Imperial Privilege

I ran the title through an online title capitalization checker, and it came out looking like that. It feels wrong, as if everything should be capitalized or "If" should be lowercase to keep "off" company.

And that is not at all the point of this blog.

Some of you might have seen I finally have a story up and running after a lot of time hemming and hawing over one. I decided to suck it up, bite the bullet and do other things with my mouth to crank something ...

I'm actually making some headway on the Seven Samurai (with magi) pitch I've made both in the Fanfic Idea Thread and an earlier blog. The working title is Magnificence, both as a play on The Magnificent Seven (Seven Samurai with cowboys) and a MacGuffin hidden in the bowels of a magi's workshop. Just an outline right now, sketching out the general content of chapters and the placement of some scenes that have already come to me

But it also got me thinking about another old idea of mine, ...

I'm constantly conceiving and discarding story seeds, which has been the subject of many a blog post. But I (like to) think I'm finally zeroing in on a few concrete ideas that, at first blush, weren't related at all. Then I began to think more and more about them and saw how easily they could be sewn together as episodes in a much greater narrative.

The common theme? Shirou winds up fighting vampires in most of them.

But let's start at the beginning.

I've ...