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Eight months later...

I cannot believe how long it has been since I have come back to this sight. I guess, I have been coming back here to update one episode guide or another, but I did forget I had a bit of a blog here. Anyway... XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES! So excited I can barely even think straight! I have been added any article I can find to my site (xfiles.doriennesmith.com) and cannot wait to update my episode guide with a synopsis of TXF2! The other day, I had my music on random and Cher's "Walking in Memphis" started playing. I got so happy hearing it since I had not played it in God knows when (I mean I only got it for a single purpose anyway) and, after I played it, I immediately had to watch Post-Modern Prometheus. I still remembered all the dialogue like I always had and that is when the true excited about TXF2 began. I started to realize that in just a few days I would be watching a new chapter to The X-Files saga. For once, I would be watching Mulder and Scully and not know exactly what they were about to say and what was about to happen next. The idea of just gets me so happy I just want to dance! XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES! I still find it fascinating how quickly this year has flown. Writing has taken over every single part of my life; even moreso now that I am finally preparing to walk across the stage at The Ohio State University. On August 24th, I will finally have to grow up... I told myself it was time to grow once The X-Files ended in 2002, but now that I will finally be out of college, I think I am actually ready to do it. But still... XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES! As I dig up the desire to finish Flight, I begin what I hope will be my first publishable novel. Actually, it began months ago, but I am just now ready to fill in my vast pages of notes into something legible. :) I think I need to find some way to incorporate The X-Files into it; only because the show shaped me into the person I am today and even if it is only a vague reference that only the deepest X-Phile would get, the novel would not really be a part of me if I do not include anything. :) And so... XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!XFILES!

Finals are over!! and...my discoveries on FanFiction.net

Finals are finally over! Huzzah! :D There is something so depressing about Thursday finals. It feels like I get robbed of days of Christmas break. I learned a lot this quarter: I have not got a handle on "everything" like I originally thought, especially when it comes to something like extreme grief; I have a preference for literature written four hundred years ago over current things; Queen Elizabeth the first was simply one of the magnanimous people to have ever lived; I can write even better papers when I do not try to write them three hours before they are due... I have not been posting here much lately because I have just discovered FanFiction.net and the "wonder" that lies therein. I am so captivated by the actual literature that some authors write and the absolute tripe that comes from others. I have also discovered that there is this whole community dealing with the "problem" of flamers.

I confess I have been pretty ignorant on this darker side of online communities, mostly because I tend to ignore people that sound stupid or do not have anything significant to add, but I had no idea that there so much friction online. It is kind of sad because I support the flamers on principle, but to quote a favorite X-Files episode "it's their methods I can't condone."

Constructive criticism can help people realize and learn from their mistakes perfectly fine without the "You suck at writing! Do something else with your life!" flames that get throw around that site.

Personally, I hate to see a story that has been written poorly. It turns into a waste of everyone's time and energy; the unsuspecting souls who read the nonsense and the poor writer who really is just wasting their time.

What troubles me most about the whole flame/constructive criticism argument is the fact that a lot of the problem stems from people who cannot take the criticisms and learn from them. What good does it do anyone to have praise about something that is faulty and poorly written? I know it is just fanfiction, but writing is writing and if someone is going to take the time to "borrow" the characters from X-Files, SVU, InuYasha...The Labyrinth, he or she could do the creators the common courtesy of taking the time to write something worth reading. Anyway...[/rant] I have two stories at FF.net right now: my novel, Flight, and my first X-Files fic ever. :D My XF fic is a one shot, but I am up to Chapter 5 of the SVU novel. I am kaitco there too: (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1385603/kaitco) Gah! I am kaitco everywhere. I should think up a new name before I find "kaitco" listed as an AKA on my credit report...

Life is good!

Flight Hmm...I am not sure how many people are reading the novel, but...Chapter Two of Flight has been posted! :) Also of note:
  • the Ohio State Buckeyes beat Michigan 14-3!!
  • and, there have been no riots on campus as a part of the "celebrations."
  • And, the second sister of a dear friend of mine who passed away in a car accident about a month ago has joined the church; the same church of which her sister was such an integral part.
All in all, life is GOOD! :D

Flight, a novel

Finally! It took seventh months of writing, two months of editing and hundreds of messages/e-mails with beta readers, but it is ready to be viewed by the "masses." :D My SVU novel: http://svu.doriennesmith.com/flight/ It is also going to be at svufanfiction.com (once it gets approved), fanfiction.net, and on my profile at Writing.com. If you are reading, let me know what you think whether you hate it or like it! Edit: Now, also at SVU fiction.com and FanFiction.net.

The dumbest thing I have ever done

I am still in shock that I even managed to do this. So, I got up this morning and I was more or less on time for once, I see my car and it is covered with frost. Annoyed, I shove my bag into the car, turn on the car with the side door still open and get back out again to retrieve my scraper from the backseat. Now, my car has a bunch of ignorant auto features, like the seatbelts are automatic and the doors lock as soon as the car is started, meaning that if the doors are open when the car starts and I if do not re-unlock the doors on my way back out of the car, the doors will be locked from the inside upon my exit. You can probably see where I am going with this... As I shut the front door, I remember this and pulled at the back door, not really believing my ignorance for a full minute before I stood back from my car ready to just scream into the air. That is right. I locked my keys in the car...with the car running. I had all these thoughts running through my head about how I almost put my cell in pants pocket instead of my bag, and the number of times I had meant to hide an extra car key or house key somewhere outside the house. Completely embarrassed, I went to one of my neighbors who was luckily still home and got to call AAA who came after an hour to open my car for me. Grrr! I had such good intentions for today! This is the fifth time I have missed my Monday class between mourning time and my own stupidity and I will probably have to drop it because I have just missed too much time. (Sigh) I am so aggravated. I just cannot believe I managed to do something so stupid. Oh well...

So...this is grief

Something's happened in my life and I wrote about it. I had meant to put the entire post from my own blog here, but I haven't the strength to copy and paste nor attempt to make it "look right" here as well.

Here is the link: http://blog.doriennesmith.com. Read if you'd like. I just thought I'd share.

Back, and looking for beta readers

I am back...Woot! Why did I leave, you ask? That is an excellent question! I left to spend more time writing and less time posting instead of writing and studying and doing everything else that mattered. What has changed? Nothing, except now I have a nice, shiny new book to present to the world. Yep, I did it. I wrote an SVU novel, my first book ever! It is called Flight and it is more than 370K words. It is a bit of beast, but I am anxious for anyone, even if you have never seen an episode of SVU, to let me know if he or she would be interested in beta reading the novel.

I am just in a generally fantastic mood right now for having completed one of the goals I initiated at New Year. Next year, I plan to have written something actually publishable (i.e.: not fan fiction, but something completely original) and begin submitting the book to editors, but this is still such a milestone in my life.

Is anyone interested in beta reading my book?

Ugh...I feel so unoriginal

Since my own blog is compromised for the moment due to server changes, I will use this one to wage my war on the written word: I feel so unoriginal.... Tonight's episode of SVU literally took a page from a fanfic I was planning on writing and the previews for next week's episode make me want to burst into tears. I have been writing this story for weeks and next week's SVU practically is what I have been writing.

I suppose the show's writers will do a much better job on it than I will, but I still cannot help but feel this dark, fathom of depression seep over me when I come to realization that there really is nothing new under the sun. There really is nothing that I can create that has not been previously done. It is simply an ever-present weight that bears down on this aspiring writer each time my originality turns into the strikingly mundane. I will write my SVU fanfic just for the sake of doing it, but now I know it will just seem so utterly unoriginal. Blech...it is the worst feeling in the world and this is normally when I am happily running on my SVU "high" which usually carries me into the next week. ...sigh...

SVU YouTube Video

I completed my first real YouTube video. It is called "Funny Quotes from the SVU" and the title is pretty self-explanatory. I used as many of the funnier quotes I could find and I dedicated the second half of the video to Detective Munch. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFKY6ilROcc Let me know what you think of it!

Looking for "funny" SVU quotes

I am in the process of creating an SVU video featuring some of the funnier quotes from the show, but most of the ones I have are from the earlier seasons. I have raided the "SVU Quotes" thread at the SVU forums, but most of the funny ones I ended up with are from the earlier seasons. Can anyone suggest any funny quotes from Post-Season 4?
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