Kyanobenthes' Scratch Pad

So my chapter 1.12 starter draft is 11 pages long in Word, by the way. I really wanted to close part 1 of Syncope in June, but that obviously didn’t happen… Edit: People are being fired left and right from my current project group. XD Scary.

I was reading through your annotations for 1.8, Taz, and saw that you asked how Nari could know something, implying that she shouldn’t. Panic! Did I break continuity? OH NOES. D: So I actually went back and read through the preceding chapters to see if I did (you little—). No, it should be correct. Refer [...]

I have here in my hands (well, figuratively) 2.5 pages of chapter 1.12 text—completed dialogue, narrative, and everything. These pages were a rough draft of the climax and dénouement I had in mind, written even before I outlined the theoretical ending to Part 1. I was that certain of how the first part of “Syncope” [...]

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I had a hard drive wipe. My computer had gotten a virus. I was in college, and rather than try to clean it out (perhaps they couldn’t), the campus tech support decided to reformat the entire thing. I fancied myself an archivist back then, but I [...]

I’ve finally completed the full chapter outline, which is a big deal for me. ^_^; Having completed a contracting job helps with the whole time thing. While doing that, I’ve also been writing various dialogue exchanges and narrative snippets into Part 2–Shizuru’s relatives and such. Fun stuff. But back to the task at hand… I’m [...]

“Dedication” Occasionally, one of my professors would point this out to me. I would invest far too much into the research project I was writing at the time and do too much research, find too much information, and then just write too much, covering too much ground or going too deep. This would sometimes lead [...]

Here goes something rambly again, but much less ranty than the first.

In reviewing my stuff, I don’t think I nailed down exactly how old Shizuru was when she met Natsuki in the garden. Eh? Natsuki’s Prelude as translated by Apollyon indicates that Natsuki knew Shizuru while she was in her 3rd year middle school and Shizuru was in 2nd year high school. So they met each [...]

I’ve been digging into my bookmarked research sites and downloading/saving/reading a lot more new articles concerning various aspects of Japanese culture, this time as it pertains to women. Here’s an older article (2004) that people should find interesting. Note the irony in my “older” label for it–2004 really wasn’t long ago at all, but according [...]

Nari continually squashed a corner of her pillow in a fist while staring up at the ceiling, running yesterday’s conversation through her head from various angles and time frames.

…A Mai-HiME (My-HiME) Natsuki/Shizuru fanfic with appearances by old and new cast. syn·co·pe n. 1. Grammar. The shortening of a word by omission of a sound, letter, or syllable from the middle of the word. 2. Pathology. A brief loss of consciousness caused by a temporary deficiency of oxygen in the brain; a swoon, blackout. [...]

Collection of basic information from Japanese opinion polls/surveys on various topics: http://whatjapanthinks.com/

I figured out my problem with the “lunch” bit in 1.10, so I plan on fixing some things there when I post 1.11. But 1.11 won’t be posted until after WordPress 2.8 is released. ^_^ I found out that that new version will have a pretty decent Livejournal-importer, so I’d like to move everything onto [...]