Lissa's Ramblings

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 :).
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( Niamh, In Her Own Words )
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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 )

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)

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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.
ANYWAY.
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.
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.
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.
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.)

So, it's been an update! In mostly correct US English. :)

It has been a while since could write anything. Lots of brain weird stuff got in the way every time I tried.
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)

BUT - I have tried writing some more and updated "The Bard". Now I have to remember how to link it here.

Edit: I remembered.
"The Bard" - a naive teen discovering her talents as a bard (of the DnD variety).

Will see if I can keep doing it :).