The Web Of Lies

This is mainly so I have a record of the profile stuff from my NaNo LJ. Feel free to ignore this. >_>

Current Finished Works:
The Glass House
Fanfiction: AusComedy RPS
Progress: 131k/Complete
Summary: Set 20 years into the future, Australia has slowly descended into fascism. The Government rules the people with an iron fist, and the winged humans, created by The Government in a past incarnation, has become the newest threat to national security. Not even recognised as human by the State, the winged humans decide it’s time to fight back after one of their leaders is captured by the Army and made an example of, heralding in a new era of tightened security, aggressive oppression, and the all-pervasive Armed Forces ruthlessly hunting down anything with wings, whether they can fly or not. The plot is set. Overthrow this vicious Government and end twenty years of tyranny. The axe falls on November 29th, but can a small army of winged humans overthrow the might of a Government prepared to do anything to remain in power?
Characters: 85% of the Australian comedy industry, plus a bunch of OCs.
Completed Fic on AO3

Current Major WIPs:
Venus Victrix
For: NaNo08
Original Fiction
Progress: 4816 words
Summary: Set in Sydney, the Government has banned Love and executes anyone found to be in Love and names them Amantes. But they hadn't counted on Venus, ancient Goddess of Love, to interfere with their plans and enlists the help of her chosen few to bring Love back to the country.
Characters: Rikkel, Francis Xavier, Damon, Gavin, Chloe, Lia, and Mario. For starters.

Wild West Heroes
Original Fiction
Progress: 57,294 words
Summary: Flamboyantly gay political thriller with space cowboys. Set in Sydney/Melbourne, Western Australia and Darwin.
Characters:
From Sydney: Rogue, Puppy, Rasa, Alisha, Xavier&Azarius the twins, and a bunch of others.
From the Wild West: Starlight, Centaurus, Julian, Sebastian, Henry, Tyler, Rampamt (estranged cousin of Rogue's), and a bunch of others.

The Infanta
Fanfiction: AusComedy/AusPolitics RPS
Progress: 7,845 words
Summary: Inspired by the song of the sane name by The Decemberists, it tells the story of Spanish Royals and an abandoned baby and the quest to regain honour and respect. Or something like that. XD
Characters (sans titles et al and in order of rank downwards):
Spanish Royals: King Vera Maria de Pilar de Borbón and Queen Tania; The Príncipe Rafael and Princesa Kiyane; Infante Javier de Borbón; Infanta Isabel de Borbón; Infante Carlos Juan de Borbón (Carlos II).
Extended Family: Infante Carlos Enrique y de Borbón (Carlos I), Gran Duque de Frías (King's brother) and Gran Duquesa Andres de Frías; Infante Domingo Maria Cavallero de Borbón, Gran Duque de Calabria (is also apparently the King's brother. XD)
Spanish Nobles: Duque Adán Alvarez de Castillo and Duquesa Diego Cortes Hernandez, Catalina Alvarez Cortes (plus two unnamed younger sisters); Barón Guilermo Torres Salazar and Baronesa Pablo Pena Vaques;
Foreign Royals: King and Queen of Morocco; Princess Amina (Kiyane's younger sister); Prince Elán François Castel, 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling (French).
Staff at the Spanish Court: Maria de Luz Pinar Corres (runs the palace); Juliano Dominguez de Garcia (primary nursemaid).

And if you can work out who's who amongst the OCs, you get a basket of e-cookies. Though some are more obvious than others. XD

Glitter
Fanfiction: AusComedy RPS/Electric Light Orchestra RPS/other assorted RPS fandoms
Progress: ~60k or so. IDEK how close to being finished it is. D:
Summary: A magical fairy takes Andrew back to the 70s where he belongs to be the rock star he was always meant to be.
Characters: Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello, Craig Reucassel, Julian Morrow, Charles Firth, Dominic Knight, Chris Taylor, Cameron Bruce, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, David Bowie, The Beatles, etc.

The Muses:
These are the three bastards responsible for my writing. So if you don't like it, blame them. :P

Andrew:

Likes challenging me to see how badly I can break him and have him still recover his sanity. Is annoyed I'm not a musician. Angsty. Seems to like deathfic. Probably emo.

Craig:

Alpha male. Snarky. Vain. Arrogant. Self-absorbed. Edits my work on the run. Barges into fic he's not supposed to be in. Takes over my brain. Is always barefoot, for some strange reason. Always has wings because he thinks they enhance his sex appeal.

Charles:

Very polite and never demands anything, apart from exclusive rights to Andrew. Can be a bit of a sissy. Doesn't readily admit his penchant for dresses and being a submissive little shit. Looks after Andrew.

Current mood: Tired
Current music: The Whale - ELO
Progress: Rewrote the second scene from day 12; added moar scenes to chapter seven. :D Also, watched too many Wizzard videos on youtube. XD Lead singer = Roy Wood = Ulysses, who was supposed to be an original character, but now apparently isn't. Fail. XD
Word Count: 33,924/50,000
Characters: generally behaving, though Craig is sulking about his female body. I'm not letting him wear pretty clothes, thus he is sulking. XD

Anyway. It's very late and I should go to bed. So here, one rewritten scene from day 12, and one scene from chapter 7 that continues on from yesterday's writingz. :D

( Cut the first - rewrite of day 12 )

( Chapter seven con't )

AND NOW TO BED. SINCE IT IS AFTER HALF PAST TWO IN THE SODDING MORNING. D:

Current mood: Sore from housework. XP
Current music: Black Bugs - Regurgitator
Progress: Well. Hmm. I am not sure if Craig is pleased with current developments. :/
Word Count: 28,777/50,000

Managed 3k today. :D One scene, mostly, that was supposed to involve Andrew discovering what, exactly, his grandfather had hidden away in his room and, well, it turned into this...
( Read on, if you wish... (and yes, I know these are getting less inventive over time. I know, alright? XD) )

So, er, yes. I am not sure how this will end. We'll see. D:

Current mood: fucking tired. Also, pissed off at my internet. Again. -_-

It's been a stupidly unproductive day. I did manage to make 23k today though, so I'm happy about that. Really all I managed to do was add a little more to the last scene I was working on yesterday. It badly needs some more work done on it though. Needs moar description, and I'm not totally happy with the dialogue flow. Still working on voicing some of the accents as well. Not trying to write all my accents out, it's more... sometimes it just doesn't work to write it out properly, and I tend to restrict it to dialogue. Which is why I'm not so happy with the dialogue in this part. It's not just the inconsistent accents (still working on them), also the flow is... not quite what I was after. There's something lacking in here, some action or something, and I think I need to take another look at it when I'm not dead tired and fix it. But that's a job for another day.

So, in lieu of not having anything else to post, here's what I managed to add to it. It's not even finished, but I'm too tired to do any more work on it so bug me tomorrow.

( Yeah, it's a cut, okay? )

IDEK. I had a slightly different idea for them getting in there, but I think this is better. Possibly. Anyway. Once I'm done with that, I can move on to Charles/Andrew, so we might get a little more progress. Hopefully I don't feel as uninspired tomorrow either.

And so to bed. At last. :D

(And I was going to post this last night but LJ crapped out on me just as I was going to post it so you're getting it now. XD)

FINALLY got some NaNoing done tonight after Lateline. Had a migraine all day, which kind killed my productivity. -_-

Also, my internet is still shit and I want a new keyboard. :(

Current mood: in need of fudz and sleep kthnx
Current word count: 21,023/50,000
Chapters completed: four. Started the fifth this evening.
Progress: *sighs* I should not be in the least bit surprised this is threatening to become an epic Andrew/Charles love story, should I? XD IDK. I'm making this shit up as I go along. I have mentioned before how any planning plot-wise on my behalf tends to be utterly subverted by my muses, so I haven't bothered this year and am just writing it as it comes along.
Drink of choice: Coke
Packets of noodles eaten: 4-6.
Hours of study completed: maybe one? If I'm being generous? XD
Current time: 12:55am :D (Well, it was when I wrote this. XD)
Current favourite song: 'Veridis Quo' by Daft Punk. IDEKW.
Current state of bedroom: In need of a tidy.
Cameos: Finally sorted and in place. Obvious? Possibly.
Time spent researching UK rail networks and steam locomotive history for last night's effort: 4 hours, in between watching TV, of course.
Was it really worth it?: IDK, but I got to look at photos of some pretty old abandoned train stations. :P
Other remarks: I seemed to write Vauxhill rather a lot. Go figure.

Anyway. I could go on all night, but I'm lazy and tired so I won't. Anyway. Have some writtinz. :D And you know, the usual 'it's just a draft and needs a clean up, all typos are my own' warnings, etc.

( ZOMG a cut D: )

In summary: Charles is a possessive bastard, but we all knew that anyway. XD

*goes to do some actual study for once*

You're getting four days in one. Because I didn't have time to post before now. So nyeh. :P

Current mood: decent
Current activity: watching Iron Chef
Current word count: 15,114/50,000
Characters: Andrew can't keep a posh English accent no matter how much I try. Craig is still being a prat seems intent on doing the whole double agent thing. Chas, Jules, Chris and Dom are no-shows at present. I have no idea if they will turn up at all or whether this will end up only being an epic Craig/Charles/Andrew lovefest (none of the three seem to be interested in changing this at present).
Plot: Well, it's going somewhere. Andrew and Craig are ganging up to spend as much time with Charles as possible. I am not surprised in the least. -_- (If they don't end up moving in with him, I'll be very surprised. I'm sure he's already thinking of a way to manage that)
Cameos: Still working on them. No one can decide exactly when during the plot they're going to turn up, so we'll see. XD
Other notes: OH. Done some more development of the magic system. All the spells are related to (ancient) Greek (which I don't know), rather than Latin (which I know better). My pronunciations may be dodgy because of that. Ah well. Oh, and we seem to have motorbikes. For some reason, that one crept up on me. XD Damn you, Andrew! XD

Anyway. Onto the fic. This be a long entry (~4.2k), just so you know. And the usual, it's just a draft, it'll probably be better after an edit, etc.

( Oh hai, have some moar epic fic. :D )


So yes. I'm still pondering on rewriting/adding to the last scene with Craig and whether or not I should include a little more backstory. I might add it tomorrow or something. IDk. I probably should though.

Wordcount: 7905 :D
Morale: Decent
Characters: generally behaving
Plot: slowly emerging
Scenes: 9 complete; 1 to write
Current music: Regurgitator - I Wanna Be A Nudist
Current mood: Would liek some food. And sleep. XD

And on to today's writingz. :D Finished off the last scene I posted yesterday. Will include the whole scene for context. As usual, this is the draft word-vomited version and will probably be tidied up later on, so any mistakes will be fixed later.
( I love you too, have a cut )

So yes. Craig is being a brat and enjoying every moment of it. Why am I even surprised? XD

Title: Moonlighting
Puns: Rather a lot. And not just in the title. XD
Characters: several. Some more annoying than others. Some behaving more than others. Decided runaway princess and androgynous girl disguise as a boy are the same character. No, wait, I didn't decide that, Craig did. Fail. XD Andrew still perfectly content to mess around with his radio and build an electric guitar. Managed to talk Charles out of royalty; is still insisting on nobility of some kind, and wants to be higher than Chris, who's currently a son of the 4th Earl of Aylesford. Annoyed at Jalyn for getting annoyed at me because I keep spelling his name wrong. XD
( Cut for length - there be moar updatings under here :D )

Doing steampunk this year. Because apparently I suck at resisting a challenge. XD Thanks, bewarethespork, much appreciated. :P

It'll be fanfic again. The Chaser, because that was what Jay suggested. XD

So, er, lemme present preliminary notes/synopsis/research so far. Subject to change as I keep looking into this, so yeah. This ain't set in stone. :P

Title: Moonlighting (It's a pun. Or three. Don't look so surprised. XD)
Genre: Steampunk...ish. XD
Setting: AU!Birmingham, UK; also AU!London, UK
Year/s: 1765-1813 (possibly, if I use flashbacks); 1822 (main narrative)
Fandom/s: The Chaser RPS AU
Cast: (so far)
- Andrew Hansen (MC - grandson of Cassius Albion)
- Charles Firth (local war lord/leader/keeper of the peace; old friend of Andrew's)
- cameos from Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan  as scavengers/pirates (first people Andrew meets when he returns)(And this is only here because of watching tiny!Jeff in a pirate hat and eye patch performing in ~1971 and it amused me too much not to include it somehow. XD)(He was bouncing around! It was adorable. XD)
- Julian Morrow and Chas Licciardello (soldiers in the Loyal Birmingham Volunteers Corp, founded in 1802 by Charles' father and used to by Charles when he takes over his late father's estate to keep the peace during the crisis)(Yes, this allows for epic adventures, dammit. XD)
- Dominic Knight (general dogsbody and Charles' manservant)
- and probably others if needed. We'll see how we go.
( Cut for moar notes of epic length. D: )

NaNo is going shit. I'm not gelling with the idea as much as I thought I was and I'm considering scrapping it to find something else. Keep the same characters, but find a different plot for them. It's just not working right now. Which is shit, because it is a good idea, but it's just not working.

I had been afraid of this, as the original idea wasn't mine. I haven't quite been able to make the idea my own, which might be part of the reason I'm not that attached to it. Which sucks.

Actually, I lie. The backstory for Damon is really rather interesting, and something I want to write, but the world surrounding that just isn't quite working properly. And the whole thing would turn all supernatural instead of purely dystopic. I fear Chloe and her mates may be left by the wayside. I can't think of a plausible way to involve them. But Damon, Rikkel and Francis Xavier are all there. They're looking good, and I can find a decent plot for them.

Cos they're not telling me they live in a dystopic world. Near-future, sure, but not dystopic or completely totalitarian. Rikkel's band is also annoying me. And Rikkel's gone all glam rocker on me, which I'm not sure was originally part of his character (since I adopted him).

And the title, Venus Victrix, is still sticking, and Venus will (probably) appear, but I just need a fucking reason for it. They're trying to restore love, or something, so it still ties in with the original plot, but the surrounding society just isn't emerging. You don't know how frustrating this is.

I suppose if all else fails, I'll start with Damon's story and go from there, just to see what happens. I always liked him as a character and his story is very interesting. So maybe we'll go with that and develop his back story and just start there and see where we end up.

...I think I've just talked my way out of my dilemma. Awesome. XD

So, er, witness my angst and cheer me on! :D

And all this frees me to work on that Double the Fist epic I started totally guilt-free. >:D