In which I am even more incoherent than usual...

[jadesfire]

Since a list of interesting stuff wot I saw does not an update make, and since my brain is doing a fine hamster-in-a-wheel impression, I thought I'd attempt a post that isn't just the random contents of my head.

Okay. So that's a lie. This is the random contents of my head, but hey, a list makes it less random. Right?

#1. It was all kinds of awesome meeting people at the weekend, even if Oxford did its best to soak us to the skin. fan_eunice is just as lovely in person as online, and just as huggy, which is all good. I also got to meet taraljc, pipsqueaky and absolutedestiny as well as Tara's friend from Keble College. One native per tourist is probably about right ;) Anyway, we had lovely tea/lunch/scones at the Nosebag, followed by a slightly damp tour of the city. I love meeting fan-folks, because even if you haven't a clue what people are talking about - I spent large chunks of the anime part of the conversation nodding and smiling and wondering if I could learn to speak in tongues too - it's still so cool to see people who are so passionate about, well. Everything really. It was a lovely way to spend a damp Saturday afternoon and I highly recommend it.

#2. Honestly, I despair of myself sometimes. I have no writing discipline at all. If I can catch myself when I've got enthusiasm for something, then I'm fine, and it carries me through the sloggy parts of writing. Unfortunately, my story enthusiasm for NaNo peaked about 2 weeks ago, leaving me not really knowing where to start. I'm re-reading my research material and trying to work out the nitty-gritty bits, but I keep getting hijacked by pirates and other fic that I want to write, not to mention the story I've promised fajrdrako and desperately want to finish, and LFWS Round 2. It's all a bit of a mush in my head right now, which wasn't helped by a pretty bad mental-health day yesterday.

I might just have to accept that when it comes to writing, I'm a sprinter not a marathon runner, and I need to write my NaNo like that. I have a world, I have a character, I have a couple of plot points that I think will take me halfway through the novel. What happens after that, I haven't a clue, but no doubt it will involve great heroics, derring do and the mystery, revealed! Hopefully.

#3. My current fic writing plans are:

- Finish LFWS story. Well. Start it and finish it - it's got a 500 word limit, so I just need a macguffin and I'm sorted. That should get done today.
- Write first NaNo scene. Assuming the above goes well, this should also get done today.
- Add next scene to Dragon!fic. I'd like to have the whole thing finished by the end of the week, ideally.
- Prod next pirate!AU fic. Started.
- Resist urge to write pirate!AU for every fandom I'm familiar with. *resists*

What I really need is a proper WIP folder somewhere so that I can find things when I want to work on them instead of starting from scratch each time.

And while we're talking about fic, I haven't done a proper fic list for a while, so I'm going to lump August, September and October together. It won't actually be that much more than just an October list, I don't think, since the Big Bang burnt me out a little and I prodded at words rather than actually writing for most of August and September. Anyway, just warning you of more spam coming to a journal near you soon.

Other than that, my life is nicely dull at the moment. We're trying to pick a destination for our January holiday (anyone ever been to Morocco?), I start choir rehearsals this week for the Carol Service in December (it's held in the Divinity School which is always a wonderful experience), I'm on the cake rota this week (*rubs hands together* NOM!) and work continues well. Oh, and I'm going on a "Podcasting for Education" course tomorrow that I'm really looking forward to. It's all good, really.

How's everyone else?

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*g* I do know what my first scene is about and how it goes. I just... It has to reach a sort of critical mass in my head before I can get it on the page. Because I write in an entirely linear fashion, I *have* to get the first bit right for the rest to work, so I need to be sure.

But I'll bear "the" in mind... ;P

[hllangel]

I'm incredibly floored by my first two days. Here's hoping I can keep it up.

(And then my next Tardis_BigBang story won't be difficult to get out at ALL)