Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

I really need to quit tailoring my subject lines to my icons. Meh, oh well. I like my subject lines. I like my icons. No one else but me Hardly no one else reads this, so who cares.

I'm about 200 or so words into "Arcana". I vaguely have an idea of where I want to go with it, but not too much. For me, planning too far ahead keeps the ideas from flowing.

Traditionally, the big write-athon months are terrible for me health-wise. Last November, I managed about 4 hours of sleep a night, ate what I could quickly grab when I could take half a minute's worth of a break, and just generally abused my body. Last July wasn't nearly so bad, but I still didn't sleep or eat like. For April Fool's Novel, I've only signed up for 30,000 words (or 1,000 words a day), so maybe I won't overdo it too much. April Fool's Novel is mostly to get my marathoning brain in gear for JulNoWriMo and then NaNoWriMo.

It's also an excuse to get "Arcana" finished and e-published. I want to start getting my name out there. It couldn't hurt -- and it could help.

But I do need minions, to do everything else for me.

...and that might be a bad thing, because while Faramir is my favorite character in the entire series (including The Hobbit), the most shit happens to him. But on days when I just feel dumped on, those are the days when I feel like Faramir. I empathize with him, perhaps in much the same way Tolkien did.

So, I mentioned I got a "no" from my first choice. That's fine. I can live with that. I sent off today to another early choice. I'm still waiting to hear from quite a few of my early submissions. That's also quite fine.

I know it's not April yet, much less July, but I've started scribbling on "Arcana" a bit. It's almost definite that it will be e-published, but I'm still sparing no effort on it. Granted, I just started today, so I'm not very far.

But I actually thought, "Hey, why not share a tiny bit?" And it is a tiny bit, but here we go:

"My life is a bad horror movie. No, it's not just bad. It's, like, Z-grade. It's--"

"Designed to piss the rest of us off?" I couldn't quite manage to hold back. "All you've done since you got here has been whine, Stacy."

She pouted, her lower lip trembling just slightly. Oh, tell me she wasn't going to start crying now. That would just cap off a wonderful few days.

Thoughts?

Anyone know where I can pick up a Faramir mood theme or more Faramir icons?