Some RP-ing instead of Story-writing

So... if you've been visiting the blog since I first started it, you would have noticed my occasional experiments with widgets.

If you're sort of new to this blog- just know that sometimes I'm really curious about experimenting with things on here. I had a chat-thing on here, a poll thing, picture gallery thing, a formspring question thing... so a lot of random things that never really stuck around because I got too annoyed at having to log in everywhere and stuff...

Anyway, why am I talking about this?

All that probably doesn't have a direct connection to what I'm about to talk about. No, wait. The moral of all the above is that I'm crazy curious about things.

All right, continuing to the important part.

I heard about omegle (which is an online chat website where you can randomly talk to strangers without having to register or whatever). Even though it's been around for a while, I just recently heard of it and thought to myself...I must try it.

So I did.

I put in a whole lot of interests- ranging from writing to various shows/books/anime I love- and clicked text.

And omegle gave me a stranger who shared the common interest 'sherlock'.

I, being a naive omegle newbie, thought we were going to discuss crazy outlandish Reichenbach survival theories. Instead stranger typed out a line- which was supposed to be a text from Sherlock- an obvious start to some sort of RP.

I stared at stupidly at the screen for a bit too long because I've never really participated in an RP before and so the stranger disconnected on me.

But I wasn't deterred.  Though I'd never really participated in an actual RP before, I was... curious. And I didn't want to to any serious work/writing.

So I connected again. Oddly enough, I connected with another person who had 'sherlock' as a common interest and they immediately started typing something furiously. I waited, preparing myself to be in John's mindset in case it was an RP. If it wasn't an RP, then I had enough to talk about easily.

It was an RP that started with a text message.

Except it wasn't a text from Sherlock. It was a text from SM (Sebastian Moran- who isn't actually seen in the BBC series, I think. Thankfully I'm very familiar with the original stories) to Moriarty.

I was supposed to RP as Moriarty. Obviously, a shock since I had expected to be John. (gosh, I just realised how odd this all must sound.)

But I typed out a response.

And by the end of our super long chat session- when the other person had to leave- I got told that I played the 'perfect' Moriarty.

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Pride that I aced my first try at an RP? Horrified that I played an unhinged creepy psycho perfectly?

I think it was mostly shock of some sort, because when the other person asked for some means of contact so that we could RP again, I accidentally closed the tab.

And even though I can't remember how or why our RP had a crazy twitchy doctor to whom I, as Moriarty, gave permission to experiment on our captured prisoners or something like that... I can't help but think it was fun.

So fun that I think I might give RP-ing another go in the future... though maybe not in the Sherlock fandom.

Polar.
P.S. I hope all you Canadian readers had a fun Canada day long weekend.
P.P.S. To all my American readers, Happy 4th of July to you.

A half-eaten plot-bunny...

I don't know if that's the correct way to describe what happened with this plot bunny... but uh, well it sure feels like it.

So as usual, I was doing my own thing, when suddenly I was bothered inspired by a plot bunny.

Unfortunately I was nowhere near my computer and I didn't have a pen-paper-combo anywhere near. But I wasn't too bothered. I figured I'd just wait until I was at my computer to write out the plot bunny.

So then- hours later- I'm sitting at the computer. I write bits of dialogue and I stop.

Not because I'm tired, but because for the life of me, I couldn't remember what was supposed to happen.

I even tried staring at the dialogue I had so far-- to see if it brought up anything.

Nothing.

And now I'm stuck with odd bits of dialogue and stuff- and it feels interesting- but no idea what it was meant to actually be.

Here's what I managed to write...

=x=x=x=x=x=

Sirius huffed and followed the young men. 

"It's still following."

"Just ignore him."

"We can't just ignore it. It saved our lives, Dean."

"And what do you want me to do Samantha? Give it a scooby snack for a job well done?" 

Sirius felt helpless. In his current form, there was no way he could do anything to help the stupid boys. 

"Idiots!" Sirius gasped out as he threw the shotgun down and fell to his knees as blood dripped down his knees. His body shuddered with pain and his muscles twitched. "Don't be so damn reckless. How am I supposed to help you all the time."

The brothers stared at him with wide eyes. 

Sirius gasped for breath as his body forcefully shrunk down in height and 

=x=x=x=x=x=

 I'm guessing at the end Sirius turns back to his grim form- without actually wanting to. So Sirius is stuck in SPN world in his grim form- and probably has problems turning back into his human form or something like that?

Sam and Dean just think he's a dog until something where Sirius becomes human for a while?

Gah!

Anyway, thankfully my other writing is going smoother than this plot-bunny. I have my chapter 14 to-do-list and I've gotten some nice bits of dialogue already written up. 

[“But you're rich."

“That's only because we're cost-effective.”

“So basically, you're cheap and you want to be even cheaper.” ] Can you guess who's speaking?  Obviously it's not stellar dialogue, because it's still a draft. Who knows how it'll turn out after editing.

Hope you guys are having a nice summer!

Polar

 

 

Changes in FFnet's layout.

Intriguing. 

No, really. I'm really intrigued by them.

For as long as I can remember I've always believed that the admins at ffnet were non-existent in the running/improvement of the site. 

And then wham. Books covers and things... which like I said, is actually pretty intriguing. 

So, as far as I have seen, there's two major additions this week.

1- Story summary at the top of each chapter

This actually seems handy to me. 

I do have a habit of clicking story links from outside sources- where they don't list the author's summary. And I'm always obsessed about reading a summary before reading a story- so I usually end up having to go on the author's page and yeah... I actually like this in a way. No more extra clicking to know the story summary for me.

I tried to think of other possible benefits of this and came up with two

- Sometimes if an author takes ages to update (like me) and I tend to forget which story this is- the story summary at the top can refresh my memory a bit.

- I know that some people write their summaries on the top of their chapters- which is unnecessary- so this will help make word-counts more accurate? What? It sounds logical.

2- Book Covers.

Okay as soon as I saw this, I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I immediately tried to picture what AtO's 'book cover' would look like. There was a lot of red(guess why?) and I imagined hiding bits and pieces of future plot points in there. So now in my mind AtO has a super complicated book cover- complete with "Da Vinci Code"-esque hidden clues. 

Obviously, I managed to impress myself with my imaginary 'book cover'. Then I realised there was absolutely no way I'd be able to translate my mental image into an actual real-life 'book cover'. 

As much as I love my avatar- and while Lily's Itachi would look good anywhere- I  think I'll be changing the covers (even if it's just with an image that has my story title typed out in fancy font- actually that seems like a nice hassle-free idea.) 

Now, you're probably going- gosh, this post is just way too positive. 

You're right. 

I'm purposely trying to not see the bad/annoying part in these changes.

Polar

P.S. Itachi seems to be way popular in AtO. He hasn't been around since chapter 6 but people keep waiting for him to come back (at least that's what I understand from the reviews). I feel amused guilty because I have no plans of bringing him back anytime soon.