Appealing again for a beta reader for Meta (hey, that rhymes!). This fic is actually full of FAIL and really needs it. I'm not fishing for compliments here; currently I'm reading the latest submissions and mentally groaning at how much better they are. I know it's a ridiculously busy time of year and I am sorry. But pretty please? With bells and holly on?

Oh noes! It's a fanfic from another fandom! Apart from a bit of Doctor Who and some Animorphs crack, I've hardly written at all for any other fandoms for a good long while, so this is a bit of an experiment. Does CB fandom have these hidden rules like HP fandom does? Any secret fanon? I don't know!

Part One of the two-part Corpse Bride/Pushing Daises crossover, featuring the cast of Corpse Bride! I couldn't think of an appopriate title, so for now it's called...


( Dead Girl, You Are Beautiful (Part One) )

Happy Birthday katyscarlett76! I hope you have a wonderful day. If you'd like some fanfic to celebrate, feel free to leave a prompt in the comments, and be as specific or vague as you like.

I'm going to watch 'Glee' soon. It looks like the corniest, silliest show in the world, but I'm excited.

A frivilous meme from mrstater

( Click for frivolity! )

I JUST FINISHED MY NOVEL!

I feel soooo good right now!

54, 501 words baby! Yeah! Pretty mediocre words even Mills & Boon wouldn't want, but still! I've never written anything so long!

Now I will hopefully go to bed at a sensible hour for the first time in a few weeks.

Five days 'til the end of NaNoWriMo. Thirteen thousand words to go.

I have decided that I WILL do it even if I have to deprive myself of two days of sleep (hey, I did it on the way back from Corfu...) but still, it is slightly terrifying. It doesn't help that everyone I know doing it has either given up or decided to 'take it slowly', except for kerichi who really is taking it slowly. :(

If anyone is interested, here is the extract I have posted on the NaNo site. And yes, it does have a Harry Potter reference and there will definitely be another soon. I know it's rubbish, but my friend said she liked it more than Twilight (is that saying something or not?):

A/N: Bear in mind this is set in 2002, before even OotP has come out.

( and here's the jump )

OK, to make up for the angsty posts I've been putting up lately, I'm here to show you guys the best thing in the world ever! Well, OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but...

I'm almost disappointed that most of you are American and won't be so able to share the nostalgic cartoon love so much...

A new episode of Doctor Who!!! It's been too long, too long.

( Cut for spoilers and squeeing )

My novel's word count isn't too impressive, but it is going well. I'm being a good girl and doing all my uni work before I give myself time to write. Sad eh?
I haven't got an exact plan but I'm coming up with ideas as I go, which is really helping me to get to know the characters better. I can see my own flaws and how stupid they are, but that's what December's editing will be for.

I am so determined to do this, the sensible part of me is quite worried about it. I don't care if my head falls off. It will be done!!

I will also be very tempted, I know, to post it all on here when I'm done, just so you can all rip it apart, though hopefully add "I thought X was cute though."

Carnivalgirl is here again to offer what remains of HP news!

There's a deleted scene from HBP on Youtube!




I like the tone of this, and the focus on Snape with the choir going on the background really got me thinking about the whole sacrifice/redemption themes he's going to be a part of. That, and I love the way Ron and Hermione look up like that, just as they do on the US cover art!
However, I can see why they deleted this. It didn't really add much to the story. If only Alfonso Cuaron had followed the same logic and deleted *let's have a random look at the lake* scene.

I'm already about 2,500 words behind target for NaNo, which really bugs me, especially since I have to work tonight and haven't got much chance to do more. I could pull an all-nighter, but I really don't function well without sleep (which just about everyone mocks me for, as in "LOL I only need four/five/six hours, tiredness is just psychological, who needs mornings?", but that's me).

I have a week off next week that I can't wait for. I'm going to live like a real writer and write all the time! I do have to read a couple of books and things though.

Sorry to yammer on pointlessly. Here's something you might like. As all MWPP fans know, a staple of Marauder era humour fic is Sirius flirting with McGonagall. This is how she responds. Bonus cameos from James, Remus and Lily. I didn't make this, I might add. I wish.

I've decided to do NaNoWriMo.

I think I must be insane.

But at least I have a plot! :)

Perhaps your HP-related dream, mrstater, inspired me to have one. Or, more likely, it was reading Stephen King's 'On Writing'. Anyway, I actually had a dream about fanfiction last night! Only it wasn't as exciting as I might have hoped.

In his book, which I decided to read after kerichi mentioned it, King says that a lot of writers don't consciously put in themes and symbols when they're first writing but develop them later. He says that, for example, he found that blood played an important role in 'Carrie' and so he made it a symbol.

Which might explain why, in the dream, Chapter Eight of 'Blood on the Moon' became a strange 1000-word (the dream actually said 1000 words, and I wrote it at home instead of here) psychedelic mess with Teddy and Victoire running around with red faces in a bloody spider's web, instead of what it ought to be, which is a 3000-ish word chapter which actually moves the plot along in a big way.

I then got a review from one of my most loyal reviewers, who might be reading this and probably knows who she is, telling me I was terrible and that I needed to delete the mess and write the real chapter. She also demanded that I explain what the blood represented.

What in the world is that all about? Does my subconscious fancy itself as a horror writer now?

I was going to work tonight, especially on my assignments and my Spanish.
I was going to take a break from LJ because I've been posting comments everything, and probably annoying pretty much all of you.

HA!

The creative impulses struck me tonight, and so, gilpin25, here is your birthday present! I'm sorry that the 'silence' doesn't come in until pretty late, and for the inclusion of Teddy and Victoire (though they're so young that it's far from shippy), and for the general flaws in it, but I do hope you enjoy! Once again, Happy Birthday!

( Heavenly Peace )

All the best fictional men have equally cool fictional girlfriends and wives, unfortunately.

Happy Birthday gilpin25!

I hope you're having a wonderful day - especially since you have an extra hour to enjoy it!  How cool is that?

If you would like a fic, I would be very happy to write you one. Just leave a prompt, detailed or vague. I imagine you'd like R/T, but feel free to turn round and say Teddy/Victoire or Ron/Hermione or Hagrid/Madame Maxime if you like. :)

Speaking of fic, writing Corpse Bride fic is turning out to be very difficult! I think I'm saturated with HP. Not that that's a bad thing.

I'm going to see 'Star Trek' again tonight, and I was telling my sister about it.

Sis: "What's Star Trek?"
Me: "It's about some people who go into outer space"
My Mum (in the background): "They visit other planets and stuff"
Sis: "And then they go home for tea."

Yes. That's what they do.

I now want to see Spock, Kirk, Uhura and the rest of the crew munching on fish and chips.

I would write my story! And if I didn't finish it in time, I'd pass the story on to a friend and tell them to do it justice. That's quite a lot of pressure to put on someone but...I dunno, it means a lot to me.

Hopefully I won't die any time soon anyway, eh?

I am really tempted to write a Pushing Daisies/Corpse Bride crossover, along the lines of Ned discovering he's not the first person to fall in love with a dead girl. I know PD is live-action while CB is puppets, but I can bend that a bit. Right?

So, my comedy weekend finished with watching Alun Cochrane do stand-up. I knew I would love it when he said (paraphrased);

"If there are any dynamic, go-getting people here, you might have come to the wrong show. I'm the sort of guy who can waste an entire day thinking about spagbol. Isn't that the best abbreviation ever? Spagbol. That's a lot of syllables crunched down."

This is my kind of man! I just thought "Yeah, I understand, although spaghetti bolegnaise is at least real. I spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about these two fictional couples I made up. And another that JK Rowling made up. They have their own playlists on my iPod."

What is going to become of me?

*sigh* Now to return to my neglected pile of work...why does university have to involve work?