Movies are fun...

... until you start thinking of crazy fanfiction plot ideas in the middle of the movie.

For instance, I was watching 'Snow White and the Huntsman'. Nice movie, good special fx at least. But there's this one scene where they show a large white deer thing and, I kid you not, my mind is going "Oh! Patronus-Prongs. That reminds me about that patronus scene I put in AtO. I should definitely make..."

Needless to say, when I actually went back the paying attention to the movie, the deer was nowhere in sight and people were fighting... and I was like, noooo I have to remember my plot ideas. I honestly couldn't care less about the movie at that point-I actually giggled at some of the 'serious' parts of the movie and for some reason I imagined writing a story for the BBC Merlin fandom that included crows and a creepy mirror.

Even so, it was a nice movie. A predictable and interesting-looking distraction.

Thankfully, I sort of remember the plot ideas I thought of during the movie.

Something sort of similar happened when I watched 'Brave'. Except during that movie, I was sort of like "Oh, I read about these things in those mythology books... I really need to work on that HPxSpn story." But after that I was completely focused on the film.

So yeah, the point of all this rambling? Err, videos/movies are very inspiring? Snow White would have been even more attention grabbing if the Evil Queen won? I'm apparently more attentive to cartoons than movies? You pick one you like.

Actually there's another reason I mentioned the movies.

Both movies had female leads. And that got me thinking a lot about likeable female characters? What made them likeable- their attitude, strength, looks, circumstances?

I looked at my own favourite female characters. I have loads of them but I've never written a complete story with them as the main focus- being strong and doing heroic deeds. Even the one story with Orihime (What if?) that I wrote- I felt like it was more about Harry who was also a lead character.

So then I was like- am I allergic to writing female lead characters?

And apparently I sort of am. Out of all the fanfic ideas on my laptop, I only have two stories where a female is the main character. One is Lucy Heartphilia from the Fairy Tail manga and another story has Bayonetta as the lead. But even with those two stories, I have character voice and plot writing difficulties.

If I look at the fanfiction I follow/read... well, the leads are all male too.

So I've decided to look for stories with female lead characters. Suggestions are welcome.

Wish me luck,

Polar.

Also just wanted to give a huge Thank You to raisuke143 for her fanart- which is a comic panel of a scene from Chapter 9 of AtO. Here's the link to the dA art page if you want to leave comments, etc.

I personally love the eyes in this picture- they convey a lot. And also the fact that they are portrayed looking young actually makes me imagine all these fluffy/angst/emotional baggage scenes for the future. So once again, thanks Raisuke!

This is the second fanart from this chapter- well, second fanart from this story itself- but from the trend, it feels like chapter 9 is a huge favourite with people. Or maybe it's the most inspiring one when it comes to fanart. Either way it's awesome.

If I had to name my favourite AtO chapter... hmmm, can you guess? Hint: I haven't actually published the chapter online and it's really just an overly optimistic draft. If you guessed my epilogue chapter- then you're right.

It's my favourite because it's a hope-filled chapter... as in, I really hope I'll put it online. I want to say with that it'll definitely be online one day- but that would be a stupid guarantee to make. So let's just hope it'll come  online eventually.

Summertime Productivity

It's August! And you know what that means, don't you?

Well for me it means getting even more exhausted in the heat over here. Not a bad thing. In fact it's one of those awesome things I love about summer.

Yeah, I'm weird like that.

Anyway you're probably thinking that I'm going to use the excuse of summer activities not to write fanfiction.

You'd be half-right.

I've actually got a good amount of writing done. The only thing is that I've written a lot more non-fanfiction over the past month.

Wait!

Let me finish.... geez, you guys always assume the worst (something I noticed from AtO's reviews that talk about future plot).

So, I wrote a lot of non-fanfiction. But I also wrote a lot of fanfiction. just that it's a whole lot less compared to my other writing.

Here's the list of how much fanfiction draftiness I wrote. Seriously though, remember the wordcounts are for the drafts, so don't get excited.

I wanted to share the numbers with you cos they make me (a super-lazy procrastinator) feel rather accomplished.

1- Against the Odds- since you're probably only interested in news about that anyway. (Chapter 14 current word-count: 4,369. Future chapter scene: 1837.)
2- Detour to Evolution (Removed all traces of Itachi* from the final chapters I'd written- which meant editing 8327 words of story. Re-did most of the chapters= rewriting at least 4500+words. And also managed to write up an omake for the story.)
3- My still-nameless HpxFairyTail story (which was 9900+ words but I decided to re-write it to see why the story didn't feel ready to be uploaded. And my re-write of the story so far has 1624 words)

And there were loads of plot-bunnies/ideas for other fanfiction too. I wrote a few of the saner ones but don't want to include them in my list cos they're not as important at the moment.

Hmm, how about some teasers from what I've written? Not AtO obviously, cos I have a feeling putting teasers from that story will just be... a bad idea**. So I'll give you snippets from two other fanfics-in progress that are kind of interesting (at least to me).

So here's a little something from my HpxSupernatural story (that's currently 7794 words long and won't get finished anytime soon)

“Do you even know how this apocalypse got started?”
“Does it matter?” Harry said, “All I need to know is how I can help end it.”
“Even though you're not one of His children?

And this bit is from a Fairy Tail fanfic. (it's 8815 words and not to be confused with my HpxFairyTail story)

“I didn't think putting information together like this was illegal,” Lucy said.
Makarov nodded. “Good, remember to say the same thing if the council ever finds out and questions you.”
“Master!”

So yeah, loads of writing progress. The only sad thing is that I haven't read any of the fanfic updates that I've got on story alert. But I'm sure I'll get to them eventually.

Hopefully this post stops you guys from thinking that I've dropped off the internet again,

Polar.
* You're probably wondering about the whole removing Itachi from the Detour to Evolution story. Hmm, how do I say this? You know how all the Uchiha are sort of attention hoggers? Yeah in what I had written during November of last year, Itachi's role was just... anyway, I just wanted Grimmjow and Team Seven to remain in the spotlight. So the re-write was necessary.
**Bad idea to put AtO teasers? Yes, especially since I can't tell you when chapter 14 will be complete and uploaded online.