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Wow. I did not intend to spend all damned day finishing a fic that I have had in progress for...years, now. But here it is twelve hours later, and I just uploaded it and posted to the community. (Trope Bingo; today is the last day of amnesty for this round.)
Aaaaand, it's posted. I have no idea how to tell whether or not it got caught by the bug they've been talking about, so I guess I'll leave it up to the mods.
Final Draft
Dec. 16th, 2017 08:01 pmIt took me rather longer than I had hoped tonight to edit the last section of my Yuletide piece, so I've decided not to try to upload it tonight. I'll read it through one more time tomorrow morning, and upload then.
I hope....
I hope....
Aaaaand that's a draft.
Getting There
Nov. 26th, 2017 07:45 amI had intended to be finished with this thing by today. That's not going to happen. I do have a pretty respectable word count, now, and even with massive cuts would still be above the 1,000 word minimum. So, hurray for our side, as my grandmother would say.
I really don't have that much more to do. I need to finish the section I'm working on, then I have one more to go. Maybe two, if I decide to do some sort of epilogue. It's not story so much as a series of conversations among the various characters, but I'm hoping it more or less fulfills the request. Hopefully more, rather than less....
I really don't have that much more to do. I need to finish the section I'm working on, then I have one more to go. Maybe two, if I decide to do some sort of epilogue. It's not story so much as a series of conversations among the various characters, but I'm hoping it more or less fulfills the request. Hopefully more, rather than less....
That's More Like It
Nov. 12th, 2017 09:16 amI completely scrapped my previous idea and started over and I have 1200 words so far. I might be able to manage this thing after all.
Not Going Well
Nov. 11th, 2017 07:02 amMy Yuletide piece is Not Going Well. I have an idea, but I can't find my way into it. (Well, I have two ideas, but I can't find my way into the other one, either, not with the characters/pairings that were requested.) I've tried to start it and failed a few times. The other day, I decided to NaNo it -- just sit down and type. I ended up with about 500 words of utter garbage, but it's a start, and maybe it'll get better.
Maybe I chose the wrong viewpoint character. Maybe it's the tense; I'm writing in present tense, which always seems gloom-and-doomy to me -- at least when I write it -- but normal past tense wasn't working, either.
Anyway. It's a three-day weekend. I spent yesterday basically goofing off, so today and tomorrow, I need to bash my head against this thing until I either knock myself out or get a story out of it.
Maybe I chose the wrong viewpoint character. Maybe it's the tense; I'm writing in present tense, which always seems gloom-and-doomy to me -- at least when I write it -- but normal past tense wasn't working, either.
Anyway. It's a three-day weekend. I spent yesterday basically goofing off, so today and tomorrow, I need to bash my head against this thing until I either knock myself out or get a story out of it.
This Is Not So Easy
Oct. 17th, 2017 08:07 amThis is ending up being harder than I thought. I would absolutely love to do the time travel/au that is one of the prompts from my recipient, but I can't quite figure out logistics. It has to make sense to me first.... But I could use it to save some of the characters who were killed off in the sequel movie.
I also considered a Five Christmases spanning the twenty years between movies, but then I remembered that one main character is Jewish. Five Thanksgivings, instead, maybe? In a post-apocalyptic, re-building world, people would be more likely to come together for Thanksgivings, anyway, right?
There's a canon novel that bridges the span between movies, but I'm not certain I want to read it. Well, I do want to read it, but I'm not certain I have time. I got a used copy, though, just in case....
I need to sit down with a piece of paper and see if I can map out a time travel plot....
I also considered a Five Christmases spanning the twenty years between movies, but then I remembered that one main character is Jewish. Five Thanksgivings, instead, maybe? In a post-apocalyptic, re-building world, people would be more likely to come together for Thanksgivings, anyway, right?
There's a canon novel that bridges the span between movies, but I'm not certain I want to read it. Well, I do want to read it, but I'm not certain I have time. I got a used copy, though, just in case....
I need to sit down with a piece of paper and see if I can map out a time travel plot....
Inigo Montoya Time
Oct. 12th, 2017 06:26 amSo...I have a bit of time this morning, and I am reading a fandom wiki related to my assignment. There is a whole lot of "I don't think it means what you think it means going on," such as "unambiguous" for "unambitious," or "uninspiring" for "uninspired." (And I'm pretty sure they want "unambitious" for that latter, too.) People are also trying to sound smart by using "whom," but they're using it incorrectly....
That Was Quick
Oct. 11th, 2017 06:49 amI absolutely did not expect to receive my Yuletide match for another week. The last couple of exchanges I've participated in took a week (or more) to make matches after sign-ups closed (though I think that one of them was small enough that the mod(s) may have made the matches personally.
Also, I did not expect to match on what I was matched on, so that's interesting. I've already got a few things swirling, but I'll need to rewatch the movies -- at least it's only a couple of movies and not an entire television series! There are a couple of books I could read that are also canon, but as the recipient has not read them either, I guess there's no reason to, unless I do the time travel AU that they asked for...which...maybe.
I've seen the recipient's name before, so either I've read their fics or they've read and commented on mine. Or perhaps both. Hard to tell.
Anyway. I should go look at the rules again. I don't even know when this is due....
Also, I did not expect to match on what I was matched on, so that's interesting. I've already got a few things swirling, but I'll need to rewatch the movies -- at least it's only a couple of movies and not an entire television series! There are a couple of books I could read that are also canon, but as the recipient has not read them either, I guess there's no reason to, unless I do the time travel AU that they asked for...which...maybe.
I've seen the recipient's name before, so either I've read their fics or they've read and commented on mine. Or perhaps both. Hard to tell.
Anyway. I should go look at the rules again. I don't even know when this is due....
