Musings and fanfic, if Iro can overcome the intimidation factor caused by the sheer pedantry of the Type-Moon fanbase.
Originally Posted by Irothtin I just got back from the UBW premiere, it went like this: Spoiler: They showed Episode 0, which was a pretty faithful adaptation of the Rin prologue. It starts with her flashback of Tokiomi and there are fairly lengthy sequences of her getting ready and going to school, talking with Mitsuzuri, giving Shinji shit for being a dick. There is a flashback to when she opens the suitcase Tokiomi left her, which contains both the pendant and the snake fossil catalyst for Gilgamesh. ...
Assuming this is real, anyway: http://jin115.com/archives/51882963.html I doubt it'll get an official version for us regular folk, though. Sigh.
So I bought the Unlimited Blade Works movie, which makes me a sucker, apparently. (But not as much of a sucker as the people who bought Garden of Sinners or F/Z from Aniplex. Yeah, you heard me.) The picture of the back of the box turned out badly, but the description there is as follows: Having spent the last ten years of his life studying under a mysterious sorcerer, Shiro Emiya has become a Magi, a sorcerer ...
So, at the beginning of this month I posted this blog post, wherein I basically said "Yeah, I want to write this dumb fanfic, but I'll never actually get around to it so I pledge I'll write at least 750 words a day towards it." Well, I've been doing that. As of this posting, the total word count so far is 28,308 words, which averages out to about 943 words a day. And most of it is pretty lousy. But that's okay. I expected this and I'm trying to not get all anxious ...
You might remember me from those other blog posts I wrote a couple months ago, where I complained that writing was hard and that all you guys were intimidating me into not writing by being pedantic. Of course, I think we all knew all of that was pretty much bullshit in reality. So I told myself and most of my normal social group that starting on May 1st (otherwise known as today, or the day this was posted, whatever), I would try to write at least 750 words every day. That's about three ...