Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Thank you to Rachel and Misty for commenting on Under The Milky Way as I posted it in my LiveJournal during the course of this month. :)

NaNoWriMo ended for another year last night, and I’ve come away from my eighth attempt at the challenge with my sixth win. My final, verified word count is 50,425 words. However, there are no immediate plans to post it anywhere other than my LiveJournal for the foreseeable future, as I greatly dislike how the story is turning out and I do not wish to inflict it on anyone at this point in time.

Stepping away from NaNoWriMo for the moment, I have fixed the index page of Follow You Into The Dark (having discovered that it didn’t upload properly in the first instance), and have also posted a slightly edited version of the first chapter. Additionally, I have added two new stories to the Upcoming Fiction page – Alibi and Defenders Of Anarchy. I’m also going to be participating in Becca’s Christmas Time challenge for the second year running, and will be spending the next week or so working on my submission.

- Aeryn

Monday, November 1, 2010

Thank you to Rachel and Katie for leaving comments in my LiveJournal. :)

I have posted four new fics today – three one-shots (The First Drink Instinct, Mother Mother, and Travelling Light), and the first chapter of Follow You Into The Dark. Two of the one-shots are from the Trick Or Treat challenge, with the third being a sort of preview of a new story that will make its debut next year. Follow You Into The Dark is the final instalment of the Twin Souls Trilogy, and has been a very long time in coming (two years, in fact). The entirety of FYITD has been planned out and plotted, it’s only a matter of getting it written. Additionally, Sisyphus Rising has been posted here in full, and is linked to the Completed Stories page.

I have also made a start on my 2010 NaNoWriMo project, which for the time being will be posted exclusively to my LiveJournal. It will make its debut here in December.

- Aeryn

Thursday, October 7, 2010

I have posted up to chapter 4 of Sisyphus Rising in my LiveJournal, and am slowly posting it to Archive Of Our Own and The Tightrope. I have four chapters and an epilogue left to post, and plan to put the site for the story online in December.

Speaking of NaNoWriMo, the site has reset for the 2010 season, and I have stepped up my planning. Right now I’m taking part in this year’s Trick Or Treat hanfic challenge, and have chosen to write two stories – I am treating the challenge as an exercise in character development, and am setting both of my stories during the timeline of my NaNovel for this year. It’s likely that I will post them here once the challenge is over, as while I intend to use them in my NaNovel they will be rewritten to fit my story. If you are participating in NaNoWriMo, whether you’re new to the challenge or are a veteran, feel free to drop by my profile at any time.

And lastly, last Saturday marked one year since Tabula Rasa’s official opening. I did have a new layout planned to mark the occasion, but real life and writing has got in the way. I may instead have a surprise in store once NaNoWriMo is over for the year.

- Aeryn

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The prologue for my Boomerang Big Bang fic, Sisyphus Rising, has been posted to my LiveJournal, and can be accessed from the Completed Stories page. I plan to put up a new chapter every few days until the whole story has been posted. Because I’ve linked to the story’s tag in my journal, you will need to scroll to the bottom of the page in order to read from the beginning. I haven’t yet finished the story’s website, but as soon as it’s finished the story will be posted there. Thank you to Brittney, my artist, and Bethany, the challenge’s organiser and my fanmixer, for creating some wonderful accompaniments to the story.

I am still planning my NaNoWriMo project – so far I have created a number of character images, finished the skeleton of my outline and compiled the basis of my soundtrack. The story’s title has officially been set as Under The Milky Way, thanks to nothing more than a toss of the coin. It will be posted to my journal starting at the beginning of November.

- Aeryn

Friday, September 17, 2010

The final two chapters of Many The Miles have been posted. The story was completed last night – I’m very happy with the way it has turned out. I’m hopeful that you will all like the last couple of instalments – when you’re not yelling at me about the ending, that is (and that’s all I’m going to say about it at this point :p). I don’t see myself making a start on the sequel, which has now been officially titled Follow You Into The Dark, until December at the absolute earliest, and it’s likely I won’t begin to post it until the start of next year. This could change at any time, of course, but it will depend wholly on my schedule and how well the ideas are flowing.

NaNoWriMo kicks off in around six weeks’ time, and I have begun my planning – at this point I’ve given it the very tentative title of Under The Milky Way. It’s quite possible that I will give it a different title at some point between now and November, but I will decide that for certain when the time comes to begin writing. Like I’ve been doing with The Basement Tapes, I will be posting it chapter-by-chapter in my LiveJournal, and will put up a proper layout in December.

Additionally, I am still waiting to hear back from my editor in regards to Sisyphus Rising, but I am hopeful of having the story submitted before the September 26 deadline.

- Aeryn

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Thank you to Rachel for signing the guestbook and commenting in my LiveJournal, and to Katie, Nadinne and Attie for also leaving comments in my LiveJournal. :)

Chapter 14 of Many The Miles has been posted – there are now only two chapters left to be written and posted, and I am confident of having the whole story completed by the time NaNoWriMo begins. I will more than likely begin posting the final book in the Trilogy early next year. I have also been posting one chapter of Many The Miles every two days in my LiveJournal, and will be doing the same with its sequel once I’ve started writing.

In Boomerang Big Bang news, I have finished the edit of Sisyphus Rising, and once I have received the edits that a friend has been working on I’ll be submitting the final copy. Odds are it’ll be sent in early next week. I’m very happy with the way it’s turned out, and am hopeful that everyone will love reading it as much as I have in writing it. I’ll make a note on the site Twitter when the prologue is up in my LiveJournal.

- Aeryn

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Thank you to Misty for commenting on the newest chapter of The Basement Tapes in my LiveJournal. :)

Two updates today, one of which is long overdue – chapter 13 of Many The Miles, and chapter 9 of The Basement Tapes have both been posted. I apologise unreservedly for the long break between updates of the latter story – my only excuse is that real life and a number of writing challenges got in the way of me updating it before now. I doubt very much that I’ll be able to finish it before NaNoWriMo kicks off for the year in slightly more than two months’ time, but I will do my best.

I have also received my artist and mixer assignments for Sisyphus Rising – I am very pleased with who was assigned my story, and I look forward to seeing the art and mix that will accompany it. I’ve started editing the story, and plan to have the final copy submitted soon.

- Aeryn

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Sisyphus Rising’s first draft is officially complete as of yesterday morning. I ended up with 31,437 words over eight chapters (along with a prologue and an epilogue), and will begin what I imagine will be quite a lengthy editing process once I receive my art and fanmix assignments. The story will be online in my LiveJournal in early October, as soon as possible after it is officially posted at the Boomerang Big Bang archive site, and I will link it once the prologue is posted. I intend to post one instalment each afternoon, however I don’t plan to post it here until all of the chapters are online in my LiveJournal.

Now that I have finished the hardest part of the challenge, I am picking up my WIPs once again, and have resumed work on The Basement Tapes. I hope to have chapter 9 finished and posted by the end of this month. In addition to this, I have updated all the character images for the chaptered fics.

The next update will likely come once I finish the next chapter of The Basement Tapes, so look out for that in a couple of weeks. :)

- Aeryn

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Just a very quick update today – I’ve been asked by my friend Bethany, who runs PlaceToHide.net and the Boomerang Big Bang, to be August’s Author Spotlight on PTH. My interview can be found here.

I’m also still very hard at work on Sisyphus Rising. The story is nearly finished at this point – since the last update I’ve revised my projected word and chapter count, and am now planning for nine chapters (eleven instalments including the prologue and epilogue) and around 35,000 words. This is mostly because I’ve had to eliminate a planned subplot that, were I to include it, would hit my squick button pretty hard. I’m considering an off-shoot story, however, and I may explore this subplot then. I also intend to write a sequel. Right now the story is sitting at 23,440 words, with six-and-a-half chapters finished – I’ve been in concert mode for the last week, due to my excitement over seeing the band 30 Seconds To Mars live for the first time, but with that now out of the way my writing should pick up the pace quite a bit. I’m intending to have the first draft completely finished in a couple of weeks’ time, after which I’ll begin the editing process.

- Aeryn

Monday, July 19, 2010

Thank you to Nicole for signing the guestbook. :)

While I haven’t posted any new chapters, due to being wholly focused on my Boomerang Big Bang project, I have updated a couple of other pages. My reading list has gained an additional section, of stories I intend to read in the future. At the moment this list is of those stories in the Boomerang challenge that I most look forward to reading.

The other updated page is the Awards page. Recently two of the founding members of the HanficSprints LiveJournal community created and posted awards for all who participate in the sprints, and I was the recipient of the award for Craziest Imagination. Thanks to Renee C. and Renee P. for creating the awards, and (along with Brittney and Jenna) for making the community and the sprint chats so much fun to be a part of and participate in.

As far as the Boomerang Big Bang goes, I am making great progress on my project – at the time of this update Sisyphus Rising has 20,723 words written, with the prologue and first five chapters complete. Taking into consideration that I return to college for semester 2 tomorrow morning, I estimate that the first draft (due on August 26) will have 12 chapters, and will clock in at around 42,000 words. Updates on the progress of Sisyphus Rising are being posted once a week to the site twitter, @tabularasacc. I look forward to being able to post it in October – it will go in my LiveJournal in the first instance, before being posted here. I also intend to archive it at The Tightrope and at Archive of Our Own.

Until next time…

- Aeryn

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Thanks to Rachel for signing the guestbook. :)

The HGC was an unmitigated disaster for me this year (I managed to complete just one-and-a-half chapters), and as a result I have placed A Kind Of Magic on an indefinte hiatus. I really don’t know when (if ever) I will resume work on it, but I will do my best to finish it – even if this means starting it over again. To make up for this, a new chapter of Many The Miles has been posted. There are now just four chapters of Many The Miles left to be written and posted, and I am confident of finishing the story before the end of this year. With the Boomerang Big Bang challenge just slightly less than three weeks away I have stepped up my preparations for Sisyphus Rising, and will be focusing primarily on my new project from now until the end of August. The site will likely not, therefore, see another update until around then, though this is subject to change over the next few months.

I have also brought back what was formerly a part of the story updates page, and have given my upcoming projects a home on their own page. The new page can be accessed via The Fiction.

And lastly, in celebration of today’s release of Shout It Out, Tabula Rasa has (quite evidently) been given a makeover. Like many other fans around the world I watched the livestream of the album’s debut performance at the end of April (the beginning of May for me), and I can confidently say that it is definitely my favourite of all of Hanson’s albums. My copy of the album is on its way to me as of last Sunday (though I already have most of its tracks on my computer, thanks to having preordered it), and I am very much looking forward to making it a part of my CD library.

- Aeryn