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  <title>Lissa's Ramblings</title>
  <subtitle>Stuff I Feel Like Saying</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Lissa Lysik'an</name>
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  <updated>2024-05-03T13:43:48Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939234:251753</id>
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    <title>About A Story</title>
    <published>2024-05-03T13:34:29Z</published>
    <updated>2024-05-03T13:43:48Z</updated>
    <category term="fae"/>
    <category term="hate"/>
    <category term="anger sadness"/>
    <category term="fantasy"/>
    <category term="dark"/>
    <category term="war"/>
    <category term="spoiler"/>
    <dw:music>Bonnie "Prince" Billie - I See A Darkness</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>gloomy</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">I have been working on a story, the beginning part is called "Prelude to War" as a tentative title. It was inspired by a very short story I wrote during a very bad time. A friend has cleaned up the inspirational story (inspirational as in the cause of my new story - NOT inspirational to read!). I present it here as 'my' story with her permission. It is much spoiler of the big story, but at the rate I finish stories - not likely anyone will be annoyed at knowing how it goes :).&lt;br /&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/251753.html#cutid1"&gt;Niamh, In Her Own Words&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her edits were mostly removing redundant insults, nastiness that didn't even make sense, etc. Basically, taking the harshest parts of my verbal meltdown and softening it. A little. And some English sentence constructions (I am bad at making sentences as normal peoples would read :D )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=251753" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939234:249621</id>
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    <title>An odd story start</title>
    <published>2022-11-13T20:37:07Z</published>
    <updated>2022-11-13T20:37:07Z</updated>
    <category term="fantasy"/>
    <category term="story idea"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">As most of my most recent posts may have indicated - I have gotten back into writing stuff. I think I have recovered from whatever brain-farts made it harder than it already is from being non-verbal autistic. BUT.&lt;br /&gt;While working on a story line that I believe is really good (no comments about wishful thinking!) my brain decided to give me an idea based on tales my Mom told me when I was little. I can't see where it is going, but I'm going to drop it here. If you like it, or have ideas where it could go - feel free to comment :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/249621.html#cutid1"&gt;A Fae Says Bye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=249621" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939234:249143</id>
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    <title>More writing stuff</title>
    <published>2022-09-17T20:56:42Z</published>
    <updated>2022-09-17T20:56:42Z</updated>
    <category term="fantasy"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <category term="writing issues"/>
    <dw:music>Tom Healey Band - I Ain't Cryin</dw:music>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">This is one I really like a beginning, but it's hard a keep doing. I'd like to do a whole story in the style of the first few paragraphs - but each retry ends up going the way this one does. Not sure how to fix it. Maybe it's a thinking style I slips into and just have to work around by going slow and redoing paragraphs when I see is going this way. (is not erotica)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/249143.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=249143" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939234:249002</id>
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    <title>Denounced Princess</title>
    <published>2022-09-16T10:06:08Z</published>
    <updated>2022-09-16T15:26:58Z</updated>
    <category term="writing issues"/>
    <category term="fantasy"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <dw:music>Drifters - Under The Boardwalk</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>creative</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">This is one of the stories I worked on to try to figure out what I was doing wrong. No erotica! (I know lots of people do not like that in stories, but, usually, it just happens - this time it didn't :) ).&lt;br /&gt;It needs work, but I think I like it so far. I used a bit more description rather than just dialog and action. There are a few places that do have a bit of 'um, that sort of contradicts an earlier statement' that need cleanup. BUT! I feel like I am getting back to writing the stories I want to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/249002.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It needs work on transitions between people and scenes, maybe a little more descriptions. I tried to introduce characters better - that might need some work, but it's better than recent works that I re-read and had to trash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway - I think I'm making progress on recovering my writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;edit: contrary to statements made in last post, this story might actually continue, and will continue to not have erotica since it wouldn't fit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=249002" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939234:248783</id>
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    <title>I think I got it back. (said that before :) )</title>
    <published>2022-09-12T00:43:28Z</published>
    <updated>2022-09-12T00:43:28Z</updated>
    <category term="writing issues"/>
    <category term="fantasy"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <dw:music>Jessie Mae Hemphill - Standing at my backdoor crying</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>accomplished</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">I have been working on a bunch of tiny stories to try to figure out what I was doing when I was writing before and why the newer stuff was, erm, .. yeah, shit. I hate being honest with myself - it's like giving myself injections - it's one of the things I am REALLY glad I have caretakers for.&lt;br /&gt;ANYWAY.&lt;br /&gt;I didn't figure out why or what I have been doing wrong lately with the writing, but after reading a bunch of old stuff and starting new things after reading the old I believe (with crossed fingers) I have got a grasp on what I want to and how to do it.&lt;br /&gt;I have a couple of new story starts that feel better. I'm going to touch up one and post it (soon, for various definitions of soon). It's not a whole story, but even rereading the parts I did a couple of weeks ago I don't cringe, so it's worth the risk of plopping them out and seeing if I cringe when seeing them in public.&lt;br /&gt;Fair warning - there is hints of erotica. The erotica is NOT the main point, which is one of the issues I have had with the stories that maked me go bleah for a long time. I like writing erotica, but I love fantasy more and I want to go toward that more.&lt;br /&gt;Honestly - there will always be some erotica in everything I write. There are asexual people, I have read, but I'm not one and I can't imagine what it would be like to be so. So I'm not going to try to write it. It would be an insult to those that are, since I'd get it wrong. (Yeah, I'm one of those people that thinks it is offensive to try to write about things you don't understand as if you did.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, it's been an update! In mostly correct US English. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=248783" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939234:247421</id>
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    <title>A story working on</title>
    <published>2022-04-24T20:17:04Z</published>
    <updated>2022-04-24T21:05:12Z</updated>
    <category term="border"/>
    <category term="fantasy"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <category term="story"/>
    <dw:music>birds in a trees and a dog whining cause I won't let her off a leash</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>working</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">Been having this idea for a while. Has rewrited the intro many times. I think I like this intro. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/247421.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hmm - reads like an intro to erotica. It isn't. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=247421" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939234:243494</id>
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    <title>Writed a bit!</title>
    <published>2020-10-09T15:53:35Z</published>
    <updated>2020-10-10T03:54:46Z</updated>
    <category term="stories"/>
    <category term="fantasy"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <category term="the bard"/>
    <dw:music>Adrian Flores - I'm In The Mood</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>amused</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">It has been a while since could write anything. Lots of brain weird stuff got in the way every time I tried.&lt;br /&gt;Is back in Georgia (think I said that a while ago). Had fighting with depression, discomfort with things changing too much too often, etc. (Being autistic is not fun with a world that is constantly trying to change)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT - I have tried writing some more and updated "The Bard". Now I have to remember how to link it here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edit: I remembered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bGeLUOW0m2Ma_35z55aatoWcUp1SjO-SiKY4c4LKSPw/edit?usp=sharing"&gt;"The Bard"&lt;/a&gt; - a naive teen discovering her talents as a bard (of the DnD variety).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will see if I can keep doing it :).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=243494" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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