solitary arts

 Hello to anyone who might be still reading my journal! I went ahead and signed up for the heroinebigbang and while I feel a smidgen anxious about it I do believe I can handle 10K words by the end of January. I signed up for Buffy Summers as my heroine (I find it the easiest to slip into her noggin so no need to challenge myself just yet). ;) 

However, I've wrote nada this month other than finishing a Faith scene that had been giving my fits. My goal is to get a little written for the 9th chapter of History for Sale tonight. Wish my luck and hopefully I'll come back with an update later this evening. 

Update:
I stayed up too late but I got 1300 words written. They need editing something fierce but progress. 

I wasn’t feeling the love because I’d forgotten to actually join the het_banghelp community. I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes, but apparently they do twice weekly check-ins. Hopefully, that will help me keep on track.

Now to just get myself writing tonight… *stares blankly at the cursor*

Damn thing is mocking me.

It's the last day of my vacation. *sniffle* I managed to get all but four crates sanded for my shelving unit (which is like half of what I wanted to accomplish). However I do have tomorrow and Sunday to get some sanding done and I'm pretty sure I can finish at least that portion. Woot!

I am working on rewriting portions of the mavel!bunny to make it current with marvel universe. I'm doing this for reasons and hopefully only a couple of scenes need to be completely rewritten and just a few tweaks on the others.

I'm likely going to start nagging a few of my f-list buds to read over things as I progress. I'm looking at you kerrykhat, jedibuttercup and pprfaith. (Pol, you go without saying, but I just said it so there.) I think with enough peeps asking what happens next I'll plow through the rewrites and complete this beast. Can 25K and counting be considered a beast? *shrugs* I'm gonna say yes.

Edit: Totally forgot to drag sulien into this and you probably thought you'd dodged that bullet... 

Plotting the events of BtVS without Buffy and Xander present is an interesting process and definitely tests my knowledge of both series. The most difficult part will be deciding how/why Wesley follows Angel to Los Angeles - especially since the Mayor is a non-issue. Though I suppose if Faith quit the Council just because she thought he was a putz he'd likely get fired then as well. ;)

It always bothers me when writers yank a character out of the series, but the blocks all tumble in the same neat rows (IE Willow still attempts to end the world even though Tara doesn’t die). I’m bucking that trend and mucking up some plotlines. I might also be killing a few (more/different) characters along the way.

Needless to say the Marvel!bunny still owns my muse.

Research on wolves has brought up a conundrum. Genetic research done in 2008 states that wolves lack the genetic mutation that causes melanism (aka a dark color pigment). It's only found in domestic dogs which means wolves today that are fully black actually have domestic dog somewhere in their genetic history. Black pigment, like dark hair, is dominant and therefore more likely to occur if present in the genetic makeup.

We all know that domestic dogs are the genetic decedents of the gray wolf. So I'm assuming this means that the genetic mutation didn't happen until after humans started domesticating them. (It would make sense because inbreeding had to have happened to create the different breeds we have of domestic dogs nowadays.)

My issue is that I'd intended to have black wolves in this original series I'm working on, but that won't work with back-story I've created for werewolves/shifters. I know the coloring of the wolf shouldn't matter, but for some reason it does and yet I can't ignore the science. Artist licenses aside I think I need to rework how Bryn's wolf looks in my head. Her bloodlines from France and they don't have black wolves at all... drat. (I could make her redish in color since all of France's wolf legends on wolves gives them red in their fur. Of course red doesn't feel right. Boo.)

Why did I start reading books on wolves in the first place? Science makes fantasy harder. :)

It's hard to give equal time/love to my original!bunny and the Marvel!bunny since Marvel apparently still owns my soul. It's kinda ridiculous at this point and it doesn't help that I'm counting down the days until Captain America:Winter Soldier comes out on BluRay.

Is it 9/9/14 yet? Like yesterday, please?

I think the Marvel!bunny is coming along pretty well. It's been awhile since I tackled something this big. I didn't intend for it to be this big. Whoops? I might post the first scene at some point to get some feedback. Well, it's not the first-first scene. That's a fight scene, but this scene sets up the plot of the story. Did I mention this story had violence?

The origina!bunny is coming along slower, mostly because I can't seem to write around the fact that not all the characters have names yet. Names are important. Names help me visualize the characters. It's a process.

I shall leave you with this song by Alex Clare. It feeds the Marvel!bunny. (Nothing feeds the original!bunny currently. I should work on that.)

My area of Florida keeps getting storms around the time I'm heading to bed and it's kinda fantastic because I love the sound of rain and thunder and wind. It's soothing. My lawn also needs the love. It's suppose to do this all through the weekend too. I'm gonna sleep so damn deep. :D

I revisited the Marvel!bunny and managed to get 1600 words written of the next scene. 1600 words and the entire point of the scene is finally reached. Since when did fight scenes need so much exposition to reach them? Who needs plot?! I mean seriously! ;)

Also Xander wormed his way into this story so I might need a Xander fan to read over what I've written of him at some point before posting. I'm looking at you kaylashay. Though to be fair I do intend to Joss him. You know what that means.

I shall leave you with this video of Brendon Urie who is the lead singer of Panic! at the Disco. He's part of the inspiration for Emerson (one of the characters for the original story).

I went ahead and signed up for the journeystory bigbang and my declaration is 10,000 words of original fiction. Which hopefully won't be an impossible feat since I've got the concept for the story and while some of the characters will require an overhaul (Gwen the witch is getting a revamp and a new name) I have a good feeling that I'm actually going to be finish this story.

I thought about using my current Marvel!bunny for because I'm certain that's going to be longer that 10,000 words, but I want to write that one at my own pace and that pace will likely have it completed and ready for public consumption long before the December posting dates of the bigbang.

Y'all are cool with getting to read that one sooner rather than later, right? ;)





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So I'm working my way through this fight scene and I've come to part in which the Buffster actually has to use her strength. We've never actually been told how strong a Slayer is supposed to be and while it did tend to waiver from episode to episode I'm a little torn on who is supposed to be stronger. Steve Rogers or a Slayer?

Steve is able to bench press 1200 pounds. According to the role-playing game a Slayer can bench press 800.

I know Buffy was shown carrying an I-Beam in season 6 which depending on how long it was (from the screencaps I'd say about 15 feet or possibly smaller) the heaviest I-Beam is 22 lbs per foot which means it would weigh about 330 lbs.Faith once picked up a 200 lb barbell one handed in AtS and then popped another inmate in the face with it. So that's inline with the 800 as well and it's possible the longer a Slayer is active the stronger they become. Possibly Faith and Buffy are closer to 1000 lbs now.

But the question remains: who is stronger?

My research has me leaning towards Steve.

I'm not asking who is the better fighter. (Though that one would be tough to answer as well.) In this instance in the fight I need to know who is physically stronger.

Discuss. Debate. Help a writer out. ;)