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April 15th, 2008
12:40 pm
So, I wrote a highly traumatic ten page term paper last Friday, and afterwards, I needed something to numb the pain, the pain, the horrible pain.
And so clearly the only antidote was to do what I had been wanting to for roughly sixty trillion years, and -- revising Lamentations!!! (Gaspshock!)
And so I present to you, my dear friends, the shiny new version of chapter one!
Title: Lamentations of a Starry-Eyed Twit
Chapter: 1 - Concerning Centaurs, Sad History, and Dungeon-Dwelling Morons
Character/Pairing: Auriga Sinistra; Snape/Sinistra
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 5,845
Summary: Endless rambling, the occasional lesson plan, and a certain potions professor who isn't the slightest bit interesting. The not-so-scintillating diary of Auriga J. Sinistra, Astronomy Professor and Spaz.
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April 13th, 2007
01:14 pm
Um. Hey, guys! Happy Day After The One Year Anniversary Since I Last Updated Lamentations! A time for . . . celebration, and merriment, and not killing me. I would say.
But anyway! I do feel incredibly bad about this. I do intend to continue with this story, if I ever work up the motivation. That's sort of the big issue right there -- I did start college this year, and I've had classes and television shows to obsess over . . . really important new life experiences, but in all honesty, I have had so much free time that I could have finished this story about five times over just this year. :P I suck. But I will desperately, desperately attempt to finish it up this summer! And while I was home for Christmas break, I did something I have never done before and actually sat down and wrote out a whole chapter-by-chapter outline that chronicles the rest of the Sorcerer's Stone timeline in Lamentationsland, so . . . I know what's going to happen. There is, theoretically, an end in sight. It all comes down to whether or not I let my unfailing laziness conquer me.
Which, um, I won't. Probably. I swear.
I've got finals and everything for the rest of this month, but come May, I am free. Feel beyond free to harass me relentlessly then!
And to keep you going until then, here's a commentary I did on chapter 22 of Lamentations around a year ago on my private LJ. I always meant to share it over here, and just never got around to it. But check me out now! Doing things I actually mean to! Sort of!
It is pretty amazing. Cough.
( Commentary! Chapter 22! )
ALSO! Is anyone watching 30 Rock? Because I am seriously inclined to suspect that Liz Lemon is Auriga. Only twelve times awesomer.
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January 16th, 2007
07:07 pm
Hey, guys! I just figured I ought to catch you up on the Lamentations situation. I must confess, I don't see an update in the foreseeable future. I wound up outlining the whole of the Sorcerer's Stone portion over Christmas break, but when it comes to actually motivating myself to write, it seems pretty near impossible. The story's just been dragging on for such a long time, and there's such a distracting difference in quality, and I've been out of the HP fanfic vibe for quite awhile, and just . . . yeah.
So for right now, it looks like I'm going to be focusing on The Office stuff and possibly the original thing that I've been fighting with for the past few years. I'm sorry!!
Do not lose hope forever, though. I figure it's likely that inspiration will strike when I least expect it.
Current Music: Catch My Disease (Ben Lee)
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December 31st, 2006
12:09 pm
Oh, you guys. I suck.
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September 21st, 2006
07:15 pm
This is a good meme. :D
Pick one of my stories (Ff.N / LJ) and I'll do a commentary for it.
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September 14th, 2006
02:14 pm
Hey, guys!
I just thought I'd drop in so that you'd know that I, well, still exist and all. And to apologize profusely for the severe lack of updating. My profuse apologies. And stuff. ;-)
So, I kinda spent the summer battling with an attempt to write a novel. I wasn't quiiiite as productive as I'd hoped I'd be -- I'm about approaching being halfway done with the first draft, so, heh -- but I have gotten quite fond of the characters and situations, and hopefully I'll manage to finish it someday.
However, focusing all of my writer-y attention on this kinda inevitably made me . . . abandon poor Auriga. And I'm just not cool with that, because, as I have stated many times previously, she sort of owns liberal amounts of my brain, and things eventually get very empty when she's not rambling away in my head! (Wow, that makes me sound far crazier than I like to admit I am.)
So, I was just sitting and eating lunch maybe an hour ago, and realized how very, very much I really do miss her. And so I'm kind of tempted to do something that I've wanted to do for at least a year, and start revising the existing parts of the fic. The first five or so chapters really drive me nuts, because that was when I was still finding Auriga's voice and who she was as a character, and . . . you can really tell. Really, really tell. To the point where it sort of hurts to witness it. Honestly, every time someone reviews with something along the lines of, "I just read this whole story straight through," I'm amazed just because . . . how did they make it past the first few chapters? If this applies to you, props to you all! Because ouch.
So anyway. I think I might endeavor to rewrite some stuff toward the beginning of the fic, in the name of character consistency and similar mighty things. And so I don't have to start twitching whenever I think of the first few chapters. Sure, the twitching is bizarrely appealing on Snape, but I'm afraid I just can't pull it off with the same sinister finesse.
I'm kinda adjusting to the college lifestyle right now -- I've been here for about three weeks -- but I'm starting to realize that my course load really isn't too devastating, and I suspect it might be better for me if I stop my incessant YouTube watching (which as of late just involves watching random scenes from Grey's Anatomy and then getting really upset because MCDREAMY, YOU SLEAZE, YOU DON'T DESERVE YOUR WONDERFUL WIFE. Poor, poor Addie.) and get into the writing game again.
So, yes.
This is all really a lengthy, roundabout way of saying that I haven't written anything, but I will. Someday. Almost certainly.
Don't give up hope!
Also, feel free to guilt me into it with comments. At this point, I could use some guilt.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankhuntg.gif) determined
Current Music: I'm Your Villain (Franz Ferdinand)
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June 25th, 2006
12:39 pm
Okay, my darlings, here's the deal--
I am not (consciously, at least) abandoning Lamentations, for Auriga is my very soul and I would never do such a thing. Besides, thinking that the fic is dead just because I haven't updated for a measly two months? You guys are losing your steam. ;-)
But, yes, anyway! Here's the reason for the updatelessness: when summer rolled around, my mother, who is not usually vexing in manner of Auriga's mother but has been doing an eerily good show of it this summer, was all, 'You have to get a job.'
To which I responded, positively blazing with righteous and indignant fury, 'Uh . . . no.' Because I am clearly not the working sort.
And so I, er, kinda wound up telling her I would write a book, and so my parents are in fact counting on me to, so . . . that's my job for the summer. And therefore, writing-wise, that's kinda what's been sucking up all of my attention. As of last night, I have 31,000 words (which I have, insanely, managed in like two weeks), and it's going quite surprisingly well thus far. (Although I fear I am being slightly epic and Rowling-esque, in that the plot just started. As in, what were the other 30,000 words for? Who knows?)
So, yes, anyway! I guess what I am trying to say, in this rather roundabout and rambly fashion, is that that's kind of what's sucking up all of my attention right now. But I will try -- I really, really, really will -- to squeeze some Lamentations time in, preferrably sooner rather than later. My ultimate goal in life is definitely still to make it to CoS. Mmmmm, Gilderoyyyyy.
In the meantime, someone requested a commentary on chapter 22 of Lamentations over on my personal journal, and I might post that over here for you guys in some lame attempt at making up for my general neglect of the poor fic. Actually, it kinda made me tempted to do commentary on the whole fic. :D Although that seems just slightly crazy and indulgent.
Really, who knows?
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May 23rd, 2006
10:59 am
Hey guys! My apologies for being kinda MIA lately, but I've been rather bogged down with schoolwork and impending graduation and the spring play. The play opens this Friday (oh dear God how profoundly not-ready we are, but this is another story), and school pretty much wraps up by the middle of next week, so hopefully I will be back in writer-y action by June. :)
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April 11th, 2006
07:21 am - Question.
Okay, I was going to refrain from asking this until I posted the next chapter of Lamentations, so all the reviewers could contribute, but I have decided I'd like some early input.
Would you guys mind terribly if I started having Auriga's entries farther apart, time-wise? Nothing happens plot-wise after Christmas in Sorcerer's Stone until a few months later, which makes it a little hard to go off on my own, and I would really, really like to get to CoS sometime this century. 'Cause, with the Gilderoy factor.
Let me know!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankthinkg.gif) curious
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March 14th, 2006
09:52 pm - A request.
Please remind me precisely why I shouldn't abandon Lamentations. I am having lots of trouble getting in touch with my inner Auriga at present, but have somehow lost the ability to update or to even think this story is anything except very, very annoying.
Don't worry, guys. Aur and I won't abandon you. :)
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January 30th, 2006
04:40 pm
I'm not making any guarantees, but I could do with some inspiration indeed.
Comment with two words. The first can be any character or ship from one of my fandoms. The second can be any word you like - a place, an object, an adjective, a quote (OK, so a quote'll be more than one word), whatever you want. I'll then write you a fic based on those two words, be it a drabble or a novel length epic.
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03:53 pm
As per the request of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) imelda72, I've decided to list all of my HP fics by pairing to make it a bit easier for you guys to find what you want to. :)
Fics with slashes through them are, well, the ones that are so bad that I don't think anyone should ever have to read them. Click at your own risk.
Ron/Hermione
The Eyebrow Incident
Strong
The Boy's in Love
Half Sick of Shadows (referenced more than main focus)
Replacement
Bravery
Proper Dancing Lessons
Expressions of Love
Apology
When Tinsel Attacks
The Bet
Impending Doom
Quiet
Of Perfumes and Point-Getting
Hermione
Notes
A Sudden Realization
Sleeping Beauty
Conversation
Not So Bad After All
Erised
Reunion of Friends
Terrified
A Newfound Appreciation
Not the End
The Beginning
A Single Instant
Forever and Always
Just Cry
Breaking Tradition
Operation Midget & Giant
One or the Other
Pique and Poetry
Admitting the Obvious
First Kiss Again
Okay, Just a Little Bit More...
Just Friends
Beautiful
A Nobody
Hurtful Words
Nothing More
Harry/Ginny
sweet and half-forgotten
Mimicry
Still
Sunlight
Of Kissing and Karma
Quiet Loveliness
Ridiculous
Someday
Night's Candles
Always
Where I'm Supposed to Be
Under the Stars
The One
All Thanks to the Pumpkin Juice
Snape/Sinistra
Lamentations of a Starry-Eyed Twit
Bewilderment
stay with me
In the Rain
Most Unlikely Soulmates
Spontaneously Romantic
Not Just a River In Egypt
Burning Black
Remus/Sirius
ash, ash
The Artist Formerly Known as Stubby Boardman
Just Tomorrow
Toil & Trouble
Come Undone
sepia
Not Entirely Useless
Lost to Torment
Shadows
Misc.
Into Dust (Snape/Narcissa)
Ha Ha, Suckers! (Well . . . nothing, really. It just amuses me. Oh, Mark Evans, you devil you.)
Love Story (Cho/Cedric)
Salvation (Draco/Hermione)
Change (Draco/Hermione)
The Bang and the Clatter (Tom/Ginny)
The Library (Viktor/Hermione)
Lie (Bill/Fleur)
Before the Kiss (Lucius/Narcissa)
The Contortionist's Pussyfoot (...)
This isn't everything, but there's some stuff that simply should not be read. Including some of those H/G and R/Hr fics, but oh well. Ignore that!
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September 14th, 2005
06:31 am
So, this place tends to suffer a whole lot of neglect, but in lieu of the apparent new no-author's-notes policy on Ff.N (Xing? Fido? Seriously -- what is wrong with you?), I figured I'd resurrect things over here.
So if you have a question about a fic or what have you, you can go ahead and ask it here. :) I'll certainly try to update in a more timely fashion from now on.
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April 13th, 2005
12:30 am - A necessary proclamation.
I solemnly swear that there will be updates again someday. Somehow. I am still alive, and all things nice and lovely like that. I just happen to be drowning in schoolwork and watching too much television in my spare time and generally neglecting my writer-ly duties. Which is indeed detestable and quite distressing, and I will update again, I will, I will.
Honest.
Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Happy Phantom (Tori Amos)
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February 5th, 2005
01:46 am
Just because I thrive upon these sorts of things. :)
Along the lines of two steps forward, three steps back, I want you to tell me:
1) One thing as a writer you think I do well
2) Two things as a writer you think I need to work on
3) Your favorite thing I've written, and your least favorite
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anksleepyg.gif) sleepy
Current Music: The Space Between (Dave Matthews Band)
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January 7th, 2005
02:14 pm - General doom, and such.
All right! I had about 1500 words of Lamentations, and probably coulda finished up a chapter this weekend.
Except for now my computer has decided to forbid me to open any MS Works documents, so, er . . . yeah.
THERE WILL BE AN UPDATE SOMEDAY.
In the future.
The distant future . . .
I think.
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January 1st, 2005
09:33 pm - Could it be . . . icons?
Okay. So, I haven't been updating. Because I am awful, and school is worse, and THE WRITER'S BLOCK WON'T GO AWAY. I have a little over a thousand words of a new chapter of Lamentations, and hopefully I'll be able to finish it and get it posted before the end of this weekend. Beyond that, I foresee no immediate updates, on account of the fact that SCHOOL IS EVIL.
But in the mean time, I come bearing Lamentations/Diaries quote icons. :)
Teasers
  
All of them can be found at my icon journal.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anksadg.gif) guilty
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December 4th, 2004
12:37 pm
Lordy, how I miss Lamentations. *sniffle* Perhaps I shall be newly inspired. Someday. Maybe.
In the meantime -- once more with ducklings.
( The Untitled Duckling Project - Part 2 )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankitteng.gif) blah
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November 26th, 2004
02:29 pm
All righty. So, I haven't been able to write at all lately, really, except for one page of a bizarre, unfinished Xander/Anya sort of deal that was more or less centered around waffles. So . . . y'know. Have very much been all writer's blocked.
I've also been kind of desperate to write something original for - oh, I dunno - ever, but can't do that either, obviously, but I thought maybe I'd post an original I started this summer while I was really bored on here and see what feedback I could get. Because you're all merciful sorts who wouldn't crush my soul too much. I think.
And just a forewarning: this isn't all that good at all. It was just me trying to save myself from death by boredom while trapped in Seattle this summer. And it lacks a title. And features a duckling. Hence the . . . "title." And I may or may not be nervously babbling.
Er. Anyway.
There's nine completed chapters, I believe. And . . . here we go.
( The Untitled Duckling Project - Part 1 )
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October 31st, 2004
09:08 pm - [insert subject here]
Yoohoo. :) Am currently doing a play that's taking up an obscene amount of time, and therefore doesn't leave a whole lotta time for writing. Add that to the undefeatable block, and, well . . . yep.
I have, however, been, in my desperation, uploading old drabbles. So you can find a H/G one here and an X-Files one here.
Lamentations-wise, things are not so of the good. I was really set on updating awhile ago, but the Aur voice has since fizzled and died.
So anyway!
I was thinking that to give me a bit of a hand in that department, maybe you guys could comment with a certain random subject, and then I could write a little 100-words-or-so drabble-type thing in which Auriga expresses her feelings on it. And maybe if I do enough of them, I'll find the will to write Lamentations!
And then it will be a wonderful Halloween-y Christmas miracle.
Score?
And for the record, all my other chapter fics are as of now incredibly deceased. I'm dreadful like that, alas. :(
But don't give up hope!
Hope's important.
I mean, it's the last word ever to be uttered on X-Files.
Surely this must mean something!!!
(I think I may be psychologically unhinged. Just a leetle bit.)
Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: Superstar (Tegan & Sara)
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