[NANO] AKA I don't have any willpower

6/11/11 19:58
anyssia: (nano-wc shmurd count)
I'm weak. I'm terribly weak to all Nanowrimo things. I had sworn I wouldn't participate this year, and guess what I'm doing?

Anyway, it's a Buffy the Vampire Slayer plot that had been going through my mind for a while now. I even wrote a one-shot about it, Shades of Grey, a couple of years ago. So, at least I know more or less what's going to happen.

I probably won't make it to the end, because I have a busy month, but I did manage to crank out 6'000 words yesterday in the train \o/ ^^

So, word count as of 2011-11-06:



That said, I procrastinated today by re-(re-re-re-re-)reading Ciceqi's FFVII/KH Mirrorverse and various other stories that I already know by heart, and I change my LJ layout (again). I don't think I'll ever find a layout that pleases me for LJ... It now works, except for one entry title that I can't seem to manage to change the color.


SOLVED! Took me a few hours to realize what was the problem (visited links turned the same color as the background ^^;;) and I needed to ask for some help over at [livejournal.com profile] s2smoothsailing because I don't know much about CSS, but I did it!

Took me some time because I initially thought that the problem was Firefox since Chrome displayed the page alright (which was normal, since I hadn't clicked on any link xD ) and then I wondered if it didn't come from the DW crosspost thingy. I was only when I realized that Chrome had potentially the same problem that I got a EUREKA! moment ^^

It's incredible how many things can go wrong in CSS, which doesn't help at all when you don't even know what's your problem (and now I need to get in less than 5 hours, urgh T_T I'm like a dog with a bone, when something doesn't work right away, I should have gone to bed hours ago).
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[FICS] and Nanowrimo and various Writing Softwares

15/10/11 18:12
anyssia: (nano-2011 official)
Last year, I said I wouldn't be doing Nanowrimo again.

So, of course, guess what I'm doing again this year? ^^;;

Alright, to be honest, I don't think I'll write those 50'000 words in November. I'm mostly going to use the occasion to make new friends and hear about old ones :) Also, I'll be at my parent's for two weeks, so I doubt that I'll write a lot during that time. Anyway, if I do write, I'll try to write about Guide.

I discovered, while re-arranging my notes/chapters/files in progress, that I have currently written 38'500 words for Guide, 17'400 of which have been published in chapter 1 to 6 ^^ Which means people that I have already written the equivalent of another 4 or 5 chapters. But I still need to read, re-read, re-re-read them and then get in the usual back-and-forth ballet with [livejournal.com profile] lucime, my beta-reader, to get it publishable ;p So, it won't be for a while yet.


On another note, I fell in love with Scrivener all over again. When I write fanfictions, I always get worried that I have all my facts/canon right, so I have lots of bookmarks and web pages saved all over the computer with timelines, datas about characters, synopsis of episodes, ... and notebooks also. Lots of notebooks. I had also some information on various softwares.
You can imagine how easy it was to gather those infos ^^;;

Scrivener helps me with all that. It has something like three main folders: the draft one, in which you write your story/scenes/chapters and that you can organize in folders howerver you want, the research part, in which you can organize PDFs, images, sounds, web pages, ... and the trash bin ;p
I've been re-organizing all my files/notes for Guide and I can't tell you how much it helps to have everything I need in one window, instead of all over the place.


Still, I use about 4 softwares when I write:

1st - PageFour
Scrivener is great for organizing lengths of texts and such, but for one liner plot bunnies, I prefer PageFour. It has folders too, aka one FFVII folder, one for BtVS, one for HP, ... and in those I write down every plot bunny that bugs me.

2nd - Q10
This one is for the writing process itself. It's a full-screen, portable application (meaning, I can use the program from my USB key on every computers). You can tweak the colors of the background, the width/height of the writing space (meaning, if I want to see about 2 inches of text on three lines, I can customize it the way I want) and a few other things. Basically, you get a blank page with or without word count and clock and that's it. Then, you write. (without distractions, which is great ;p )

3rd - Scrivener
In which I copy/paste the text I wrote in Q10 and organize it and edit it. I can see the whole text in one long page, or just the chapters, or the cockboard, with card which helps me see where I'm going in the story. It has a full-screen feature too, but I prefer Q10 because I can take it everywhere with me.

4th and final - Microsoft Word
Because my beta-reader has the software, so we can go back and forth with *.docx files and liberally use highlighters and red font. Also useful to prettify your final version.
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[FIC] Statistics

13/6/11 18:20
anyssia: (Default)
Holy Moly! O.O

The discussion on [community profile] writethisfanfic yesterday was about reviews and the lack thereof, if people only write for them or wrote despite not having any. We branched out to the hit counts and kudos feature of AO3 at some point and it made me want to go check my own hit counts over at FFnet.

It had been a while since I looked at it. I thought it might be a good idea to check it too, because I'm about to post the next chapter of Guide and it will help compare to know if there are still people following it ;p

So I opened my FFnet page and went O.O

Guide at FFnet is: 16,786 words long for 5 chapters.
It has 191 reviews and the visitor hits number is up to 40,698!
It's recced in 64 FFnet Communities and 394 persons faved it as 637 saved it in their author alert.

So yeah, I know the hit count isn't a real good baseline, between people who re-read the fic, those who skim over it every time they read a new chapter, those who just happen to pass through... (the first chapter has 16'500 hits (a nice round number, funny thing ;p) and the others have an average of 6'000 hits. Still, 6'000 O.O)

I guess I'll continue to use FFnet. [personal profile] anyssia is really my preferred archive and the place where the fics are the most up to date. It's more user friendly and has no advertisements, and the comment option of the journal is much more interesting/convivial than FFnet's review page. Also, I love being able to have a Master Post ^^
(and certain fics are censored at FFnet, to follow their guidelines ^^;; )

By the way, for the Guide readers, I'm happy to announce that the chapter 6 has gone back to [livejournal.com profile] lucime once again for her to check it. Another round of 'she sends it back, I rework it and send it to her again and she re-look over it', and I think we'll be good to go.
I hope, anyway. This chapter has been a real pain in my ass ;p

(EDIT: I just realized I had written 'Statistics' for the title in French: 'Statistiques' ^^;; It's kind of hard to see those mistakes, as the words are so alike)
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[WORD COUNT] May 2011

1/6/11 18:51
anyssia: (nano-wc shmurd count)
So, I totally stole this from [livejournal.com profile] askerian ;p and it will be done very quickly xD

Total word count for May: 6677 words.
Total word count for 2011: 6677 words \O/ ^^

• Complete/posted work:
none

• WIP:
a Nanaki/Cloud PWP for the [livejournal.com profile] ffvii_kink_meme

I feel a bit bad because I haven't written the last two weeks, but since it's my first words of the year, I'm still happy with the word count :)


Aaaand, teaser! ^___^
(oh, and remember, it's only the draft. Meaning, it needs to be beta-ed once or twice ;p )

( I still haven't thought of a title and I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't, because calling it the Nanaki/Cloud thingy all the time isn't ideal :3 )

Also, I'm on a four days week-end! \O/ Writing, catching up with my F-list, cleaning the apartment, reading some more ^^
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[CHALL] [community profile] writethisfanfic's June WIP challenge

21/5/11 16:57
anyssia: (ff7-nanaki)
A few weeks ago I discovered [community profile] writethisfanfic, a community to help people stay motivated and to keep writing. A bit like a year round Nanowrimo community, except that there aren't any word count set requirement.
Instead, every month the mod ask you what you are challenging yourself to. Then, there is a daily post asking you how it's going, if you're sticking to your own chall, and various questions to get people to talk/comment to each others ;p Also, there are writing sessions/sprints organized almost weekly.

I wasn't sure about it (and I caught the chall mid-May), but it's really great! Nobody forces you to write like in Nanowrimo, no pressure, no nagging. But the posts do remind you that, 'yes, stop procrastinating, your fic isn't going to write itself' xD So it's a win-win situation for me. The community stays alive with the posts and comments, and I can't ignore my fanfics.

I wrote 6'000 words this month thanks to that community! (all for the Nanaki/Cloud fic. It was my challenge: to finish the one-shot. I'm not done yet, but I still have a week and the thing is growing longer than I anticipated ;p)


Anyway, that was the presentation part. Now for June's WIP challenge:

Level of challenge: not sure. either I already finished my current one-shot, then I'll try to get at least two chapters of Guide ready (and that to finally proofread that last chapter! It's about ready to be posted and I still haven't even opened the file T.T) or the one-shot isn't done so I'll finish it (and the last chapter of Guide, damn it, Anyssia!)

Fandom(s) involved: Final Fantasy VII of course ;p

What you're looking for from the challenge: Motivation and something to keep me on track. If I don't check the posts daily, I "forget" about writing or I postpone it and never get anything done.

What you could offer other participants yourself: encouragements, someone to bitch to, about how your story is doing everything it wants to and not what you want it to do ;p I can give advice on plot ideas but not grammar 'coz English isn't my mother tongue ^^

How people should contact you: DW pm is good or you can comment here ^__^

Time zone: France, so UTC/GMT +2 hours.
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[MASTER POST] Guide by Anyssia, FFVII

15/5/11 14:20
anyssia: (0-main-ff7-jenova headpiece)


Title: Guide

Author: Anyssia/[personal profile] anyssia
Character/Pairing: Cloud, Zack, Sephiroth, Vincent. Eventually, Cloud/Zack/Seph.
Fandom/Spoilers: Final Fantasy VII, Meteor Crisis.
Genre: adventure, what-if, slash.
Disclaimer: not mine or I would have killed Hojo a long time ago!
Status: work in progress.
Rating: worksafe overall, possible violence.

Summary: Nibelheim's reactor is due for a check-up and sixteen years old Cloud is hired to take the coming soldiers up the mountain.

Chapters:
01- Buster Sword, 3'800 words (Mar. 11, 2009)
02- To The Reactor, 3'900 words (Oct. 03, 2009)
03- Intruder, 3'800 words (Mar. 02, 2010)
04- Project J, 1'800 words (Sept. 21, 2010)
05- An Unbelievable Tale, 1'900 words (Oct. 09, 2010)
06- A Voice in his Head, 2'700 words (Aug. 14, 2011)

Set in the same universe/Possibly AU of Guide:
Elusive
Cloud. ficlet (one-shot), gen, no sex/violence. — warning: unbeta'ed. — Oct 14, 2009, 1000 words
“They were on his heels again. Cloud snarled and ran behind yet another house, hoping to shake them off.”
Set in Guide's world, when Cloud was around 10.

One True Love
Cloud/Sephiroth/Zack. ficlet (one-shot), erotic/romance. Prompt: 168 - Every Tom, Dick and (insert name), [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse
warning: unbeta'ed, some sex. — Oct 06, 2009, 1150 words
"Every Tom, Dick and Vincent knows that you can only have one true love. Except, maybe not."
Set in Guide's world, AU to the actual story.

Too Smart For His Own Good
Vincent, Cloud. ficlet (OS), general. Prompt: 167 - Antapology, [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse
warning: unbeta'ed — Sept 29, 2009, 1300 words
"He had to admit that dry, heavy and dusty volumes probably weren't a reading of choice for a fourteen years old teen."
Set in Guide's world, Cloud is 14.


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[BtVS] Slayer VS Potentials, some violence, gen, Buffy-centric, 1/1

24/10/10 03:56
anyssia: (Default)
  • Mood sleepy
Title: Slayer VS Potentials

Author: Anyssia
Fandom/Spoilers: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, set during the 7th season.
Character/Pairing: Buffy
Genre: angst
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
Status: one-shot, 535 words, unbeta’ed.
Rating: some violence, PG 13

Summary: Buffy came up with the idea of sharing her power with the Potentials.

Misc: [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse's Prompt #222 – Methodical Thinking.
Crossposted: FFnet, Taming The Muse

( One-shot )


I wrote three drafts (two for Harry Potter, 1 BtVS) and none of them pleased me. So I just went with this one, since I didn't want to miss TTM's deadline. But really, I know that it's... "blah".

;p
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[FFVII] Saturday Night Fever 1/1 - very explicit sex! (Cloud_Zack_Aerith)

18 25/9/10 20:09

[BtVS] Compassion - 1/1 - no sex/violence

13/12/09 15:36
anyssia: (Default)
  • Mood relaxed
  • Music Andrew Bird - Imitosis
Title: Compassion

Author: [livejournal.com profile] anyssia
Fandom: BtVS, set during the beginning of the season 4.
Prompt: Prompt 177 ‘Courage’, [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse (LJ)
Pairing: pre-slash Spike/Xander
Warnings: no sex/violence, beta’ed by [livejournal.com profile] laazikaat
Rating: PG
Status: 700 words, two-shot, 12/10/2009

Summary: There are different forms of courage.


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Notes: Laazikaat says I should write a sequel/second chapter. What do you think? ;-)
(In fact, I might just write it, if only to thanks Laazikaat for her help! She’s been beta’ing my fics for a couple of months now and I can’t tell her how much grateful I am! ^__^)
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[FIC] TTM's week prompt

10/12/09 18:11
anyssia: (buffy-spike sleep the day)
  • Music Bajofondo Tango Club - Pulm?n
I won't have Shades of Grey's chapter 2 and 3 ready before the [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse's prompt of this week, so I'm writing a short story (500 wds) that I'll post before Saturday to not miss a week.
About Shades, I worked some on the chapter 2 today, but more timeline/plot wise. I'm beginning to wonder if I won't have to re-write all the chapter...

For those that are waiting for Guide's new chapter, I'm sorry, but it will have to wait another or two weeks. My beta already sent me back a new proofread version of the chapter 3, but I won't have time to look at it for a moment, as I need to catch up with [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse's fics that I wrote but didn't have time to beta, thanks to NaNoWriMo ^^;;
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