Stories:
(When I get too wordy to tell a story in a shorter frame)

hsmbigbang fic. Details to come.


Oneshots:
(Usually small things written for the hell of it.)

Best Friends: Troy tries to get his best friend to come out of the closet, via song.

Tampons: Ryan and Chad have an unexpected encounter in the feminine needs aisle.

atm? u: A text message exchange between Ryan and Chad during detention.

Obligatory New Years fic: It's New Years Eve, and the Wildcats are at the Evans' suite.

Five Roles of Ryan's That Chad Liked (And One He Loved): From "Jesus Christ Superstar" to "Wicked", Chad really likes Ryan's acting.

Shift: Life sucks, so turn the music up, you'll been feelin' hella good, perhaps... Then live the rest of your life...


Challenges:
(Written for communities)

1sentence:
Jimmie/Ryan

10_letters:
Ryan Evans (WIP): Color, Imagination

15pairings:
HSM (WIP): Sharpay/Zeke

50ficlets:
Ryan Evans x Chad Danforth (WIP): Sweet, Stranger, Call

hsmbigbang:
The Road Through October. Details to come.

I have no idea how to go about explaining this, but let's try...

Basically, when I started this journal, I swore to myself that I would not let writing fanfiction take priority over school. And so far, I've been pretty good. But this is senior year, and between me having a social life this year and finally realizing that I'm struggling and need help (as well as NaNo around the corner), I'm afraid I'm going to slip.

So until I can find solid footing, I'm putting this journal on a hiatus.

(Not to mention, my hsmbigbang fic went missing, and rewriting it went horribly awry, and I feel so so embarrassed about dropping out at the last moment. I had it done, somebody did a mix for me, but I lost it, had a draft, thought I could re-finish it, was wrong, and now my ego smarts and I feel like a failure.)


See you guys later.

I've wanted to write this when the cast did their first read-through, doubly so after I found out that Henry Clerval's actor is gay, but I thought it would make script editing a bit awkward around that part.

Now that THE SCRIPT IS COMPLETE (or as complete as it'll ever be under my hands-- the past few days I've spent more time sobbing over the script than editing, which was pretty much a sign that there was nothing more I could do) I have no regrets writing this.

--

( This was prompted by how after every other Victor/Henry exchange I would scrawl 'and then they made-out' in the margins, because I am that mature. )

I've spent the last month plus working on the Frankenstein script (and I'm still not done oh god) and I've only been had time to frolic around online the past few days.

And what do I find out when I check my email? ...I never sent in my hsmbigbang fic in. And my final copy of the story is on my jump drive, that is MIA.

"FUCK" doesn't even come close to describing how I feel. *hides in shaaaaame*


On the bright side, partofyourcharm! If you are a fan of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (which you should be, it is an amazing film!), join it! There will be fic soon!

re: hsmbigbang

Stories are due tomorrow, and I'm... yeah. I was planning to hammer out the last part of the story today during 7th, I ditched class because my beta has that period off and it seemed like a good time to work, but someone two other friends tagged along and we went for milkshakes and there was conversation and minimal betaing and I am frustrated! It's mostly done, but all my time is spent working on rewriting Frankenstein, though I have third off and am tinkering with it then.

(Which almost doesn't make sense, since I'm having a blast reworking Frankenstein for school, but there's a big difference in editing something you didn't write, and editing something you did write-- with the first, it's a shiny new sandbox yay! while in the second you've been digging around so much in the sandbox that's it's dirty and ugly and you're pretty sure your cat used it as a litterbox at one point.)

For our fall production, we're doing a stage adaptation of Frankenstein. The college nearby did one a few years ago, and the director is trying to combine the stage version (which is an ensemble thing) with the novel (which has overblown prose like whoa) and I've been helping out with the rewrites-- as in, it's two a.m. and I'm trying to combine the two like we discussed earlier today.

...let me just say, when the actors were doing a read-through last week, the guy playing Victor Frankenstein (the mad scientist, not the monster) saw the subtext between him and Henry Clerval (which lead to a hilarious "Dude, they're lovers." "BFFs." "Lovers." between the two actors) so it's not just me.

...but if this draft of the first act ends up with HoYay through the roof, that is me. I'm trying not to do that though, because y'know, it seems a bit unprofessional.

You know that point, when in story-editing, you've read the story so many times you start to hate it and you just want to shred it and never think of it again?

I hate that point so so much.


So my weekend was spent trying to look at my hsmbigbang fic without wanting to throttle someone (not successful), trying to finish a sleeveless hoodie I'm sewing without wanting to throttle someone (not successful), and trying to find non-porny-ficlets at the st_xi_kink (surprisingly successful).

Because I don't have nearly enough WIPs and current challenges as it is, I am starting an informal challenge!

This idea has been a combination of a few things: I've been on an AU kick lately, I never finished my easthighstory story and I am a sucker for ~happy ever after~. And so, I present~

The High School Musical Fairytale Fest

...though of course, given that I love ~happy ever after~s and HSM is its cash cow, when I say "fairytale" I mean "Disney-bastardized fairytales." ...and then from there I decided to just add on other Disney movies onto the list... as well as other animated musicals. And then I went back to fairytales.

( The fairytales~ )

It's still in progress-- as is the exact details of this fest-challenge-ficathon thing. Basically, I love happy endings, shameless fluff and crossovers.

...and in no way is this an excuse for me to write a Lady and the Tramp-esque Zeke/Sharpay story. :Db

So, most of what I have been posting lately (that's public) has been more personal things, rather than writing. This is not because I am not writing, but because they're all longer pieces and I'm still editing/revising/reworking/etc. So...

The WIP meme: post a single two sentence(s) from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations.

( HSM (x8), Rope, and bare. )

Today, I finally did something I've been meaning to do for years:

Ask somebody to shut up about gay stereotypes.

( tl;dr ramble )


In other news, we watched a clip of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" today, and I have spent the day fighting back the urge to randomly yell "Damn! We're in a tight spot!"

As the subject implies, I want to know what you think of my writing. Be it good or bad, critique or praise, give it to me. At this journal, I write fluffy slash fanfiction for a DCOM, but I still want my writing to be good. I want to improve. If there's something I can do to make my writing better, I want to know.


Comments are screened, you can post anonymously, IP logging is off.

Things my hsmbigbang story has:
• a plot
• a title
• a beta reader
• around 11,000 words
• pages of notes on the story
• pages of edits that I need to make the next month
• a very limited third person POV that I am starting to regret
• a metric fuckton of annotations on the side of the writing (courtesy of Pages)
• very detailed illustrations of what Ryan Evans wears each day including duck print pajamas
• symbolism!

Things my hsmbigbang story does not have:
• consistency
• a resolution/conclusion
• details contained in the prose
• witty slogans for Chad's T-shirts
• a consistent characterization of Taylor

The thing to do now:
• stop bitching and clean up the draft so the art/mix/vidder doesn't boggle at the inconsistencies.
• ...while making dinner.

( Pet related D: )

So now I'm going to go find and read smooptastic Chad/Ryan fic.

I'm a teenager in high school.

I probably shouldn't be this much of an emotional mess after the second day of school, but I am.

...so... does anyone have any pictures of cute and fuzzy kitties?

(No puppies, please. Small dogs scare me.)

• If today was anything to judge by, senior year is going to be awesome. I don't have the greatest schedule ever, and I wish I had more friends in my classes, but I really like what I have, so I'm not going to complain.

• I hit 10k for my hsmbigbang fic. \m/

I just got back from seeing a production of "bare"! And my thoughts can be summed up in one observation about my current state:

My eyes hurt from sobbing so much.

( The first act! )

( Intermission )

( Onto the second act! ).

( And then the show ended and I met some of the cast. :D )

TL;DR: AWESOME. And my eyes still hurt. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT.


( In other news, HSM and leashes )

And, because I want something outside of cut-text, random tidbit: on the drive there, my dad was pointing out buildings, and at one point he said "And that's East High..." I turned to Ches (who I had forced to marathon HSM with me) and we both laughed.

Once upon a time, in my googling to find the name of the guy who did ballet during the audition in HSM1¹, I came across this wiki.

This wiki is terrible, I'm not going to lie. A lot of the entries have joke lines put in to fuck around with everyone. (For example, Vance Evans' entry has him listed as Ryan and Sharpay's step-dad.)

For some reason I can't quite remember, I decided to browse through it some more just now, and I went to the page for "I Don't Dance"... and I think I sprained something laughing.

Well done, well done.


¹ I have yet to find a name for him, and "Alan" was already taken up by another guy, so I have been cycling through Jeffrey, Stephen and Kyle.

It's been just over two days since I started writing my story for hsmbigbang, I just passed the halfway mark on the word count, am going steady with the plot, I like what I've written, I love my title, and I'm feeling pretty awesome.

Except for the fact I've printed off about four calendars and I've even gone and researched the temperature for when my story takes place, but other than that "god I'm a dork," I feel pretty great.

So... after two or three months of going "Shit, what story am I going to write for hsmbigbang?" and cycling through about nine different ideas, last night a story idea popped into my head and in the past 24 hours I've written about 3,500 words.

And I actually have a legit title. 90% of the time I write a story and go "Shit, what am I going to title it?", but this was one of the remaining 10% of the times when I had the title first that inspired the story. If that sentence made any sense. I dunno, it's 2:36 am, I'm tired.

As an added surprise, I actually like the story! Usually I hate all of my 'off-the-top-of-my-head' ideas, but this? This is going to be good.

tl;dr: I finally got my fic started. *\o/*

Disclaimer: I am not an artist.

Disclaimer the second: When I normally think of a bare-HSM clash, I think of the HSM cast putting on a production of bare. (And when I say "HSM cast" I mean Ryan and Sharpay as Jason and Nadia and the rest of the cast being from different schools.) But! If I were to think of the HSM cast as the bare cast, this is the only part that would make perfect sense.

Enjoy~

( cut for hand holding (and not stretching out your flist even though it's only 600x750) )

From yesterday:

iena: I hate drawing slim guys. Can you tell me if there's anything wrong with the anatomy?
evie: ...is that Ryan?
iena: ...you know me far too well.


From today:

evie: [talking about how Eric > Edward]
iena: Dude, I had a nightmare last night about Eric and I haven't even seen the series!
evie: ...you know, there are lots of hot chicks in True Blood.
iena: ...when you say "a lot"....
evie: I mean copious amounts.
iena: ...you know me far too WHOA DE JA VU.


I just hope she finds the Jonas Brothers book cover I got her to be as amusing as I did. (It's supposed to go back to how she got me a HSM ornament and poster for Christmas, only the thing is HSM is so bad it's good, while the JoBros are just bad. I don't know, we have a similar sense of humor, I hope she laughs at it. It was that or a Twilight poster, and I wouldn't be caught dead buying anything Twilight-related. And she'd probably burn the poster.)


In other news, Michael Arden is too adorable for words. But despite being "ohmygod can I keep you in my pocket"-type adorable, I blame him fully for my current Chyan WIP.


In other other news, "A Very Potter Musical" is my favorite thing ever right now.

Dear hsmbigbang fic,

...hi, where are you?

I already dropped out of one fic challenge and that bummed me out, I would very much like to not drop out of another.

You are going to be lovely, I can tell, but could you please stop being so... flighty? I know, I know, some of this is my fault, but if you could just stick with one idea and not change the moment I start to plot... that would be great.

Please and thank you?




(Also, dear self: Stop watching Greek. You're not going to be writing about frat houses, it does not count as research, you are just watching it for the pretty sorority girls. Which is not a bad thing, they're very pretty, but you only have a month to write this thing.)

I usually try to post this later into the day, rather than at midnight when I still consider it Saturday, but! I am going camping tomorrow (shock!) with my sister (bigger shock!) and am going to be without internet (massive shock!)

• When I started this journal, I also started a notebook-- a notebook that is now full. As someone who abandons a journal after writing three pages, this is a Big Accomplishment for me. :D

• When tallying things up for my notebook, I discovered something pretty awesome. I thought, that when you compile everything I've written, it would come to being around 15,000 words, 17,000 at most. I was off. The number is closer to 29,000 words. And only about 13,000 of it has been posted publicly.

• The due date for easthighstory was yesterday, and I hadn't written a word for my prompt, and had to pull out. D:

• And yet, I find myself starting a HSM/Labyrinth crossover. I've never been good at writing crack, but dude, while I'm planning for some seriousness (namely how Sharpay and Ryan are both the Goblin King), it's a High School Musical/Labyrinth crossover. There can not not be crack.

• I got stoked for "Notes" (tentative title), started planning it out again, and...

• I spent a few hours working on "Shift" instead. I counted, and I'm on my ninth draft. For me, I usually write the rough draft mentally and when I type the story it's my final draft. But "Shift"... it's like a Pikachu on crack, it just keeps evolving. (I found that there was only track I liked, I need to bulk up four more, and the final track that I hadn't been able to write is getting written, and I like it! But still, the story is only, about, halfway done?)

• I am sorely, sorely tempted to go and erase the 2k+ document of a HSM/Kings crossover, because the series finale pissed me off so much. I mean, it would have been brilliant as a season finale, what with the loose ends and unsolved conflicts and cliffhangers... but it's the end of the show, and I'm WTFing pretty hard. So, yeah, no crossover.

• In an attempt to clean up my tag system, I deleted everything, went back 200+ entries to start from scratch... and made a bigger mess.

• And I signed up at 50ficlets and haven't been accepted yet but shhh, and wrote three ficlets.


So... that's about it. See you all Monday~

Claim: Ryan/Chad at 50ficlets
Prompts: Sweet, Stranger, Call
Rating: from PG
Word Count: ranges from 525 - 912
Big Damn Table: link


( #17 - Sweet )

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( #11 - Stranger )

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( #21 - Call )

I was watching Nostalgia Chick's review of Labyrinth, and suddenly it hit me.

I mean, I had an idea of a Labyrinth/HSM crossover in mind after thinking about easthighstory (which I dropped, because I wasn't feeling it. D:) but it just hit me, on how it would work.

And... yeah.

( I'd say I have no regrets... but that'd be a lie. )

...so yeah.

I am going to go back to working on the fic I mentioned in my earlier post, the fic I've been working on for months, the fic I want to be working on...

...oh what am I kidding I'm going to have this fully planned out by the time I go to sleep tonight. D: