I've been playing with doing a rewrite to finish another old fic of mine, and it has a long depressing playlist right now.

::Listen on Spotify::

Sample track listing:

• Sad Beautiful Tragic - Taylor Swift
• Relapse - Carrie Underwood
• You Could Be Happy - Snowpatrol
• Gone Too Soon - Daughtry
• Beam Me Up - P!nk

Plus 50+ more songs

(Obviously, it's not the happiest story.)

At this moment, I'm listening to The Worried Writer podcast.

But I've been listening to Carrie Underwood's Cry Pretty album, especially the title song and "End Up With You".

Personally, I tend to end up with a playlist that helps me get into the mindset of the story I am writing. Some are easier to make soundtracks for than others.  I thought it might be nice to have a thread where we can share links to our playlists for others to listen if they like.

Anyone?

There's also the option of rewriting the entire scene again when it just didn't feel right.  So rather than editing, you rewrite the same 500 word scene in a different way. Then you have like seven versions of the same scene you have to consolidate when you finally get to the point of actually editing...  which is less fun.

It's almost November. Who is making this terrible decision again?

IT's almost time!  Who needs to scream?!

It's been all kinds of rainy here the past few days.

It's currently 8°C or 46°F.

I keep being very cold again, like I can't get warm, which is silly. It's not THAT cold. But here I am, sitting in the house wearing fleece leggings under my trousers, three tops and a hoodie to be comfortable when the house is sitting at about 19°C (66°F) when the heating is off during the day.

I've been on a jasmine green tea kick lately.

Quote from: Milieva on September 21, 2018, 10:22:04 AM
See, I think Kuu couldn't be more than three years older than Fuu.

But I base this on the fact that if we take the birthdays as canon, the first series takes place in March, just after Umi's 14th birthday. (This is the only way they can all be four in second year of junior high.) My guess is this was the end of year field trip. (Not that we think CLAMP thought that through at all, because when do they ever?) So, if you add the vaguely estimated time for families to be worried about them, etcetera... It's probably been at least a month or three, so they would then be in third year of junior high, so if Kuu were four years older, she wouldn't still be in high school.

Yeah, no, that makes sense. I formed that headcanon before I knew anything about how the Japanese school year worked, so Kuu being four years older than Fuu seemed workable and hadn't really thought about it since. I think I'll probably just fudge it by giving Kuu a mid-April birthday, so she's roughly three and a half years older than Fuu.

Quote from: VKiera on October 03, 2018, 12:49:15 AM
I have yet to write a fic where I've worked any of the siblings into it in any meaningful way, so I've no set ages in mind.

Though the stuff at the start of season 2 is in the morning right? Fuu's about to head out and Umi is having breakfast. So I guess maybe Hikaru is just working out before changing to go to school? So idk what you'd make of her and Masaru not being in uniform. If I were to write her brother's I'd agree Kakeru's about two years older, I'd put Masaru only like 18 months older than him, like they're very close in age in my head. With Satoru in his early 20s?

I based my ages for Masaru and Satoru in large part on how old I think they look. Satoru looks like he's in his mid-to-late twenties at the beginning of the second arc, so that's why I put him as nine years older than Hikaru, especially since he doesn't really look different at the beginning of the epilogue.

As for Masaru, his appearance, at least to me, pretty clearly says that he's out of his teens, but he also looks at least a few years younger than Satoru, so that's why I put him as five years older than Hikaru (and therefore three years older than Kakeru). Plus, as far as I'm aware, Japanese colleges don't require uniforms, so I assumed that the reason he isn't in a uniform at the beginning of the second arc is because he's in college.