Naruto 458: I just want to say that my love for Sai has no bounds. ♥

My work on the wuxia novel this month got interrupted by me doing the 31_days themeset (my own fault) and two wuxia series. This isn't going to happen again in August. Did you hear that, Legend of the Condor Heroes 2008. (I'm not even crazy about that series)

From helike, I heard that coffee can help raise blood pressure. As my blood pressure is naturally low, I'm glad to have found yet another reason to embrace coffee.

The upcoming August themeset at 31_days is very fine. I.Will.Resist.

*steps back and stares at the NaNo 2008 novel* Too many dialogues. Since this is wuxia, maybe it's time to kill off a character or two.

( Naruto 457 )

My family doesn't like iced coffee with soda. They prefer their coffee hot, with creamer. Me, I like both.
(The above line is brought to you by me not sleeping much last night, and trying to prop my eyelids open today by the grace of soda coffee, energy drink, and chocolate)

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
dayadhvam_triad gave me: ( wuxia, NanoWriMo, writing communities, FMA, Prince of Tennis )

ETA: Naruto 455: Sai ♥

These past few days I've been reading almost nonstop. One thing I learned is that I can read e-books comfortably on my cell phone, provided the font is big enough, but nothing beats holding an actual printed-and-bound book in my hands.

The legislative election has come and gone, and the ruling party is garnering the most votes. Are we comfortable where we are, or something?

Like most of fandom, I really like the new Shippuuden opening, though I don't care for the "sha-la-la" part.

luckychan tagged me for the 5 things meme.
( The five things )

Current Meitantei Conan chapters refer to Chinese classics. Eve approves. *giggles over Yamato*

Tagged for the 5 things meme by sub_divided, who gave me: wuxia - writing challenges - shounen manga: Kekkaishi, Naruto, FMA, PoT - character studies (from shounen manga) - Indonesia.
( Warning for possible incoherency )

Happy birthday, aiwritingfic :)

There's a fanficcer in the Naruto fandom who's also a published author. Not that it's rare - people would willingly write for love and money, and if it's for both, all the better. I just wonder to what extent people would compare their professional writing and their fanfic.

I try to edit my NaNo but every time I open the document I keep thinking, "Need second opinion NAO", and from then on it's a downward spiral.
From the NaNo feed: Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. *head thuds*

And it's rain, rain, rain. And yesterday a cat got into the garage and had to be chased out by way of the house.

When I'm not working, I don't feel like doing anything, which is very, very bad. Ideas swim around in my head and wait to be written down, but if I don't do it soon, they may leave.

If you want to be a writer, you don't "try" to be a writer. You just write. You write like your life depended on it. You write with everything you have in you, understanding that only the very best you have in you even has a chance of giving you the life and the dreams you want.
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If you just want to TRY to write, quit now. Either have the guts to do it, or admit to yourself that you don't want it enough, and spend you passion on something that you DO want enough.

From here:
Who says your book isn’t interesting? You, right? Are you sure that’s not just an excuse to give up?
No, it's not. Eve not being Neil Gaiman, she worries about genre and target audience.
The most important way to deal with all these problems is to finish your book. It’s very hard to diagnose what’s wrong with an unfinished manuscript.
I suppose what I'm worried about is that I'd feel I've spent hours - nay, days - on a story no one else would want to read, while it's supposed to be a book I want to sell.

On a tangential note, I have titles I have no stories for, and story ideas for which I try to find suitable titles. *tilts head*

Carrie Vaughn in deconstructing urban fantasy.
We really like strong women. But as a culture [Western], we’re still apologizing for them, undercutting them, tempering them.
This made me think of my most recent NaNo, and how in wuxia it's usually odd if there's only one strong female character. Whether or not they pine for guys, alpha males or otherwise, is another matter entirely.

(And now I'll stop browsing start_writing)

The new Shippuuden ending is probably telling us not to take the filler arc seriously.

GreatestJournal is really gone now? I remember it had this very cute moodtheme featuring an onion-like character.