Friday, November 14, 2008

For my fellow GH fans reading Daddy’s here, I won’t be updating for a while. I’m making changes to the story. For one thing, Robin’s baby will be born sooner; no eleven month pregnancy. This means I’ll be changing a few other things in the timeline, too. Also, thanks to one of my reviewers, can’t remember who, but they asked me if there would be a guy for Nadine, I think I found one. Sorry Nick and Nadine lovers, but he’s not it; I just don’t think they fit together. But you will see him when I update again. They won’t meet right away, though; I’ve got Robin’s labor and all those issues to get through first. This guy is also going to be another good friend to Spinelli, Georgie and Kendra.

But while I’m making changes to Daddy, I’ll be posting the last chapter of Jack and posting other completed fics. One will be a one-shot and the other will be a story that I’ve been working on for months called Tabula Rosa and has to do with fresh starts for Lulu, Spinelli and Maxie.

If you want, look me up on live journal, same user name as here, and at dreamjournal.net, also the same user name.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Yikes! I was just looking at my profile and realized I haven’t updated it since November of last year, so here’s an update.

My General Hospital fics are still taking off in my head and as you probably can see, I’ve done a lot more since my last update. The Jackal has a lot to tell me, it seems.

I’m also writing, very slowly, a sequel to Crop. It’s going slowly because LP and my other DWD characters are having trouble communicating with me. Or am I having trouble communicating with them? Anyway, I did write a little bit more last night, but I’m still only on chapter one. I’m hoping to have the first chapter written and ready for posting by New Year’s, though. I really do want to get back to my DWD fics, and my Harry Potter Fic, before too long; I miss them.

Incidentally, I’m deleting my Harry Potter fic. I’m redoing the whole thing; everything I wrote there already will be in there, but in later chapters. I’ve decided not to do it in flashback form and I’m going to start it just before Hagrid is born.

If you want details on what I’m working on, look at the ld29info forum under the updates topic.

I decided to only put the link to the forum at the end of the profile, since that’s closest to the list of stories. But I’d like your opinion on something. Does anyone read the author’s notes there? If not, should I put them back in the stories, or is it enough that the notes are written somewhere? Please private message me and let me know?

I’m a huge fan of Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck. I started writing my stories and posting them before I created my profile, so anyone who read some of my stories before I created it knows that. I had been reading fanfic and downloading episodes of both shows for a while and decided to try writing fics of my own.

I also wrote a Star Trek The Next Generation fic after reading one that gave me an idea; Data is my favorite character in that show.

I’ve read all seven Harry Potter books and they’ll be instrumental in writing Connections, my biography for my favorite character, Hagrid. I just need to get the rest of these fics out of my head before I can continue with that one because these ones are screaming at me.

I want to write my Thundercats and Narnia fics, too; I just need to find the time to sit down, think them out and get them started.

Launchpad is my all time favorite TV character, so I’ll never have a DT or DW fic without him in it. Also, I’ll never be mean to him like some fic writers, and like Disney was! I never knew my father, so I used to fantasize when DT was popular that Launchpad was my father. Can’t my fellow DT and/or DW fans just picture him with a daughter? I can actually picture him with several children.

There is some speculation on the web about Drake and Launchpad’s ages. For some reason in the DT show, I always pictured Launchpad as being twenty-seven when I was thirteen, so by the time he moved to Saint Canard he was twenty-nine, approaching thirty. I pictured Drake, then, as being twenty-seven and the High School reunion he went to in Clash Reunion was his ten year reunion. I just don’t like the idea of either of them being in their forties in the show; it just seems wrong. If that had been the case, most younger children who would have watched the shows would have thought LP and DW were ancient! That’s just my opinion, though.

But I found a character to equal LP as my favorite, but for different reasons, although when I really thought about it Launchpad and Spinelli from general Hospital do have one similarity. They’re equals, not rivals; I love them both the same, but as I said, for different reasons. So I’ll never write a GH fic without Spinelli in it. Actually, he’s the main character in all my GH fics. Some characters unfortunately have to be mean to him, but General Hospital is a soap and Darkwing and Duck Tales were cartoons, so my mindset is different in that respect.

The thing I think Spinelli and Launchpad have in common is that in some way they’re both sidekicks; Launchpad is sidekick to DW, although I still don’t understand why he was made a sidekick in DWD when in DT he was his own man and was able to be the hero. Spinelli is, by choice, a sort of sidekick to Jason; he considers himself Stone Cold’s grasshopper and wants to be like him. BTW, does anyone know what movie The Grasshopper was from? I can’t remember and it’s been driving me crazy! PM me if you know please and tell me? The difference in the sidekick issues is that in most ways Jason treats Spinelli better than Darkwing sometimes treats Launchpad. In every other way, LP and Spin are totally different, but equally cool, sweet, smart and funny.

As a child, TV characters were my imaginary friends and I used to do crossovers in my head and act them out. For example, Jaga from the Thundercats would talk to Jack Tripper from Three’s Company. It wasn’t until last year, about eighteen years after I gave up imaginary friends completely, that I got a mental picture of how Jack would really react if he came home to find Jaga sitting in his living room. Any Three’s Company fan would know exactly what I mean.

I haven’t had any ideas for crossovers that don’t make sense anymore. I’m kind of sad about that because I think my imagination was more active when I was a child. But maybe that’s a good thing because I’ve seen summaries for cross over stories that had no business being together! I wish I could remember one of them so I could give an example.

I don’t like putting author’s notes in my stories; I find them distracting. I had them in this profile for a while, but it began to get very disorganized. So now I have a forum (click the link below) where I have information on all my stories, and their author’s notes. I also put links to the stories in the forum topic, and each story has its own topic, so you don’t have to come back here and find the one you want to read. I find this to be more organized, but if you don’t, let me know.

To see the author’s notes and other info on the stories, click the link below, then click the link with the story title you want.

http://www.fanfiction.net/ft/943461/25805/1/

Please read and review my stories if you like the categories and genres. Feel free to private message me at any time.