Alright at the moment, been hit with a ton of coursework and working up to the end of year exams that will appear after Easter, but getting through most of it reasonably comfortably. I'm currently reading The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham, it's a good book once you get past the first chapter or two which dump you into the world with little information. Also working on my original piece of fiction, which I've now decided to split into fourteen short stories of around 5-6k each ending with a 10-15k longer story before going back to do the prequel. Going around revamping a couple of the characters and renaming a couple more so that their alias actually have something to do with their super power like the rest of the main cast. And reworking the second pair of Agents I'll be using, so hopefully I'll have their profiles ready soon (not that I'm going to use them for a while though).
Madly happy after the weekend cos Chelsea smashed Arsenal 6-0 in football, practically securing our place at the top of the Premiership.

That's about it, to be fair.

Storme Hawk

Not to great at the moment. Thats why I haven't been on much. My mom and dad just sat my siblings and I down, and my dad told us that he's been addicted to painkillers for five years now, and it came as a huge shock. He's getting help, but I'm feeling betrayed, and a little lost. He's been lying to us, and it's not a good feeling. I love him, and just want to help, but I don't know how.He's never let his addiciton affect us, which is why we never guessed. He's the best father anyone could ask for, and thats why this is so hard. But writing is helping a lot, as usual, so thats nice. I'm actully looking for a new novel, so if anyone has any suggestions, please tell me:)
PS-Sorry fro any typos, I'm using a phone keyboard
PPS-Sorry for the emotional rant. I hate to dump my problems on y'all, I just haven;t been able to talk to anyone.

Well, I am moping about how Spring Break is almost over, reading Buso Renkin and Fullmetal Alchemist, and trying to wrap my head around how to write my first Interlude and Mission. Any ideas?

On another note entirely, I have no idea whatsoever what 'The Disappearance of Ember Crow' is. Is it good?

I'm on spring break right now and so far have had a friend spend the last two days at my house. Activities included climbing a fallen tree that extended over a creek and nearly falling in, exploring a drainage tunnel under the neighborhood lake, shooting trees with slingshots, and wrecking stuff and getting wrecked in Monopoly.

And then the same friend will be coming over Thursday, and then Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be spent at Louisville Wizard World Con! And I'm gonna get to meet Matt Smith! *squeal*

Also I've been working on both the next mission with World-Jumper and a Harry Potter fanfic that I've had to take a break from because I was starting to freak myself out.

As a freshman in high school, I still have the liberty to procrastinate on my homework, so I do. Meanwhile, I'm reading The Elenium (Sparhawk, killing people is not always the best course of action. Listen to Sephrenia.) and working on a Welcome to Night Vale/Dresden Files crossover fic, the writing of which is far too much fun.

-Aila

I've been flip flopping between reading different things, including the PPC TOS.

I've been slowly building up my characters for the PPC.

Just finished reading The Pendragon Adventure, (it took me forever to track down books 9 and 10) read Judgement at Proteus, the last of Timothy Zahn's Quadrail series, during January, I'm re-reading Mort (It's a discworld book,) and I'm attempting to watch all of Code Lyoko in order.

I'm writing a detective novel - well, mostly pulling it up in word and looking at it, but this week that's going to change because I'm on spring break.

Other than that, I just do school stuff, like thesis draft corrections, homework, etc. And I've got to start applying for jobs, because I graduate college in May. 0.0

The past couple of weeks have been dull and stressful at the same time, due to ongoing problems with the plumbing. Most of my spare time has been spent hanging around for the plumber! Luckily it nearly all seems to be almost sorted by now.

I've just started reading Jack Vance's Lyonesse books (still on the first one) and am also forcing myself to read a few badfics to be prepared in case I ever decide to ask for permission.

IRL, I'm job hunting, so, y'know, that's fun. On the writing side of things, I just finished a ~25K story for the Gabriel Big Bang over on LJ, and am now just awaiting the artwork that goes with it. Also, I'm vaguely working on an original story (it's still in the planning stages) set in an urban fantasy universe where magical beings and creatures live side-by-side with humans. I think it's going to focus on a centaur living in the big city, but I'm still working out the ideas/world-building for that.

IRL, I've had a stressful week at the army due to a variety of reasons. Having been sick for the whole prior week, I had to get back into the loop; I had to do so while doing double shifts because my partner was sick, and had to start moving things that ground to a halt while I wasn't there. It was also my grandfather's Yahrzeit yesterday.

As to reading, I'm reading a book by John le Carré as well as a book about military theory in the 20th century.
Writing-wise, my latest mission is in the beta-ing stage.

I'm in the soul-sucking period of my life known as the Job Search. 'Nuff said.

In other news, I recently published another two chapters of my Pokemon/Bakugan crossover on FFN, and my beta should be starting to look at the next chapter sometime soon.

I'm also betaing a fic for another Boarder, and I'd better get it back to her sometime soon.

College, mostly. I have two exams coming up next week--Japanese 1202 and US History--so I need to study for those. (And yet I sit here typing. Fail.)

I just finished Terrier by Tamora Pierce and am rereading The Two Towers. (I borrowed the books from my grandma a few months ago. Gotta make sure I catch everything before I give them back.)

Tell me about The Disappearance of Ember Crow, it sounds really cool. :)

In RL I have tons of kid drama. My oldest just turned 14, but my 12 year old is the one that gives me all the teenage nonsense. Then I've also got a 5 year old who has some special health concerns that aren't that serious, but keep us at doctor's offices and therapists, and requires daily medication (I really suck at at keeping schedules, so that's difficult for me.)

But, things have settled down the last six weeks or so, so overall I am doing pretty good in RL.

I'm planning on trying yet again to grow a bit of a garden this year. I can kill mums, and have failed at the garden thing...four...maybe five years running, so not entirely promising, but I haven't given it up yet! Someday I'll harvest something!

PPC-wise, I am working with Caddy to get some things finished. Between co-writes and individual things, there are eight PPC interludes or missions in varying states of completion in my Gdocs files.

Otherwise, I recently finished a 39k fanfic for Haven, and I am working on another, smaller fic for it.

I am also working on an original fiction novel that involves refugee faeries, human (faery) trafficking, a malfunctioning medieval spell, a Beauty and the Beast type plot, and true love saving the day. And it's set in the extremely likely (sarcasm) location of modern day Arkansas (obviously with magical elements added to it). I should stop now. I'm still in that excited stage where I could ramble on and on about it. :P

For reading, other than National Geographic and Game Informer magazines, and fanfic, I am reading a series of books "The New Church's Teaching Series" about Episcopalian beliefs and practices.

IRL, I'm starting to wind out my Master's degree, so there's that. And lemme tell you, that's a lot of work, especially when it comes to organizing a graduate recital.

As for writing, I've got a lot going on. I have a PPC mission in the works (it'll likely be the first Hunger Games mission to see the light of day here), I've got the snarkings in the Library of the Damned, and then I recently started a fic that's meant to be a deconstruction of a particular subgenre of ME fanfiction that has somehow gotten to spawn a rewrite of a fanfic of a plagiarism of a fanfic. (Loooooooooong story.)

I'm almost done with my current mission. I'm hoping to have it ready for beta reading before I have to go into high gear for a local gaming convention; I'm running several games, including one demo for a RPG setting that won't be hitting the stores until August. The author customized the magic system a bit, so I want to be certain I have clear "cheat sheets" available for the players.

Tearing apart my Shinrone gown and trying to get it to fit better has been put on the back burner. A group of us are talking about a trip to the KC RenFest this fall, and I'd like to go in costume. But there's plenty of time for that, since the faire doesn't start until Labor Day.

I've got several books in progress. I was reading "Rum Across The Border" (a history book on the Prohibition era) at breakfast this morning. I've also recently gotten hooked on the Ciaphas Cain novels for the Warhammer 40K setting, and picked up four of them in e-format to read at work.

I'm focusing on finishing all the mini pages on the wiki. I'm also trying to get through certain sections of the older Pokémon games to get some of the Pokémon that require trades, since they're shutting down the online trade services for the older ones on May 20.

After that's settled, I'll get back to saving hard copies of every scrap of PPC writing I can find. I've been working on this for over a year now (what with my off time being what it is). I've pretty much put my own mission writing on the back burner until everything else is backed up, although I do have one already-finished mission I'll be releasing once I reach the Es in the mini project.

For reading right now, I have two books going during work shifts, depending on whether I need a book that fits in my lunch box or not. For when I need it inside, I bring The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop by Edmund Morgan. (It's non-fiction, but hey, it was free.) For days I can have the book sitting out, I'm reading The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King.

I've got three projects on at the minute.

1) My second PPC mission, concerning Luna's murder by a hack for ZOMGDRAMA

2) An actual fic; more specifically, an attempt to write a Rational!slashfic for a fandom I'm barely part of. It's a birthday present, and I'm perennially skint. As an aside, is anyone here familiar with Attack On Titan?

3) A column for my local magazine about a spoof art critic. I've actually considered having an art historian character in the PPC as part of the support staff. It'd be interesting to see a small man with too-clean shoes running an art gallery in some of the disused RCs.