Post-NaNo Update: A Few Notes

A few people have expressed interest in “how do you write this stuff?”

Well, first I get a pile of scrap paper….

No, seriously. I find it a lot easier to get started on an idea on scrap paper than clean sheets of paper.

Monstrous Compendium Ch7 bit – Careful

Shaman Testutora; Grandma Tiger. The weretigress who brought her people out of Sarlona alive, fleeing the Inspired.

A legend of Aincrad. Who felt within her rights to drag Kirito in by the scruff of the neck like a too-curious cub. Asuna smiled, oddly warmed.

Earring Tales: Blue and Red

I acquired a color called “Autumn Spice” and wracked my brains for quite a while to figure out a combination that would actually work with it. The inner chevron of these earrings is Autumn Spice.

Monstrous Compendium Ch7 bit – Eye

They’re staring, Asuna realized. Not at me. At Kirito.

The shaman’s door banged open. “Inside,” the elderly weretiger growled, fangs visible. “Now.”

Kabaneri Fluffbit – Tensions

A/N: Thunderstorms in off the Gulf, so I need to post something quick and pop off for a while….

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In Aragane Station… well, no one had liked to think about the Kabane swallowing them. But everyone knew it could happen. When the Fusojou had breached the wall, Aragane’s survivors had followed the wisdom hard-earned from the rescued souls

Monstrous Compendium Ch7 bit – Curses

So far, Kirito hadn’t stumbled across any way to derail Kayaba’s plan. It was possible there wasn’t a way; not from inside the game Kayaba himself had designed.

But that wouldn’t be fair. And outside of messes like Pollista, SAO is fair.

Post-NaNo Update: Verses and Headaches

So far tonight on Seeds of Blood I’ve moved one fragmentary scene into another where it made more sense time and plan-wise. (The characters making the plans, not me. What, do I look like I had this all planned?)