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*shoots couple with Arrows of Doom Love*

*throws more urple confetti*

Congrats and commiserations and stuff like that. ^_^

...Again, I know, but still. *throws confetti*

Yup, that's right.

Plat and Cassie are an item, and thrilled to bits about it!

Hugs for everyone!

I'm in Wisconsin, and my car status is uncertain for any given part of the year, though it is becoming more likely. I do bemoan the condition of the public transportation quite often.

"Maglor's" phrases would not compute for anyone in Arda. Unless this is Very Secret Diaries version 2.0, you have a CR.

I turn away from the computer, stare around at my room for a bit, then look back at the screen and the cursed little blinky thingy. Then I get up and have a string cheese Because I Do. And then usually staring around various rooms in my house helps, I dunno why. Although, thing is, I haven't had a chance to be in your situation, 'cos the worst writer's block I got was for some random crap story for English class that wasn't even worth much anyway. Um. Yeah.

*being completely unhelpful*

...or, rather, New York City. The real Big Wahoonie.

Anyway. Uh. My parents would freak out, I think, so yeah. And going to anywhere out of state is totally out of the question because they're all RAH GAS MILEAGE MY AGE MAKES ME DIFFICULT and stuff. xD

I will happily keep giving you fics to keep Lir and Lia busy with. Motivation is everything! And something needs to be done about those Sues!

How far does a canon have to be OOC before it counts as a totally different character?

I'm currently killing a Silmarillion Suefic in which a very unElven Sue goes after Maglor Fëanorion. In it, Maglor says such phrases as "They’re these three jewels that contain the light of the Two Trees or something like that. I don’t really care about them— I mean, they’re okay and all, but they’re just jewels...", "...Celegorm’s dog Huan keeps drinking out of the loo and it’s really annoying. That dog drives me nuts...", and, my favorite, "Sheesh, dude, calm down."

He also has a somewhat... unMaglory description: This guy was absolutely gorgeous. He had pale skin, fine, elegant features, and brilliant amber eyes that seemed to glow in the dim forest light. Oh, and he had amazing hair. I’d thought at first that it was plain dark brown, but on closer look it had some reddish highlights and nearly reached his waist. All in all, he was WAY hot.

He doesn't talk like the Eldar, he doesn't look like a Noldo, and he doesn't act like a Fëanorian- and the rest of his family's not much better. The way the Silm's written, though, characters are very open to interpretation. It never says he doesn't have amber eyes, and it never says his father doesn't look down on him, and it never says he doesn't use phrases like "Peace out". Still, judging by what we do know of him and his family, all these things are highly unlikely. How far does it go before I call character replacement and dispose of him, or will an exorcism/killing the Sue cover it? (I'd be recruiting if it's not the real Maglor, as I'm already taking his horse.)

Good luck! And I want to see how you deal with them in the end. Those damn Sues. Give'em hell for me!

Helen of Pylos

Gore, dark, humour, & 'warm and fluffy feeling'... nope, I can't make sense of it. Bleh.

I've noticed that the most likely location for an American Gathering would be up in New England; I know for sure that there are several PPCers who are or will be centered around Boston.

I myself am in West Texas. D:

Uni essays, for example, tend to be a case of "just write SOMETHING" and, indeed, a deadline tends to motivate me, but depending on what class it's for, sometimes I have the entire thing done weeks in advance; if I enjoy the subject. (Amusingly, I wrote an essay for English a few weeks ago that I didn't like, only to have my tutor ask if they could have a copy to use as an example of an A quality essay!)

My current personal battle with Writer's Block isn't academic at all, though - I'm stuck on a scene for my Stardust fanfic. I've been stuck on this scene for about two months. If I could, I would go and work on a later scene - and I'm sorely tempted to try anyway - but my usual writing style is a very steady flow from one scene to the next, and writing out of order can completely ruin that. So I avoid it, if I can.

And yes, there's a deadline for this, too - of sorts. It's self-imposed and Guilt (which also deserves its capital) is constantly tormenting me; when I first started writing, I updated every second week or so. Now it's been months. I don't ever want to be one of those authors who just fizzles out and is never heard from, but it's so HARD. *sniffle*

Sorry, I ramble. For you, Crystal, I think what the others have said before me will help as much as anything I can say; a good outline helps a great deal, and personally, if I don't know what to write I just start, randomly, anywhere, and write and write and let it start flowing. Usually I get to some sort of sensible result which can then be edited and reshaped into the outline.

Also, as you've said, this is a draft. Don't panic too much; it's not your final version.

I'm in Philadelphia until the end of July, when I will return home to Michigan.

If anybody knows a good way to get from Philadelphia to wherever a bunch of people can meet, I'm all for it. Alternatively, people more familiar with the area could come here. There's a lot of stuff to do around here, and I've not even scratched the surface yet.

Chicago is a pretty good meeting place for anyone whose state shares a border with Lake Michigan.

~Neshomeh

Agent Supernumerary looked Savitri and Leo up one way and down the other and raised an eyebrow. "Did you two actually polish your CADs? And I thought my partner was bad. Oh well. Welcome to the DIC, newbies."

... Yeah, Permission granted. {= ) Just a couple of things to keep in mind, though: First, it's Implausible Crossovers. The Department of Improbabilities is something different.

Second, don't try too hard. A couple of places in your sample are a little wordy, like "innumerable amounts of loving friends." Just "innumerable loving friends" would do, and it would save you from misusing the word "amount" with something that requires the word "number." Remember, you measure amounts and count numbers.

Another example of wordiness is "For much of my childhood, I saw this as inspiring as each year coincided by fireworks illuminating my passing age." I'm actually not sure what you're going for here, but I'll make a guess: "The celebration and fireworks coinciding with my birthday inspired me during much of my childhood." Sometimes, "poetic" language has to be abandoned in favor of language that gets the point across.

Anyway, I second the cheer for more people working crossovers. We are writing for a terribly under-represented department. Are there any particular continua you're interested in?

~Neshomeh

Don't know if I'd be able to make it, though. I vote for Washington DC, just because it's close by it has a lot of museums/touristy stuff/things to laugh at.

Or "sister." Or "mysterious."

But elsewhere is fine.

As for when...I'm free most of July and August.

my parents probably won't allow me to go if it is far away, AKA outside of the Chicago area. *sigh* I would love to go though.

~Zoe~

Ryoga and Ukyo have both been turned into succubi and are girlfriends.

But if you'd like to take on a Tamora Pierce fanfic, there's at least one per page in the Pit. I think I can handle this alone-- the characters don't seem -too- badly banged up, though Alan might need exorcism towards the end, and the minis might get out of control.

Seriously, though? The quickest sure-fire way to find a Sue in most well-known fandoms is to search the Pit with a keyword like Crystal, or Starfire, or Fate, or something like that. You'll wind up with more than you can even begin to sort through, if that's what you're looking for.

Um, I'm not sure if I got my agent approved yet. Just in case, here she is.

Name: Eni Andrews
Age: 15-ish
Department: Video games, particularly the Dynasty/Samurai/Orochi Warriors series.
Physical description: Eni's about 5'10", with short brown hair that she dyed purple. She has hazel eyes. She wears a lot of bracelets and rings, and she likes girly clothes but rarely wears them.
Personality: She's rather shy, and doesn't get on well with other people. She joined the PPC a fair deal of time ago, and totally forgot about it until she was forcibly re-recruited. She's very self-conscious and insecure whenever she has to actually communicate. Eni is rarely seen without her precious books (namely a heavily highlighted and slightly tattered copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War , which she reads for stress relief.)
Writing samples are on my (rarely used) LJ http://violet-secret.livejournal.com/.

...I found the best way to get past writers block was to write out first the rough outline of the thesis, i.e. all the chapter headings. Then under each chapter heading I wrote out the subheadings, so for my Geological Setting chapter I had subheadings 'Location of Field Area', 'Geological History' 'Lithostratigaphy' etc. Then under each subheading there may have been yet another set of subheadings, and then finally I wrote out bullet points of what needed to be said in each section. Then even if it wasn't in prose yet, I had down exactly what needed to be in each place. And often looking at the list of bullet points brought up some inspiration.