A Minor Variation

Another short piece for 30kisses. Mush advisory. No heart loves greater than the one that is able to recall a time when all he knew was shame - postgame, Squall and Rinoa discuss philosophy and Squall's wardrobe decisions.


( I've been thinking about something. )

A short piece for 30kisses - a conversation between Squall and Rinoa on the way towards Winhill and revisiting the past, set some months after the game.


( He looked, Rinoa thought, a little like the soldier from all those fairy tales that started with a poor and weary soldier making his way home from a war. )

Rediscovered "Play By Ear," an FFVIII vignette I started way back when and never finished. I have now finished it, though I'm not posting it quite yet because it's sorely in need of some refining. (Anybody want to beta?)

Nevertheless, the writing streak continues! Next up... I should do some more work on "Lion Passant" or that what-if. Or something for 30kisses. Maybe. Possibly. I have this vague notion of trying to make Laguna and General Caraway have a conversation about their respective children. Because I'm mean.

A rough first draft, mid-disc-three, because Irvine would not stop yammering in my head.


( Why was just being there for someone so damn hard to do? )

ahumblepen suggested the word, though the idea sort of mutated somewhere along the way.

( Completed! )

Okay, so this one's just a jumbled mess. At least I got it done.

( Exercise #5: Wing - 1014 words. )

The word for this wordsplat was suggested by kevasangel74.

( Exercise #3: Old - 654 words. )

A writing exercise done in preparation for National Novel Writing Month, coming this November. I intend to do a number of these between now and November 1 - just taking a single word and spinning as much I can from it, in an attempt to grease the proverbial mental gears. They'll all refer back in some fashion to my intended NaNoWriMo project for this year, which is... the same thing I did last year, since my momentum died early and most of what I wrote sucked anyhow. This is kind of cheating, but it's too appealing of an idea not to try again; I'm going to just throw out everything I wrote and start fresh. (I keep aiming lower and lower, which would make me feel ashamed except I haven't actually won NaNo yet. Picking my battles!)

(Also, I still have all my notes from last year. That's pretty neat too.)

This is also an invitation for those of you following along at home to suggests words for me to use in these exercises, if you like - the simpler the better, preferably, but whatever strikes your fancy will do.

( Exercise #1: Red - 842 words. Cut for spam and melodrama )

The finished piece, in its entirety! Criticism and commentary strongly desired.


( From the beginning! )

(NaNo Filter)

9,214 words; I'm still a little behind from not writing yesterday, but I finished off chapter two completely - about 3,205 words in a sitting. And boy does it suck. :)

I guess I shouldn't complain, as well as it flowed once I got into the action. Had to skip a bit of the journey to the fire cavern; it just got too boring to continue with.

My current favorite excerpt, posted in accordance with narli's suggestion:

( Excerpt. )