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Day 55 of lockdown. I have not seriously left the house for 8 weeks now. I've been to the store for essentials a few times (food and medications basically). I live with two people who are in the "risk-zone" - one of whom is terrified of and obsessed with Covid-19. And life during lockdown is bizzarre. I can only effectively work half days because the work system kicks me off at noon (so the west coast can get access) and even then, I have very little that I can effectively do when I'm outside of the office. Administrative work really doesn't lend itself to that kind of work on a constant bassis. So I have managed to spend a good amount of time writing, but what I've produced is ... well, it's words. So that's someting at least. Especially since it was Camp Nano.

I've been writing scenes for my Smokescreen Origins piece and that was going decently, and then an idea for a Fallout Walkthrough story took over and I started working on that. Again, words were written so I won't complain.

My biggest problem is that I can't focus on anything. Honestly, I'm even finding it hard to track what day it is. Or what time it is. and I'm having enven more trouble getting excited about anything. It's the lack of routine, honestly. I don't do well with a lack of routine. So my hope is that this month I can put together a better routine and get back on track. And who knows. Maybe I'll be back at work by early June. Wouldn't that be nice?
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So, let's see what happened in 2019, shall we?

January )


February )

March )

April )

May )

June )

July )

August )

September )

October )

November )

December )

And that's it. 2019 at a glance. Nine fics or parts of fics put up here with three officially posted over on A03. So much better than last year!
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Real Life under the cut )

On a more positive note, I have been working on "Bleeding Daylight" and I'm hoping to have something put together by the end of next month. I won't be posting anything until after the Big Bang is totally over, but I figure that'll give me a good time to rework what I have, fill in the sub-plots, get the ending done, and get the whole thing edited at a leisurely pace. .... I may post some snippets here early as teasers should anyone want to read them. I do tend to find that posting things even in a limited way prevents me from going back and making all sorts of changes.
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So, I've officially dropped out of the Big Bang. Thankfully my artist was working with a second person so I haven't screwed them over with this decision this late in the game. Things were just getting way too stressful and I was writing less and less as the month went on. I had far too much left to write to finish the plot and while I might (big might) have been able to get the work drafted out by the end of the month, there was no way that I was going to get it edited, betaed, and ready for posting by the deadline.

I'm honestly feeling good about the decision. This means that I can put the many, many (far too many!) subplots back in the story and give it the length, focus, and depth a story like this requires. It grew from a simple Smokey/Swindle fic and grew to include an Onslaught/Blast Off relationship, the other combiners teams, the Seekers, and Soundwave. It was examining the idea of free will and just how many the Decepticons have a choice any more about their team, and that led into the question of the Autobot combiners. Do they have free will if they've never known anything but the war they were built for? Prowl/Red Alert and Ratchet/Twins were working their way in and then Jazz and Mirage made an appearance. And then on top of it all, I suddenly realized that I had made Shockwave instrumental and then forgot about him. It just became far too large for 20K. .... I'm honestly not sure if 100k will be enough and certainly ten chapters is going to be far too short.

So, I'm still working on "Bleeding Daylight" (titled after a line in Lovers in Dangerous Times) and I've gone back to "Being Human" as well as several shorter fics that I've been musing (including my first attempt at a heat-fic). I'm just going to take it all slowly without the pressure of a deadline and the "gag-order". We were not to post anything before the official release. No point in spoiling things :)

As for other things, Parent A is still in hospital, other Parent B is still stressed to breaking, and we are all fighting the apathy, lack of communication, and general egos of the hospital staff in order to get Parent A into a good rehab program and out of the transfer ward they've been in for the last three weeks!
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Life goes on and I am feeling a new Red Tape Stories fic coming on! Hospital bureaucracy is the absolute worst! And insurance bureaucracy is only slightly better.

Hospital stuff first )

So that's the hospital red tape. Now onto the car. As mentioned in my last post I got into a car accident and my poor vehicle was declared irreparable.

Insurance woes )

So yeah. Red tape and bureaucracy and people not doing their jobs. I am just tires and I think that once the Big Bang is done I'm going to write a new Red Tape fic. Maybe forcing the Bots to get insurance and the question if it's vehicle or life. Oh! And do they need drivers' licenses and plates? Yeah, the bunny is forming quite nicely!


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I figure I should really get into the habit of posting more, even if it is only for my own gratification. It's good to get these things down on paper so to speak so that remembering can be made easier.

Under the cut for space and just because I can )
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So, updates. I've spent the month working on my RBB entry. I'm about halfway through with the main plot and fighting the urge to start posting to get feedback. I really need to figure out how to find a beta. Having someone to bounce the chapters off of would help ease my mind on things. See, there's this little voice of doubt in the back of my mind. It's busy reminding me that we have fewer than half the artists that we have writers meaning that there's a really good chance that some of us whon't get artists. And since I'm writing two rare pairings in a currently-rarely-used corner of the fandom, the voice is trying to convince me that I'll be one of the ones who's left without a partner in this endeavour. ... But it's a stupid voice and I'm trying to ignore it.

Life stuff under the cut )
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I brought my fur babies into the vet for their annual yesterday. Keagan (my eldest) is hale and hearty save for showing the early signs of epilepsy. It's not too bad yet - a seizure maybe once every six or eight months - and the docs say that we can put him on meds but they usually only suggest that if the can is getting weekly seizures. So, we're keeping an eye on my Little Man. He's seventeen, so save for the seizures and a subcutaneous cyst, he's doing great. Not just for his age, but in general.

My youngest is a different story. Logan started acting funny three days ago. He was wandering around as if he was trying to pee everywhere but nothing was coming out. We figured crystals in his urinary tract and since he was going to the vet anyway, we decided to keep an eye on him. The next day he was peeing a little, but he stopped bathing and was just acting off. My boys are both Birmans and Logan inherited a lot of the Siamese blood. Meaning he's incredibly vocal. Only now he wasn't and he was moving very slowly. And he feels like he's lost weight. So time skip to yesterday, we bring him to the vet and get some blood tests done. He's dehydrated, his white blood cell count is high and his platelet count is down. So, it's either a bladder infection or cancer. The vet gave him fluids subcutaneously and a shot of a two-week antibiotic. Now we are giving him steroids orally and we've been told to come back in two weeks for a checkup unless he gets worse before that.

Today he's a bit better (though mad at us for stuffing things in his mouth) and he's bathing a little. He's hiding from us, so he's not back to 100% but he is better. So I'll take it. He's fourteen years old and I want to see him get to at least eighteen.
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So I am finally starting to feel better and have gotten back to writing a little. I am currently working on a fic request "Smokescreen/Swindle - The Good Old Days" for Ultharkitty and then I will start on "Anything with G1 Lambos and/or Bumblebee" for Aerylon. I've also been contemplating jumping fandoms and trying my hand on some Fallout 4 ficcage.

Yes, a game has eaten my soul and I have been lost to it. Now, yeah, I know that fans from the old, pre-Bethesda days of the game have issues with it and yes, it does have some pretty hilarious (and sometimes oh so frustrating) bugs, but I'm enjoying a pretty much open sandbox survival game. I love the moral options and that you have so many paths that you can follow. I mean, yeas, I absolutely adore the Bioshock series, but it really is a bit of a railroad. In Fallout you really can do just about anything. Including killing and eating annoying NPCs apparently. No, I haven't tried that yet, but it is an interesting option to have. And I will admit, it has been very tempting to do something horrible to Knight Rhys and Marcy Long -- honestly, more Rhys than Long.

All that being said, I do with that there were more than four dialogue options. I would love to be able to ask Preston about the Brotherhood or the Children of the Atom (yeah, I know, minor characters but still a semi faction). I would love to be able to let Rhys know that I was a lawyer/soldier and probably do have a rudimentary understanding of Latin mottoes (in my mind Nate was a Marine). I would love to be able to have a minor breakdown after the first fight with the Deathclaw and to be able to do more to comfort Nick. ... Basically there are a ton of questions/actions I'd like to take that the game doesn't allow for. One noted example is when you run across the Gunners who are running a toll on a bridge. Your only options are to pay or kill them. Why can't I just acknowledge the cost, apologize for stepping in their territory, and then leave? I mean, yeah, they're likely to still shoot me, but then I can kill them in self-defense rather than have it be murder. Why can't I offer to hug Nick or Cait? And why can't I ask Codsworth how he stayed sane for all these centuries?

So, yeah, there are a lot of questions and that's leading to a lot of bunnies that might lead to a Fallout 4 Novelization fic. They're probably a dime a dozen, but I figure it can't hurt to try. Maybe it'll be an idea for June Camp NaNo or for the real NaNo in November. the Adventures of Nora Rigg, Sole Survivor and former JAG lawyer (hey, it's as good an excuse as any for how she's so good with those guns!)

In other news, work is trying to kill me and I am doing the work of four separate people/positions so I'm more than a little stressed and that is effecting my writing output. That means that the above plans are going to be slow in coming. But they are started, so that's a start, right?

And lastly, I may actually post a picture of myself for the first time at some point later this month because I am allowing a section of my hair to go silver and I will (if all goes to plan) have a Rogue-like stripe in my hair by mid-May. I'm not exactly comfortable with photos of me but if this works I'm really going to want to share!
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This should be the last NaNo update (save for the "I Won" or "I didn't make it" post). I am over three quarters of the way in and I've realized that the story isn't working as it is, and so, I'm starting over. Kind of. Everything that I've written so far is background and there may be some glimmers of scenes that will be usable in this story and in the eventual sequels. I've finally decided on my setting and my time period, and I've come to realize that the changes that I've made to history, do actually work out well. I want this to be set in the early 1900s, but it's a steampunk world where the Solar Storm of 1859 had a far longer ranging effect on the world, and society is far different than the history in the real world. Now that I know when and where and how the world works I can continue with my story. So the remaining 10K of NaNo will be spent plotting out my story and, hopefully, creating a nicely scary and gothic story. With air ships. And psionics. And cyberpunk style implants and augmentations. And magic. And Old Ones. And metahuman races. ... Apparently my Gothic Horror is actually an Urban Fantasy.

And once NaNo is over, I'll start focusing on the fanfictions that have fallen by the wayside.


41777 / 50000 words. 84% done!

On a more personal note ... )
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So I went and fell on the ice on the way into work this morning. I missed the massive patch of black ice that building maintenance failed to salt and I fell backward onto my rump. And apparently I'm not the only person who's fallen. So I end up stick at work with a twisted knee, and banged up elbow, and a feeling like someone has beaten me and I get to spend the day filling out injury reports. I friggen HATE injury reports. Don't get me wrong, I get them and the need for them. After all, if I had done some serious injury to myself I need to have a paper trail for when I apply for workmen's comp or whatever.

There is one good thing about this though. I think that I may have a bunny for a new Red Tape story. What would happen if Bayverse Ratchet was suddenly required to fill out injury reports for all the casualties that come into his bay? What if those reports needed to be done in triplicate? Yes, I think I may have another story idea. Pity it always takes stupid at work to make me want to write the Red Tape stories.

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