Sunday Rundown
21 March 2010 22:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quinaraYay - I cut my hair today. It was getting a bit long, so I trimmed it a bit to further my intentions of turning it into one of those bobs with longer bits at the front than at the back. It went very well, so that's some definite money I've saved. (Hmm - it's been two years since I decided to start cutting my own hair; I think I'm doing rather well.)
Boo - I ate two Super Noodles in lieu of proper sustenance. But they were Mild Mexican Chilli and Barbecue Beef flavour, both of which are very nice. (Shame I had to fill up my fullness quotient on chocolate...)
? - It would seem I've become one of those people who needs to keep track of all the ficathons they're involved in, since I just signed up to Remix...
Working out where I am, with due dates:
May 9: Remix. Which presumably means at least 1000 words of ???. I can write 1000 words in a day, this is not a problem... I'm just scared I'm going to get a bunny for a plot that wants 15000. Oh well, we live life on the edge, I suppose.
May 15:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
seasonal_spuffy. This wouldn't be such a problem if I hadn't got into the habit of always having two things to post. I have something nearly done, the sequel to Brand New Day (from a few years back - the one where Spike wakes up post NFA in a merry little futureverse and can't work out what's going on), which is 7000 words, but possibly only needs another key scene stuck in the middle to make it hang together (otherwise all I've got is bizarre coda possibilities). But of course my mind decided this wasn't enough! And now I'm working on another fic set after LMPTM where Spike's soul gets stolen (though this isn't actually that major a problem). That's already 7000 words and only about half way through, and is perhaps a bit of a weird departure in style, in that it's so dialogue heavy. S7 rewatches are bad, bad things, because they make me want to capture that point fic rarely gets to, where the Spuffy's as subtle as the show, but there's just that little bit more such that the elegance isn't broken, but it's still satisfying and not at all ambiguous... And they make me write what is essentially a screenplay, stretching my 'and then wotsit looked this way (please, reader, stay in the scene with me)' muscles to the limit. And on top of that, it doesn't help that my Buffy third person POV style doesn't allow for many extraneous words, which makes linking sentences when there isn't much action very difficult to make pleasant. *pokes fic*
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angearia's Who Are You ficathon. I'm sending Buffy to ancient Athens for this, and it's a bit stalled at 6000 words (to balance properly what I've got should really not be much more than half the fic). It doesn't help that part of what I've written is sinfully boring. The whole thing's coming across preachy and overworked and needs some air; there should be fic-sieves. Bit worried I'm going to need to scrap most of it and bash it out in a new and exciting manner.
August:plot_wout_porn. This would be dateless, because I think I might need to ask people if we can move it to a weekend that isn't writerconuk... (Do people think people would find this reasonable?) I think I want to write this fic I've got going about Claire Saunders' random adventures after she leaves the Dollhouse, but it's not exactly tripping from my fingers. (It's always strange how hard it is writing for fandoms other than the Buffyverse. And original!fic.) Otherwise I am out of completable ideas (maybe the Illyria story for my futureverse with Ethan Rayne? But the plot for that is so sketchy...).
Of course, I also have other stuff filling my brain...
Spikeid - don't want this to hang around forever, but I'm only up to halfway/two-thirds through VI in drafts. Would like to really crack the whip over the summer and see how much I can get out of my system, even if it takes a while to post.
Novel(!!! or at least 150,000 odd words) taking place after An Exercise in Futility (my Wesplot_wout_porn fic from last year). I have the first etchings of a plan and several daydreams of scenes... It's very distracting and the main reason I want to move on from the Spikeid as a WIP.
It's not as if I have finals or anything. And even if I did they wouldn't be Britishy 75%-of-your-degree finally-finals, no no no... *cowers*
Boo - I ate two Super Noodles in lieu of proper sustenance. But they were Mild Mexican Chilli and Barbecue Beef flavour, both of which are very nice. (Shame I had to fill up my fullness quotient on chocolate...)
? - It would seem I've become one of those people who needs to keep track of all the ficathons they're involved in, since I just signed up to Remix...
Working out where I am, with due dates:
May 9: Remix. Which presumably means at least 1000 words of ???. I can write 1000 words in a day, this is not a problem... I'm just scared I'm going to get a bunny for a plot that wants 15000. Oh well, we live life on the edge, I suppose.
May 15:
seasonal_spuffy. This wouldn't be such a problem if I hadn't got into the habit of always having two things to post. I have something nearly done, the sequel to Brand New Day (from a few years back - the one where Spike wakes up post NFA in a merry little futureverse and can't work out what's going on), which is 7000 words, but possibly only needs another key scene stuck in the middle to make it hang together (otherwise all I've got is bizarre coda possibilities). But of course my mind decided this wasn't enough! And now I'm working on another fic set after LMPTM where Spike's soul gets stolen (though this isn't actually that major a problem). That's already 7000 words and only about half way through, and is perhaps a bit of a weird departure in style, in that it's so dialogue heavy. S7 rewatches are bad, bad things, because they make me want to capture that point fic rarely gets to, where the Spuffy's as subtle as the show, but there's just that little bit more such that the elegance isn't broken, but it's still satisfying and not at all ambiguous... And they make me write what is essentially a screenplay, stretching my 'and then wotsit looked this way (please, reader, stay in the scene with me)' muscles to the limit. And on top of that, it doesn't help that my Buffy third person POV style doesn't allow for many extraneous words, which makes linking sentences when there isn't much action very difficult to make pleasant. *pokes fic*July 2:
angearia's Who Are You ficathon. I'm sending Buffy to ancient Athens for this, and it's a bit stalled at 6000 words (to balance properly what I've got should really not be much more than half the fic). It doesn't help that part of what I've written is sinfully boring. The whole thing's coming across preachy and overworked and needs some air; there should be fic-sieves. Bit worried I'm going to need to scrap most of it and bash it out in a new and exciting manner.August:
plot_wout_porn. This would be dateless, because I think I might need to ask people if we can move it to a weekend that isn't writerconuk... (Do people think people would find this reasonable?) I think I want to write this fic I've got going about Claire Saunders' random adventures after she leaves the Dollhouse, but it's not exactly tripping from my fingers. (It's always strange how hard it is writing for fandoms other than the Buffyverse. And original!fic.) Otherwise I am out of completable ideas (maybe the Illyria story for my futureverse with Ethan Rayne? But the plot for that is so sketchy...).Of course, I also have other stuff filling my brain...
Spikeid - don't want this to hang around forever, but I'm only up to halfway/two-thirds through VI in drafts. Would like to really crack the whip over the summer and see how much I can get out of my system, even if it takes a while to post.
Novel(!!! or at least 150,000 odd words) taking place after An Exercise in Futility (my Wes
plot_wout_porn fic from last year). I have the first etchings of a plan and several daydreams of scenes... It's very distracting and the main reason I want to move on from the Spikeid as a WIP.It's not as if I have finals or anything. And even if I did they wouldn't be Britishy 75%-of-your-degree finally-finals, no no no... *cowers*
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