A few things: 

1- Offline friends? Where are you? Please write in your journals.

2- I want to write and write and write but words will NOT come. Instead, I have come up a short Merlin drabble which I may or may not choose to finish. Later.

3- I don't know if anyone cares, but I started writing more String Theory, and now I want to re-work the entire concept, and then once I've re-written chapters One and Two and Three, I will perhaps consider finishing it. As things stand, though, I find that my characters are too young, emotionally, and don't know enough of the world. I'm going to shift the story forward a year and a bit, and change the setting/location. I want there to be slightly more complications and a stronger female presence in the story. Does anybody care? Anybody at all? I need a name for a female character. I need a personality for a female character. Someone interesting. Suggestions?

4- I have no idea if I'm even CAPABLE of writing something... good. And Original. In any case it occurred to me a few weeks ago (the idea has been mulled over in my head) that the Jabberwocky universe I'd wanted to write, and the Playing To Win novel I wrote last November were really... very similar. As a matter of fact, I'm fairly certain that Playing to Win only exists as an extension of the Jabberwocky Universe I was so carefully trying to plan at the time. The problem with reconciling the two universes is that one takes place in something like a comic book, with superheroes and dastardly plans and honest-to-goodness villains, and the other takes place in the 'normal' world. I don't know if I can reconcile Connor and Haiku, and while the rest of the characters could fall into place nicely... I'm not sure I want to. I like the fact that Haiku has a scar and a strange name and some disturbing memories, I like that Connor is just like his father and has a disturbing lack of memories. Here's the question: I've written almost 120 000 words for Playing to Win, and only a few drabbles + a LOT of planning for Jabberwocky. Do I try and combine the two, perhaps taking Haiku's name/looks and Connor's personality, pulling enough from the comic book verse to make the novel believable? Or should I work the other way, take key moments of Haiku's adventures and transpose them to Connor? Do I want to turn original fiction into fan fiction, or fan fiction into original fiction? And will the characters lose themselves if I try? Is the sudden lack of violence going to be a problem? And more importantly... should Haiku still sleep in the bathtub?

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This is the Merlin drabble I thought up... some sort of modern AU/reincarnation 'verse.

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A shock of dark hair and pale skin and Arthur was sent reeling, his mind filled uncontrollably with images that he didn't understand. It made no sense, but it overwhelmed him and he stood, gaping, completely oblivious to whatever it was that Percy was saying to him.

When he could breathe again, he turned to his friend and tried to remember what they'd been talking about.

"Are you okay, mate? You look a bit off," Percy said.

Arthur looked around. The dark-haired boy was gone.

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