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I played Zelda the entire day. That's why I could only read one book. That snow mountain? It's annoyingly easy to get lost in.

But enough of Zelda since I don't really write about what I play. (I should actually start writing that Epilogue 2 of rend soon, or actually end it, but inspiration hasn't been pouring lately. I do know how it ends, how it begins, it's all the connecting parts that are driving me woozy.)

But enough of that...

Read Sazi 03, was surprised that it was not in the first person POV (1&2 were) so it kind of threw me off balance. Again, firmly not in the urban fantasy genre and more on paranormal romance.

Antione Moniere representative of the cats stumbled upon Tahira sister to his equivalent in a ghost tribe of shapeshifters. He finds her in the middle of German police and was about to be sent to the zoo. He saves her (duh) discover a hidden power in her while he tries to figure out how he could get out of accusations of him not being a good leader to the weres and have a strong family enemy and rival underneath his roof. All in wintry Germany in the middle of christmas shopping.

The beginning of the book was extremely slow. I mean... really slow. But I did get to laugh at Councilman Ahmed again even if he's really .. you know the type to want to be misunderstood instead of explain (I really want that attitude, you know to hell with what everyone thinks? Unfortunately I have more pride than I have finesse).

I also loved the entire performing show thing. I learned a lot about training cats. ( I read about training cats once before in SEP's Angel... something but that's neither here or there). And we did get to see brief glimpses of Tony while Antoine calls him long distance and e-mails him.

I loved the way that the ceremonies in this book goes. It keeps surprising me. There was a cheesy part about choosing, but I guess it can't be helped. Sometimes, some things can only be accomplished with a whole lot of cheese. Some authors pull it off, some don't. SOmetimes I just don't buy the entire love solves everything bandwagon. They could have put it in less explicit terms and it would have gotten the point accross, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, would have been less cheezy but who am I to judge?

I am happy to say though that I am entirely extremely curious now about Antoine's sister Josette especially since a) she's the one who froze the snake people in the ceiling without effort and b) after the background given of the Moniere family in this book and c) the blurb at the back of the book of book 6. Let me just say that my EQ is apparently still working and 6 is soooo far off from 3.

Map of Japan with Ranma daimyo influences [here]
Japanese Feudal Heirarchy [here]


Chapter 18 : February (Chapter 19 in FF.N because prologue counts as CHapter 1)

We attend a funeral.

Kuno admits something.

Ranma runs.

Akane learns how to fish.

The Tendo siblings fetch an unruly bodyguard.

Someone new steps in.

All in one chapter... 15,661

Part 16: January
Chapter Summary:

The Tendo secrets are closing in on the House of Tendo.

Kodachi tries the improbable.

Akane fights. In more ways than one.

Ranma has a choice to make.

This... is sooo not a Nabiki chapter -_-; :)



Finished uploading Rend in fanfiction.net. This chapter's thanks goes to Emma Kuhfeld for all the grammatical advice in the future as well as tin. There were scenes that were cut becuase of sheer cheezyness. You'll find those scenes at the end of the chapter. :p Not officially part of the chapter but too much effort on my part to throw away.

I think I'm posting a chapter in mediaminer again. Who knows. I realize that for posts in nfiction and taht new place, I'm going to need to segment my chapters more.

My sister tells that if our writing were really books released in chapters at a time people would go: Wow a book, a really good book. It's a chapter from a good book.

And REND would go like: WOW, a NOVEL, a really really long novel. A chapter. it feels like a book. Groan. There are 16 books. It's not over yet. Groans too long. :p

Apparently, I really should have listened to all those people nagging me way back in chapter 4 telling me taht my chapters are just too darned long. It's just that ... well... I started writing this waay back when Alan Harnum was writing Waters Under Earth. Remember that? Epic right? It was so epic that my third world dial up at that time couldn't read the entire chapter in his website. He had to send me the entire chapter in my email for download so I could read it. Then I look at my chapters and say, WHAT's SO LONG ABOUT THIS? Haha, in retrospect, I think Alan Harnum was this big fantasy writer, Robert Jordanish.

I was just writing about drama. James Clavell type, people had a right to be annoyed. They wanted I don't know ... Christina Dodd they get James Clavell length, without all of his editors.


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I've fully revised Chapter 8 in fanfiction.net and in livejournal. So there... yes, I was shocked at how bad I wrote back in highschool.

This is probably the reason why author's never re-read their past works -_-;

Anwyay...

What did I do:

1) Deleted 14 "after alls"
2) Deleted 5 scenes
3) Corrected some grammatical and punctuation errors. There might still be some left over, so please tell me if you see some.
4) Resubmitted the chapter to my wonderful beta...


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Ok I've revised Chapter 6 and uploaded it in mediaminer.com (yes, I have an account there too) not yet in fanfiction.net since the server is undergoing some renovations. There are major changes on how Hanae was born into this world plus grammatical changes.

[edit]: Here's the fanfiction.net revision: Chapter 6

Chapter 13 is in the middle of the editing stages already, with just two more fight scenes to go and a surprise scene... surprise scene meaning after I wrote it it suddenly popped out and surprised me by writing itself into the story. Anyone who wants to help me with the fighting scenes can still contact me through the feedback form.

I've added two portions on the nav-bar, adding the mirror site into it and adding another portion an update log for Rendezvous with fate, so that I can delete the older updates in the release log.

OK, now I'm heading over to the mirror site and uploading again. See you guys.