken. This is the rendition of what I think happened. Of course, this chapter is inspired by author redcherryamber, who wrote the awesome and heart-wrenching "Unspolit".

Though I'm feeling tired from writing, my heart still feels excited to plan the story development. I'm just afraid now that I'll overplan and then I'll be lazy to write it out.

In fact, I liked this chapter so much, it was done before Chapter 28 and 29 were completed. So it has been sitting in my 'please proofread' folder for a long time :P

My next post will be on my story update schedule.

Planning is such a pain.

oh gosh. As the title says, planning is such a pain. I spent two hours trying to pace my "I Want to be a Turk!" story properly to have minimal loopholes but it looks like i'm gonna fail :P I've decided to make a time lapse... though it wont be an abrupt one, but it will still be a time lapse XDD writing this story, though i still love it, is becoming really tiring :(

Moves Like Jagger: Chapter 4

Whee! New update! :D

When I was done with the whole chapter, I found out that I have 4600 words! I know that in "I Want To Be A Turk!", my chapter averages 4000-4500 words. but i shouldn't assume that all my readers like long chapters. Hence, I split it up to two chapters. Yes folks, the story will end at Chapter 6 (Hopefully).

On average I write 2000-2500 words per chapter... but that was last time. Now I shall aim to submit 3000-4000 words per chapter. Not for the Turk one, I think I can't afford the the luxury to have 100 chapters of 2500 words per chapter :P

Yeah, I know. This chapter is not that great. I did like the Aerith reference, and i had some plot bunny being conceived in the womb of my imagination... okay still too early to talk about it. Yes, I know that I didn't really put in too much effort for this chapter. the chapter lacks flavour. well, the initial plan is a REALLY long chapter (refer above). now that i spilt it up, of course this chapter is boring :P hopefully the next chapter is exciting for you guys :)

I admit. I didn't proofread my chapter tonight. I'm too tired. it's 2 am here and i'm just going to upload and sleep. tomorrow i shall enjoy my long-awaited laksa (google is your friend here :)) and hopefully NOT write stories. :P

Plot Bunnies: Listing them out

I won't birth my plot bunnies, but that doesn't mean that i'm not allowed to list them out and figure out which one i might do next and etc. I'll only write the title and category, and note that listing them out doesn't mean that they'll be published for sure. I may decide to scrap the idea after all and there's nothing you can do about it, wahahhah!

This is my list of incomplete and uncreated stories! From the title, can you tell what I'm going to do? :)

In alphabetical order

1. AVALANCHE! (FF7)

2. Be My Knight (FF8)

3. Case of Meia [title to be revised] (FF7)

4. Cross Over (Ragnarok Online)

5. Explosion [title to be revised] (FF7)

6. Love Rescue (FFX-2)

7. My Adventurous Firefly (SDK)

8. Romeo and Juliet (FF8 style!) [title to be revised] (FF8)

9. Silent Stories of the Aeons (FFX)

10. Sphera (FFX)

11. The Last Child [title to be revised] (FF7)

12. The Only Exception (FF7)

13. Their Memories of Fukinara High [yes, it's not over yet!!] (SDK)

14. Waiting For Him (SDK)

14 stories! can you sense how stressed I am? how of the 14 stories, only 3-4 are one-shots and short stories (less than 10 chapters). DAMN IT.

so of course, prioritise, prioritise. so here's my plan of what i'm going to do next.

Within the next 6 months:

The Only Exception (FF7)

Case of Meia (FF7)

AVALANCHE! (FF7)

Within the next 2 years:

Love Rescue (FFX-2)

Be My Knight (FF8)

Waiting For Him (SDK)

Within... :\

Cross Over (Ragnarok Online)

Explosion (FF7)

My Adventurous Firefly (SDK)

Romeo and Juliet (FF8 style!) (FF8)

Silent Stories of the Aeons (FFX)

Sphera (FFX)

The Last Child (FF7)

Their Memories of Fukinara High [yes, it's not over yet!!] (SDK)

Ambitious, no? :)

I Want to be a Turk: Chapter 30

Whee! 30th chapter! So many many many many more chapters to go!!!!

I guess I couldn't wait till the weekend (as in Saturday for me), so I've uploaded it slightly earlier. =)

Firstly, I would like to thank Tifa, TWA (esp TWA, your words made me smile!), Akirakei and Takara for their reviews again :D It really brings joy to see that you guys liked my story enough to review.

Okay, into the chapter proper. 4500 words! I swear, if I put all these energy into writing an original story, i would've been able to publish one long ago... of course that is, if im good enough :P the chapters seem to get longer and longer. it's like every week I tell myself 'okay, aim to write 4000 words ONLY. Ideally 3500, but i know you always exceed. So 4000." and then by the end of my editing i think to myself, 'didn't i say 4000 words?'

i really salute you people for the determination to read such a long chapter each time.

I like the section where Meia found out more about her father. You'll see more of Joseph Etsky's journal entries as the chapters run along. As for the 6-digit combination code as Meia's birthday, i 'stole' the idea from the webnovel, "On the Way to a Smile: Case of Shinra". You should give it a try if you want to know what the Turks and Rufus were doing after FF7 till the start of Advent Children. It also explains why Rufus contracted Geostigma.

Here's the link: http://ffviinovels.lhyeung.net/caseofshinra/

but my favourite part is the cissnei part. despite having written down in my story plan that i intended this scene to happen, when i wrote the chapter i completely forgot about it till i was proofreading the chapter. hehe. so in my haste i wrote out this part, and i am quite happy with the result. this is the part for me that cissnei is starting to form feelings for zack fair, but well... there's aerith. :\

oh yes, the dinner part was in reference to zack's DMW memories with cissnei. the one where he asked her out for dinner (duh.) i will include more crisis core references, that's a definite as long as zack fair is concerned. i hope you all know that currently my story is at the stage where zack just acquired the Buster Sword, the end of Chapter 6, if i'm not wrong 0.o

And of course, i left the BC part where the Turk needs to protect Dr. Rayleigh as Shotgun (female) i.e. Cassie. But as you can see, I was clearly running out of space so I didn't write about the mission, only brought it up as a lame conversation with Meia :P sometimes some sacrifices have to be made. if not i'll never finish my story XD

Of course, Cloud and Aerith finally made their cameos! Erm... In case you're wondering, Meia won't meet any of the FF7 main cast till MUCH later. Meia will meet Aerith soon, soon enough. She'll be the first of the main cast that Meia will meet, I think. the rest well... they might only meet Meia face to face in Part 2 of this story. If not, they'll at most be mentioned but not play a big part. If you wanna know, Part 2 begins at the end of Crisis Core and Before Crisis. Yeah, the beginning of FF7... so you know we have a long way before part 1 ends.

honestly? you don't have to think so much. just enjoy the story and leave the thinking and planning to me :P

and yeah, the last part on stalking Rude is from BC :) the next chapter will be absolutely awesome... i hope :P

whoa... long A/N this time around. Please read and review!

PLOT BUNNY EXPLOSION!

I'll NEVER FINISH WRITING ALL THE PLOT BUNNIES IN MY HEAD!!!!!

i suppose i could write them in a list just so that you guys can enjoy but..

another time :)))

I Want to be a Turk: Chapter 29

Wheee! Authors' Notes again!

Finally! After two weeks, it's time to release yet another chapter of "I WANT TO BE A TURK!" I must apologise for the late update. I figured that if I’m gonna update ‘Moves Like Jagger’ in a week then I’ll upload the Turk chapter the week after. Besides, delaying the turk chapters motivates me to finish up the Moves Like Jagger chapters! I think the next "Moves Like Jagger" chapter will be released in NOVEMBER, but no promises!

Aha! We meet Rufus! :D Finally! *ominous Shinra theme playing in background* I spent a bit describing him. Yes, from the very beginning he'll be badass :D will Meia interact more with him? nahh i doubt so. :P

At last, Meia's past is revealed! I'm REALLY tempted to make her a Cetra, but I'm glad I'm sticking to a more realistic path. Having a dad as a Turk makes more sense :) I hope I did her explanation part well. It was quite a mouthful and once again, I'm not philosophical so... hehe.

by the way, the last name 'Etsky' is original. I have no idea what it means and what not :P

Finally, I want to thank TWA and Takara for the reviews. and also to Hikari Kurai, who gave me encouraging words to motivate me. I will continue to work hard and not make this story too... terrible (you were hoping that i would say i'll cut down the story, huh? :P)

It's very comforting and encouraging to (apart from the usual reviewers) receive reviews and PMs from people who don't review often. To the other readers who reads my story, do drop me a PM or a review and say hi. it brings me great pleasure to know that people are reading my stories and taking my words seriously. So feel free to make your presence known. Nevertheless, thank you for reading my chapters :)

gosh it's 3:30 AM. time to sleep. thank you for ploughing through this LONG A/N!!

Movie Review (2): Real Steel

I just came back from the theatres. I watched the movie "Real Steel" starring Hugh Jackman. Now, Hugh Jackman did an awesome job as Wolverine so of course I want to watch Real Steel..........

Of course not. Truth is, the movie didn't even appeal to me.

no matter how I looked at it, it seemed like some random robot boxing movie. and seriously? robot boxing? still, i went to watch because my friends were raving at how awesome it was.

verdict? yeah it is awesome. it is also true that it is a robot boxing movie :P i shall not dwell too much on details, but it's movie worthwhile to watch.

now of course as usual, i won't bring in random stuff unless it had anything to do with writing. I noticed that in the movie, the script 'cleverly' left out details of the characters. So we leave the cinema having a pretty good idea why the protagonist was initially so messed up, but we weren't told the whole tale.

take for example, hugh jackman apparently had this nemesis who taunts him whereever he goes, saying things like 'i'll beat you up just like back then!' so we kinda know that their vengeance runs deep, yet we don't know the specifics.

i really wonder if it's wise to keep details so vague and open to our interpretation. for myself i try my very best to reveal all information and not be too implicit in describing my story. but it is true that sometimes describing things so explicitly takes the mystery away and dulls the story. so... how much should we imply and how much should we reveal?

decisions, decisions :)

Disclaimer: Despite the official term, the above review is not a wholesome and fully critical one. The blog entry merely reviews and reflects the performance on based on story writing and other literary elements.

My Writing History... Part 2

list of things that i want to say:

1. NaNoWriMo

2. China writing trip

3. Plot Bunnies

but anyway i shall talk about something else today. i remembered that i need to finish up my introduction, the one that i left off a few months ago.

I've taken many unannounced hiatuses over the years of being a fanfiction writer, but i'm glad to say that for the past year, i have yet to become missing in action. So that's good. with my graduation in the coming may, i'm not too sure whether my career will allow me to write as much. so the best (and perhaps the last) time is now. i don't want to let go till the last moment, and God forbid, i will keep writing to my last author's breath.

My writing style is kinda funny I guess? I started writing fanfiction out of a whim, but eventually after "KISS Me!", i became serious with writing and i sought to write a story that is flawless in development. actually i only want to write a story that doesn't have story loopholes but yeah, from that desire "Their Memories of Fukinara High" is birthed. I am happy that my goal was achieved, fairly at the very least.

With "I Want To Be A Turk", I set for myself two new goals:

1. To create an OC that isn't attention-grabbing and all-special like how other OC-stories can get (not that it's bad, but i want to try something different)

2. To place an OC in canon... which can only be done if the OC is completely hidden.

Have I achieved this? No. Sadly. I wish I can say Meia is as human as we are, but still... she's not, hehe. Neither is she completely hidden. But i like the way the story has developed, it's too late for me to change anyway!

Perhaps... if this story ends (i don't think it'll EVER END!), and i'm still free enough to venture, i'll try OC stories again. Plot bunnies have been invading my mind and it certainly isn't a friendly thing to behold.

(okay, i left it at that yesterday so i lost my train of thought. another time then :))

How to comment on this blog

Apparently some of you said that you can't comment without having a google account. I've done it after I signed out of my google account and it worked fine. Here's a step-by-step tutorial and hopefully you are able to talk to me :D (please enlarge if the images are too small!)

Step 1: Under my post, click on the "comments" link. It should be (number) comments... mostly 0 because no one has commented nuts :P

Step 2: click the drop down list and select "ANONYMOUS". I have yet to try the name/url one. but the anon option worked for me when i signed out of my google account, so i think you guys can use that. do include your name in your message though, so then i would know who you are, of course :)

type your message and press "POST COMMENT"

Step 3: type in the security code and click "POST COMMENT" again!

Step 4: Your comment will be sent to my email for moderation, so no flamings, obviously :)

There, I hope that you guys are able to comment successfully on my blog!

Moves Like Jagger: Chapter 3

Amazingly, I finished yet another chapter of this story! Two more chapters and I'll be done!

The story has (unintentionally) gone on the shoujo manga route. Fluff, brainless and unrealistic. No, my story has not become that yet. But the story development is quite remiscient of shoujo manga... so... :X

There isn't much to say for uploading this time round :P

I Want to be a Turk: Chapter 28

With that, almost 10 days after the last update, I am here to announce the new release of the chapter!

I'm going to have to spread out the chapter uploading a little wider... I want to revise the (tons of) chapters that are yet to be updated and I would probably do a good character analysis of some people... namely Fuhito, Veld and... that's all that I can think of off the top of my head.

In the course of the week, I had a pretty good conversation with one of the writers on FF.net. She (generic term) wrote a story which I have been subscribing. Everytime I read a new chapter from her, I walk away (metaphorically, of course) feeling simply awed. :P So she gave me some pointers about my story. It's a little hard to change, I admit. My story in essence is not dark and cynical, but I really, REALLY fear that my story edges on the sweet, sacharine side :p anyway, I'll do my best :)

You know, while mulling over my stories, many plot bunnies invaded my mind. Maybe I should sit down and list them out so I have a better idea of what I'm expecting :X Maybe I should first finish up my incompleted work :X

Moves Like Jagger: Plot Bunny Explosion!

Chapter 2 is up! Whee!

I was writing the story in class (opps) and suddenly, a little subplot bunny bounced into my brain and multiplied like (as its name suggests) bunnies. So from a three-chapter story, I might expand it to a five-chapter one. Geez.

Haven't been writing much because I'm trying to finish up Cowboy Bebop. Yes, considering it was out in 1998, it's about time that i start watching it :P

Also, I'm reading Code: Breakers by Kamijyo Akimine, the author of my favourite "Samurai Deeper Kyo" :P It's good, but like what my sister said, SDK is a manga that is so impactful to us that even when reading Code: Breakers, we subconsciously look for SDK elements. :\

I Want to be a Turk: Chapter 26

Author Notes for I Want To Be A Turk! Chapter 26

Haha! Yes, from the time since TWA pointed out that Kunsel has been pretty neglected… I finally found a slot to put him in (since the previous few chapters are pretty close to BC story)

I MUST say this. The mission where Reno and Rude were at Floor 45 is in the special episode under Before Crisis. Yes, it really does coincide with Chapter 4 of Crisis Core (thus the timeline of both games are not one after another XD)… remember when Zack first met Cissnei? I’m super excited to finish writing this and I hope you enjoy reading it!

The dialogue is adapted and lifted directly from the translation from kawree of LiveJournal (since I couldn’t find a good compromise between the translation and the extended summary). Certain conversations are modified and removed to quicken the story pace. So whatever happens in Floor 45 is SLIGHTLY AU.

Disclaimer: Events and Dialogue that happened in FF7: Before Crisis (Special Episode of Reno) are taken for consideration from Lifestream(dot)net and kawree from LJ! Scenes that are shown from Crisis Core (namely when Zack first met Cissnei) are taken from the CC walkthrough (thank sorumian for this!!) Please ensure that if you want to use the translations of the special episode of Reno from kawree, please contact her for permission!!!

I Want to be a Turk: Chapter 25

I'm going to postpone my introduction yet again by writing my author's notes here!

Yes, Chapter 25 of "I Want to be a Turk" is finally out! I really want to keep it a little longer but my amount of 'completed' chapters are kinda piling up... so I better get it out. It's never too good to keep chapters for too long. You'll never be satisfied with your work and you'll keep editing it, wahahaha.

Finally, Club Duel. Back when I first started on the story, when i was reading ahead on the events to come, i was thinking to myself that it'll take me FOREVER to reach this stage. but here we are :)

I am a little tentative about writing fighting scenes. I absolutely love cutting short the fights so that my writing flaws would not be shown. Soon... Soon enough, I'll force myself to plan and write a fight so awesome it'll blind you. :P

(for all i know... no one is reading my blog. i'll be glad with talking to myself still XD)

My Writing History... An Overview.

Finally, I settle down and I believe it's time to introduce this... contraption.

Yes, I'm aichioluv from Fanfiction.net. I started writing fanfiction when I was around 15 years old. That's... a really long time *cough cough* I first started writing Final Fantasy 8, and then I left it as such. Stupid me...

And for the next few years it took me a while to get the fact that i shouldn't only begin the story, i need to END it. So I finally did. A five chapter long story (KISS Me!) under my favourite manga then (it still is now :3), Samurai Deeper Kyo. Receiving all those reviews were really a joy for me. Soon after, I began to write the extended version of 'Kiss Me!', focusing on the loopholes that I've previously missed.

Then... the unthinkable (not really, since every other fanfic writer went through the stage) happened. I went on hiatus without a single word. For two years I've left my story on hold and by the time I remembered, most of the readers were gone. Such a shame. Of course I'll dwell on this a little longer but that's another story.

So I sat down and continued the story, Their Memories of Fukinara High. Oh well, but the shame. Only one of my loyal readers remained. (I'm eternally grateful to her support.) With much luck, I managed to reach a temporary ending with this story and now I'm writing full force on my latest story: I Want To Be A Turk.

I really hope that this story could end and really end. Not temporary endings, not slipshod work. The true ending that I desire. Of course, this plot is really long and it will definitely not finish by this year. heck, i'll be glad if I can even finish part 1 of this story by this year. 0.o

Still, i want to go through this. I really commit myself to completing this story and I wouldn't want it any other way. Remind me this when I've forgotten what I've said.

Yeah... that's it I guess.

Oh fudge. I went off topic. So much for introduction. I'll do it the next post.

Moves Like Jagger + Movie Review (1): Suckseed

Wahaha, in the end I've yet to begin on what I intended to write.

Moves Like Jagger. As of now I'm still at a blank Chapter 2, a skimpy last chapter and I don't really know what I REALLY want to write. Just that I loved listening to the song :3 I believed as of now I've listened to the song at least 20 times (will begin count from here) for writing the story so far... and probably another 20 times more for listening pleasure XDDD

i hope i don't end up being so sick of the song that i stop writing the story altogether :P

Okay, let's get the to-says over and done with :D



(taken from google images)

Suckseed is movie based in Thailand, about a group of musically... disinclined boys who wanted to form a band. When their female childhood friend returns after moving to Bangkok, many funny things happened.

Honestly, when I first saw this poster and my boyfriend suggested watching this, i was thinking... Really? It looked pretty... low budget in my opinion. We had nothing else to do and hence it was unanimous that we'll watch this cute-sy, teenage-y movie.

i totally underestimated this movie. i expected myself to have a good time with all the 'teenage woe' kinda storyplots, and indeed they are. however, i left the cinema with a very warm and fuzzy feeling inside.

the storyline is not bad, really! but the thing that captivated me the most was the character portrayal and development. it was a 2-hour worth of heartache and joy watching the movie. the characters were all portrayed very well, and the protagonists have extremely strong character. The way they walked, they way they stutter or yell... it was nice and crisp. Before the movie reached its halfway mark, I found myself engaged with the characters... i felt the heartache of their rejections, i laughed so hard at their crazy antics. it was as if they were very close to my heart. it was heart-warming to see the characters grow up and reconcile.

what's with these and writing, you say? well... i left the cinema wanting to write like that. I mean, the storyboard did a wonderful job portraying each character in their own quirks. I thought back about people who said that they feel for my characters and i always feel awesome hearing how my reviewers can relate to them easily.

it's just a little... reminder at myself to work harder on my character development. For "I Want to be a Turk!", these words are easier said than done. Meia, being an OC, of course gets the most character development. however sometimes i admit i forget about the other characters... like the BC turks, reno and especially rude... argh... so many people. remind me not to throw in ten people within the first few chapters wahahaha XD

i'm still excited to write "I Want to be a Turk" and I hope that I am able to write everything that I intend to write. I am a little concerned that the story might be so long that my readers will lose interest... =((

P.S: the boyfriend thereafter ended up watching "Suckseed" again with his friends... and he told me that he still enjoyed the movie after watching it the second time. that's a first.

P.P.S: Suckseed is no longer in the cinemas... To the readers who are not in Asia... well... good luck finding the movie :P I highly encourage you to go watch it! :D

Queen

I know this totally has nothing to do with writing, but I've recently been listening to some songs from Queen (yes, I was inspired to do so after seeing the Google's celebration of the birthday of Freddie Mercury.)

They do have some awesome songs, especially "I want to break free" and "Don't stop me" :)

Okay i guess i could still link it up to writing... we can talk about songfics! i ventured into writing stories that were inspired by songs. The first one was "Dress Off" by BoA. The result of the earworm was a 5000-word story based on Samurai Deeper Kyo... the story named "Dress Off!".

I remembered i was still in China then, visiting my dad. Just... woke up one morning, sat down and typed from morning to night non-stop... till the story was done. Haha, then again, I had many days like that while I was in China. Perhaps I can document that in here again...

(EDIT: And I did! Read all about it here.)

Adding to my list to "to-says"
1. Suckseed!
2. NaNoWriMo
3. China Writing Trip

Many people liked it, though I didn't think it was my best. It merely started out as an idea: I want to write a random, fluffy fanfic. Usually when I write a fanfic, I ensure that I have a simple skeleton of the story development AND the ending... then I fill in the details and description. This time, I wrote without really thinking of the story development and ending. Though the ending later on was formed within the hour (and so much for writing aimlessly), I was pretty satisfied with the result.

I told myself then that 'NO MORE DANCE/SONG FICS!' but here we are... with me racking my brains for my ongoing short story "Moves Like Jagger" under Final Fantasy 7. I can't help it. I am totally addicted to the song, Adam Levine is simply smexy. Enough said :)

Now that I've written my second post for the blog, I suppose that this blog is really here to stay. XD Back to working around my mental block!

Why didn't I think of this sooner?

As the title plainly states.

i guess back then i had to manage my personal blog and so it was hard to support two blogs. hmm... perhaps i'll give my introduction once i get all my recent thoughts down.

two more things to say before i give introduction (for i am one who forgets... really easily.)

1. the movie "suckseed"
2. NaNoWriMo

okay, back to what i really want to say!

this would be my writing blog. not that i'll post any original or fanfiction stories here (though I will put a link back to my Fanfiction.net profile). It's just somewhere that i want to write about my writing. if i can invent a word for it... metawriting? like how metalanguage is the 'language of language' and metacognition is 'thinking about thinking'... you get my drift.

basically this is going to be a boring blog of:
- my thoughts when i write fanfiction
- my deeper thoughts when i write scenes in my stories
- my thoughts on books ive read
- other mishmash (for lack of better description)

till i discover more things to say... that'll be all.

I have just finished reading "Pegasus" by Robin McKingley. I don't really have much thoughts right now. The book is a complexity by itself. Hmm... there were two main plots running the show and all the names and everything got confusing. Maybe it's because I'm so eager to finish a book >.> All in all, it was most enjoyable and I absolutely loved the description. The author seems to have a wonderful way of describing indescribable things. XD you will know what i mean if you've read it :)

i'd hardly call this a review. a review is one that targets the book in all its technicality. i prefer to call it an afterthought... like aesthetically my feelings and reflections *snort*. okay no more about that.

Signing out.