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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
FFnet-wise, I'm slacking off. It's not because of dry spells. I just lack the motivation. And creative freedom tells me that fanfiction just doesn't do it for me anymore. In a way, it has crippled me substantially. I want to be a serious writer and I want to write my own original fiction, something mainstream and inherent to my roots as a Filipino. And I'm working quite well on that. Since writing would be a career I wish to pursue in the near future, I don't want to get sidetracked and distracted. Sadly, FFNet does that. It was obvious I just drag myself to meet it halfway but if I'll be completely honest to myself, I don't want to do it anymore. I feel like an asshole because I did promise last February that I will see this through. But I just can't :c

I sure as hell will miss Death Note Fandom most of all because I have not finished any of my stories there which only goes to show that my work habits as a writer need to be trained for the better. I would probably still continue revising my smut and adding chapters for the VK smut and the LCDO smut as well; because they're much easier to write and they won't take much of my time since the plot can be kiddie pool-deep and the pyschology of the characters can be derivative. I'm not saying that my smut would appear juvenile; they're more or less catharsis during moments I don't get laid feel like entertaining myself.

I'm very sorry if this would offend any of my readers who I know look forward to my work (and probably got too bored or impatient doing so). It's not like I'm treating my craft in fanfiction as lame, disregarding it as mediocre. Not at all. Because of fanfiction and livejournal, I've met a lot of great online friends who identified with my interests and passion. But I have a life outside the web and I want to enrich my relationships and goals there. It was fun being stuck here in eljay, talking about fandoms, anime and manga and whatnot. I love it. I'm proud to be a fangirl. I like answering the memes and updating my status in FFNet, posting new chapters for my stories. But as a long-term, I don't see myself doing it for years to come. So I need to quit it while it's early.

I'll still be around in eljay though, if any of you guys still like to hear from me. You can find me in my private [info]writer_craft where I talk about real-life issues in writing, college and relationships. I also post my original fiction there some days.

I'm gonna try to finish what I can finish in FFNet but I really cannot continue the other serious ones like Her god is my enemy, Vengeance Paid, Dirt in the Snow, Ornament of no intact personality (the last two I might still have the energy to add some chapters but I don't know to what end). Thank you for understanding.
 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
I have re-posted A Different Kind of Sweet at last, and the goal is not really to get more reviews. The story is Rated M, after all, so it'd be hard to find when a reader browses in the DN fandom page by page unless he/she is looking for it particularly. I'm just happy that the revision was better than the original draft (I guess, you'd be the judge of that, find it HERE).

PROGRESS: I'm still revising Chapter 5 of Diff. I'm also revising A Little More would do, because I realized it was such a fun L/Matsuda story that I haven't gotten to finish. I also have tons of unfinished Death Note stories I never got the chance to get back on. Hopefully I could decrease the load along the way if I just endure and keep writing. There's also my POT fic that I'm neglecting. I'm almost finished with the following chapter, but I'll delay it for another week since I'm focusing more on the VK and LCDO chapter updates.

Also, I'm re-joining citrus_taste again, this time as harleycooper. Here is the Lime Table I'll be using in continuance to my LCDO story Sophomore.

( Get that lime, baby!~Collapse )

 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
08 February 2010 @ 09:15 pm
So OMG.  I haven't been updating this eljay in ages because I believe my membership in our school paper demands my utmost attention. Three of my original stories will be published soon in our literary digest and I just can't wait! In the meantime, I've decided to stop slacking off in my writing duties, FFNet-wise. I think I'm making progress so far. Let me do a list:

( Dutiful Writer, time to set your goals and priorities!Collapse )

*I really wanna keep writing fanfiction, especially now that I've found out I could use it as a means to improve on my writing style. And I have so many stories I want to develop and finish because I think it would be unfair to the readers who are looking forward to their completion. And I also have issues with Appetite for Enigma and it's safe to say I still don't know how to go about revising it.

On a unrelated sidenote that has something to do with new fandoms, I've been finishing Darker Than Black and so far it is awesome! I enjoyed the character backstories and the over-all pacing and flow of the episodes. I'm really captivated by the storyline although I noticed some loopholes here and there but the anime itself makes up for impressive storytelling, action scenes and its enigmatic lead, Hei. I have yet to finish Loveless, Code Geass, and D-Gray Man. My DVD of Vampire Knight Guilty has failed me by the ten to thirteen episodes which sucks ass so bad. Hopefully the DVD will work on my parents' player.

And I have a question to my F-list: Is being an anime/manga/ fan ever shamed you? Did you ever find yourself thinking that loving anime/manga is something of a guilty pleasure? What do your peers say about it, if said peers are not anime/manga fans themselves?
 
I ask this because I just really, really wanna know. I believe being an anime/manga fan is also a form of geek, right? Not like I ever cared about the label sinceI love a variety of things. It's just that I don't really wear being a fangirl for anime as some sort of badge. I immensely like a lot of TV series and movies and so many books, as well as anime and J-pop. So another question in mind is: Have you ever identified yourself strongly by these interests and hobbies before/ or still do?
 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
01 January 2010 @ 10:05 pm
It's a New Year and I've neglected to update this eljay for several months because I haven't been writing fanfiction that long. I was busy with RL writing in our school paper so it takes a lot of my time. We'll be releasing our literary digest this February. I do update my private eljay writer_craft  to about my personal and social life, and needless to say I've never been happier with the way things are going for me.

So what's new with my fandoms? Well, I'm still very much addicted to my childhood favorite Yu Yu Hakusho. I haven't started watching Darker than Black but it proved to be very interesting, as well as Hunter x Hunter and I'm only seven episodes as for now. I managed to watch Boys Be continously at my aunt's place during one lazy Saturday afternoon and I found it amusing, if not dreadfully fluffy. It's one thing that I don't write fanfiction; it's another thing that I don't devote time for my fandoms. I guess college has gotten the best of my otaku days and I find it easier to watch TV series like How I met your mother and The Big Bang Theory a lot more enjoyable, given the flow of my daily activities. This Christmas break we keep having  ambush vacations with the family so yeah. Now that my fanfiction status is almost unproductive, perhaps I should spare myself an energy to update my VK smut, POT fic and YYH fic while revising the chapters for A Different Kind of Sweet. I don't know if I'll be able to completely accomplish them but...baby steps.

Fanfiction and anime fandoms used to be my life and religion. Now I guess I have different priorities, more RL than virtual.

Happy New Year, F-list! I'd still be here. Lurking and trying to write.
 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
16 August 2009 @ 03:26 pm
I've established a compromise between me and my muse. I've been recently updating my personal RL stuff in writer_craft and one day I just said to myself, "I have got to do something about my neglected fandoms." And since I've joined citrus_taste and kind of liking the smut prompts it offers, I decided to give it a shot with my La Corda d' Oro fandom since the said fandom has many possibilities that could stretch and bend and even do freaking gymnastic moves (smut-speaking, of course). You can't go wrong with a shoujo harem manga like this fandom. So yeah. I'm now working on the fiction Sophomore which is an Amou Nami/ Tsukimori Len/ Hino Kahoko/ Tsuchiura Ryoutaru orgy thing, I dunno. It hasn't been updated for ages but right now, as the god of fanfiction is my witness, I promise to commit myself in writing the chapters designed from the smut prompts. And update this eljay frequently from now on. It's going to be my year. I can feel it. 



And with regards to aterraincognita,  I also have to find time to pursue that project. Which is a darn shame right now since I'm still adjusting, being a fanfiction writer while at the same time, being a literary writer for my university's offical student publication paper, Heraldo Filipino. But baby steps, for every season there is a time, right? So gambatte-yo, Harley!
 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
10 June 2009 @ 10:28 pm
I've posted Chapter 7 for Ornament of no intact personality on 04-25-09 and forgot to mention it somehow. I've been losing flame for most of my stories but hopefully I could start writing something new while revising/proofreading the published ones. Baby steps, Harley, baby steps. I'm not so scared of writer's block anymore. Is this what you call maturity as a writer? Have I finally stopped whacking myself with a shoe when I cannot find the energy or inspiration to write? By god! I get shitty whenever I patronize myself. Anyway, I know Viola-chan is looking forward for this story so I decided to post it here in eljay out of respect to her wishes.

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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
09 June 2009 @ 10:47 am

Nothing special. I've been revising my Death Note smut stories A Different Kind of Sweet and Dirty Little Whore. These stories are considered my very first so there are lots of loose ends and proofreading to be done. They have seven chapters each and the horror of looking back at your past works of fiction is a feeling like no other. Regardless of the realization that I used to suck back then, the realization that my writing style has evolved is also very delightful. So I've rewritten three chapters for A Different and I hope to accomplish on finishing the revisions by the end of July. I'm also writing on Yu Yu Hakusho fandom, since it was my earliest favorite when I was nine years old. It is a piece entitled Dirt in the Snow about the twins Hiei and Yukina and the gradual sibling relationship they develop (as well as a one-sided incestuous, pseudo-sexual feelings that will happen as the story pushes forward). It has two chapters posted and I'm still thinking about adding something on the third chapter before posting it as well.

I'm in no mood or rush to update in DN fandom as well as the others. I dunno. Perhaps I will start writing progressively in August because I have my college duties to pay attention to this year. The world is my oyster, shit like that, so I ought to enjoy how far I've gotten in fanfiction. And I'm truly grateful for it. I have 19 stories published in my FFNet account. These accomplishments are something to celebrate about. I could look back and regret nothing.
 

WRITING STATUS: Revised and published three chapters of A Different Kind of Sweet (05-29-09). Published Misa on stilettos (05-31-09). Uploaded Chapter 2 for Dirt in the Snow (06-04-09)


 

 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
31 January 2009 @ 03:49 pm
HIATUS begins 02-01-09 and ends 04-05-09and perhaps during the following months of June to December 2009, I'll be either present or not..perhaps just not as frequently as I was before. I won't be posting entries some days but I will comment of my F-list's posts as much as I can if school won't hinder me so.

February to March


--> RL issues. Will be strictly devoting these two months for work, college (which had kicked me in the balls last year) and goals. And my autistic brother will permanently stay with us so...

April-May

--> FFNet issues. Will start picking up what was left before the sudden attack of procrastination ensued. Will begin updating the currently neglected fandoms of Death Note, Kiniro no Corda and Prince of Tennis while balancing new fandoms of Vampire Knight and Kuroshitsuji.

--> Will also write oneshots on six fandoms and dedicate each to F-List. Finished stories will be posted by set and those said future fiction works can be found in aterraincognita 

Saying my temporary au revoir to old and new friends I've made last 2007-2008 and this year ^^

 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
23 October 2008 @ 06:52 pm
I'm finally starting to get around writing in DN fandom. Only finishing touches for "I'm a PERVERT?" since it got six votes in my FFNet pole. Next is Her God is my Enemy and Appetite for Enigma. Is Nana-san still up for beta-ing HGIME?

For now, this is the chapter six for "Ornament of no intact personality." I meant to do an Inui POV because that's the right order of things but this is another Tezuka. God, I can't help myself anymore but hope this chapter could please because I know it very much did me a favor here comes suggestive wink!

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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
07 September 2008 @ 07:34 am

Horrible luck with my personal goals lately. Been consistently abandoning my studies and compensating excessively on emotional shortcomings. So far I still believe there are death traps waiting in every relationship to be made. Fortunately writing is a good catharsis. Always had been. Right now it's been failing me too. I need to stop reinventing myself and just let loose, conform once in a while. But my sense of whatever-shit-freaks-like-me-call-it and of course, my pride are getting in the way of that. So here's to me, for being such a wuss. These things happen. I will get past it.

There's just so much debate on how the fleeting injustice that happens when you don't try to be part of the crowd arises. I'm never gonna win, am I? Be that as it may, I still have crap to clean. I still have a lot on my plate and it's best to just find the core, the state of center, or my sanity will be intact no more.

Got a story in POT fandom: Ornament of no intact personality

Here is chapter one of that:

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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
At some point I'm gonna have to update this blog. Well, needless to say I've been slacking off five times more than usual procrastination but I have really good reasons. I can always put the blame on my personal life and my college responsibilities but that would not be fair both to myself and my pride so...I think I have to at least summarize what has happened to me these past few weeks. First off, I still plan to update my Death Note fandom since I've received several hopeful demands from readers. I plan to get back to the fanfiction mode sooner of later (but sadly not later.) And in addition to writing duties, I'm trying to expand the structure of my original novel "Sherlock" Chronicles and I already had my literature professor read the six chapters I've finished so far. She encourgaed me to pursue my passion in writing and yeah, I would. I treat art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction as Oscar Wilde, wise guy, said. And I still have my La Corda d' Oro fandom to concentrate upon as well. Right now, current distractions are disabling me from performing to my utmost power to write decent stories.

Two anime shows have occupied me lately: Prince of Tennis and the beautiful Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei. I can't completely proclaim that I'm officially a POT fan but as a megane addict *cough-Kyouya-Teru-Cho Hakkai-cough* I personally am obsessed with the Seigaku captain Kunimitsu Tezuka and my nocturnal time is filled with only "dreams" (being used loosely) about him. Now moving on to the other anime, I recommend it immensely! It's a spiteful dark comedy that satirizes the Japanese societal customs and cultural stereotypes that evolve into more wordly concepts. The protagonist, a pessimistic high school teacher, challenges his culture but is bound to it and often attempts to commit suicide to send out his message of despair. It's provocative and addictive indeed. So now I spend time watching the 178 eps shit, I missed a lot of tennis action of POT and deconstructing the exponential ideologies from Goodbye Mr. Despair. I honestly believe the two said anime might just be on the same level as my fascination for Death Note. Honestly, Sayonara did win that Kondansha manga  award-something. It's creating season 3 this month. I have to grab a copy somewhere *adds it to list next to L change the world*

Power to Megane! The teacher in Sayonara is also one *icon love!*

I promise not to neglect my priorities in FFNet world. In the meantime, I'll go improve my academic status with the midterms fast-approaching because I must not let Algebra kick my ass again.
 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
16 October 2007 @ 02:48 am

I am having the best sem break so far. Unfortunately I made the big stupedous mistake of leaving my documents in my roommate's laptop so I can't update anything else but "I'm a PERVERT." I am almost done with several chapters for "Appetite for Enigma" and "Her God is my Enemy" and now I have to convince my conscience not to shoot itself. I am really enjoying focusing on my smut for awhile. Chapter Two for both "Our Choice of Wardrobe" and "A Little More Would Do" is more than procrastination. I am also having second thoughts on pursuing "World of Sights and Sounds" and hell, I am done with "Angelica" but as I have stated before, I was stupid to leave my files on the dormitory. By some miracle of God I hope I will survive the crisis.

I really hate Takada Kiyomi but I am having fun with "We're all MAD here." "Dirty Little Whore" has finally said its goodbye. I think in the meantime I will concentrate on L/Misa and think of another formula for "Vengeance Paid."

My innate love for Ally Mcbeal and John Cage pairing is clouding over my L/Misa. I think L/Misa is a good pairing. I like their romance although non-existent in canon. Yeah, I'll concentrate more on them.

And I want to welcome Condolezza Ribeiro!

UPDATES to follow:

Appetite for Enigma- Chapter 23 (Pablito Mendez and Leonard Telesco POV)
Her God is my Enemy- Chapter 5 (Conquered by Love)
Angelica- Chaper 1 (Computer games later)
Our Choice of Wardrobe- Chapter Two (Damned Elevator buttons)
We're all MAD here- Chapter Three (White Rabbit)
A Little More Would do- Chapter Two (Expensive Taste)

 
 
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Harleigh Maureen Cooper
24 August 2007 @ 01:46 pm
I should make a list now of what I should do with my fanfiction stories just so I don't get out of track. And what do you know? I get along just fine without happy pills and tequilla. And my current addiction is the 80's series Beverly HIlls, 90210...I so love Brenda and Dylan pairing!

My smut stories should go along together in updating:
Dirty Little Whore (Chapter 7)
Our Choice of Wardrobe (Chapter 2)
I'm a PERVERT? (Chapter 3)
A Little More Would Do (Chapter 2)

Then my other serious fics:
Her God is my Enemy (Chapter 4)
World of Sights and Sounds (Chapter 2)

Lastly Appetite for Enigma (Chapter 21) Near's POV, should be separated from uploading.

And I really should be patient with reviews. I have a beta reader now just in case since tenses is so my defeat. I hate the whole pragmatic thing about being grammatically correct all the time. Still, nothing limits my imagination so I will go on and empower the craft as long as I can.

Now I must go back to reality, which is college, and perform well there as well.

 
 
 
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