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I posted the new chapter of Game Over. I figured I've been obsessing over it and whether it was good enough and if it fit properly and if everything worked and whatever else for long enough. Up it went. FictionPress seems determined to make formatting as difficult as possible. It's kind of annoying. But at least it's done now until I can crank out the next chapter.

This chapter got longer than I expected. The next chapter might end up a little short. We'll see how it goes, I guess. I just wish my motivation to work on this was stronger. Bleh.

I've been developing a new story in my head for a long time now, but it's not getting my attention until I've finished either Game Over or Piece of a Legend - preferably both. I really want them finished, but I'm determined to do them as much justice as I can.

In other news, I finished the Baccano OVAs, which basically served the purpose of tying off some loose ends but were still fun to watch. I'm working on Durarara now, which is even more fun. You can tell they came from the same creator.

I've been reading Jane Austen. I plowed through Love & Friendship, and then read Lady Susan (which was kind of fun) and The Watsons (now I have to pick a continuation). I'm working on Sandition right now, and also slowly watching the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice.

Cody and I finished all of the Harry Potter DVDs I bought, so I guess now the only thing left is to go see the last one in theaters when it comes out. Sweet.

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I just wanna say, I admire that you're still plugging along on your WIPs after all this time. I think I, by comparison, have a bad habit of fluttering off to whatever idea is new and shiny (and doing nanowrimo every year actually doesn't help that, haha, since the whole point is to start a new idea!) and things get left by the wayside. Some of my old ideas, I know they're never going to get another draft. I still like things about, say, my 2004 and 2005 nanovels, but not enough to want to dredge them back up. The closest I get is ES, for which I would like to do a new draft, but... I think I get so bogged down in the nostalgia inherent in it being SUCH an old idea that I've had for SO many years, that I don't even let myself start.

So, TL;DR: I'm excited to hear you're still working on Game Over (and Piece of a Legend, oh my god) and that you honestly plan to complete them! (And I'm excited by ~new ideas~ too, even if they'll be back-burner'd for a while.)

Hehe, well, I don't know that one new chapter every two years counts as much progress on Game Over, but I am trying! I'm not concentrating as much on Piece of a Legend since I haven't posted it to FP yet, but when the inspiration hits, I work on it a bit. XD Given that it's a shorter story, I guess it's possible that I'll even finish it before Game Over. We'll see.

I'm trying to use the new idea as motivation to get the old ideas done, with the whole "you can't start this until you finish these other ones!" It's... sorta working, I guess. Hehe.