mithrilquill

Comes up for air to squish friends

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:52:31 GMT

Oh. My. God.

I have been sooo busy lately it's not even funny. I kept thinking at the back of my mind that I needed to log into LJ and see what was going on, but the thought never had time to truly surface. It's been insane in this program, so much reading and summarizing and such.

Anyway, I've been thoroughly enjoying the program despite how hectic it is, but I do miss having time to actually think. Let alone write!

I have been doing alot of reading on the bus and such, though, so that's nice. I just finished reading Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell which is just teh awesomeness. You should all read it. Actually it was due today and I couldn't renew it because someone else had put in on hold so I sat in the library for about three hours to finish the last 200ish pages after I got back from my classes. Seriously awesome stuff. And there was only one or two paragraphs in the entire humongous book (it's the size of several bricks) that I did not like.

Anyway, I shall stop ranting about that. I miss you all and I look forward to vacations of any sort so I can actually get on LJ or AIM and talk to all of you! My deepest apologies for the whole rose and silver thing that I have been completely ignoring...I just really can't spare the time at the moment.

Oh, another funny thing. I fished out an old fanfic and used an excerpt of it in a lesson plan I have to hand in tomorrow! lol!

*squishes awesome people*

What Type of Writer Should You Be?

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:19:37 GMT

You Should Be a Film Writer

You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind.
You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life.
Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling.
And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!

What Type of Writer Should You Be?

So weird. >.>

No comment, seriously. That was not what I expected...

Rubbish Bins Community

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:49:14 GMT

I've taken Ritta's advice and made a new community for my Fic Rubbish Bins, which used to have a couple of followers on MNFF before I left. Please leave a review!

http://community.livejournal.com/rubbish_bins/

I was also thinking of making a community for Deepest Darkness. It would take a long time to post all the chapters of that one, though, so I won't do it unless I think people actually care about seeing that fic on here. Let me know if you do want to see it here!

Freedom and Angry Rants

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:03:17 GMT

:D I'm finally free of exams! *does dance*

Now I can get to writing all those fics. Especially that bunny I dedicated to the WoTF contest. Deadline is approaching and I made myself wait so long because of my "no writing during November and exam time" rule.

Of course, I really want to write that bunny tonight, but it's probably not going to be finished that fast(though it is a pretty short fic) ... and I need to get over my anger at stupid profs and their horrible exams. One of them was awesome, but all the rest of my exams were horrific this time. It's usually not this bad. *hopes for best*

*goes to write teh fic*

~ Mithril

sneaks in

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:08:23 GMT

:D I promised Thea I'd post here...I haven't too much interesting stuff to write about, but whatever. Hope you don't get too bored, guys!

I'm looking forward to a 3 day weekend (thanksgiving), but unfortunately I have a test the day I get back to school so it's not like I can spend it relaxing or writing or anything...well, at least not without feeling guilty about it >.>

And I really, really feel like watching all 3 LoTR movies in one sitting. It's a dream I've had for a long time...to have 12 or so free hours and just sit down and watch them all! And today I just realized one of my friends at uni has always wanted to do that as well. They're good movies. *sigh*

The only interesting thing going on in my life now is that a few months ago I decided to finally get on with it and start sending my stuff to magazines. So now I have two rejection letters and a bunch of short stories in various stages of incompleteness...and a novel that needs to be very, very, very heavily edited. The encouraging thing is that one of the rejections said that my short story sounds more like the beginnings of a novel or something...and it's set in the same universe as the novel. So it's hopeful. At least I tell myself that. Now I just need to finish and edit the rest of the stuff I have and find more magazines and such to send them out to.

What's the definition of speculative fiction, anyway? I don't feel like my stuff is speculative, really, and it's not Sci/Fi for sure...it's sort of like a weird kind of fantasy with much less magic than you usually get. Unfortunately this makes it very difficult to find the right place to send it to. And anyway, it's not like I have time for all this editing and writing at the moment, my classes are killing me this semester. *is so glad I left MNFF because without that extra time to study I don't know what I'd be doing with myself now*

Oh - and I was telling Ayse the other day I got this awesome idea for a story (actually sort of Sci/Fi this time) while I was in a chem class. Very boring class. I developed it in the margins for a couple of weeks and decided it was a big enough idea for a novel so it's staying in the margins for now. I might do a short off-shot/prologue of it as a short story, though.

And the other day I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about trolls... one comes to question their sanity sometimes. Of course, I can't waste that idea either, so I'm trying to fit a troll into my world somewhere.

*sigh* I can never focus on one thing for too long, seriously. As soon as a fic or chapter is written it becomes time to move on and write something else - some new idea that's better, and then I have a hard time making myself seriously edit the "old" fics. It would help if I knew people in RL who actually write...and I don't want to post my origi-fic online not just because I'm paranoid, but also because that feels like giving up about the publishing thing. I've been playing around with the idea of sending something to the Writers of the Future Contest, but I don't know what yet and I really doubt I'm ready for that level of competition anyway...

Oh wow, this is getting gigantic and I don't think I've ever used "I" so much in my life. And it's all depressing complaining and whining, sorry guys! *goes to try and edit...something*

Bleh

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:25:15 GMT

The weather is horrible.

I do not feel like going to classes, but I really have to.

I have a bad stomach ache.

I wasn't able to log onto MN, MNFF or the Forums for hours this morning...

Luckily it's working again now, but there's also been a pretty heated DH discussion in the CR that I just missed...>.>

But the awesome thing about not being able to log onto the forums is that I got myself on here and found a whole bunch of people had friended me! *huggles all new friends* ---> By the way I'm really boring and only log on here like every six months, but anyway...

*sees time and realizes I need to run to class*

/the most boring post in the history of life

~Mithril

You know you're a crazy obsessed writer when...

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:52:09 GMT

You know you're a crazy obsessed wanna be writer when...

When you're doing physics h.w and for some unearthly reason it unleashes a monster plot bunny in your head.

So of course I couldn't concentrate on anything else anymore and had to give up on the h.w...(not that I regret that at all or anything, but I probably will in a couple of days)...

*goes to write down the monster plot bunny*

*grumbles about all the one-shot plot bunnies that are piling up*

mithrilquill

*Comes up for air to squish friends*

What Type of Writer Should You Be?

Rubbish Bins Community

Freedom and Angry Rants

*sneaks in*

Bleh

You know you're a crazy obsessed writer when...

Comes up for air to squish friends

sneaks in