Really have got to start updating this thing more often. Don't know what my problem is. It's not that I don't have ideas for entries; it's just that when I get online, I tend to focus on reading Sims stories and I just...forget, I guess.
Anyway, what's new in the life of Yume? Well, nothing much, honestly. Things are still progressing well with
To Be By Your Side, although I have gotten to my first little "bump", so to speak. It's nothing major; it's just that I'm now at the ceremony scene, and I'm not exactly sure how I want to write it. :( I'm tempted just to skip ahead and write some of the future scenes, but I'm trying really hard not to do that this time around, even if it's a one-shot and doesn't really matter since I can't post it until it's finished anyway. (I admit I did do a little screenwriting for a future scene, but I consider that planning ahead, not actually skipping ahead. :P) Oh, well. I need to finish up my
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sm_monthly entries anyway. It doesn't look like I'll make my goal of five before the contest deadline -- unless I continue to have problems with TBBYS -- but I'm almost finished with the third one I was writing when I got hit over the head with the TBBYS plot bunny, so that's good enough. If I finish that one today, I'll probably post them all sometime this weekend.
In other fic news, guess who randomly got a plot bunny for a Zoisite/Mercury fic last night? Yeah, that would be me -- surprisingly. O.o I mean, as a general rule, I'm not a huge fan of sen/gen. I do love me some Kunzite/Venus, and I like Jadeite/Mars well enough, but I don't think Nephrite/Jupiter go together at all and I was always kind of...ambivalent about Zoisite/Mercury. But, you know, they
could be a rather interesting couple if Zoisite wasn't simply portrayed as a male version of Mercury (like he is in most of the, admittedly few, fics I've read about the couple) and acted truer to his anime persona -- only, you know, on the good side, and straight (or bisexual, which I'll probably end up going with If I ever decide to actually write this thing). True, that would make it more difficult for them to get together, since I can't see Mercury being intially attracted to somebody with such a personality, but that's what would make it fun to write! Opposites attract, and all that jazz.
You know, I better stop talking about this, or I'm really going to want to write it. *laughs* I need to finish TBBYS, after all, and
Melting Ice is still in the wings, waitng for me to finally get back to it.
To wrap up this entry, how about an except from
To Be By Your Side?
( To Be By Your Side )(Ugh, the RTE is being such a pain today! It wouldn't let me copy and paste this except, so I had to go digging around to find how to do a cut in HTML. I hope this isn't going to be a permanent thing, otherwise it's going to be a pain posting fics in my fic journal.)
EDIT: Hmm, looks like there's going to be another round of
sm_fanswap coming up. I can't decide if I want to participate or not. It was fun participating last time, but I really should be working on my other WIPs, and I'm not sure I'm sold on the whole "quotes" thing that was added. I liked the relative freedom of the last one. Then again, maybe I'll get lucky and my recipient will be a Zoisite/Mercury fan and I can write my story idea without feeling (too) guilty about ignoring my other stories... Heh, that's probably a long-shot anyway. Well, I have time to think it over, so think it over, I shall do.
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