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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 13:34:29 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>About A Story</title>
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  <description>I have been working on a story, the beginning part is called &quot;Prelude to War&quot; 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 &apos;my&apos; 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=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/251753.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Niamh, In Her Own Words&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her edits were mostly removing redundant insults, nastiness that didn&apos;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=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=251753&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Bonnie &quot;Prince&quot; Billie - I See A Darkness</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:37:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>An odd story start</title>
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  <description>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&apos;t see where it is going, but I&apos;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=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/249621.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;A Fae Says Bye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=249621&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>More writing stuff</title>
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  <description>This is one I really like a beginning, but it&apos;s hard a keep doing. I&apos;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&apos;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=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/249143.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=249143&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>writing issues</category>
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  <lj:music>Tom Healey Band - I Ain&apos;t Cryin</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:06:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Denounced Princess</title>
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  <description>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&apos;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 &apos;um, that sort of contradicts an earlier statement&apos; 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=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/249002.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&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&apos;s better than recent works that I re-read and had to trash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway - I think I&apos;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&apos;t fit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=249002&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:43:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I think I got it back. (said that before :) )</title>
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  <description>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&apos;s like giving myself injections - it&apos;s one of the things I am REALLY glad I have caretakers for.&lt;br /&gt;ANYWAY.&lt;br /&gt;I didn&apos;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&apos;m going to touch up one and post it (soon, for various definitions of soon). It&apos;s not a whole story, but even rereading the parts I did a couple of weeks ago I don&apos;t cringe, so it&apos;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&apos;m not one and I can&apos;t imagine what it would be like to be so. So I&apos;m not going to try to write it. It would be an insult to those that are, since I&apos;d get it wrong. (Yeah, I&apos;m one of those people that thinks it is offensive to try to write about things you don&apos;t understand as if you did.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, it&apos;s been an update! In mostly correct US English. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=248783&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Jessie Mae Hemphill - Standing at my backdoor crying</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:17:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>A story working on</title>
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  <description>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=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://lissalysikan.dreamwidth.org/247421.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hmm - reads like an intro to erotica. It isn&apos;t. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=247421&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>birds in a trees and a dog whining cause I won&apos;t let her off a leash</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:53:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writed a bit!</title>
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  <description>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 &quot;The Bard&quot;. 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=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bGeLUOW0m2Ma_35z55aatoWcUp1SjO-SiKY4c4LKSPw/edit?usp=sharing&quot;&gt;&quot;The Bard&quot;&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=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=lissalysikan&amp;ditemid=243494&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <lj:music>Adrian Flores - I&apos;m In The Mood</lj:music>
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