I'm past the part that has been giving me so much grief. YAY! I'm hoping to finish chapter 12 by the end of the week and then spend some time nit-picking at it ( Read more... )

I finally watched Being Human (UK) and I absolutely love it. But, of course, my OTP doesn't get a happily ever after, that would just be silly. So I'm writing again. Nothing too long or elaborate, just a ficlet and a single story.

It's nice to be writing again, even if it's not Erebor Restored or an original work. I'll get to those. All in good

I'm an the type of writer that needs inspiration to create. I need to be able to see the scene play out in front of me and care enough about it to write it down. The characters don't do what I write, I write what they do. That becomes a tremendous problem when I get distracted or no longer care. Which is why Erebor Restored hasn't been updated in ( Read more... )

I haven't truly written anything in weeks. I've gone over the remainder of the outline. I've reread the story. I've fixed the crap that was originally chapter 11. But nothing new. Nothing moving forward. I know what needs to happen, but when I find the time to write, and finally sit down to do it, I feel stupid. Too tired, or no will to do it. My ( Read more... )

I have three hours until I'm due to post my next chapter and it still isn't finished yet. I'll have it done. I'm bound and determined, but it ain't gonna be pretty. I'll have to polish it up after the fact. BUT! I will have it done and that's what matters.

Eventually I am going to work on my original piece, though.

When I can't write I photomanip. Not always well, or with purpose, but whatever, I like having visuals of what I'm writing. This is Tauriel in her dress for the festival in Dale in upcoming chapter(s). I'm not a clothing designer, yes it's the dress from Ever After. It's a beautiful dress.
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I've been struggling with the next chapter, meaning that I only have three paragraphs written and that was from yesterday. On the bright side, I feel like I'm getting back into the swing of things. Part of me wants to just push through and force myself to write and the rest of me is terrified to present utter crap. What it boils down to is making ( Read more... )

Since there is no official layout for the mountain I've put together a rough idea of what would be on which levels. Keeping in mind that the most important rooms/halls would be the best guarded, and therefore, furthest inward. I tried to match what was shown in the movies, but there wasn't a lot to go by.
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With so little being known about Dwarvin culture that leaves the door open for a lot of extrapolation. The Dwarrow Scholar has done a great job of laying the foundations in this article: https://dwarrowscholar.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/whos-the-bride-dwarven-marriage/ but I don't think that they got it quite right.
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He is having a major case of Hobbit Burnout. For his birthday, all he asked for was a single day with a Hobbit word spoken. hehehe I have since decided not to ask him to edit my work anymore and as such, all future chapters will be unbeta-ed. That extra week is going to come in handy for checking and rechecking for mistakes.