Prattlings of a Pelican

Okay. I finished Chapter 3 last night. It's called "Caught in the Rain", and I think it's pretty decent at this point.

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It's so funny to be making him do normal Muggle things, y'know? I'm really enjoying writing this story. I probably would've written chapter four right after this, but my mother dragged me college shopping. Ah, well. It happens.

So, anyway, this'll go up in about a week. I just hope that the story gets more review by then. I'm actually feeling a tad discouraged, but I'm going to keep writing. For now, I'm going to go work on my Narcissa/Remus one-shots to get those out of the way. I'd really like to mostly finish Independence by the time I get to college, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen right now.

*pounds head on keyboard a little*

I'm losing motivation. I have way too many challenges and things that I need to write, so I need to prioritize.

1. Write Ch. 3 of Independence.
2. Write both my "Flower Challenge" (Narcissa/Remus) one-shots. (Included in this is my "Mysterious Letter" challenge)
3. Complete Ch. 4 of Independence
4. Actually think of an idea/write my Random Musical challenge. ("Mamma Mia" So far, no thoughts whatsoever. I'm not even entirely sure of the song I want to pick. Any suggestions?)
5. Complete Ch. 5 of Independence.
6. The Percy in the Netherlands story for my "Exploring beyond the Borders" challenge
7. Complete Ch. 6 of Independence.
8. Maybe actually finishing revising Ch. 5, 6, and 7 of Into the Fire
9. When that doesn't work out: Complete Ch. 7 (and hopefully the last) of Independence
10. Write my "Funny Quote Challenge" story. ("Chaos, panic & disorder.... my work here is done." I'm thinking either Fred/George or Sirius would say that.)
11. If, for some sad pathetic reason, Independence is NOT finished, I will finish it here.
12. Do my Thaddeus Thurkell fic for "Famous Witches and Wizards" Challenge
13. "Reinventing a cliche" challenge. (Lily being an animagus)
14. Disney song challenge. (Not given one yet.)
15. Shakespeare Challenge ("Midsummer's")

Then maybe I'll work on Darkness Consumes Me.

Oooh, FML. And my author page full of just one-shots.

Now it would be cool to find inspiration.

So...I haven't posted to this journal in over a year, but I have not been absent from the fanfiction community. In fact, I've probably gotten more active. I've written 37 stories at this point (which I will list in my user information). I'm now permanently at harrypotterfanfiction.com under the name "Pretty Purple Pelican". I was a validator at the site for a couple of months before I got terribly overwhelmed. I'm now a Prefect at the Forums, where I try to help out as much as I can.

And that's what I've been up to :)

Because I am horribly horribly bored. I'm going to do something I probably shouldn't.

Yes, that's right.

I'm going to post Chapter 1.

Which is horribly stupid of me, seeing that I'll be leaving for camp in *counts on fingers*...6 days, until the end of the month, so you'll all be suffering horribly.

Oh, well.

You'll live :-)

Here I go!

*is proud* Finished chapter 14 last night. I've only got two nights left to write though. I'll try to finish it in my notebook so that'll I'll be able to type it when I finally get home.

Have to go!

So...I should definetly be working on my fanfiction right now. But I'm far too lazy. I didn't get a chance to take a nap today and I was up until 6 in the morning last night, watching movies and hanging out with my friend.

Oh well...I'll get some in tonight. Promise. I have my notebook right here-

By Chapter 12 it is 20, 689 words

So it's going to be a long fic.

Should I give you a preview?

I've random parts written, because I haven't been in school, so there was no need to write it in my notebook. But I'll see what I have...Meh...I'm too mean. I want to hoard it away at the moment :-D

So you people really better love me.

I had my friend over last night and we were mostly just being lazy and watching tv and I TYPED. So I know have Chapter 13 written. And it's only 900 something words. But 12 is like 2,000 something. I know I'm over 20,000 words all together. It's not going to be finished by the time I go up north, I can tell you all that now. But I'll try to get as much as possible and I might even be able to work on it up there because my mom was thinking of setting up our old computer. Which is awesome because it has a floppy disk drive. Meaning I could actually upload. I really want to see people's reactions to it
:-)

Finished chapter 12 last night.

Chapter 12 was supposed to be the first part of chapter 11 and 13 (not written yet) was supposed to be the second...so obviously it's going to be longer than I thought.

I'm thinking it's about half done though.

SO

I think I'm going to upload the first 12 chapters tonight and possibly start posting. It won't be how I usually do it (with a chapter a day), but who knows. Maybe it'll get more readers if they have to wait :-\

I just really miss reviews :-)

Got about half of chapter 11 done last night.

It looks like it's going to be a few chapters longer than I thought.

I originally had it planned to have 20. But there's already two parts that were supposed to be one chapter and i think they're going to end up being 3 parts...

So about 23 chapters.

Maybe.

*is excited*

Oh by the way, I'm going to have more writing time because my *lovely* parents aren't dragging me up north until a week from monday...it was originally going to be Wednesday...so be thankful ;-)

Didn't have time to write last night. I was helping my grandmother move.

Deleted "The Music Man, Jr."

Plans:

Finish TLAL
Write a few more stories
Fix up ASDOB and finish it


Questions:

1. Should I change my penname? It doesn't really fit with my writing anymore.

2. Should I delete The Not So Innocent Pippin? I really think it's a piece of crap. I don't want it up there. I'm just giving you all a head's up.

Am starting a new fanfic community. So check it out :-) it's called share_my_toilet

I'm going to fine tune it today

I didn't write at all last night...

Sorry

I tried, but I kept getting distracted...

Basically it's half done...I think...

I'm going to have to go back and put in some subtle stuff about Remus's transformations though...so I don't have people yelling at me about not having it...

Didn't get any writing done last night. *sheepish grin*

Oh well, I'll get a fresh, clear mind for it tonight.

After I take a nap, that is.

*is majorly tired*

Wow...this honestly has to be the worst case of Writer's Block I've EVER had...honestly...I just gave up writing last night because I couldn't get it to work...I know exactly what I want to happen...but I don't know how to do it without making it seem fake...still figuring it out...I may have gotten it...not sure...arghhhh...I'll have to rewrite this one several times before I get it right, too...*bangs head on keyboard*...I leave for up north in 9 days...and after that I'm not gonna have alot of time to write...so I want to get a majority of this done...so if I write a chapter a night until we go...I'll only have one chapter left...but then I'll have the ones I want to go back over...especially chapter 10...and I think I'm going to have minimouse read those chapters beforehand and tell me what she thinks...I'm just worried about Sirius's character in chapter 9...because he HAS changed alot...but he's still Sirius...and basically the whole situation...I suppose it depends on the person...but I don't know...I'll have her read it and tell me...although she's not going to be happy with the fact that I'm spoiling it for her...too bad...I want to get this right...arghhhhhh...

Alright...here's today's update:

I've written Chapter 9

And I hate it.

Basically I think I'm going to go back over chapters 6, 8, and 9 and edit majorly

Next few chapters will be good though...I hope...

To go with the title, there's going to be the actual chapters "Truth" "Love" "Lies"

This story DEFINETLY isn't as light-hearted as BUTM...Voldemort's power is rising and lots of people are dying...

Alright

There are now 8 chapters

And 12,193 words

Am having problems with chapter 9

I know what I want to happen, I just seem to be having trouble writing it.

Argh

I'll get it in the end though :-\

I'm going to write a few other stories before I write the third one in the Marauders.

The first is going to be called "A Casual Comment"

I think...may change that later...I've got a chapter written already from about the middle of the story...it just came to me one day when I was supposed to be working on Truth, Love, and Lies and wouldn't leave me alone

A Casual Comment- Ron/Hermione

Darkness Consumes Me- MWPP Fic

Once It's Gone- Viktor/Hermione and Ron/Hermione- this will be my first time writing with Krum

That's all I care to tell now ;-)

But there are going to be 5 fics before I write the third Marauder, including the sequel to "There Goes My Life"

Fun times

I better get my ass moving

Oh and by the way...most of these fics have had their ideas built from what happened in the OotP...so even if HBP totally contradicts them...I'm writing them anyway...I've got too many ideas that need to be written :-)

Just started chapter 8...hope to finish that and start chapter 9 tonight

It's going pretty well...I can see the plot really coming together...and stuff I didn't even plan to have is somehow getting in there...in the good way though...'

Quite a bit of fluff in here

I'm excited :-)

Miss reviews though :-(

Alright, so I finished chapter 6 last night...it wasn't the greatest chapter...but I think it turned out alright...chapter 5 is my favorite so far

There are about 9,000 words so far :-)

So...

Major writing will start tonight

Unless I spend the night at my friend's house

Then it will be tomorrow

I hope to finish it by the end of the summer

Chapter 6 was being a bitch, but it's going better now

I miss reviews :'(

Alright...So I finished chapter 5 last night...so far there are about 7,000 words

It's going good.

I should be downstairs typing since it's my big TV night

Whose Line? MadTV and SNL

I've already missed Whose Line? and the beginning of MadTV but oh well...

Argh...I have finals on Monday and Tuesday so there will be no writing then...

So two nights ago...

I was trying get to sleep and imagine the next scene for TLAL (I'm almost done with Chapter 4)

But this scene kept playing on in my mind...and so I had to write it...or else it was going to float there and distract me

So basically I've got a scene for the fic I write after TLAL which will be called "A Casual Comment" or something like that...it'll be fun stuff...but I've got to finish TLAL first...

Don't worry

I'm working on it :-)