Title: Night Terrors
Author: ergo_awesome
Characters: Zuko, plus ensemble
Rating: R (please note warnings)
Word Count: 3,084
Warnings: Deals with themes of child abuse, specifically sexual abuse, between a father and son.  While nothing is graphic, please be warned.  Also contains general spoilers for all of the original A:tlA
Disclaimer: I own nothing.  Please do ( Read more... )

Title: Kinesis
Author: ergo_awesome
Characters: (in this chapter) The Gaang and Zuko
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,770
Warnings: General spoilers for the series
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or about 75% of the plot. I do however own the world. Please do not sue or steal. (Poor college student is poor)
Summary: The Elemental Courts have been a ruling ( Read more... )

Public Transit in this city needs to stop costing so much. It's depressing to think that a couple hours of work only pays my transit costs for the week. Of course, my only other option is driving, and I'm not going to poke the hornet's nest that is car insurance. Or car ownership. Or anything vaguely car-related ( Read more... )

Title: Kinesis
Author: ergo_awesome
Characters: (in this chapter) Sokka, Katara, Aang
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,470
Warnings: General spoilers for the series
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or about 75% of the plot. I do however own the world. Please do not sue or steal. (Poor college student is poor)
Summary: The Elemental Courts have been a ruling ( Read more... )

Title: Because They Ran
Author: ergo_awesome
Characters: Zuko
Rating: K+
Word Count: 4,210
Warnings: General spoilers for the series, particularly Zuko Alone
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender. Please do not sue me. All you'll get is a bunch of highlighted textbooks and a laptop that makes a weird clicking sound.
Summary: What if Ursa took ( Read more... )

Title: Kinesis
Author: ergo_awesome
Characters: Sokka, Katara, Zuko (eventual Gaang plus villains)
Rating: K+ (T overall)
Word Count: 2,872
Warnings: General spoilers for the series
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or about... 75% of the plot. I do however own the world. Please do not sue or steal. (Poor college student is poor)
Summary: The Elemental ( Read more... )

Dear Laptop,

Please stop making that horrid grinding sound. You know, the one that sounds like a rusty cement mixer full of broken glass and the wails of a thousand clubbed baby seals? I know you are old and thus the computer equivalent of arthritic and senile, but I just need you to last until August.

On a similar noteDear (mentally fulfilling ( Read more... )

Maybe I'm weird, but I have never been one to "ship" characters. Romances can be fun if they're interwoven into the plot, but I'm not rabid about X and Y needing to be together. Of course, I also refuse to pay money to see romantic comedies unless the movie also involves gratuitous explosions. (Note to self: Write that movie.)That being said, A: ( Read more... )

This is where I realize that my obsession with tiny, minute details is probably unhealthy.  But I will be anal-retentive until the day I die, goddammit ( Read more... )

The Good:

• After 23 years, I've finally learned to make a story outline before starting to write.
• This is probably the most streamline, straightforward thing I've written in a long time.
• I haven't been this enthusiastic about writing in a long time.
• I haven't been this happy with something I've written in a long time.

The Bad:

• My outline is 7 pages and ( Read more... )