DracoNunquamDormiens

I wanted to wish everyone in my dear Flist a happy start to 2009, and aside from ye olde wishes for joy, health, loads of cash, and all that stuff that's the standard well-wishing for every year, I wish you all that this new year be filled with adventure, laughter, and that you all try something new, live life to the fullest and give yourselves the chances to do those things you've always dreamed of doing but have never gotten around to. That your projects, resolutions, and so forth will take a good shape this year.

I know I will try and get a lot of things done -- which is the best thing any of us can do any day.

Even though most of you I've never met and probably never will, and some of you I've only met online, I'd like to tell you you've been an important part of my life over the past few years, and even if I might not know you directly, I wish you all the best for this new cycle that's starting.

Love, hugs, chocolate, and lots of accomplishments to you all,

-*- DND

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Merry Christmas everyone!

I have forgotten to do this, but!

I finally did remember.

If anyone in my dear flist would like a Christmas card from me, all you need to do is reply to this post with your mailing address. I reckon I'm still in time to reach any corner of the world.

And I was bored, so I gakked this from cleolinda, one of them bold whatever you've done already memes. ( 100 things meme )

To all ye Americans in the flist: Happy Thanksgiving and gorging yourselves on the good traditional foods you have!

*goes back to writing*

72,632 so far. On chapter 11, and I think I might have developed a twitch...

But.

WOOHOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And say hello to a day filled with ghosties, nasties, black cats in dark, dank alleyways -- horror flicks, and whatnot.

Do enjoy yourself, dear flist!

Sage advice, that.

Not to mention-- You guys, it's COLD! Finally, it's proper Fall weather, overcast, rainy, frozen, and windy, which is the cheery-upper for a DND. Yes, Mexico City is brass monkeys out, and that means!

Fave black coat time, along with fave boots and fave gloves. And yes, fave hat too, why not.

I shall roll around in the cold, and happily embrace the freezing tendrils of ... frozenness. And have some ice cream while I'm at it.

In other news, aside from not opening portals to Hell of late, I have a new conundrum to work out: what would I rather learn, drums or guitar? It's important as I have to go purchase the said instrument, and I'm torn. A guitar you can carry along wherever, after all, but... drums are the absolute cat's whiskers. Hum.

In other other news, probably less interesting but still news-y, I have just put the finishing touches to my plan for a rather unusual Samhain ceremony this Friday, and outlined the Nov. 1st and Nov. 2 (day of the living and day of the dead) ritual things as well, for work. Loaded weekend, but I get to use gunpowder to blow things up and I got me a real proper cauldron and stuff (from a voodoo practicioner o.O!), so it's not going to be half bad, as far as entertaining self goes. Never thought a DNDish ritual thing would be accepted by the oh-so-conservative centre, but it was. *evil cackle* They should never have taught me anything to do with special effects at film school.

And there's a costume party across the street from the said centre, so I can nip in there right after the Halloween ritual thing (to milk the costume, of course) and get snockered.

All I need is to edit some music tracks to add in creepy sounds for the guided meditation and practice my evil insane cackle of doom and I'll be ready. Muwaha.

Choice. ( What an interesting little word. )

In other news.

There's this thing going on -- no idea what it's called but it's probably called something different in every country anyhow.

Bottom line of the deal is, at 21:50 on Sept. 17, everyone is urged to switch their lights off for ten minutes. Worldwide.

Gasp.

Ten minutes, that's 600 full seconds without the lights on. Just to give the world a bit of a breather, see if we can have a display of solidarity on the whole planet, diminish fossil fuel consumption by a million barrels or two.

Would be wicked, but will it happen? Can we endure 10 minutes without the lights on?

I won't be anywhere indoors then, so I am safe, but -- it's supposed to happen at 21:50 in Mexico City. You could convert to your time zone, if you want to join in. Like Lennon said, imagine all the people and yadayada.

Personally, I'd like to see the stars again. If only for a little while.

Well, at least I'm back... yet again, and once more astounded by the sheer length of time that's passed since I last updated this here page.

Changes since then have been many, I'm hosting a radio show several times a week, teaching, and as the Weasley Twins would say, business is booming. Booming and banging and crashing most plans, but things are still in the works.

What else?

Writing-wise, I'm still active, even if it doesn't seem that way. Time is still on, as are 7 other novel projects, and three screenplays-- and yes, I am working on them all, though it looks a bit daunting, written down just like that. I hope, without promising anything concrete, to finish Time before a year is through. You know better than me how I suck at my own deadlines.

Maybe a bit pretentious, considering workload and study schedules, but-- I am going to give it a go. The story won't be as long as I originally planned, but instead, it's getting a sequel, aptly named The Turning of the Time. Three guesses what it's about, and no-- it's not time-travel centric, even though it could be. Who knows, I might throw a time-turner in.

As for the other stories, they're all original fiction, all in the fantasy realm, and the screenplays... Well, one is getting filmed by yours truly, hopefully around Fall next year at the latest-- I need a cold, derelict setting for it-- and two more are in the works, one being a horror-fantasy-thriller film with lots of weird stuff, the other one is a more classic horror thingy, but it's still in its early stages. Getting a taste for gory stuff here.

And lastly, mum got herself a puppy.

I got self a new lappy. Netbook, actually, which is SOSOSOSOCOOL! Got it on Monday, and if that isn't a good start to a month, I don't know what is.

That's it from me for the moment, cheerio!

~DND

At last.

Flist, the congress that's been keeping me busy as heck is finally, blissfully over! Who'd have known homosexuality and everything surrounding it was so interesting? I didn't, that's for sure, and even though for the translating and interpreting work I had to read 345654 gazillion books and research papers and presentations and such, it wasn't until I saw those involved with the issue live that I got the message fully. Boy, am I glad I don't have any sort of confusion as to my gender.

Everyone was happy with my job, and I got this bag of deeeelicious toffees from one of the shrinks at the congress, and after we went to get chinese food, as an introduction to our return to our regular lives.

Have lost my voice after interpreting nonstop, over 8 hours a day for 4 days straight, and have also started catching up on my film watching, though I might end up watching every House epi I've missed in the past 3 months. I'm happily outlining chapter 21 of Time and two horror shorts I need to hand in. And I don't intend to leave my bed today. So far, so good.

Woohooo!

Ahem.

Finally, I say FINALLY, ff.net has decided to play nice and let me upload chapter 20, Causality Part Two: Casting the Dice.

Linky: Right here.

Enjoy!

~DND

First off, I wish to thank japonicastar yet again for her timely and spot-on beta-reading. We should all bow to her and make her gifts of chocolate.

That's the only good news today, I fear... I keep getting this:

FanFiction.Net Error
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Please email this error message to support@fanfiction.net.

All errors are logged for administrative and security purposes.
91:209.151.227.84
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This is what I call Sod's Law applying the Supreme Sodpremacy.

So... No update today-- Let's hope it's cleared up by morning.

In other news, I sprained my ankle and knee today.

Talk about being productive.

Hello all,

Seems like updating this thing gets harder every time-- even though every one of my browsers has a blog editor, and I even got one for the smartphone-- but updating requires at least five minutes of peace, which I just got... Now.

Business is very good this month, and looking busy for the next few as well. I nailed a screenplay translation, with very good prospects for a future business relationship, as well as four large-scale events to be interpreted and organised in the next handful of months. The first congress is due in two weeks, and I'm in charge of pretty much everything, from subtitling the vids to training the other translators, which in turn cuts my writing time-- and inspiration-- rather short.

However!

Chapter 20 is finished! Yes, it is. I'm just rereading it today and tomorrow, and sending it to my adored Beta japonicastar *running tackleglomp* on Tuesday at the latest, and I'll post it up at ff.net whenever it's out of the beta.

On another note, I'm closing the Yahoo!group, as it's never really been active, and I keep getting soandsomany emails a day saying people are leaving it-- I'll post updates to Time here, and there are so many other ways of keeping track of a fic anyway.

In other news, I'm back in film school... Starting next week or so. All my cinematography buddies got together for a weekend course as none of us has time for the regular coursework, and we've got three solid short film projects-- all of which shall be produced on random weekends. Yes, it cuts my spare time even shorter, but! It keeps my brain from leaking out my ears, and I miss it so much.

Lit school starts over in August, so I suppose it's a good start to going back to the routine of school and everything. I hope it doesn't mess with Time updates as badly as it did in the past, and to manage a chapter every month or every other month at least.

Well, that's all from me at the moment, I'll get back to work, and I hope everyone on the flist is very much okay.

Figured I might as well post this one up, just to remind self what I'm doing, and share that Time chapter 20 is well underway, but as yet lacking a title. I hope --hope-- that I'll finish it this upcoming week and everything.

Chapter 20, then, consists of 11 scenes, which include the following:

--> Explanations and answers.
--> A trip to the backstory department.
--> Voldemort tantrums (maybe just the one, who knows).
--> Snape snark.
--> Attacks (that's plural, folks).
--> Weasleys.
--> Marauder cameos.
--> Hedwig.
--> Neville.
--> Neville's Gran.
--> Rasmus (without his Gran)
--> A Prophecy. Confusing as heck, but a prophecy nonetheless
--> I believe some chocolate is included as well.
--> Newspaper clippings
--> Letters, or cameos of letters.
--> Some snitching.
--> Lots of visual effects... Oh yeah, and goblins.

Anyhow, at an average 2000 words per scene, I'm estimating the new chapter will be around 22,000 words long, but it might be closer to 15,000. I'm hoping I can finish it before mid-week, which means it would be up... whenever it's out of the beta. Perhaps next weekend, who knows. *doesn't want to make any promises*

Finally, after much battling ff.net, I can announce that chapter 19 of Time is up.

Clicky for chappie

I didn't beta it; I just couldn't wait to get it up at last.

At a smashing 22,385 words, it's easily the longest yet. Consider it a small token for taking so long to update, though I don't believe it's the best I've written. I'll let you decide.

The chapter will be up @LJ sometime this weekend; I have yet to post the other chapters to the community dnd_fics, so for a few days, it'll just be up at ff.net.

~A very accomplished DND

Gakked from ignescent

( Meme )

Yesh, I have decided to follow trends and start an LJ community for mine fan fiction and the such like, aptly named dnd_fics. Didn't rack my brains for that one.

The link for it is over there *points* and I sincerely hope it shall soon host all fan fiction I've written over the years. Still in the works, though, I have yet to post on it and everything... Oh well.

What I do to keep from updating Time of the Turning.

On a brighter note, I have been working on it. Feverishly so, and not just because I have succumbed to the flu of doom. Runny nose= the muse is on call again. Or something of the sort.

In all honesty, I do hope to be able to provide a new chapter soon, and it'll be nice and long to make up for the lengthy absence from the fandom.

Had to share.

ETA: HAPPY V-DAY to all of you out there! *sapsapsap and hugs all around*

I've finished reading Time of the Turning-- had to remind self where I left off and all that-- and couldn't help but notice the last update date was... 5-22-06. That's...May, right? Almost two years ago?

All I have to say to that is EEEP!

Didn't feel that long. I now feel properly ashamed. And ANCIENT.

And chapter 19 is over half written, whatever did get me to abandon it, I wonder? Aside from chronic writer's block. Hum.

Good news is, I'm writing on it. Now. If only to finish that fic at long last, because it's giving me nightmares. Creepy ones.

Wherein the Time characters were complaining about not having anything new to do and conspiring to do me in and then proceeding to chase a DND around some obscure haunted manor, the little rotten bastards. All I can say about that dream is that I thought the location would have been killer for a horror short, which I have, conversely, managed to write a first draft for before breakfast.

Wish that house were real. Glad the Time characters aren't, though.

Shall have my revenge either way.

Yes, I do still be alive.

After such a long absence from LJ and things, it feels odd but good to be back. I'd share what all has happened in the past Merlin-knows-how-many months, but I'd still be at this post in a week, end up discarding it, and that would unduly delay mine return to this here site.

Belated happy birthdays to y'all, happy Xmas and a merry new year.

At least I'm in time for the Chinese new year, so happy that one too.

~DND