Chapter Three has appeared.

I just put it on monkeesfic. And I've started work on chapter 4. I'm still hoping to get this done by Amnesty Day, the last day of the month. Whether I will succeed or not is another matter.

I'm still trying to decide when to put this fic on my fic journal. I'm going to want to link it up with posts on my fic journal for 31_days, just in case the other comm ever goes bye-bye like Monkeemen did. Tentatively, I'm waiting for the whole thing to be done before I put it on my fic journal ladybug_tales. But that could always change.

I think I know now how the curse will be broken, thanks to a suggestion by Crystal. I've modified it and I think it will work. I'm pretty anxious to get to the climatic parts. I hope I won't rush anything because of that.

LOL.

The last couple of days I've been toying with an interesting plunnie. I wonder what would happen if Carl Kolchak ended up matching wits with Yami Marik. It's a disaster waiting to happen, of course, but it certainly has the potential to be very interesting. I think mainly what intrigues me about the idea is the thought of them having a verbal confrontation. Most of the things Kolchak tries to stop don't talk to him, even when he talks to them. In the episodes I've seen, he was only able to talk with the witch during the climatic battle.

Yami Marik would probably thrust them into a Shadow Game, too. I don't know whether there would be Duel Monster cards or something else, though. I'd be leaning more towards something else; I don't want to write out a duel and I doubt Carl would know how to play.

Now I just need to figure out whether Kolchak would go to Domino City investigating something or whether Yami Marik would be in Chicago. I think I'm leaning more towards Yami Marik being in Chicago, maybe seeking some destructive artifact in a museum.

And I actually would have a bit of an audience for a fic; I've found a few other people who are familiar with both shows. But one thing I don't like is having to put it in the crossover section of FF.net. That leaves it available to a much narrower audience.

I might actually put it, and my other Kolchak fic, on dA. There seems to be a nice-sized following there. I was surprised.

And I've had the same default userpic on my fic journal since I opened it in late 2007. I really like the picture, Sephiroth standing in the sun, but it doesn't have anything to do with writing. I've often thought the default should be either writing or reading.

The other day I took three Kolchak icons from dangelos_song. Two I have here; the third I decided to put on the fic journal as the default, as it's Kolchak at his typewriter. It seems strange to have a different default there. But it's such a pretty icon and it works well as the default for a fic journal.