Structure

Can't say the structure is really anything to write home about. Kind of follows the hero's journey structure in a way, with some changes. It has the traditional three act structure -- nothing particularly...well, radical.

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I currently have 57 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 57 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

Subplot

I can't say I have many subplots in my stories; I've always been bad at those. Well, okay, maybe I do. One involving, in my Astrid Grayson series, Lord Rage trying to put everything right in the third book (trying to fix a hull breach with a bandage, as he basically puts it) via trying to raise the dead, as well as the romantic subplot. I confess that I keep having this thing in regards to romantic subplots. I know others aren't the biggest fan of them, but for some reason...well, I have a soft spot for them.

As for the book I'm writing for my mom...well, I can't say yet. I might add some in because the main plot...well, it could use a little more...y'know.

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Plots

For the story I'm writing for my mom, I can't say that I have a plot. I'm mostly writing all of this sort of in a making-this-all-up-as-I-go-along way. I mean, yeah, I guess it doesn't inspire confidence, but writing it all out of order is kind of how I roll.

And for the Astrid Grayson series, it's a young empathic girl living in our world (a sort of different dimension to another world, Gaea -- after the name "Pangaea", which was what the Earth was called before it split off into different continents) before a man named Lord Rage (I know, I'm not terribly good with names. I might amend it in editing) attacks her world, forcing her to flee. I'm also writing a bit of how Lord Rage came to be, and how the Emperor Azra came to be (basically, a man cast out from the heavens for trying to help people before being locked into a mortal, amnesiac form). It's not the most original story ever, but it's fun to write. Although I worry about the final product being dark considering...well, I wrote a lot of it in the throes of a Creator Breakdown. I believe the phrase "Creator Breakdowns are never pretty" definitely comes to mind here.

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Call it a case of feeling really kind of bad today.

THE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MEMEmy thread here

Doing all right, for the most part, other than a bit of a scuffle in the Star Trek fandom, including someone else going "Respect the old Trek and move forward", which would be touching, really, if he didn't accuse the new Doctor Who fans of being scammed, express the desire to kill Christopher Nolan, etc. People like him, really, are the type that make me want to devise a button that says, "In case of Holier Than Thou Budding Misogynist (because he made some honestly awful remarks about women on occasion as well), break glass." *Sighs*

On a brighter note (sort of), saw Les Miserables (the more recent one). How was it? Quite good, really.

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So overall? Loved it. Definitely recommended, although, warning: you may cry.

Inspiration

Can't say there was really much of an inspiration for both projects. One was just the matter of me being fed up with certain things in fiction and wanting to sort of change them up a bit, at least for this series, as well as a sort of fascination with stuff such as empathy and other things. That and worry about things going on in the real world -- that definitely influenced a lot of my writing, as well as STAR WARS and DOCTOR WHO. My other project is mostly there because my mom wants a book she can read over the summer. I can only hope it works. :)

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