Ro7 - When You're Sleeping

Okay I lied. There's still another segment after this one, but this one is longer than most of them have been so I decided it was a good sized update. I'm starting to think I shouldn't even worry about how many segments the chapters are broken up into. I know it makes it kind of drag on but oh well.
'When You're Sleeping' part 5 is up.
Okay, so maybe it was just because I managed to write like 15 pages and refer to Naruto a bunch of times without actually showing him and I found it funny. He will be in the next segment of this chapter, and in most of the ones after this, I promise.

So here's the notes:
The actions of the Akatsuki in this fic are based on very little from the manga/anime. Like what we knew before time skip. So Sasori here isn't really based on what we know of him from the Sand arc, it's just his character and abilities, not so much his motivations and stuff.

Also, sorry if some of the convo's seem like overkill. Not everyone is on the same page right now so there was repetition. I hope there was enough difference in each of them that you got something new from each one.

I don't know Inuzuka Hana's age from the manga. She's meant to be 20/21 here. And yes, if you remember what I said a few updates ago about Jiro being Itachi's teammate, you now know that Hana was as well. I like tying characters together, but if it seems like too much just let me know. Some people think it's too much to remember, so sorry if it does seem that way.

Lastly, I really need to work on balancing conversation with other stuff. Now it's just coming across as chunks of dialogue interrupte occasionally by an internal monologue and I don't like it. I also need to work on my dialogue itself. Most people all talk the same and it gets boring when the characters' voices don't come through.
Bleh,
I'm out til next time, I totally need a cigarette.

Oh, one last thing. Apparently my already not so great editing skills are slipping. Now I've thought this over a lot, and I don't want to go back to beta reader in the normal sense. At least not before I update. Because I update randomly I don't want to have to work around someone else's schedule (or try to find someone who can work around mine); I like being able to update when I finish a chapter.
However, I've been thinking that if anyone is interested in editing a chapter after I've posted it, I would be willing to send them the file so that they can look at the source (and write in about corrections) rather than just trying to make a note of mistakes in a review. If you ever notice something bad in a chapter and you decide you want to do this, just let me know (along with an email adress and whether or not you can accept attachments). I might not take you up on it right away if I'm being lazy, but I probably will. You can also request older chapters if you really want to. I will update edited chapters if I get them - maybe not right away (again kinda lazy) - maybe something like once a month make any corrections I've been told about or something like that.
Just let me know if you're interested.

21 and other stories

Just a heads up if you read my fic 21.
I'm doing pretty much the same thing with it that I just did with Ro7. So over the next few days, before I put up a new chapter, you may see some of the old chapter numberings change.
The basic explanation is that I'm trying to...consolidate? Okay maybe not consolidate but reorganize my stories without having to do a full rewrite on any of them.
In the case of 21, I'm throwing out a subplot or two and restructuring it so that the story happens over a shorter amount of time.
All you'll notice on the site is chapter titles changing a bit.
As I get the same done on Juniper I'll let you know if any changes are going to be made to it.

That time of year again...

By which I mean summer and hot temperatures and my computer over heating for some reason. I'm not really sure what exactly is wrong with it, but it doesn't like being used for long periods of time before it starts freezing up. This shouldn't be a big deal since I can still work with it, but it may mean things take a bit longer to put together. If it starts getting really bad, I'm going to print off my outline and extras and just write the chapters by hand before updating.
Again, this shouldn't be a big deal and I can deal with it. I'm just warning you that updating may take a bit longer.

Ro7 - When You're Sleeping

Okay, it's a short segment, but I hope it will tide you over for a bit.
Part 4 of 'When You're Sleeping'.
Just some quick general notes. A few people noted that they're already confused by original characters. I think some of the confusion will be cleared up as some of them appear more and others fade away but I'd like to know how bad the confusion is. Once I've finished this chapter, I'll probably put together a post on the blog about original characters with small bios and such. If there's anything you really want me to put in this post, let me know here.

Also, in hopes of getting up a bit more of a discussion here, I figured I'd put up some more in depth posts about Ro7. If there's anything you want to hear/talk about, let me know and I'll get started on that.

Finally, as soon as this is posted, I'm going back to work on cleaning up my outlines/timelines (there are sadly multiple). Once that is cleared up I shouldn't have any more delays. Sorry about this, I'm not normally this disorganized. That's the main reason this chapter is so short as I already managed to confuse myself a bit, so I stopped this segment here (after the funeral) and I'll pick it up again as soon as I've done my revisions. I'm not updating again until 'When You're Sleeping' is over because I really don't want to be splitting chapters up into this many segments; it makes the story seem like it's dragging on far more than it's meant to.

No real chapter notes this time - nothing much to talk about - I will say that I'm not thrilled with the ending of the funeral as I think it makes the chapter seem unfinished and (even though it technically is) I'm normally pretty good about cutting these segments off in better places.

Oh well, I hope it won't be long before I update again, but like I said above, it won't be until this chapter is completely finished.

Update...Maybe?

Okay, I think I might be able to finish an update for 'Role of Seven' some time this weekend. No guarantees, and if it comes it won't be very long but I figure it's better than nothing.

Kill Me Please

...actually I think I've used that title before...like the first time I started After the Dream...*snicker*
Okay but seriously, you guys are probably really going to kill me considering the amount of backsliding I've been doing over the past few weeks. The sickness was a legitimate excuse but it's been 2 weeks since I've been better and I'm gonna be completely honest with you...I've gotten nothing done.
I've tried.
Multiple tries actually.
On multiple stories.
But apparently the only things I've been able to write are original snippets that I'll probably never be able to really work with because they are just that vague.
Who knows. If I come up with something good maybe I'll post it somewhere so that you'll at least have something to look at.
Sorry again, I really am trying but my mind just isn't cooperating with me at the moment.

Oops

Sorry about that. I technically haven't been sick all week so I should have gotten an update up. I'm not really sure what happened, maybe I just lost track of time. I'd like to say that I'd have the promised Ro7 update for you folks some time tomorrow but I honestly don't know if that'll happen so I'm not saying anything for sure.
I also haven't gotten as much done on Juniper as I had hoped. I did decide to take down 'Snakes II' so I have to rewrite that as well. Here's to getting more stuff done this coming week.
Sorry again for missing updates.
Agent Spielplatz