Author has written 12 stories for Guild Wars, Digimon, and Starbound. Well hi there, TottWriter here. Writer of...various fantasy stuffs really. I've dabbled in fanfiction for a while now, but until recently it was lightly. Mostly with stuff based on player characters from the Guild Wars universe (with some crossover between the two games/timeperiods). Now I have a bunch of Digimon Fanfics on the go, and more in the wings. I write when I have time - which, with two youngish children, can get a little erratic at times. Factor in epilepsy, and the fallout when I have seizures, and the issue is compounded. So if I have patches where I don't update for a while, family or my own health has most likely conspired against me. But fear not! Procrastinator I may be, but one of the things I am procrastinating on is my own original work. So fanfiction is proving to be a very consistent distraction. I can also be found on various social media sites under the name TottWriter. Predominantly twitter and tumblr. My fandom side-blog on tumblr is tottwritesfanfic, and I am usually pretty good at letting it know when I've posted a chapter. This is something I am working on. Progress Reports (As of 4th August): Hope's Fire: Chapter 36 is up! Metanoia: Chapter 22 is up. Digital Fallout: Chapter 3 is up. Renascent: First fifteen chapters are up. This fic is on indefinite Hiatus until its companions have caught up, but it is not abandoned, I promise. Equanimity: Chapter 5 is up. Other fics: I'm also working on a Frontier fic (also untitled for now), which I would start posting if I knew how long I wanted the chapters to be. It's a choice between... maybe ten or fifteen shorter chapters, or less than ten longer ones. Decisions are hard, people.I also have a few Guild Wars 2 things sitting on my machine which I am tempted to dust off and make sharing-worthy. This will entirely depend on how terribad they turn out to be when I reread them though! Hope's Fire - A Map When I started writing Hope's Fire I drew a quick (and terribad) map so that I had a rough idea of where everything was. It worked, but as the story moved on, I realised I would need to extend it a little bit. I generally draw maps for my stories in an A3 sketchbook, and while I'd held off with Hope's Fire because it was a fanfic and not one of my much-neglected novels, it didn't really make sense to me that I was working off a poorly-drawn scrawl on a bit of dot-matrix printer paper. At this point, Hope's Fire is the longest continuous story I've actually written. So, without further ado, I present a map of The Mirror World, which is the quick, kinda random working-name that I've given the world in Hope's Fire. That's not a spoiler, by the way. It really doesn't relate to anything. I just needed something a bit snappier than "that other world they keep disappearing to", and it's marginally less misleading than "The Nightmare World" which is what I called it at first. Art I never thought I'd have a section like this (I'm no artist) but the Digimon Bang has led to there being relevant art hosted on Tumblr. Of course, ff doesn't allow for actual links to Tumblr blogs, but if you remove the spaces, this link will take you to some jaw-droppingly good art for Renascent, by FaiTakeruSachiko (Spoilers for Metanoia, mind. Ish.) http : // ftsartblog . tumblr . com /post/147097281653/renascent-fic-written-by-the-talented Completed Multichapter Stories Unforeseen Consequences - 9 chapters of ridiculous chaos which, somehow, all started with Taichi getting too drunk at a party. Eventually a Taishiro. (Ace!Koushiro)General Update: 10th January 2017 Well, Happy New Year, peeps! My goodness, life has been hectic these last few months. November was a solid graft for me, working on my own novel. I'm about halfway through my current draft right now (which, for a fantasy novel, isn't too bad I guess!), and I'm aiming to have a complete draft ready by mid-April, which means I really need to knuckle down and get on with it. I want to push out updates for my fics in the time between now and then (Hope's Fire was the first, going up a couple of hours ago), but I really can't make any promises at this stage. I struggle a fair amount with what is probably SAD at this time of year, so productivity is never my strong suit in cold/dark seasons. That said, I'm doing better than I was this time last year, so who knows? I just ask people to be patient with me, because my workload has now become split between projects which I am posting here, and projects which I am either posting elsewhere or not at all right now. It's not that I'm writing less - I've actually started the 100k in 100days challenge and I'm being more productive than I ever have in January before! - but not all that progress is going to be visible to people who only follow me here on . Still, feel free to ping me on Twitter or Tumblr if you want to know how the next chapters are coming along! ~Tott (Old updates below. I'll archive the most recent four or five here and then delete them so that this profile doesn't get completely out of hand.) 28th July 2016 Well, the third leg of Trinacriform has surfaced (having taken over my mind and diverting my attention from HF). If it hadn't been for me first getting heat exhaustion, and then some sort of godawful virus, it would have made it up sooner. But alas, poor health and children have intervened, and now it's the summer holidays. I will be endeavouring to get back into a normal writing schedule, but having wasted my immediate opportunity to do so thanks to being ill, it's going to be a bit trickier to do that with children underfoot. I promise I'm probably not going to drop off the radar for weeks at a time again though. I want to get back into telling all these stories! 8th August 2016 Hurrah, I have finally finished the next chapter of Hope's Fire! What with childcare, spontaneous decisions to participate in Odaiba Week, and just generally having to remind myself of the appropriate tone/the actual plot of Hope's Fire itself, it's taken me a while to get this together. But it's here, and I have absolutely rediscovered my love for it. (Not least because it's a lot less bleak and angsty than Trinacriform. Which I also love, but in a different way). I'm going to be focusing on Metanoia next, because it too has absolutely been neglected this last few months. And then, once that's done...I don't know, actually! I'm going to try and get Metanoia and Equanimity caught up to Renascent a bit, so you can probably expect a bit more of the latter, because it's so much further behind. But really, once I get back into writing it will most likely be a roughly even rotation, with a skew towards whatever calls my attention most. 30th August 2016 What the heck happened to Tott? Well, aside from general summer-holiday-child-related obligations, I've been prepping (and going to!) the 2016 Discworld Convention, where I spent four or five days (or technically six? Time disappears into L-Space at DWCon) in a haze of chaotic rehearsals for our production of Witches Abroad: The Musical, and other assorted events. The good news is that I'm back home now, and am about halfway through the next chapters of both Equanimity and Hope's Fire. The bad news is that I have the con lurgy, and my brain has metamorphosed to something with the approximate processing power of cottage cheese. I'll probably throw up the one-shots I wrote for DigiOTPWeek at some point soon, but please bear with me while I recover and return to my usual programming! 8th September 2016 Well, it's taken me a little longer to get back to writing than I'd hoped. The reason for that is threefold. Firstly, in the wake of the Discworld Convention I came down with Con-lurgy something FIERCE, and I am still hacking up half a lung each morning (or at least it feels that way). Secondly, I broke up with my boyfriend, and that generally put all thought and motivation for writing out of my mind for a bit. Thirdly, my children (finally!) went back to school yesterday, so the last few days have been filled with all the joyful preparation which accompanies such things. Uniforms to be bought, schoolbags to be got ready, shoes to be fitted, and all stuff like that. In addition to that, alongside my fanfics, I have been challenged to complete my own novel in...well, basically in six months. So I'm probably going to be focusing on that a LOT more than I have been, which, of course, will impact how often I update my fanfics. I love writing all my digimon fics, and I'm not planning to abandon them at ALL, but frankly, I've been writing this novel for going on seventeen years, and it's about time it got some proper attention. It puts HF's worldbuilding to shame. Feel free to look me up on Twitter/Tumblr (I'm tottwriter on both) if you want to spectate my stress over this, or if you feel like messaging me to know more about that project! 201th October 2016 Wow, time flies. I've had a couple of updates since posting a general thing here, but overall I haven't seemed too busy. This is in part because, well, I haven't been, and in part down to the fact that I am endeavouring to complete my first novel in the next six months, so I just don't have quite as much time for fanfiction right at this moment (much as I actually find it easier to work on than editing my novel). It's also going to be November soon, which means my MLing duties will kick in once again. Essentially, I'm going into semi-hibernation, but I will emerge again in December, sorely needing a break from my original fiction. And of course, fanfic always fills that gap quite nicely, assuming I can write at all. Plus, I'm getting super close to some major plot developments in HF, so try and stop me writing it! As I've said elsewhere, DF is on a semi-hiatus pending more information about Digimon Tri - enough of the plot hinges on things happening "now" in the timeline that I don't want to have to do too much retconning to accomodate Tri's general plot direction later on. Trinacriform continues, but I really do need to catch Equanimity up a little bit before ploughing on with the other corners of that Triad. It's not forgotten; I just have a lot of plates to spin at the moment, so it's only natural that some of them will slow down. I am of course sorry to those who are following my more neglected fics! I want to write them - I have the ideas in my head - I just don't have the time to dedicate to them at the moment. But they're not abandoned, by any means. |
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