Delay in publication

Hey :)
I noticed how hard it was for me to work on a chapter that HAD to be publish just a few days later.
Therefore I won't be publishing any chapter this week. I'll try to write a few chapters to get slightly ahead of the publication.

I hope you understand.
Thank you :)

Focus

Guys,
I'm losing my focus ! Well I lost it a while ago. Ever since I got back from vacations, then I lost my beta, and I just couldn't write as easily as I used to.
I don't know what to do. I'm a workaholic, if I don't write or draw or anything, my mind wither.
I don't know what to do. I just want to go back to the one I was a few months ago...

Therefore, I feel that I have to apologize. My next chapter might be late, and I can't find the motivation to write a new chapter for 'Twig'. I started this other fic I told you about some times ago but it feels so crappy. Words don't come easily~

59 minutes challenge

This is not very fanfic-related but concerns One Piece.
Ever since I started writing a also began to draw again. I have had many drawing phases, and this once seems to last.

I created a deviantart account a few days ago and, in an attempt to improve my weak skills, I gave myself a 59 minutes challenge (because I don't like spending to much time on a drawing) to draw a One Piece related picture.

The problem is that I lack the idea and, too often, I end up drawing Ace and or Eli.
Therefore, I'm asking for ideas.

Here was the first :

An idea? I wanna see you draw X. Drake please! draw both his human and dinosaur form! (hope that's not asking for too much). We need more dinosaur loving in this thread. :3

And here is the result :

Reptar X. Drake

It was a bit hard since I barely know Drake. I had to do some researches but still it was fun.

Now I'm asking for more ! So if you have ideas, go ahead ~

My Funny Valentine

'My Funny Valentine' is an old, old song (1937 according to wikipedia).
I don't know where I heard it first, a movie maybe... Anyway, as soon as I heard it I fell it love with this love song.
Its music, the voice of its multiple interprets and the lyrics...


Now, you might wonder what it has to do with my fanfiction 'Freckles'.
Well, recently I've been listening to it and, as I sang (ouch) the lyrics, I noticed that they fitted a bit how Ace saw Eli.


Ever since I started writing this fic, a question has been torturing me; why the hell would a man like him fall for a girl like her ?
Very much like Eli, I felt that she wasn't 'worthy' of him.
But, somehow, whenever I listen to this song, I can actually feel Ace's love for the stupid girl.


The song (sang by Ella Fitzgerald) and here are the lyrics :

Behold the way our fine feathered friend,

His virtue doth parade.

Thou knowest not, my dim-witted friend

The picture thou hast made.

Thy vacant brow, and thy tousled hair

Conceal thy good intent.

Thou noble upright truthful sincere,

And slightly dopey gent.

You're my funny valentine,

Sweet comic valentine,

You make me smile with my heart.

Your looks are laughable, un-photographable,

Yet, you're my favorite work of art.

Is your figure less than Greek ?

Is your mouth a little weak ?

When you open it to speak, are you smart ?

But, don't change a hair for me.

Not if you care for me.

Stay little valentine, stay !

Each day is Valentine's Day

Is your figure less than Greek ?

Is your mouth a little weak ?

When you open it to speak, are you smart ?

But, don't change a hair for me.

Not if you care for me.

Stay little valentine, stay !

Each day is Valentine's Day.

'You make me smile with my heart', isn't that the sweetest thing ?

Littles Aces

Monday I was blessed with two new (rare) Aces for my collection.

Two packages the same day (I was jumping all around).

Bandai (Release date : 07/2010)

Figure Collection 15 - VS The Seven Royal Warlords of the Sea

~Special Pearl Version~

And,

Bandai (Release date : 2004)

One Piece Figure Collection 03

I love them <3

Especially the 2004 one. It's almost an antique, really hard to find.

Now I have to sell the rest of the sets... :)

Delayed

Just a little update to warn the readers who are wondering why I didn't update today like I always do.
I'm experiencing a little writer blockage due to the lack of reviews on my latest chapter.

It is highly disturbing.
I have been thinking about the readers reaction after this for about two months and I expected so much...
It might sound stupid (I do feel stupid) but after giving so much in this, I can't help but feeling disappointed.
This chapter was really special to me.
And so I can't help but questioning myself and my mind is in such a state of flutter that I can hardly focus on Eli's.

Anyway.
Sorry for the ones who actually reviewed; I'm trying to work on the next chapter but words don't come easily and I have no idea when it'll be ready. Probably later this week.

See ya~

Revision Campaign

I'm sure you didn't notice, but, today is 'Freckles' sixth month anniversary.

And curiously, it is now that I decided to revised my old chapters.

(edit : forgot to post it, therefore the anniversary was yesterday)

Six months ago I started writing for the very first time and now, I think that I had gotten slightly better. When I happen to read a bit of one of the first chapters I'm so tempted to revise it, even just a little, and make them more 'readable'

I rewrote the first chapter entirely but the events and dialogs are the same.

On the other hand, 2 to 5 will be very different. New events and I'll also include the latest details about Luffy and Ace's childhood given in the post-Marinefold arc.

This is a difficult task, I am questioning myself a lot but I really feel that it is needed.

As for the chapter that came after the 5th, most of them will only be lightly revised (even though I actually find myself adding a lot of words...). I already started with 6th (now entitled Omen), and 7th (Reunion) and they have been uploaded.

Ace's shirtlessness has been discarded and little other things have been changed.

8th is a bit more difficult though. I found myself hating the whole 'take the original scene and put Eli and Ace inside' thing. Therefore I will (I am) rewrite it entirely.

It takes time, obviously, plus I have to write new chapters for Freckles at the same time...

I think I am crazy.

On another note !

For this sixth month anniversary I got a WONDERFUL gift !

I received my Banpresto - Super DX Portgas D. Ace.

It is beautiful... Really, it's like... wow...

Yet, I'm too lazy (and busy) to take pictures of it now :P

See you later.

My next piece of work

For a moment now, I have been thinking about the other Straw Hats' point of views of our lovely couple.

They have eyes and ears and surely enough, thoughts.

I'm always thinking about their reactions when I write every last of their interactions with the protagonist of my stories (Ace or Eli). Yet, I can't really give out their thoughts since I'm using a third person limited point of view. That is the main reason why I created Twig; I wanted you to know how Ace felt during certain moments spent with Eli and that is the same reason why I'm thinking about this new sidefic.

In each chapter, I'll focus on one of the Straw Hats' thoughts and feelings. Obviously, it'll be more humorous and rather crackish because that's how they are.

I already have a few ideas about interesting chapters; Nami when she knocks at Ace's hotel room door in Kusai for example, or Zoro's thoughts when Eli throw him his t-shirt on the head, baring her chest at the same time (this was actually a question from Tropicall).

Fun stuff.

Now I'm asking you, dear readers, do you have any moments that you would like me to write ? I'll consider seriously your suggestions and write the ones I think might be interesting and/or fun.

So go ahead, I'll be waiting :)


edit : It doesn't have to be published moments too and I thought it could not only be focused on the Straw Hats.
For example, I had the idea of a chapter for Garp (during their time in Fuschia) popping in my mind :3

Perono

I recently joined Arlong Park's Forums.
Yes, apparently I just need one more thing to rob my writing time....


Anyway !
They have a thread there where everyone posts gender-bender pics (you know, Luffy as a girl, Nami as a boy, etc...). Going though the topic, I noticed that male to female was extremely frequent but not the opposite. I don't know why, though, and it made me feel kind of frustrated.


And so, one thing leading to another, I found myself doodling my favorite One Piece female as a male : Perona.
No one would draw a male Perona, I thought.


Here you go ;D

This is the first one I drew.

5AM but still, I just had to :)

And this was the second.

Finished today at 4 AM... I have to sleep now.

Here I go

Hi there,

I'm sure that if you are here you already know a bit about me but I will introduce myself once more.

My name is Elisabeth Heart and I am one of the spirits who lives in the body of a French girl. She named me, using derivatives of her own names; of that I am proud.

I am a dreamy spirit and I love sharing my dreams. That is the reason why I started to write as soon as I came to life. After all, it is the very purpose of my existence. I live in the French girl's head just to write and dream.

The early stirrings on my consciousness happened a day of March. Winter was giving its goodbyes on this rainy day and, lazily, the French girl was looking for pictures of Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist) on the internet, when she came by one of these 'fanfictions'.

What is that ? she asked herself.

It was a story involving a girl that she had never seen in Fullmetal Alchemist, and so, curious, she read and kept reading.

It was rather badly written, though, and original character was so perfect and beautiful and strong, that the frenchy found herself laughing, a lot, while reading her adventures. Avidly, she searched for more and more. She spent days reading long and short stories, dramatic or humorous, always involving original character and their romantic roller-coasters  with the flame alchemist. Too soon, she had exhausted every last one of these stories, and so, the French girl found herself looking for ones involving Portgas D. Ace (One Piece).

That was then that she learned the death of the young man.

She had never read the manga until then and... it was a shock.

How can someone die in One Piece ? she thought.

At that moment, she was so sad that, silently, I took shape in her mind. I gave her hope and she gave me a name. I would create a girl just for the freckled pirate and, in her eyes, he would find the love he needed, and so will she. I named her after me, mostly because my imagination was still very young and naming wasn't my strongest point.

All in all, I came to life with little strong points. The French girl had never written anything before but I was hopeful. I would learn and I never stopped learning. My every days are filled with discoveries and the French girl watches my improvements with amazement. I am eager, and never satisfied. I occupy my host's mind as much as she let me, while my story invades mine.

There is nothing more to say. I live for my story, and it lives because I want to share my dream. The growing number of readers keeps me going and they bring me joy when I'm low.

Thank you.
I'm not sure that you managed to read this to the end but, for once, I wrote it for me.

I'm Elisabeth Heart, a dream who came to life to give Portgas D. Ace another one.