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Ten Things I Tell Everyone

1. I am married to a Count.
2. We have a daughter named, Caroline.
3. I am a writer.
4. I am a consultant on indigenous ritual, entheogens and sometimes my expertise is used to help law enforcement.
5. I am Scottish.
6. I travel a great deal in my line of work
7. I am a student of all forms of Power
8. I love Indian food.
9. Can’t is not in my vocabulary.
10. I am happy with who I am.

Ten Things I Tell No One

1. How much I truly hate my real father.
2. That when my husband and I met, we actually antagonized each other relentlessly for months.
3. It was that which convinced me that I was in love with him.
4. I never truly hated my foster mother, Morgienne. She just had all that I wanted and she needed to pay for her complicity in my mother’s death. It was simply the price of admission for my ambitions.
5. I think that Prince is rather talented.
6. I hate most desserts.
7. I think that there are those of my Fae kin who are pretentious bastards with a chip on their shoulder that is entirely too large and egos that are far from justified.
8. My true age…..although there are a very precious few who know it. Those who do know better than to mention it.
9. I dislike large social gatherings and would prefer a quiet night in front of a fireplace with a book and/or a loved one.
10. I often prefer the company of animals and plants to people.

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It seems like I’ve done this before…..

01. Leave a comment saying, “Interview me” or the like.
02. I will respond with five questions of a totally random nature.
03. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

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Congratulations! You’ve been granted one wish. What is it?

‘Wishes’ are for those who lack the sufficient Will and ambition to make things happen for themselves. What good does it do to ‘wish’ if something in our lives were different, or that an event had not happened or had happened? As the saying goes: ‘ If wishes were horses, then beggars (and cowards) would ride.’ I assure you, I am neither. Anything I have ever wanted in life, I have gone out and gotten it for myself, without the need to pine nor to wish for it. And without any remorse for having done so.

I do know that I quite often have a desire for better questions from the querent. And there are times when that “wish” is sometimes granted. But more oft times than not, I am accosted with the redundant re-phrasings of questions that have been asked many a time before. No doubt they are posed in the hopes that somewhere along the way our answers might change if the words were but arranged differently.

Muse: Fanny Fae / Faelyn
Fandom: Original Character / Folklore / Mythology
Word Count: 163
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villain vs. hero

Who is the hero and who is the villain depends greatly upon your point of view and where you find yourself standing in this grand scheme of life. Who is a patriot and who is a traitor? Who is a defender or conqueror and who the usurper- all of these answers within the mind and hearts of those who recount what came to pass.

Who was the hero and who was the villain when my mother lost her life when I was so small? Was England wrong to lay ruin to the Scottish village of Dunnlauden and slay my Uncle who would bend neither neck nor knee to them in acknowledgement of their so-called ‘authority’? Who was avenged and who was aggrieved when I took the life of Morgienne with my own hands in vengeance for her complicity in my mother’s murder? Who was wrong when I decided to remain true to my word and marry the wrong man, thus breaking the heart of the one whom I loved and who loved me? Who was the reviled one when the Comte de Rochefort’s men stabbed my fiance’ in the back and Sebastien slew them all himself in payment for their treachery against his one-time brother? Who was the wronged party when later both Athos and Sebastien met upon the field, costing my husband his very life?

A wise man once told me, well after I had grown to womanhood, and when I once had a doubt about which category I fell under, he allayed my fears. He took my small hands into his much larger ones that were like great gnarled bear paws, “Listen t’meh words of prayer, child,” Nevan said stroking across the backs of my hands with his thumbs, ” Listen t’ them carefully and ye’ll find the answer t’yer own questions: ‘ When I whet my flashing sword and my hand takes hold in judgement, I shall take vengeance upon mine enemies and I will repay those who haze me…’ .” The rest I knew, even though I was no practising Catholic. In those days, in those moments, came the reassurances of a father to a daughter. And there also came the same sort of reassurances from a husband to his wife; whether villain or hero, one does what one must. It should be of little concern how the rest of the world views you – as long as you can end up living with yourself.


Muse: Fanny Fae / Faelyn
Fandom: Original Character, Folklore, Mythology
Word Count: 396
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RP Positivity Meme Borrowed From ambitious_woman

By posting this I commit to do each of following things in the next week, all designed to makes the worlds we love just a little brighter, and happier.

1. Interact with a character that I never have before.

2. Leave a thoughtful compliment to someone else’s work, either in their journal or on community sounding board.

3. Mend a hurt. (We all have them)

4. Reread something you personally have written in the past and remembered enjoying, if only to remind ourselves how fun it can be.

5. Make someone smile. (We are all creative souls. How that happens is up to you)

Now go forth, and be positive!

Please comment here if you intend to participate, and post in your own journal so others may as well.

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10 Most Influential People in Fanny Fae’s (Faelyn’s) Life

1. Comte Sebastien G. de Rochefort (husband)
2. Hsu Danmei (lifelong friend, godfather to Caroline de Rochefort, Immortal)
3. Moira McKay (mother)
4. Caroline de Rochefort (daughter)
5. Morgienne du Lauc (former High Lady of the Fortunate Island, foster mother, enemy)
6. Dr. Gil Grissom (friend, lover, criminalist and professional colleague)
7. Prince Itet (Prince of the Unseelie Fae, enemy)
8. King Nuada (King of the Seelie Fae)
9. Maeve MacKay (daughter, separated from her since birth)
10. Comte de la Ferre ( former fiance, Immortal)

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Writer’s Block: Writing: Makes Me A Better Writer

I don’t know that I can put it down to any one single thing. Certainly the more I read, the more I know what makes good writing. Even the non-fiction that I read can feed into my fiction writing. All the elements, good plot, great description, crisp dialogue all can come by observation. Add to this the burning need to write and the simple act of just showing up at the page every single day, throughout the day. This can definitely assist in the process. The carrying around a notebook and writing down snippets as they come – be it dialogue or description or new plot ideas helps to build that foundation toward good writing as well. Above all, when someone asks you what you do, responding with, “I am a writer,” and knowing you are that. It isn’t enough that one wants to be a writer. You have to be one. Putting it in a future tense just disconnects you from your art. You have to acknowledge that you are a writer, right now.

Here on Livejournal, one of the things that probably helped the most is writing with others whose work I admire. I have met so many wonderful people, all of them incredible writers. Through those interactions I have been blessed with ending up working together with these writers on various pieces of fiction. At least three of those people are now my permanent writing partners, and one is now part of a screenwriting partnership with me. Some refer to that sort of interaction as roleplay or RP. I tend to call it collaborative fiction, because we work out a plot, and sometimes run dialogue and work out the details in email. The end product helps both writers, or in some cases a group of writers put together something that is interesting and goes in directions none of us individually imagined that it would go. Usually it all ends up as being a part of some great adventure, which is really why many of us write in the first place, isn’t it?

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8.29.07 for

1. Are you the person you wanted to be? Is anyone really ever the person they wanted to be?

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