My own place

This summer I'm subletting an apartment, and I just realized it's the first time I'm living completely on my own. I lived at home, then a dorm, in a few apartments with roommates, but now just a single little studio all to myself.

Today was a long day at work (9am-6:30pm) but it was a heavy newsday in the sports world, so what can I do? I love my job, but that's also why I love having a place of my own I can come back to that's completely quiet, completely mine.

I popped in Gladiator, made some rice, and bam! That's my reward for a good day of work. At least I know I'm doing something productive with my time so that I can actually savor the moments of freedom and relaxation when they come :)

On that note... "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

deviantART

So, I was working on getting Principatus up on deviantART, and sense I've only been a causal account-less browser there in the past, I had to register first... too bad that was easy part.

At one point I thought I had the story posted, but the text wasn't appearing. While they say PDF's are fine, that's a lie. Even TXT files were wreaking havoc on all my apostraphes and commas. I finally settled on doing it the old fashioned way by manually entering in the text. As I occasionally use italics, however, I had to manually to go trough and inset HTML... and I can't even tell you what HTML stands for.

Oh in the span of five minutes my story-less story was visible to the public, five people commented on it to tell me the text wasn't there... no shit.

Nevertheless, its up there now. So if you're stopping by and want to check out me barren, art-less deviantART page here's the link. Besides posting my story there, I'm working on some sketches that will find there homes on deviantART.

I does look like a pretty good resource and I have some friends that swear by deviantART... well, as an art major it was only a matter of time. Now I actually need to put well... art... up there.  

Chapter III Updates

Whew! Chapter III of Principatus put up a pretty brutal fight with me in terms of "getting it right." I tried messing with the POV, rearranging actions, sprinkling some magic voo-doo dust over my key board but nothing seemed to give the chapter the right "feel."

Needless to say, I finally broke through the glass ceiling (With a lot of help from my Beta reader Nendil) and Chapter III finally came together. It should be up on fanfiction.net, Zelda Universe, and Live Journal soon!

Also, I am working on some sketches and a banner, including ones of Aran and Taren, which I will post here upon completion. Stay tuned!

After getting hit by a car today...

So after I got backed into by a car on my biscyle today and immediatly sent home from work... I registered at zeldauniverse.net as another means of distributing Principatus. Looks like a cool place so I'll probably be hanging out there "theoretically" from time to time.

Here's the link if you feel like checking Principatus out at Zelda Universe.

Since I'm new to fan fiction writing I was wondering if anyone has tips for me in terms of increasing circulation and garnering reviews. I'm not really keen when it comes to marketing so for those who have been there done that, a little enlightenment would be nice :)

Black Wedding Dress Inspiration

The black wedding dress from Chapter I was inspired by this dress at medievalcollectibles.com. I think its the absolute antithesis something Zelda would wear if she had the choice, which is kind of what I was going for...

The train is longer in the dress in Principatus. There's also lace in the story where the giant flower-thing is on the dress in the picture.

Just like to provide visuals where I can

Blogging at 2am and Principatus Updates

Finally got around to creating a blog (at two o'clock in the morning). I'm not sure how many people will actually read this but if you do happen to stumble here... cool, leave a comment. Or better yet, read Principatus and comment on that. It's the real reason I created this blog anyway.

Here I will occasionally publish some notes and research I've conducted in drafting Principatus as well as the occasional sketch or two. Basically anything I have, or you have to offer, that I believe will aid the reading process will be posted on the blog.  

As far as progress on the story goes, chapters one and two are now up on fanfiction.net. Also, I'm over half way through with chapter three (The one where Link and Zelda finally reunite), so be on the lookout for that by the end of next week-ish.

Scarlett