Not Finishing for NaNo and Other Grown-up Decisions

[parallax23]

It's obvious that I won't be able to finish Aerie by the end of November because I've got other things I have to take care of.

But I want to finish Aerie for ME.  I haven't finished a story in so long, and I would like to stop holding myself back.  I'm still writing Aerie as much as time allows.  It's a great trilogy and I want to share it with people.  Hopefully, they find it as cool as I do.  I was talking to one of my friends about the story, and she liked it because she said it totally plays on the emotional turmoil of its characters.

I do credit NaNo with kicking my ass in gear to try original writing and writing in general again.

I am going to finish Aerie.  I am going to finish the trilogy.  Even if it kills me.

As a side note, I still haven't given up on my fanfic totally.  I may have mentioned this before, but if I know I'm not going to finish them, I will be posting the spoiler endings to all of the series except The XYZ Affair.

Comments

[pat-san.livejournal.com]

Whant to know a funny thing. A couple of days ago I stumbled upon your long fic After life. I knew it was incomplet, but I said 'whatever' and began reading. And I eneded up loving everything about it ♥

So, now I'm just wondering... Is there a change I'll see the end of it sooner or later? :P Just kidding, I'm here just to say that I loved it, and that I really like your style.

Oh, I also read Just Another 48 Hours a while ago. You know, I have a thing for missing moments and the fact that your characters are so 'real' made me love it even more than After Life ^__^

[parallax23.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's so nice of you to say! I'm glad you enjoyed After Life. Technically, it's mostly done because it's a patch up of random scenes, but I have to finish about 2 more chapters and transcribe them. :P Between the Lines is also missing the last 3 chapters. Not sure when I'll get around to it...

Just Another 48 Hours is still my favorite. I kind of got tired of too many OOC moments and I did it my way, so I'm really grateful you've taken notice of that! :) Its sequel is Wake Me Up When September Ends.

[pat-san.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on the OOC moments in Freak Nation (and not just OOC, but stupid too, like there's just a guy in the whole word you can kill with just a touch or a hair and where do you go for a picture? Meh), so I totally understand the need to write things your way, lol. Plus I think you did a very good job with the friendship between Max and Alec: reading fics I often have the feeling there's like a gap, a big hole in their relationship no writers want to fill, from no more than frienemies to lovers, and not just lovers, but the I'm-in-love-with-you-you're-my-whole-world-I-would-die-if-something-happens-to-you kind of lovers, but Max and Alec were friend at the end of the show (well, bar FN "been there, done there" >_< ) and in my own personal DA world they stayed friends for a lot of time after the finale before something happened between them - yes, in this Da world of mine they're together now and have lots of cute transgenic kids :P

And thanks for the update on your fics :)
I will check the sequel up ^___-

[parallax23.livejournal.com]

Well, rest assured that Max and Alec don't utter the words "love" anywhere in regards to each other in Wake... I'm really working on building their friendship angle into a reluctant romance. I am going pretty slow with them, but that's because there's supposed to be one more story in the series after Wake. :P Some people get frustrated that I don't just put them together then have them deal with stuff as a couple, but that's not how I see it playing out.

[pat-san.livejournal.com]

In this case, I'm all the more willing to go and read your story :)

[pat-san.livejournal.com]

Ouch, sorry for the misspelling, must be the hunger XD
Off to have dinner :P