Mood:  lazy

I spent a whole evening (till 1 in the morning) putting StatCounter on every single page of NNT (roughly 350 pages? something like that). My concern about StatCounter was that it would count every time I look at or edit my pages on my computer, but it's easy to block yourself with IP blocking and a blocking cookie. Anyway, it was totally worth the work, it's so awesome! I especially like the search word tracking, and finding out where my visitors are from - someone from Albania looked at my site today! (Just one page, but still, Albania!)

Then I spent all yesterday morning making quotes for the random quote display I put on the index page. Little teasers to hopefully get more people into the site, instead of just glancing at the index. That worked great, and is so cool I just sat there hitting the "refresh" button over and over and over to see what quotes came up. then I realized that I had logged out of StatCounter, thus destroying my blocking cookie, and it counted all zillion times I looked at my own index page

I also spent two days trying to get the Angelfire upgrade page to work properly. It kept wanting to give me a whole new user name and URL. I posted my woes on the Angelfire Club Blog, and they were finally able to fix the problem. So I am now upgraded to 3 Gb of storage and a domain name! www.nntreasury.com, if you're wondering. The old address should still work, too.

Then I got the idea that I should put "next chapter" links at the bottom of every chapter of every novel, so that readers will be more likely to keep reading instead of wandering away. So I'm mostly done with that now, four more novels to go, I think.

But I haven't actually written any fic. Am I procrastinating, or just easily distracted? I have a notoriously short attention span, but I think I might also be procrastinating. I'm not really into the fics I'm posting right now. The one I'm drafting I'm somewhat happier with, but not entirely. I want to do something... different. Big. I'm tired of writing passive Naru, I want to give her some sort of power, some sort of primary role to play without making her a Senshi. That's been done. And done. And done. I'd like to put her in a role that is slightly contrary to Sailor Moon's role, without making them out and out enemies. I'm sort of doing that with Starfire, but that isn't quite what I want. I want to write something where Nephrite has died, and Naru remembers him (tired of doing the recovered-memory thing) and she discovers she has some sort of powers. I'm feeling inspired right now by the Alternate Fate picture by Zox and the Reflections: Osaka Naru poem by R. TenEyck, both of which I posted last month. It's interesting that they're both older fanworks by guys.

What I really want is to write another Lyra's Children with Naru in a more active role. I think Lyra's Children is pretty much the best thing I've ever written, fanfic or original, and I don't know if I have another one in me.

Maybe the thing to do is experiment and explore different ideas while I plug away at the things I'm already working on. Then when I'm done with those, hopefully I'll have lots of ideas ready to go.

Or maybe I just have a short attention span and I get bored with my ideas easily.