Ooh Happy Daay!

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Hoorah! I think I may have just had a breakthrough in my (so far) hopeless quest to get that half-written Spike/Angel fic that's been sitting on my hard drive since 2008 finished.

I have a few other fic ideas for which I'd written a couple of pages and scribbled a few notes, most (all) of which I'm pretty sure will never be written, but this one I'd already written about 13,000 words of before I abandoned it (due to having to write something else for a deadline).

Yesterday, I re-read what I'd written so far for the umpteenth time, trying to work out how to get from where the story's got so far to the end I'd imagined for it. Still nothing. Today, I thought, okay, I'll try to write 1000 words of the next section and see what happens, and I think I may have finally cracked it. Now, all I have to do is find the mental energy to write the damn thing. ;)

Well, we'll see, I suppose. Link to the only fragment of this fic I've ever posted. Would be nice to finish it.

ETA: I should probably mention that I'm also in the process of revising Family Reunion so I can post it on A03.

Comments

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Heh. "Cracked it." Heh.

Fantastic that your mojo is rising, or whatever the kids are calling it these days!

I still think that "Family Reunion" is A+++ as is, though.

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Fantastic that your mojo is rising, or whatever the kids are calling it these days!

;) While you're here, would you mind telling me whether it's likely that the Los Angeles Daily News would report on something that happened in, say, Clovis, or Visalia?

I still think that "Family Reunion" is A+++ as is, though.

I'm mostly tidying it up for language, like I did Vampire Winter. Too many long, clause-ridden sentences. There are a few other things, though. I'll tell you what they are when I answer your PM.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I didn't even know there was an LA Daily News. The LA Times is a venerable rag, though. They definitely have coverage of Central Valley stuff occasionally. Usually agriculture or water-related, though other things might come up. They have regional editions, to boot, which is handy. MiMama gets the "Inland Empire" edition these days, and used to get the Santa Barbara one.

One thing that is odd is that there is often a big story in LA that will never be mentioned in the San Francisco papers. Apparently there is a rivalry going on of which LA is largely unaware. Except when it comes to baseball.

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I must admit, I didn't even know there was an LA Daily News. The LA Times is a venerable rag, though.

Yes, I've probably got that title wrong. ;) Either that, or there is an LA Daily News but it's online only.

Would the LA Times report a murder in, say, Clovis, if the circumstances were somewhat mysterious?

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Maaaaaybe. More likely if it was part of a string of mysterious murders. Or if it involved somebody from LA or a public-figure, like an elected official. Mayor or Superintendent of Schools or similar.

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Ah, okay. I'll bear that in mind. It might mean I need to move a particular scene to a later point in the story.

ETA: It may (or may not) amuse you to know that I spent a while yesterday afternoon being driven around Downtown Los Angeles by someone on You Tube, who obviously had nothing better to do. There was some guy with a heavy eastern european accent who'd filmed himself doing so for a whole hour.

I didn't stick it out that long. Especially not when I discovered that the Wolfram & Hart building is actually somewhere else (even if it's - I suppose?- meant to be in Downtown LA).