This week has thus far been dominated by three things: (1) the awesomeness of Organization XIII, (2) learning things about by characters, and (3) the fact that I can function perfectly well with only having six hours of sleep. Oh, and how I'm suddenly becoming inundated by plot bunnies, which is a result of all of the above. I've also written nearly 3,000 words in two nights. I haven't really had that kind of progress since writing "Traveler" this past summer. The current piece I'm working on isn't going to be nearly that long, though.

( things i've learned about my characters )
& now, thanks to this fanfic, I've become somewhat of an Axel/Zexion shipper, mainly 'cause they're my two favorite members of Organization XIII and the fic makes me want to ship them. It's because the fic has very tastefully done slash, which you don't see a lot of in the world of fanfiction (most of it is all U CAN HAS BUTTSECKS NAO, though maybe that's because I spend too much time over at deleterius). But in this, it took me a moment before I realized, "Oh. I think that was just a sex scene" because it doesn't go into explicit detail. & quite frankly I can do without the details.

Perrin and Julia keep being intimate in my head. I am not pleased. Get a room, kids. (Actually, they're not really kids, because they're 19-ish when they begin to get intimate-like, but whatever.)

I downloaded the opening FMV to Final Fantasy VIII (on my mum's computer because downloads go SO MUCH FASTER with her internet connection) and I have only two words: Freakin'. Epic. I think "Liberi Fatali" has a lot to do with its epicness, but still. Squall and Seifer dueling = awesome. (A side note: Seifer from FFVIII always reminds me of Draco Malfoy. I have no idea why. Actually, I can see why, what with his attitude and his appearance somewhat. That's him in my userpic for reference.)

So as it's November and NaNoWriMo I feel as if I should get some writing in. For me I think it's not going to be as much as National Novel Writing Month as National Get Perrin and Co. Off The Freakin' Island Month. Of course, once I actually get them off the island I'll probably hit a wall too because they'll be tedious things like "Look, it's Coreon!" and traveling by rail-car and such. Hopefully things will begin to pick up once they get to Arx Chalybs and we meet Antares. I've decided that Antares is somewhat of a cross between Daniel Faraday and Sephiroth, which is a really unlikely combination but it works. He's got Faraday's mad scientist bit, minus the adorkable-ness, plus Sephiroth's somewhat psychotic-ness and a habit of killing characters who don't deserve to die. Yeah. It's going to be interesting trying to portray Antares as a not-entirely-villain. Because he's a good person, really. He just has a few issues, like the inability to let go of grudges.

Well, I've got to go check the election results so far. Last time I checked things were pretty close, in that Obama was ahead for a while and then I turned away for a few seconds and McCain was then ahead. Should be interesting.
 

Yesterday afternoon I was innocently cleaning out in between my keyboard keys (don't ask) when Squall (the name of my computer--well, not its official name, because that's "allison." Yes, the name includes the period.) randomly decided to give me a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). It wasn't too tramatizing, as far as "your computer has had a random serious error" screens are, because although I had a writing file open, Word had Auto-Recovered it, and it wasn't as if I was in the middle of anything because I was cleaning between the keys. This has been the first BSOD that I've encountered in a while (though I think I've had them on this computer before). I remember my mum's old computer used to give me Blue, Maroon, and Grey Screens of Death all the time. Those were always fun.

There is dark chocolate in the house now. It is a very dangerous thing to have dark chocolate in the house because I will eat it in a very quick period of time. But it is oh-so-delicious. & it's the brand that I analyzed an ad for in English a few weeks ago (and for some reason, I haven't gotten that assignment back yet, now that I think about it). It also reminds me of a lj interests generator that I did a while ago, in which it analyzes your interests and suggests new interests for you. The first two of my suggestions? Chocolate and old books. It must have thought that I was Remus Lupin or something.

I wish I could draw, because then I would be able to do so much fun artwork with my characters. The only artwork I've done regarding my writings has been cover art for "The Power of Light," which actually wasn't half-bad because I'm somewhat decent at drawing people from behind (as long as their hands are clasped behind their back so I don't have to worry about fingers). But I wish I could draw actual scenes. And then I could have better images of my characters besides "Perrin looks kind of like Sirius in SBP except with a bit shorter hair and a more serious (no pun intended) expression" and "Julia looks kind of like Claire on season one of Lost" and then there are characters like Daria who I can picture perfectly in my head but don't really know how to describe them. So yeah. Anyone want to hire me an artist? Or give me Magic Artistical Abilities?

I have, however, given some of my major characters musical themes. These in particular happen to come from my collection of geek!music (aka pieces from Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts games). Each character has two themes at the moment. I wish I had some sort of midi-mixing program so that I could combine them to make one somewhat unique theme.