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The Eagle and the Wren – Chapter 1

ROAD TO DAMASCUS
The road stretched on in front of the merchant caravan; to Jehane, unused to such travel, it felt endless, bordered left and right by lifeless desert, seemingly the same stretch of land for miles and miles. There was, at that time, plenty of opportunity for Jehane to regret, and remember. Although the trip [...]

On Silver Wings – chapter 7 draft

AWAKENING
“Get your ass down to the labs, Reeve. Sephiroth’s awake and I could really use some help here.”
“He’s what?!”
“Awake, Reeve. We have a bit of a situation here — nothing serious, but it’s chaotic enough without having aides running around with broken noses. I need someone to handle this guy, because honestly, I can’t.”
“We’ll be [...]

Writing Showdown: Storyist VS Storymill VS Scrivener

With the rising popularity of the Mac OS platform, a number of small developers and software companies have found niche markets for themselves; the Getting Things Done crowd, the Tweaking freaks, the App Launchers; all have their own list of best-of software titles and nifty little apps. There are so many choices now to replace [...]

On Silver Wings – Chapter 6

TROUBLED PAST
Cloud had kept a close eye on Tifa as he’d explained about his own motivation for bringing Sephiroth back and had seen a look of guilt flash on her face as he’d mentioned the labs. He knew she had a hard time trying to forget Hojo had ever had his hands on him, and [...]

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Top Content by Title Rape Time!

Just a short blurb to inform you all that, for some reason, the top visited page on this site is my Pyramid Head wallp post.

By far. As in, absolutely no contest. I understand that PH is made of bloody awesome, but still. Strange world.

NaNoWriMo 09 and various other things

I’m happy to report that I managed to finish NaNo on time; it was my first year actually trying, and I’m pretty pleased with what I accomplished. I’ve left my NaNo story aside for now. It was written pretty quickly, and I think it needs to ripen a bit before I go back to it. [...]

NaNoWriMo ‘09

Well, I jumped.
I’ve been thinking of trying NaNo for years and years, but have only just gotten enough courage to actually sign up. On Silver Wings has been extremely good practice for me, and although I’ve been busy as hell and updates are getting scarce, I adore it to death; it’s taught me a lot [...]

Oh, please, C&C!

To everyone who registered on the blog for On Silver Wings, feel free to post comments and criticism on any and all chapters. The -draft chapters especially, since they are chapters which haven’t yet been screened by my extremely patient and talented beta-readers.
If you have ideas, please share them; if you spot errors or weak [...]

On Silver Wings Update

Am currently waiting for my betas to finish going through chapter 5 before officially declaring it posted, here and on FF.net. I find it a little hard to really concentrate on the next one when I know that I’ll have to go back and edit through an older chapter. Bleh.
I’m thinking of posting Snippets here. [...]

On Silver Wings chapter 5 on the way

Oh my. I’m on a roll, it seems. I stay away from this for a few weeks, then WHAM, I can’t stop typing.
I’ve got a detailed plan and scene-by-scene synopsis written for the next four chapters, so I should now be a little faster on the updates.

On Silver Wings chapter 4 in the works…

If everything goes well, I should have a final draft of chapter 4 up before the weekend. Feel free to leave comments, as it’ll then be in the capable hands of my beta-readers before being eventually reviewed and posted at fanfiction.net.
I feel all productive now.