Unolup

Maybe it's just a matter of perception but somehow having new and improved Internet (darned near T3 speeds) it feels like catching up on a year or so of art and stuff isn't quite so daunting a task.  So here I am at it.  First I will catch up here and then turn my sights back to the stacks on FA.  So a few artists are going to get faves on some very old works of theirs

Well, 2012 has gotten off to a lousy start, as one of my biggest fans, pacficthehedgehog, abruptly quit DA. He left behind two journals which probably explained everything, but when he cancelled the account the journals went away, so I don't, and probably never will, know what happened.

When you have as... select a group of friends as I do, every one that you lose hurts.  Still, I hope he's well and happy with what he's moved on to. And if anybody does know what he's moved on to or better yet where I could get in touch with him, I'd like a second chance to at least say goodbye.

Effective immediately, all my activity regarding 's Survivor Fan Characters series is relocating to .  Even though I have gotten zero complaints there's been an unspoken level of discomfort combining that activity with my other interests here.

So, if you've enjoyed my recaps/narrations/previouslies of SFC but felt self-conscious about associating with... all that other stuff, worry no more.  Go ahead and switch over to and follow my (somewhat) more grownup side guilt-free.

Nine days and I've stalled at just a little over 5000 words. Without getting into detail, I had plenty of story, just not enough characters to move it forward. And the characters I did have I didn't really identify with.  So not only have I had four zero-word-count days, I've even put a thousand words into a completely different story, not to mention the small projects (like SFC) I have going on all the time.

When you get right down to it, I just don't feel that I have anything new to prove by going through another 50,000 word blitz. Slow and steady is really more my style anyway. So, this year will not see a repeat NaNoWriMo victory in Unolup land. And, I'm perfectly okay with that.

Last year I didn't even know what a NaNoWriMo was until November 3rd. I dove in without a clue and made all the mistakes, wasting time on grammar and punctuation and whatnot. All the same I pushed through and after what I figure had to have been 100 hours of effort, I hit word 50,000 with two days to spare.

This year the circumstances are so much better and I've learned from my past mistakes. Already I've 500 words ahead of the pace. But trying to write a different story this time... will the creative spark stay with me?

I don't even know myself. Just hope it will be fun finding out.