shadowsong26

First Monday of the month (and year!!), which means it's time for a Coming Attractions post!

Find it on my shiny new Dreamwidth fic archive!

(Also posted to my fic tumblr here if you prefer that format!)

Hello, everyone

Uh, so this journal has been pretty dead for the past...while. I don't think I've posted in over a year? Anyway, in theory I'm gonna be more active around here from now on.

I'll probably do a proper Intro Post at some point, but short version, for those of you who followed me here from Tumblr (where I am still active; as of right now, I'm planning to stay there until the site dies its final death)...

I'm Shadowsong. I'm in my late twenties. I write--at the moment, mostly Star Wars and some original fiction. My primary 'verse/story in Star Wars right now is Precipice; I have a few others I write off and on, as well as things like AU Outlines (which are outline-style overviews of AU concepts that, for one reason or another, I don't necessarily intend to write as a true/fulltext story; though that is subject to change).

My original worlds include The Farglass Cycle and Lux (those archives are like four years out of date, I should fix that...), though I have bits and pieces in a few others as well, and participate in rainbowfic  (an original fiction challenge comm).

I have a fic/writing blog that I'm working on crossposting/bringing over from Tumblr, which is right now pretty bare except my index post (currently lacking links, but it has summaries of everything, at least). That can be found at shadowsong26fic. More details about my writing, fandoms I've worked in previously, etc., can be found there.

Anyway! Welcome, and feel free to say hi or whatever in the comments!

For once, though, my day wasn't ruined by someone lying to me!


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Because why not?

Ask me for any character I write or have written and I will tell you, if they existed in the Harry Potter universe:

1. Sorting Hat: what house would they be sorted into?
2. Expecto Patronum: what form would their patronus take?
3. Riddikulus: what form would their boggart (read: their deepest fear/the thing they find scariest) take?
4. Amortentia: the three smells they find most attractive/appealing.
5. The Mirror of Erised:

May whatever you're celebrating this December bring you joy, and may your New Year be safe and prosperous and happier than the old 

List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.

Because why not?

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So...fffffff. Man, I don't know. Last time I did something like this, it was a pretty even mix of stuff like either #19 or #11. Short, declarative statements or long ones full of nested clauses that stretch the definition of 'sentence' to the breaking point. I still do a fair amount of that last bit, but I think I've gotten a broader range of sentence styles? I also seem to like doing...it's not exactly if/then structure, but like...set-up clause/concluding and/or contrasting clause? See 1, 3, 4, 9, 12, 13...yeah. Not a lot of dialogue--only three out of twenty, and two of those three are weird settings (one being a super-meta story and the other being...mm...I guess the best way to explain it is the viewpoint character is on the edge of a coma?) Anyway. I seem to like long sentences more than short ones...but at least two of these come from pieces that are all but prose poems...so IDK.

Anyone else notice any patterns? I'm curious...