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shapinglightLJ is terribly quiet, isn't it? Everyone's saying it, but it doesn't seem to help it get any busier. In fact, I suspect a lot of you are like me: the quieter it gets, the more reluctant you are to post yourself. :(
I know I'm not helping matters much. I don't seem to have a lot to say, especially not about BtVS, which is sad.
Ah well, I'm just going to burble on about other stuff, then, including that hoary old fall back subject, my fanfic writing woes.
In actual fact, I'm not that woeful at the moment, which is not to say it's going exactly smoothly. I tried to write more of my Spike/Giles season 7 series yesterday (I'm about half way through the next instalment), but it didn't go well, as in I knew that everything I'd written was crap and I didn't really know where I was going with it. But it's okay(ish), because today on the walk to work I worked out how to go forward (I hope), so it should be easier next time. And it's not like I didn't do any writing at all. I wrote 1500 words of a ficlet for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
nekid_spike's Halloween nekid numbers prompts. Lucked out with the prompts (or partly, the 'kink' I have to write is weird, IMO, because it's not actually kinky at all, but then fandom's interpretation of 'kink' is rather broader than non-fandom's. People will say they have a kink for babyfics, for instance, whereas I tend to think that the words 'kink' and 'baby' don't really belong in the same sentence unless we're talking adults with a kink for pretending to be babies, and I'm pretty sure that in most instances we're not).
Ahem! Got sidetracked there. Anyway, I lucked out with the characters to be paired with Spike in the prompt, in that I can either have Xander or Darla. I won't even bother asking you to guess which I chose.
So yes, that went reasonably well, until, after 1500 words or so I decided that I'd had enough, even though I had another hour and could possibly have finished the whole thing. That's the difference between now and when I first started writing fanfic. Then, I would have carried on. Now, carrying on whan I felt I'd had enough would feel like mental torture, and writing still does feel like that sometimes. I feel that if I have to write another sentence I'll start screaming. But I'm sure that's normal. Er...is it?
That apart, and apart from a weekend trip to London, in which I discovered all over again how irritating/embarrassing S's older sister's husband can be (he outdid himself this time, so much so that I'd die of shame if I had to repeat what he said), I've not done a lot except watch telly. But there isn't much to watch. I'm still ploughing through Downton Abbey, but I'm afraid it's got to the stage where every plot point makes me roll my eyes and I feel I'm just waiting for another Iain Glen cameo (he definitely put on weight to play Jorah Mormont, I was sure he had). Then there's Autumnwatch, which I usually love, but which this year is driving me nuts. I feel like I'm in a timewarp and have gone back to when my kids were little and used to watch Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan on The Really Wild Show, because now she's turned up in the Autumnwatch studio, it seems to have devolved somehow. God, she's irritating! She really should not be allowed outside of children's telly, and I bet even kids find her so hyper they feel the need for a nap after watching her.
A-and that's it. I've nothing else to say. I haven't even seen any interesting birds. How are all of you?
ETA: I suppose there is one other thing, but it's of no interest to anyone except myself. I'm rather miffed by what looks like yet another turn to the dark side for my favourite X-Men character. I hope I'm wrong, but it doesn't look good. Might've known the current status quo was too good to last. :(
I know I'm not helping matters much. I don't seem to have a lot to say, especially not about BtVS, which is sad.
Ah well, I'm just going to burble on about other stuff, then, including that hoary old fall back subject, my fanfic writing woes.
In actual fact, I'm not that woeful at the moment, which is not to say it's going exactly smoothly. I tried to write more of my Spike/Giles season 7 series yesterday (I'm about half way through the next instalment), but it didn't go well, as in I knew that everything I'd written was crap and I didn't really know where I was going with it. But it's okay(ish), because today on the walk to work I worked out how to go forward (I hope), so it should be easier next time. And it's not like I didn't do any writing at all. I wrote 1500 words of a ficlet for
nekid_spike's Halloween nekid numbers prompts. Lucked out with the prompts (or partly, the 'kink' I have to write is weird, IMO, because it's not actually kinky at all, but then fandom's interpretation of 'kink' is rather broader than non-fandom's. People will say they have a kink for babyfics, for instance, whereas I tend to think that the words 'kink' and 'baby' don't really belong in the same sentence unless we're talking adults with a kink for pretending to be babies, and I'm pretty sure that in most instances we're not).Ahem! Got sidetracked there. Anyway, I lucked out with the characters to be paired with Spike in the prompt, in that I can either have Xander or Darla. I won't even bother asking you to guess which I chose.
So yes, that went reasonably well, until, after 1500 words or so I decided that I'd had enough, even though I had another hour and could possibly have finished the whole thing. That's the difference between now and when I first started writing fanfic. Then, I would have carried on. Now, carrying on whan I felt I'd had enough would feel like mental torture, and writing still does feel like that sometimes. I feel that if I have to write another sentence I'll start screaming. But I'm sure that's normal. Er...is it?
That apart, and apart from a weekend trip to London, in which I discovered all over again how irritating/embarrassing S's older sister's husband can be (he outdid himself this time, so much so that I'd die of shame if I had to repeat what he said), I've not done a lot except watch telly. But there isn't much to watch. I'm still ploughing through Downton Abbey, but I'm afraid it's got to the stage where every plot point makes me roll my eyes and I feel I'm just waiting for another Iain Glen cameo (he definitely put on weight to play Jorah Mormont, I was sure he had). Then there's Autumnwatch, which I usually love, but which this year is driving me nuts. I feel like I'm in a timewarp and have gone back to when my kids were little and used to watch Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan on The Really Wild Show, because now she's turned up in the Autumnwatch studio, it seems to have devolved somehow. God, she's irritating! She really should not be allowed outside of children's telly, and I bet even kids find her so hyper they feel the need for a nap after watching her.
A-and that's it. I've nothing else to say. I haven't even seen any interesting birds. How are all of you?
ETA: I suppose there is one other thing, but it's of no interest to anyone except myself. I'm rather miffed by what looks like yet another turn to the dark side for my favourite X-Men character. I hope I'm wrong, but it doesn't look good. Might've known the current status quo was too good to last. :(
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Date: 2011-10-18 05:03 pm (UTC)We don't get Downton Abbey until later this year. I know I could download but I'm being lazy and waiting for the television.
And only a few months until Game of Thrones is back! More Jorrah, more Tyrion! Woohoo.
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Date: 2011-10-18 08:43 pm (UTC)Yay! Except I'm sure season 2 isn't until April. That seems like forever at the moment.
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Date: 2011-10-19 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-19 06:44 pm (UTC)