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[PadawanCyn]

milila

terradi

I'd recommend coming up as a tourist first if you can manage it, just to get a taste of what it's like to get around. If you study hard and you have a dictionary you can do alright here. I'm a bit lazy and I don't speak a lot of Japanese because it's just not required of me. If I was more motivated I'd be much better. Two years is long enough to pick up a lot ... if you study.

I live in Kyoto, which is absolutely gorgeous, and has a reasonable number of people who speak a bit of English. It's tourist central so there's a lot of bilingual menus. Things like getting haircuts or figuring out which package is the laundry detergent and which is the fabric softener (some of them say it in English on the bottom, which is how I avoid learning the kanji) are fun too.

sweatdrop Once you settle into a routine it's not so bad. But yeah .. having someone to turn to and tell you what the official looking mail you got was is useful. Homestays would help with that ... if you've ever considered one of those.

I've been all over Asia; China, South Korea, Vietnam, Ect... but as much as I want to I've never been to Japan XD. One day I will go. I had an opportunity this summer but it was between the Olympics in China or Japan............. emo

Everyone's so well travelled... sweatdrop

I haven't put in a lot of effort into determining the finer details. I'm still at the "am I crazy enough to go through with this??" stage, lol. But I'd be going as part of a programme that's being promoted by the Japanese Embassy here. They provide housing and a part-time job and I can apply for a scholarship on top of that. It sounded pretty attractive.

@Lady Helen Smith: Fresh meat!! *cough* Welcome...! ^^'

[The Fic Exchange]

Announcement Time

Hey everyone I just wanted to inform you that we will be moving the participant list to another thread in the chatter box forum, for length reasons. We will post a link in the OP once the thread has been created (it shouldn't take to long). Hopefully this will make it easier to to find a person you want to exchange with. If there are any problems please post or PM us, and we will get try to fix it as soon as possible. ^_^

[White Rabbit Redux]

Oh my. I just remembered about my second attempt at writing a fan-fiction! I was rummaging through my old notebooks that I kept because I had drawings on there that I liked and I found my written fan-fiction (that, as usual, is incomplete).

So, technically speaking, A History of Violence is my third project, not second.

Now if I can remember where I put the notebook away again I'll type it up and demonstrate just how horrible it actually is (since I wrote it in the 6th grade, right after my first attempt at writing a .hack fan-fic, which was also horrible the first time I wrote it, but after looking back at it in the 7th grade I gave it a make-over and have not touched it since). The second attempt is a Yu-Gi-Oh fic.

[PadawanCyn]

White Rabbit Redux

So, technically speaking, A History of Violence is my third project, not second.

Wow, it's really good for being only the third fanfic you've written. I remember my third attempt. It was a bunch of clichéed poems for Lord of the Rings that I wanted to try to write in elvish haha. Certainly nothing as complex as an epic-length fic!

@ Lady Helen Smith: So this is why I felt like I knew your name from somewhere! I'm not familiar with Hellboy at all but, since you reviewed mine, I'll take a look at yours and we can make it into a sort of exchange. (Also, I'm kind of curious at the psychological genre. ^^')

[terradi]

The Fic Exchange

Announcement Time

Hey everyone I just wanted to inform you that we will be moving the participant list to another thread in the chatter box forum, for length reasons. We will post a link in the OP once the thread has been created (it shouldn't take to long). Hopefully this will make it easier to to find a person you want to exchange with. If there are any problems please post or PM us, and we will get try to fix it as soon as possible. ^_^

I misread that at first and thought you were going to rewrite the entire thing. I don't suppose you've considered starting a new thread, or cheating and just putting up a short bit about a person, then linking to where their post is for further info for the interested?

Considering most of us have excerpts and that's probably the longest part, that'd probably solve most of the length issue.

[milila]

PadawanCyn

White Rabbit Redux

So, technically speaking, A History of Violence is my third project, not second.

Wow, it's really good for being only the third fanfic you've written. I remember my third attempt. It was a bunch of clichéed poems for Lord of the Rings that I wanted to try to write in elvish haha. Certainly nothing as complex as an epic-length fic!

@ Lady Helen Smith: So this is why I felt like I knew your name from somewhere! I'm not familiar with Hellboy at all but, since you reviewed mine, I'll take a look at yours and we can make it into a sort of exchange. (Also, I'm kind of curious at the psychological genre. ^^')

I am always annoyed by those people who tell me its their first fanfic, and blow me out of the water (actually jealousy would probably be the correct term, but annoyance is easier sweatdrop ).

[Lady Sedia Auvryarn]

Ahh so much fun to start a new fic...but so annoying knowing there are still so many to finish and so many to start xd hehe whats everyone else working on?

milila

PadawanCyn

White Rabbit Redux

So, technically speaking, A History of Violence is my third project, not second.

Wow, it's really good for being only the third fanfic you've written. I remember my third attempt. It was a bunch of clichéed poems for Lord of the Rings that I wanted to try to write in elvish haha. Certainly nothing as complex as an epic-length fic!

@ Lady Helen Smith: So this is why I felt like I knew your name from somewhere! I'm not familiar with Hellboy at all but, since you reviewed mine, I'll take a look at yours and we can make it into a sort of exchange. (Also, I'm kind of curious at the psychological genre. ^^')

I am always annoyed by those people who tell me its their first fanfic, and blow me out of the water (actually jealousy would probably be the correct term, but annoyance is easier sweatdrop ).

I tend not to trust people who are really good who say its their first...the first they feel good enough to share maybe xd

[terradi]

milila

I am always annoyed by those people who tell me its their first fanfic, and blow me out of the water (actually jealousy would probably be the correct term, but annoyance is easier sweatdrop ).

If you've done original works before, I think that helps. Fanfic (if done well) involves following the rules someone else sets out, but it also involves knowing how to tell a story well.

If I *ever* actually finish the one I'm working on now, it'll be the first. I kinda-sorta wrote three or four pages of an Inuyasha fanfic five or so years ago then decided against it. I don't think I even published that. Most likely I did the world a favor. I don't think it needed another.

(PS: I refuse to count anything started before puberty as real writing. Otherwise, no doubt I'd have plenty of stuff to my name that I'd be horribly embarassed by.)

[milila]

terradi

milila

I am always annoyed by those people who tell me its their first fanfic, and blow me out of the water (actually jealousy would probably be the correct term, but annoyance is easier sweatdrop ).

If you've done original works before, I think that helps. Fanfic (if done well) involves following the rules someone else sets out, but it also involves knowing how to tell a story well.

If I *ever* actually finish the one I'm working on now, it'll be the first. I kinda-sorta wrote three or four pages of an Inuyasha fanfic five or so years ago then decided against it. I don't think I even published that. Most likely I did the world a favor. I don't think it needed another.

(PS: I refuse to count anything started before puberty as real writing. Otherwise, no doubt I'd have plenty of stuff to my name that I'd be horribly embarassed by.)

Most anything before puberty, and a lot of stuff during puberty is just not worth saving.I deleted most of the stuff I wrote before age 18 (I'm 19 now if anyone cares to know). I was so embarrassed reading all the stuff I wrote during puberty XD. I am so glad I never had the gull to publish half the crap I wrote. Some of it was okay, but most of it was hormonal teenage angst crap. XD

[PadawanCyn]

Lady Sedia Auvryarn

Ahh so much fun to start a new fic...but so annoying knowing there are still so many to finish and so many to start xd hehe whats everyone else working on?

I know exactly how you feel. *looks at her own pile of ongoing fics*
Oh, the remorse! Oh, the guilt!... but it's much too fun to indulge the muses to resist...

milila

Most anything before puberty, and a lot of stuff during puberty is just not worth saving.I deleted most of the stuff I wrote before age 18 (I'm 19 now if anyone cares to know). I was so embarrassed reading all the stuff I wrote during puberty XD. I am so glad I never had the gull to publish half the crap I wrote. Some of it was okay, but most of it was hormonal teenage angst crap. XD

I thankfully only ever wrote one of such fics (I was much too interested in action to care about sappy emotional stuff), but published it online (I was so naïve). Years later, I found out that it had been added to a C2 (for those who don't know, that's a list of stories that are all related to a certain theme on FFN) entitled: "The worst of the worst". I laughed so hard... lol. XD

[CommanderShipper Kaida]

stray cat strut I'm a ladies' cat

o.o Dude, what did I miss?!

a feline Casanova hey man that's where it's at

[milila]

CommanderShipper Kaida

stray cat strut I'm a ladies' cat

o.o Dude, what did I miss?!

a feline Casanova hey man that's where it's at

puberty....j/k. Not much just talking. We started a story archive, so if you want to exchange, or crit any one you can click on the link in the OP, to see all the links to the stories.

[CommanderShipper Kaida]

stray cat strut I'm a ladies' cat

o.o 'Kay... First answer almost scared the crap out of me... But, um, thanks for telling me that. I'll check it out when I have time.

a feline Casanova hey man that's where it's at

[milila]

CommanderShipper Kaida

stray cat strut I'm a ladies' cat

o.o 'Kay... First answer almost scared the crap out of me... But, um, thanks for telling me that. I'll check it out when I have time.

a feline Casanova hey man that's where it's at

sorry we were talking about the stupid stuff we wrote while going through puberty XD.

[White Rabbit Redux]

PadawanCyn

White Rabbit Redux

So, technically speaking, A History of Violence is my third project, not second.

Wow, it's really good for being only the third fanfic you've written. I remember my third attempt. It was a bunch of clichéed poems for Lord of the Rings that I wanted to try to write in elvish haha. Certainly nothing as complex as an epic-length fic!

I've never tried my hand at poems, but I know I'm terrible at them (because I had to do some poems for class). XP