happiness take 2 xD

This morning I’m happy. Simple as that!

The sun is shining, it’s almost fifty degrees out, and I’m seeing all my friends today in civics class + chorus + band! Two hour band practice! I also rediscovered Lily Allen — who actually is a bit like a british Katy Perry, only Lily Allen is much better in my opinion. I normally steer away from pop, but Lily Allen is more pointed than most pop I’ve heard. So I’m getting her two CD’s from the library.

Yup, life is good.

I finished Supernatural season one, and was actually disappointed. The season finale was the FIRST one that has ever NOT made me cry. However, the first episode of season two did do the job, which was another first. I’ve also finally decided if I’m a Sam gal or a Dean gal … firmly in favor of Dean. He’s just less whiney and scores a bit more on the eye-candy scale. I’m really liking season two, and people tell me things just keep getting better and better.

I think spring should come a few weeks early this year … I mean, we’ve had our obligatory snow, and what’s the point of winter if all it does is make a lot of really cold wind and really cold faces. It’ll be nice to be able to walk the dog first thing in the morning and not have to bundle up like I’m going on an arctic exploration.

I’m really excited for this summer, I’ll probably be involved in a musical, and the family might be going to Canada again. Speaking of which, I miss the place. In particular I miss Nova Scotia + Cape Breton. I miss the laid back feel, I miss the fiddling coming from odd corners, and for goodness sakes, I miss the bagpipes.

Bagpipes. I have to ask myself how sane I am …

The recent bit of productivity in the writing world has also given my mood a boost! Awesomesauce!

He Cooks Spaghetti and Plays the Saxophone

Second chapter of ››Not With a Bang but With a Whimper is out. I’ve decided to extend it into a series of unrelated one-shots in the point of view of various newborns created during the Southern Wars as well as Victoria’s rampage in Seattle. 

And I’m working on a new fic involving the Denali Clan … I’ve got it all outlined, it’s longer and definitely more detailed than anything I’ve done before. 5000 word minimum chapters. Still writing the first chapter. It’s as long as I want it, and now I’m just … messing about with it. I’m hoping I’ll have it done and beta-ed by the spring/summer. 

I’m really excited about both new writing projects! 

And now I have a goal to write a chapter of Letters to the Dead a Week. It’s five hundred words a week at least, that’s not hard. 

Then again, it is. When I wrote Soul Searching, all the angst was just … easy. I’m in a different place now, it’s been nearly a year. It’s hard to go back to that semi-depressed manic twilight phase that got Soul Searching out, along with 20 + fics, in about three months solid. I should really get organized and figure out a working idea of how long this is, and what the plot will be. 

I FAIL AT PLOTS.

Eh. Enough whingeing!

Instead of writing, which I really should be doing, I entered a wild-card challenge at the Vesperarium. That means by January 27th I need to have made 28 graphics on the theme of the word “ring”.

10 down, 18 to go!

And … I’ve finished Doctor Who (all four seasons and specials). I’m watching Firefly now.

Joss Whedon is amazing! I want Dollhouse to hurry up and premier, so that when I’m done with Firefly I’ll have something of his to watch.

Happy New Years!

HAPPY 2009!

Heyloo Everybody

Heyloo all!

I make no pretensions of being interesting, first of all. There are so many things you could do besides read this blog. 

I wish I was brave enough to dance in the summer thunderstorms, though I have been known to dance in the rain. I am in love with the idea of a blue moon. I write prodigiously and indiscriminately. If wishes were feathers, I’d be able to fly. I dream about the characters I write. 

I am Portabella Swan. This is not my real name, this is one of three names I go by when using the internet. You may also know me as Iris, or Iris Messenger.

In the real world, I have a different name and a real life. In my spare time I write all sorts of things, mostly Twilight Fan Fiction, and poetry.

(porta-bella swan: a contraction of Isabella Swan, the main character in the book Twilight, and Portobello Mushroom … I am many things, one of which is random.)

Check here to see what’s in progress, when things will come out, sneak peaks of fanfics I’m writing, etc.

 Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: 

 

Applies to everything I post. This is fan-fiction, people. Characters, story-lines, whatever…

They belong to Stephenie Meyer. 

 

I am on fanfiction.net here.

I am on Twilight Archives here.

I am on twilighted.net here.

I am on Ramblings and Thoughts here.

I’m on Publicity for Twilight-IRC.net here.