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Hello again. :waves:

Resurfacing after my fab weekend at WriterconUK.



Had a really wonderful time, despite my fit of the whatever-it-wases on Friday, and despite doing something so monumentally stupid that I don't think I'll ever live it down (the gory details being that I contrived somehow or other to throw away my return rail ticket, and therefore had to buy another one for the return journey yesterday that cost me as much as my original ticket there and back. :(). That aside, it was great to see fandom friends again and to meet new people, some of whom I only knew on LJ, some of whom I didn't know at all. The talks were all interesting and inspiring, the OMWF singalong not nearly as nerve-wracking as I'd expected, and the food was pretty good too, especially the Thai food on Friday night.

I'm not sure the weekend will help me get over my block, but you never know. At least I learned some tricks that might help - and I found curiouswombat's talk yesterday about using photos (of real places, that is, not pics of naked Spike, though those are fine too) very inspiring. I'm back to wanting to get the Fanged Four onto the Flannan Islands in time to do away with the unfortunate lighthouse keepers. Not that there's much of a story in that, I suppose. As follows:

The Fanged Four arrive on the Flannan Islands, either because they're shipwrecked there, or by swimming (though it's hard to imagine Darla going for that).
They meet the lighthouse keepers and, there being no other food available on the islands, short of catching a few seals, CHOMP!
The End.

Ahem! Yes, well, maybe one day.

Anyway, it was all great fun, as I said, and I won a terrific prize in the raffle - brutti_ma_buoni has promised to write me a fic. I just have to think of a prompt. Hmm, maybe I should make her write the Flannan Islands story?



In conclusion, if you were thinking you quite fancied going to WriterconUK but didn't get around to it, do try and get there next year. It's really enjoyable, and nothing beats spending the weekend having fun with a bunch of like-minded people. You can read about what we got up to on the writerconuk LJ comm.

Also, many, many thanks to our hard-working committee, just_sue, thismaz and kitty_poker1, and best of luck to our new committee. Looking forward to seeing you all next year.

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Unless I have him following the other three around begging them not to kill people?

Maybe he's stalking them because he can't look away, keeping his distance but not able to bear them completely out of sight, until they do something so horrible that he runs and never looks back. Maybe there is a shipwreck and Angel works tirelessly to save everyone (or as many people as he can), bringing them to a nearby deserted island, only for his vampire family to eventually kill them all.

Ooooh how awful that would be. I'm having a flashback to Lost now, only everyone dies from a vampire attack except Jack.

Have you ever had a dream where you work yourself to the bone, like say building something only to have it collapse and you keep on trying to build it over and over again? You could give Angel his first attempt at heroism here only to beat it out of him brutally and make him think he's no good at it--that's why he failed and everyone is dead.

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I did think of the stalking angle, but I'd want to stick more closely to the original story, so there couldn't be a shipwreck involving lots of people.

And can't say I've had a dream exactly like the one you describe. Did have a nice one about hen harriers the other day, though.