Rewriting A Momentary Lapse of Reason...

[andrew_in_drag]

...Hereafter known as AMLOR, because that's a bloody long title. 

I decided to rewrite this old, old, old fic of mine on the suggestion of lady_sb. Honestly, I'd forgotten all about it. It was languishing in my old account, hallelujah_hide, and on her recommendation I started reading it again and, just to blow my own horn, I like it. 

I'm really enjoying the rewrite, too. I'm not changing much plot, dialogue, characterisation or much of anything, really - just tweaking so it reads better, ironing out bits that don't make sense. It's something that I should do with everything before I post, but life is short and I am lazy. 

I have up to ten chapters of it written now, so I can start progressing the fic from where I last left off - I turned the prologue into chapter one, because it really wasn't a prologue. It was just a...logue. 

I seem to have a liking for conflicted Toshiya and naive, good-guy Kaoru. 

Mood Killers: 'm' key sticking (I had the same problem when I was writing a fic three years ago, too. On a different laptop. Spooky.); continually typing 'aburptly' instead of 'abruptly'; lack of usual inspirational substances (alcohol, drugz, uni friends), since I'm back in the parental home for Easter. 

Mood Enhancers: the realisation that the song "I'm Only Happy When It Rains" by Garbage pretty much describes my Toshiya all over, so listening to that againandagainandagain; the prospect of an empty house (parents off to China, seemingly out of the blue); and photographs, photographs, photographs. 

So I would love more inspiration images, if anybody has them knocking around - whatever inspires you, I'd be really keen to know! Anything you can scrape together would be good, or any ideas you have - you never know what might end up being indispensable! 

So let me know guys! We're all in this together, or something. 

Comments

[lady-sb.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how happy you made me when I read this XD And when you post it up again, people are gonna be introduced to such a nice piece of writing. The comm is so lacking good chaptered fics, which is what I commented last time as well (when you first posted it).

As for inspiration, at the end of last year there was a whole slew of it at the KaoxTotchi comm, mostly because we were doing a winter challenge.

chiironiji does wonderful art:

http://kaoxtotchi.livejournal.com/516602.html#cutid1

And she did a lovely bunch of KxT christmas cards:

http://kaoxtotchi.livejournal.com/513947.html#cutid1

This is just a series of pictures of KxT pictures

http://kaoxtotchi.livejournal.com/505803.html

And in terms of just pictures, this inspired me greatly at one point. Its just a lovely series of pictures:

http://kaoxtotchi.livejournal.com/514723.html#cutid1

Hope that helps! Do tell me if you are seeking something else ya :)
And reading your stuff has also prompted me to get off my ass and finally write the ideas that have been banging about in my head lol

[andrew-in-drag.livejournal.com]

thank you so much! those christmas cards especially are gorgeous - very inspirational!
glad you are thinking about writing some stuff, too - I'll be sure to check that out! x

[aibashi.livejournal.com]

i loooove inspirational posts!!

i'm giving you some links i grabbed from my tumblr, pretty random stuff but i hope it's kind of helpful.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqfaquFi7L1qbu1e7o1_500.jpg

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luc9ut4zBz1r0ake4o1_500.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgue6hjPUd1qcey9co1_500.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu0vdkvi7R1qavzqjo1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnpo80FnKl1qzm0ceo1_500.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzdibfDIgQ1qzivdro1_500.gif
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzdibfDIgQ1qzivdro2_500.gif

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly47jrtLaP1qkcjhao1_500.jpg

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxo1d8tzZm1qivozco1_500.jpg

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxv0qbJPzO1qe5c86o1_500.jpg

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgqodgLZAT1qdcepgo1_500.png

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lexbjmkDFz1qay76zo1_500.png

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj6zwqJjNN1qf2jq1o1_500.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrdxheDuK01qjxj8ao1_500.jpg

[andrew-in-drag.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks so much! some of those pictures of the boys are truuuuly gorgeous!

this was really nice of you, thank you :)

[tcharlatan.livejournal.com]

Mostof my plot inspiration comes from song lyrics, so I only use photos for character inspiration and, ah... well, dirtier things... ^_^; But I want to help! So, here are some of my latest favorite Kao photos, and one of Totchi!

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa439/Tcharlatan/Diru%20Staged/DeG180.jpg

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa439/Tcharlatan/Diru%20Live/DeG175.jpg

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa439/Tcharlatan/Diru%20Live/DeG173.jpg

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa439/Tcharlatan/Diru%20Live/DeG172.jpg

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa439/Tcharlatan/Diru%20Live/DeG108.jpg

[andrew-in-drag.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you! Those pictures are gooooorge

[tcharlatan.livejournal.com]

Haha, looking back at them now, they're so angsty! But the happier ones are easier to find, I think...