plot bunnies

Starting tomorrow, with the start of my summer classes coinciding notwithstanding,I will start reading Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them? A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman with the Dalai Lama.

I'll keep a journal, too, as I read.  It's quite a hefty material.

Finally making progress again.  Eurgh.  Got me a little worried when I thought I was going nowhere w/ this idea again.

Soundtrack for this fic:

"The Scientist" by Coldplay
"Hoppipolla" by Wenzel Templeton and Robert Pegg for the movie, Penelope

I don't think it's disheartening to read the excellent fanfic written about Heero and Relena.  It's just that I don't know where to place myself when I'm writing them.  The amount of detail and thought that those writers put into their stories... do they actually write notes?  What about outlines?  Do they also seek outside sources to keep their plots so tight?  How many times did they really watch the series?  Perhaps I should acquire the boxset of Gundam Wing myself... It's always been my intention, and it's not the desire that's lacking: it's the money to buy it.  It always is.

Somehow, I feel like even writing 'romance' seems frivolous if it meant disregarding the Preventers, UESA...

I don't know what I'm really saying, actually.  I just know that it's a little confusing where to place myself when I write them.  I'd like to be able to say that whatever I write and the ones that I do put out there, I want to be happy w/ it and I want readers to be happy with it while taking into account that there's no pleasing everyone.

I got this account from a Twitter post with the hashtag "#dreamwidth" so thank you, random Twitter user, for sharing the invite code indiscriminately.  I'm not as generous as I should be, but I will share my invites w/ those who want them.

I finished reading Kodomo no Omocha and my, it brought back awesome memories.  It got a little ridiculous towards the first 4 chapters of the last volume, so I skipped over that.  But overall it's still one of my most favorite series.

I started writing fic for it too, but I'm taking a break.  I don't want it to sound too contrived.  The plot bunnies came hopping, so I had to indulge them.