Posted and edited yesterday. The next update will be for "Encounter in Venice".

Posted and edited! This chapter robbed me of my sleep last night because I stayed up until 5 a.m. to write it. *resolves not to do this again

The next update will probably be for "Encounter in Venice" unless I finish the next "Ghost at Twilight" chapter first. :)

Posted and edited. The next update will probably for "Ghost at Twilight" again unless I finish the next chapter for "Encounter in Venice" first.

In other news, I've returned to Twitter as FidgetFidgets because a few people I want to follow are there although I won't use it very often.

I actually managed to use "dices" instead of "dice" as the plural of "dice" in GaT without noticing. I seriously don't know why since I wouldn't ever get the idea to type "mices" instead of "mice".

It might be only LJ's crappy mobile site, but I can't find any of my friends on my profile page. Also, my friends feed are totally empty although SN has posted her Japan trip, an entry which I only found because I got the e-mail alert. What's wrong with the LJ page? I can't post friends-locked entries anymore!

Edit: It's not only the mobile site since I'm posting from the laptop. I must also admit I hate the new minimalist layout LJ forces on us.

Posted and edited. This will probably be my last update for this year. Although I keep writing on paper, I doubt that I'll have time to type the next chapter before January. I'm going to edit and merge the chapters I've written, though, and probably update the summary page for this fix since I've neglected it lately.

These days I scribble the chapters on paper, copy the finished paragraphs into my notebooks, and leave them there to edit them before I type them down. I love the laptop for emails and chats (and I'm ten times faster when I use the keyboard), but fics are so much easier to write when I write them on paper first. Paper is better for my eyes, it helps me to focus, I can carry it anywhere since it's lighter, and it slows me down a bit so that I don't make rash decisions. I'm less paranoid of losing my work. Also, the sound of the keyboard is also rather soporific. I always end up feeling sleepy whenever I type whereas seeing the words on paper gives me a sense of satisfaction.

Posted and edited. :) The next update will most probably be for GaT again. Writing on paper and typing a scene during one single morning from time to time seems to work well for me whenever I'm busy. Writing on paper is so much more relaxing than on the phone or at the laptop. I can write whenever I get an idea and reread the sentences I've struck out and even the longer parts I've already trashed. It's also easier to edit on paper with arrows and marks instead of highlighting and deleting a sentence, writing the new sentence, changing it again, reverting to the old version, then trying to find the second version etc... It works if I'm deligently keeping the old versions in order, but I'm doomed to stay at one place during the whole editing process and getting a stiff neck while a paper notebook allows me to be more flexible. 

The next updates for "Ghost at Twilight" and "Encounter in Venice" will have to wait until October or November (depending on whether I'm going to travel in October or not) since I'm buried under my pile of work. I scribble into my notebooks whenever I can find time to do it, but I don't really get to type much down these days since I need to use the time I can spend at the laptop to type my long overdue papers. Also, I seriously need to catch up on sleep. I'm looking forward to continuing the stories, though.

Posted and edited. Sorry for the long break, but I was ill, holidaying, and busy. I've also been editing both multi-chapters of mine regularly since I discovered tons of grammar mistakes whenever I reread my writings. (I tend to break even the rules I know, which is most puzzling.)

(Part Four: "You looked much happier"). Posted and edited. :)