The Crystal Caves

Thanks everyone for being so patient while I finished up a novel and got it into the editing stage. I'm waiting for my proof to arrive, so I'll update fan fiction today. I'm not going to take a guess on how long it'll be before the novel is available, but I'm hoping mid to end of August for this one. The sort of creepy part is that this novel has a major terrorist attack in it and I've been watching the news. Major travel warnings and official buildings closed because of a terrorist threat attack. Just goes to show the events in the book aren't all crazy and out there.

Okay, so, updates I'll try for today. I'm running a fever and there's chemicals being used in the building. Not a good combination when I'm trying to think. Anyway.


Least Expect 6

Leap of Faith

Unstoppable

Dust Monkey

Paths

We'll See

2 + 1 = Love

Spirits Save us

I'll see what I can get to. I already feel a headache starting up from the paint being used out in the casino. Days like this make me wish my room was sealed off from the rest of the building with just the fan and air conditioner to help circulate air in here. This is going to be a very long day.

I'm going to try and balance updates with editing and updating at least two novel chapters. I'll do this until the novel is done and then my focus will go back to updates on the weekends. I figure it's a fair exchange.

On that note, it's time for me to look for readers/bloggers for my novels. If anyone would be willing to do this for me drop me a note and let me know. I haven't started seriously searching, but thought I'd put something here just as a note. The serious search will start once I'm home from London. (Mum asked me why I can't write the great American novel and live off my writing - she drives me crazy)

On the other note FOUR MONTHS UNTIL I LEAVE FOR LONDON. I won't start a countdown yet, but I'm getting excited.

First chapter published 23 NOV 06
Last chapter published 27 MAY 13

Reads (totaled for three archives) - 1,664,492
Reviews (totaled) - 1581
Kudos (totaled for two archives) - 790


Word count - 545,720
Chapters - 322
Journal tags - 88
Fandoms - 15
Archives posted to - 3
wiki pages - 1
fan works - 5 (that come to mind)
novels - 1.5 (the sequel is almost finished)
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Again, thank you everyone. *hugs*

i picked a novel i haven't worked with in two years and i'm rather amazed at how poorly parts of it are written. i managed 4381 words between prologue and chapter one, roughly a 75%/25% split between old and new, maybe a little higher on the new given how much rewriting part of the story needed. i seriously had to sit for about 20 minutes trying to work out one part of it.

for fans of TDC, this is the novel inspired by the series. i haven't given up on it and still have dreams of seeing it in print some day.

What does one do on a cold and rainy day when one is feeling depressed, sick, sore, tired, exhausted (trust me, those are different things for me), and horribly unloved? I don't know about everyone else, but I watched the SDs until I couldn't stop smiling and then started contemplating which seiyuus I would want to voice my characters if my novel became an anime within the next year. So far I've only settled on four of them.
1) Leigh - yukimura's seiyuu
2) Holmes - Kenjiro
3) Alex - Hiro
4) Dr. Samuelson - Hiro

I think I want Kenjiro to voice either John or Chris, but haven't decided for sure which one yet. I see both of those men with deep voices, and I have been leaning towards Suwabe for John. So I guess Kenjiro should voice Chris. Naru would be a perfect Charlie. I would love to have, oh I have it. MasaOno can be Merlin. He is perfect for that role. That just leaves Kohei from the SDs. He could voice Scotty. I'll have to do a more complete list when I'm home, but it would be awesome to get to work with these guys.

Well, a gal has to have her dreams.now I only have to last another 45 minutes and I'm off for the day. So ready to head home.

*is sleepy*

 I've had some requests to put up the information about which dragon is which, color, talent, etc. So I'm going to post this both here and also at my general lj as well. And then I'll go and edit the web page, add in pictures to the table if I can figure out how to do it properly. Not to mention finding the software to do it in. *sigh* I might have to start over.


Okay, here we go......
The Miami Community
Gil Grissom - Alpha dragon in Miami - Black - Nick Stokes - Telepathy 
Horatio Caine - Beta dragon in Miami - Red - Greg Sanders - Smell lies and emotions
Jim Brass - Dragon in Miami - Silver - Warrick Brown - Sense danger to the community
Tim Speedle - Dragon in Miami - Bronze - Eric Delko - See emotion prints

The NYDC Community
Jethro Gibbs - Alpha dragon in NYDC - Ice Blue - Tony DiNozzo - Smell lies and emotions
Mac Taylor - Beta dragon in NYDC - Blue/Gray/Green - Danny Messer - Telepathy
Don Flack - Dragon in NYDC - Emerald green - Abby Sciuto - not developed
Ryan Wolfe - Dragon in NYDC - Light orange - Lindsay Monroe - not developed

The Rogues
Sam Winchester - Dragon loosely connected to both - Coffee brown - Dean Winchester - not developed
Spencer Reid - Dragon without a community - Lime green - Aaron Hotchner - not developed


Colorado Community
Jack O'Neill - Alpha dragon in CSCC - Purple - Daniel Jackson - Telepathy

Los Angeles Community
Don Eppes - Alpha dragon in LA - Gold - Charlie Eppes - not disclosed
Larry Fleinhardt - Beta dragon in LA - white gold - Megan Reeves - not disclosed

My kid brother, who is a physics graduate student in Maryland, is home for the holidays. We were talking about my novel over supper and he asked how the dragons in my fanfiction pieces and the novel a) knew about DNA and b) how they would alter it. I pointed out that they are magical creatures and can do whatever the hell they want. He asked if I actually said they used magic to alter their DNA because he had a picture of dragons in labs with microscopes and lab coats on. At that point I just started laughing and he continued saying that he wondered where dragons would have obtained microscopes hundreds of years ago and how they would work them with their claws. Not to mention the test tubes and everything else that would be needed to work with DNA.
I tried to point out that they had human-shaped babies hatch out of eggs and he said that wasn't the point. The point is that unless I say it's all done by magic the "nerd" faction is going to get stuck on the point that the dragons knew about DNA and were able to somehow work it in an advanced chemistry setting hundreds of years ago.
Honestly there's no point here, at least as far as I'm concerned because I love the mental image of dragon chemists. But he said to let him know what you guys thought. So if you have a thought on this, and honestly I don't know that it could get much sillier, please post it so I can pass it along.

I think I may just put magic in to be on the safe side. Because I do know how much power the nerds have. Trust me on that one. *grin*

I got these in an email from ktattoo. It's another wallpaper for my story "Dragon Chronicles". She's also done some wonderful drawings of three of the dragons that I'll put up in a day or so. Enjoy this, I know I did.