The Philisophical Works of a Pseudo Author

I'm assuming, once the DVD comes out in March, that perhaps there might be other fan vids on youtube than the heaps and heaps of Fili/Kili slash? Or worse, Thorin/Fili/Kili slash? Also, set to much better music than seems to currently be on offer. One can only hope.

On that note, the fan vids after the EE of There and Back Again are going to KILL ME. I'm going to need therapy or some other fandom that doesn't kill off main charactes.

[On that note as well, everyone on my f-list has read the Hobbit right? We all know how this ends?]

Still going...I will not read The Hobbit. I will not read The Hobbit. I will finish Cloud Atlas so I have some idea what the hell is going on when I see the movie, and I will spend the next week squeeing over Richard [the III, honestly, which Richard did you think I was talking about?] and then finish Battle Royale. I will not read The Hobbit. Not until August 2014.

Lastly, there are some really depressing character driven Spooks fan vids on YouTube. To be fair, the writers and Lucas North have made it rather easy on the fans. Richard Armitage (yes, yes, other Richard, though apparently he might have been named after the King? Which amuses me? In a really ironic sort of way?) does tortured (pun entirely intended) really well. I feel this will come in handy in about, oh, 17 months?

See, I totally made a circular post. Aren't I awesome?

Uh, Fili & Kili fic is going...well...had to go track down the script again. I seem to be quoting Bilbo more than anything. I should probably be worried about that.

Spooks fic is up to the second commercial break. No one has died yet, but I have high hopes for at least some blood later on. Of course, I wrote the ending as the teaser so I know where it ends up...basically. Always start a spy thriller with a gun to someone's head.

And Castle this week? Can I just say? EVIL BASTARD. It's sort of like Heroes all over again, except worse. And I am missing Alexis and Martha these days. Feels like it's been ages since we've seen them. Or any Castle/Beckett kissykissy.

Again, circular post. I need to...bake a lot this weekend. And eat a lot. And see Lincoln and Richard. How is this my life? It's awesome.

I have found the best healthy eating diet ever! Thank you BBC!

Seriously, every other 'health plan' is to make you either loose weight (don't need to), get in shape (sort of am) or maintain (which is good). This one actually is proven to lower your risk of, like, everything.

And it's one I can stick to! And won't cost more money or involve more exercise! It will take will power, but doesn't everything?

So, I fast on odd days and eat on even days. This I can handle. So, today it is nearly noon and I'm about to go eat my only meal of the day. And then tomorrow I can eat all three (yeah, because I've done that recently - breakfast, what is breakfast precious?).

In other news...16k and counting. Don't *think* I'll hit 25, which is entirely okay. Just want to be DONE!

I've just realised something, though it's been understood in the back of my mind for a couple of months now.

I probably won't even hit 100k word count this year for fic.

Last year, I nearly hit 150k.

This depresses me more than it should. Especially since I've already hit 20k academically this year and will be over 30k by the end of 2012.

But I should make 75k of fic this year, provided the plan goes according to...the plan. Huh.

100 stories and 400,000 words! I feel awesome right now!

I have an major craving for Tim Horton's.

2011 Fic Round-up

Total Word Count: 176,690, which is beyond ridiculous, consider how the year started out. (Technically, I've written another 6k that has yet to be posted and is ongoing into next year, so I'll roll it into the total for 2012).

Total Number of Stories: 16, which is pretty good for me, consider 4 were multi-chaptered!

Fandoms: Sanctuary (which got me through January), and Twilight.

My favourite story this year: East of Albuquerque. I'm insanely proud of it, considering.

My best story of the year: I think Water to the Sea, but clearly fandom doesn't agree. ;)

Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Water to the Sea. Seriously, I was SO PROUD of this fic, and hardly anyone read it.

Most fun story: Honestly, The Sanctuary Network. Which needs updating.

Sexiest story: I got nothing for this. I wrote for two fandoms that don't have much on screen canon hanky panky, so that sort of spoiled my fun. Maybe next year.

Hardest story to write: East of Albuquerque. I've never done that much research for a fic and it was exhausting! Also, writing 37,000 of it by hand was just plain hard.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?: HAHAHA; I wasn't even doing nano this year!

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?: I wrote for a fandom that, a year ago, I refused to even acknowledge existed. And I wrote multi-chaptered fics and even a sequel, which I have never before attempted to do.

Do you have any goals for the New Year?: Finish the last two stories in the Cardinal Points saga (I can abuse that word too, you know). Finish the original story that I started and didn't nano.

This is not the post you don't want to read. That one will come tomorrow, or perhaps Saturday, depending on whether I go see Wuthering Heights Friday night with Cintia or not. [Yes, there's irony in my movie-watching week; go away.] That post will be entirely behind an LJ cut and the warning will be in the subject line. So you can just scroll on down your f-list and ignore it, okay? See, I don't have to torture other people with my obsessions.

This is the post with PG warnings, instead of R. ;)

It's 23,000 words and I may have titled it 'North of 39', because to me, that's hilarious and to other poeple it will make no sense. But we all know how much I like to come up with convoluted reasonings for things in my head. This reasoning has a whole bloody story attached to it. See, East of Albuquerque was funny, if slightly inaccurate. North of 39 though, I managed. Mostly because everything north of NYC is north of the 39th parallel. Including Forks.

Yeah, the next one might be titled 'West of Rome', at least until I can remember how to do directional titles in Latin. Of course, then it'll still be called 'West of Rome' just...in Latin.

The last one is totally 'South of Zero', but only because I think IT'S FUNNY. And Rio's not on an interesting parallel. I wonder about the longitude though...I should look that up.

And yes, I've totally planned out 3 sequals to a book I never wanted to write. On the upshot it's AU, so Bella has a backbone, Edward isn't an ass for an entire book, Jacob doesn't get a go, and there's no baby. I guess Jacob will just have to get it on with Leah instead. Yeah, that could be fun.

Kill me.

Please?