the bathroom window

Chapter 2, draft 3

The bell finally rang and before Takeru even put down his pencil, I was up out of my seat and running through the door. School was over and Hikari was waiting for me. At the lockers I pulled out my cell and sent her an email, and then leaned against the wall where I had a good view of everyone. Once we met up we'd head to the art clubroom together, or maybe I'd be able to convince her to forget about it and go to the Digital World instead. Takeru would just have to sit around at a computer and wait for us to come back.
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Fine Art (zillionth draft)
Working on: Chapter two: Daisuke vs the art club
Word count for this chapter: 1624

Finally had some time today to get back into writing. The second chapter's coming along, but needs some fine-tuning before I submit it anywhere.

In celebration of Digimon's anniversary, it's the Digimon Kink Meme!

After weeks months years of neglect, yesterday I started re-writing my epic(ally bad) fanfic "Fine Art." I never stopped thinking about it, even as I went through high school and college, and I do intend to finish it. At some point. Hopefully. I'll keep telling myself that.

So anyway I re-read chapters 4 and 5, which have been moldering in Google documents. They're ok, I guess. But there's too much dialog, not enough action. And Daisuke should be all about movement and energy. And there's my big problem - Since my read of Daisuke is he's more about impulses than ponderings, I can't have too many scenes of navel-gazing. And then I start to worry that I'm making him too observant. I began re-writing the chapter where he talks to Willis... And I think it's a bit better. Shorter, definitely. I need to have Willis as some sort of presence - he's sort of the Greek chorus here - and since he's one the other side of the planet, he can only communicate through phone calls.

But if the pace gets too fast, I think Daisuke's maturation doesn't get explored enough. He can't change completely, not that quickly.

So I'm stumped.

Daisuke needs to a)join the art club, b)join the soccer club, c)get to Ken's house. Those are his physical movements; he's also got to a)begin to see himself as more than just a member of the Chosen Children, b)see the rest of the gang as more than just the Chosen Children, c)develop enough emotionally that he can begin sexual maturation, d)fall out of infatuation with Hikari and in love with Ken, e)probably a crapload of other things.

I think I just don't have enough practice with first-person POV. With third-person perspective, I can write about things that Daisuke wouldn't notice, but since he's narrating, I'm limited in showing only the things that he is interested in or he's willing to pay attention to.

And I'm bad at action. I really am. Oh god, so terrible. Bad at description, too. But I love writing dialog.

Ken stretched with a yawn, cat-graceful and lazy, and turned toward Daisuke, who slept on undisturbed by the movement. Even in the dawn's half light, it was infinitely easier to study Daisuke, for once quiet and still, and Ken took advantage of his insomnia to stare unabashedly at the other boy.

In full daylight, he couldn't stare with such intensity. Perhaps the Kaiser could have, but Ken dishonestly denied any connection to his former alter ego. His gaze was different now than the Kaiser's, anyway: curious, appreciative, lingering - not calculating.

Title: untitled
Fandom: Digimon
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nope
Author's note: For Three Weeks for Dreamwidth

Mimi grabbed Sora's hand in her own - warm, soft, with the tips of her pink-painted nails poking and stroking Sora's palm in a way that was getting increasingly difficult for Sora to dismiss as accidental. "Mimi -"

"Hurry up, Sora! You're only here for two weeks - That's barely enough time!"

Sora laughed as the other girl dragged her down the sidewalk. "For what?"

Mimi stopped suddenly and spun to face her. "Everything," she said firmly. The smile that followed made Sora's eye widen.

Just what did everything entail?

Title: Ken In Recline
Pairing: Daisuke/Ken
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nope
Author's note: HURRRR I got into school DURRRR

He boasts to Ken about what he's going to be when he grows up, namely Awesome with a capital A. And maybe a professional soccer player with Ken, and as an unstoppable force, they win so many Olympic gold medals that the other countries have to beg for them to retire so they can have a chance at first place. Or maybe an artist who single-handedly changes the art world forever with his paintings of Ken. Ken in Recline is his first hit, then The Mona Ken, then The Disintegration of the Persistence of Ken, then Ken's Starry Night. When school isn't going well, Daisuke's speculations return to the Digital World, and he makes plans for them to leave Japan to live with their Digimon.

Daisuke's hand fumbles for Ken's in the dark and when their fingers finally meet, they grab a hold tightly, squeezing and twisting.

Ken is always included in Daisuke's imaginary adulthood. His presence is a given, he is an irremovable element of all of Daisuke's fantasies, he is as much as a part of Daisuke's future as Daisuke himself.

Even when Daisuke falls asleep, their fingers remain linked.

Title: Insides
Fandom: Digimon 02
Character/Pairing: Willis, Mimi
Rating: PG
Summary: Response to fanfic100's Insides
Author's Notes: I'm messing quite a bit with the storyline of Digimon 02. This story, as well as the others for the fanfic100 challenge, will assume that the second half of the season did not occur. Instead, Ken *chose* to be the Kaiser and then *chose* to be redeemed. And only the Chosen Children have digimon, not the entire world. I'm using Willis' American-dub name, rather than Wallace (simply because I like the name Willis more), but I will be using the Japanese names for the other characters. My little table.

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Stole this meme from nagia. Post one sentence from your current Works-in-Progress.

Fanfic
He'd only seen her natural hair color once: after two weeks at sleep-away camp, she came back with stripes her brown hair peaking through the faded blue, kind of like she was molting or something. When he said she looked like a mixed-up skunk, she chased him around the Pink Palace. (Coraline - "Birds & Bees")

It had been hot work, pulling weeds, and boring, too, even when she pretended she was Godzilla and the plants were unfortunate bystanders meeting their untimely demise. (Coraline - "Wrapped up in Clover")

"We don't have to watch any movies," I said hurriedly. "We can go to bed, like, right now so we can wake up at the buttcrack of dawn and get you to your interview. Or maybe I'll stay up all night reading your notes out loud to you so you can learn them by osmosis or something. I don't know. But I'm staying and I need a toothbrush." (Digimon - "Fine Art")

Original
As soon as she figured out who she was, she'd chase the little harlot right out of town. (TTBtM)

When Lest tugged at buttons that ran along her back like a second spine, she had to close her eyes and lock her jaw so that confessions and vomit didn't spill out. ("Masca")

It's September - wtf happened to this year? - and it's pretty obvious I'm not going to fulfill my New Year's resolution of completing "Fine Art." I have been working on it, but it's been more research than writing. I've been reading and watching a lot on youth and homosexuality; I've gotten a much better sense of teh gay, I think. In any event, I'm not writing fangirly hawt guys kissing!, which was basically my motivation for "Fine Art" the first time around.

The hardest part I've had with the story is getting Daisuke's voice down right. Playing as Yuffie has helped, since (in my mind, anyway) they share a goofy optimism and egoism. She's smarter, inclined to say more things with bigger words, while Daisuke relies on actions for basically everything. She's more slippery than him, and has a better sense of her body and what she can do with it. They both flounder around quite a bit, however. Goons, the both of them.

The first three chapters are basically done. I have the fourth chapter written in pieces - Just need to fit it together properly. I have the next few chapters mapped out pretty well and the rest of the story planned. I actually have an ending this time! Alls I need to do is get off my lazy ass and write them.

Next year. Next year I'll finish it. So help me, jeebus!

I worked on Skyless Oblivion, recently, too. I've been thinking about starting a blog just for updates on my story in hopes that'll inspire me to work consistently at it.

I love Daisuke and Ken, and I want to give them the time and effort and attention that they deserve.