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I saw three clients or maybe four. I chatted with three or four friends, including Anna, <user name=Annavere>, and Lissa. And chatted and chatted with Lissa, off and on all day, starting at about 10:00 am my time and not saying g'night till 10:00 pm. And she said something awesome about my story:

"Funny, hot, and sweet! (registered trademark: dswdiane) ♥"

Oh, Lissa, how I adore you.

So I also reread a wonderful Sherlock story by LauraJV and made a bunch of comments about it. And I went through my spam folder and rescued all the comments and replies to comments and kudos that had been going to spam since a month ago in March. And for all I know before that. I just thought no one was reading anything I said. Gods. I'm so preoccupied with writing I hardly know what else is happening.

Why the hell does my type keep changing size? I want to get back to book 3, chapter 5. Which I will do tomorrow. I really, really will. I'm considering making the title Present, Past, Future Tense--All Imperfect. Omigods, I'm already thinking about making book 4, like 10 or 20 years into Duncan/Methos being together. Stop that right now. I still haven't finished plotting Book 3, though I know exactly where it's going for a while yet.

I give up on figuring out what my type is doing. Oh. Lissa told me how to steal an icon. <user name=carenejeans> I'm going to steal one from you right now. It's after 1:00 am. I need to crash.

I want to work on chapter 5 tomorrow. And I will. The music right now is keeping me. Enough of rock for now. Perfect the next track on my playlist is one from the Jaws soundtrack. Time to go to bed and fantasize about my favorite scene that I won't get to write for probably quite a little bit of time. Um, no. I can see a way to get to it more quickly and efficiently. Poor Methos.

Oh. Funniest interaction of the day: Me: So tell me that I do NOT want to even contemplate participating in Whump challenge involving a story about Methos/Kronos. And later in same story h/c with Duncan/Methos. TELL ME that. Make it mandatory.
Killalissa: honey, you are already writing that
Me: Hmm. Yes, I guess I am. I don't need to write anything for a Whump challenge. All of what I write is Whump challenge.
Me: "Darkness is a hunger that insatiable. Lightness has a call that's hard to hear. I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it. I'm crawling on your shores." is so Methos, isn't it really?
Killa: yes, I never thought of it that way before! Indigo Girls always make me think of Xena and Gabrielle, but that lyric is totally Methos

More chatter then Me: Thinking title of book three might should be Present, Past, and Future Tense all Imperfect. Maybe
K: I like that! they are/Methos is a work in progress
Me: Aren't we all. But he is more so than a lot--because he has a lot more of all of it.
K: Methos just said to me, "Me a little more than most, I think."
Me: Poor sweet baby. My Duncan just announced in my head "*My* baby." yes, Duncan, we know that. Truly. We do.
K: 😂 to “ My Duncan just announced in my head "*My* baby." yes, Duncan, we know that. Truly. We do. ”

And now I really, really have to crash. G'night all.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: home
Current Music: "Whip It" Devo

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This week's Friday Five.

Wow, two Friday Fives in a row I wanna do. How exciting. And I'm actually doing it on friday, too.
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Current Music: Hantanang - Prabin Rai Zing, Prayadeep Rai, Sona Rai

dswdiane

I have checked my preferences on AO3, have not changed a thing, and all seems to be as desired--so--

If you're reading this, please be advised, that I am not getting email notifications of any kudos, comments, or replies to ANY comments I've made on other people's works. And this has been going on for well over a week. I have notified AO3 of this problem as of about ten minutes ago, so of course, not response has been made yet. But if you have replied to any comments I've made on AO3, please be advised I do not know about it.

That's all for now. Gods.

Nope, nope, nope. All my fault. I have no idea what I did, but all my emails from AO3 have been going to spam. Since the beginning of March. Ye fucking gods. I think I rescued all of them. All 40 I could finds in the bloody spam folder which only goes back to March 10. Kill me now, please.

Current Mood: Annoyed with myself
Current Location: home
Current Music: "Blood Brothers" Iron Maiden

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I signed up for Write Every Day earlier this week, which I'm enjoying as a challenge and focus point. The purpose of it for me was to circumvent what normally happens right after I post something - which is instantly disappearing into the ether for two weeks before I summon the energy to try writing again.

It worked, today at least. I dug out a functionally finished short fic I unfortunately wrote around this time last year while I was still reeling and in deep shock. So I let it lapse without doing the final read-through, because I just wasn't up to it, at all. I feel bad about this, because the fic was beta read, and then I never posted it.

So this evening, I sat down with the fic, altered a few sentences to be more smooth or substantial, added a few others to make the story clearer, and think it's where I want it to be. So that's getting posted in the next day or two.

This challenge is getting good results. Thank you to

dswdiane for pointing it out.

dswdiane

So, first they distract me from the third book in this series in which I have written four chapters and am halfway through a fifth one to insist I HAVE to write a new scene after the end of "Til Death." After Methos has precipitated Duncan dropping and shattering a Ming vase.

Then Methos refuses to be happy with the first five versions of what I write which is close to what he wants, but not quite. Finally, finally, finally Methos and Duncan and me are happy with the first 2000 words. And I happily go to sleep last night. At 1:30 am.

Then they wake me up at 5:00 am this morning demanding the next scene and describing it to me in detail--and it is absolute porn (shut UP, both of you, you can call it erotica until you turn blue and fall right over). (Yes, I know it's not graphically explicit, but it IS sex from beginning to end). Gods. And both of them are implicated. There's plenty of blame to go around. Thank the gods, several clients cancelled today. I am fried.

Maybe more later. And it is later. And since I started writing at about 7:30 am because I very considerately did NOT wake up my spousal unit so I could go type in the same room. Which is where this computer lives and there is naught to be done about that except live with it. For now anyway. Anyway I now have close to 4000 words and only one more scene to write with is actually mostly a denouement.

And now I want to tear up chapter 5 of book 3 and change it. A Lot. Because I have had a better idea. So it was good that I got distracted into writing a different story instead of forging on. Thank you beta Paul for totally brilliant suggestion.

If I have more to say, I can write more later.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Home
Current Music: "I Want My Tears Back" Nightwish

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Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: I went to see Stand By Me on the big screen during its fortieth-anniversary return to theaters in March. I'd actually never seen it before, though I knew almost everything about it through cultural osmosis and felt, watching, almost as if I had seen it before. It's an excellent movie, of course. Well-crafted, well-acted, challenging, and satisfying. At this end of history, it was sometimes difficult to see the characters through their famous actors, like when the character played by River Phoenix vanishes as the narrative switches from past to present and the moment packs a doubled punch. It would not be made the same way today, and I think it would be the less for that. (Everyone knows the Pokémon Stand by Me trivia, right?) ( Read more... )

Ficathons, fests & communities

Create & engage
- fkficfest, the annual Forever Knight event, has prompting 5/03-16, with stories due 7/18.
- 3weeks4dreamwidth, an annual celebration of DW, runs 4/25-5/15.
- allbutromance, a gen exchange, has nominations through 4/16, signups 4/20-5/03, and works due 8/14.
- bitesizedfandomsex, an exchange for canons that can be consumed in 8 or fewer hours, has sign-ups through 4/12 and works due 5/30.
- whumpex, an exchange for stories in which characters hurt, has nominations through 4/18, sign-ups 4/21-5/04, with works due 6/02.
- seasonalremix, a match-by-trope remix event, has sign-ups through 4/11, with the original story due 4/18, and a matched remix due 6/20.
- whatif_au is hosting its annual AU bingo through 7/31.
- seasonsofdrabbles, a quarterly drabble exchange, has nominations and sign-ups through 4/12.
- spring_renewal, an open promptfest (panfandom + original works), has fills 4/10-30.
- bookclub_dw is a monthly reading club (one month to read the elected book, one to discuss it).
- allbingo's April theme is "flower fest."
- trope_of_the_month's April theme is "fake dating."
- pinchhits is a community for posting needed fills for exchanges. For example, goreswap is currently seeking pinch hitters.
- whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
Enjoy & share
- fancake (themed fanfic recs); April theme: "arranged marriage"
- gensplosion (gen fanfic recs)
- het_reccers (m/f fanfic recs)
- fanart_recs (fanart recs)
- recthething (fanwork recs)

Sidelight: Last year was my year of re-reading Lois McMaster Bujold. This year, I think, will be Rex Stout.

annavere

Sidelined has clocked in at 52,981 words. It is the longest individual story I have written, and the most ambitious completed work I have to my name, and I am super proud of how it turned out. So this gets a long "making of" post, and a new Erin icon. I have earned it.

The basic concept came from a challenge I set myself to write launchpad scenes for five different Jeremiah canon divergences. I knew the concept at once: Erin and Theo getting stranded in the wilderness and learning to rely on each other without Markus gumming the works. I had previously toyed with a road trip idea, but didn't find it appealing post-series, because there wasn't an identifiable conflict point. Theo would want to get home to her kid, and Erin would completely support her in doing so - which meant nothing to argue over, and therefore nothing to drive the plot. Counterintuitively, I also ship Theo/Erin much harder in season one, before they ever share a scene together, than I do post 'Rites of Passage,' and both of them being outside in the chaos of 'Things Left Unsaid' gave me the perfect opportunity to throw them together.

The framework took shape around three key events. They would witness Vincent gatecrash St. Louis, forcing them to leave behind shelter and risk the road. They would spring one of Daniel's labor camps. One of them (didn't matter which) would get captured by an enforcer, leading to Feelings and Rescuing, and they would steal a car, the story ending at the gates of Thunder Mountain. Short and simple!

Here's how that went completely awry. ( Long, long making of. )

Current Mood: proud

dswdiane

There really is a problem with listening to my playlist of favorite favorites while writing. I get so caught up in the music that I cannot continue to write. Dammit. The guitar in "Blood Brothers" Iron Maiden just captures my head and body. Okay, now Springsteen, "Badlands." That song is so much a part of me that it's worn a familiar groove in my head. Um, spoke too soon. It still catches me. Think I need to turn the damn music off so I can hear what Duncan and Methos are saying. I'll always get caught by "For the ones who had a notion
A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."

So I was gonna turn it off but along comes Human by The Killers. Love that one too much and it moves me every damn time--as in my body starts moving.

And this story is a bitch. It won't let me go, but it keep moving to places that I didn't expect it to go. Well, hell, Duncan and Methos frequently to that to me. I ought to be used to it by now. And it's after 1:00 am. I totally gotta crash. The story will still be waiting when I wake tomorrow.

And it was lovely going out to for dinner with Speck, Roy, and Michael this evening. I'm really enjoying becoming closer and closer in my friendship with Speck.

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Current Location: Home
Current Music: Somebody that I Used to Know

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dswdiane

Wrote about 1500 words today. Half on chapter 5. The other half on a new first time Duncan/Methos story that popped into my head last night and then this morning would not leave me alone. Starring flaming brat mischievous Methos. Discovered I had to write that before I could concentrate on WIP.

Methos, you are the most annoying muse who ever lived. Yes, I know Duncan is just as invested in this story as you are, but it's from your POV and has to do with your feelings so it's on you.

I gotta go bed. It's after 3:00 am. I am insane.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: None

dswdiane

I did some really good work with all the patients I saw today. Than feels good.

Wrote about 2000 words. Probably gonna cut some of it, but we'll see when editing tomorrow. Know roughly what the next few scenes will be and the general direction of the plot.

I'm really tired. Worked hard this week. Wrote a lot. Spent a healthy amount of time hanging out with friends both in person and online.

Wrote all of that last night at about midnight. Didn't post. Don't even know why I didn't. Gods, I was tired beyond tired.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Home
Current Music: "Separate Ways" Exit Eden

moon_custafer

In which Hanna calls in a favour, and plays lawyer.

dswdiane

I need, need, need to crash. I wish I could understand why I've become allergic to sleep unless it's in the morning after I should be out of bed already. Gods.

It may have something to do with the fact that I want to keep writing and I have good music playing right into my ears and I don't turn the damn playlist off. And almost all of it is music that could easily be danced to. Not exactly restful.

Okay, two more songs and then I have to stop. Only two. My gods I never want to stop listening.

Voice of Sanity! Go the hell to bed. NOW. Methos, Connor, and Duncan will be fine until tomorrow and then I can write all damn weekend.

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Home
Current Music: "Crush, Crush, Crush" Paramore

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moon_custafer

Yesterday’s was a trip to Taylor’s Bell Foundry where Anthony and Sam, a pair of large cheerful men who look as though they probably have the upper-body strength of medieval long-bow archers, cast and re-cast church bells while discussing what kinds of cheese everyone would be if they were cheese (“I asked Josh. He’s mozzarella.”)

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What is Write Every Day (or as we affectionately type it to save typing) WED?

Write Every Day is an informal writing challenge that moves from journal to journal, hosted by different people instead of on a central comm. It's probably a weird way of doing things, but that's how it's set up and — it's worked so far!

I'm hosting it for the first half of this month ([personal profile] sanguinity will take over on the 16th) . Every day I'll make a post where people can check in to comment on what they've written that day, whether a single sentence or thousands of words; or to talk about problems, ask questions, and generally cheer each other on.

There are no sign-ups. Anyone is welcome to join at any time. Just comment and voila! You have joined.

What counts as "writing" is fairly relaxed, and can include working on research, plotting, RPG text, free-writing, and the ever-useful "alibi sentence," which is what it sounds like, a single sentence written primarily to count as writing for that day.

The goal is to write every day, but it's not required. A tally is kept of everyone's daily writing check-in, but it's to help people stay on track. It isn't a race.

The challenge is meant to help each other develop a consistent writing habit, keep procrastination at bay, get through difficult times, overcome writer's block, and to just keep at it.

If you want more information, read [personal profile] zwei_hexen's, ([personal profile] ysilme and [personal profile] sylvanwitch) Welcome to Write Every Day! which goes into the rules (mostly guidelines) in more depth.

Goals & Plans for the Month

If you have any special goals or plans for the month, feel free to share them! My only plan for the month is to write every day. ;-)

Quote of the Day:

"You don't have to write every day to be a writer, you just have to feel guilty every day that you don't."

— Nic Farey, in his SF fanzine This Here.

Onward!

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Soundtrack to Jaw "Out to Sea"

moon_custafer

By my standards, a luxurious social whirl.

I’d found out earlier in the week that the Yorkdale Mall has a sushi concession, so I stopped on the way home Friday and, after wandering past enormous stores well out of my price range (props to the shopper I saw wearing Gucci wellies, though), eventually found the food court.

Saturday I did my usual trip to the coffee-shop, then the thrift store. Found several nice things, the best one being a 1970s-style three-quarter-length green print dress that makes me look like a murderous guest-star on Columbo. In the evening I had a weed gummy and painted, while Andrew watched a couple of episodes of Columbo.

Sunday Andrew wanted to go to the Scribe bookshop on the Danforth, and we arranged with Don to meet at the pub afterwards. As it turned out, Line 2 was down and we had to reroute, stopping at another bookshop on College—which ended up being a good thing because Scribe turned out to be closed— they were down at the Old Paper Show & Sale instead. Andrew’d already found a Robert E. Howard hardback for thirty dollars, though, so the only downside was having to wait fifteen minutes for the pub to open (turns out The Auld Spot doesn’t open till 2pm, at least on Sundays). I let Andrew have at least one cider more than he should have had, and we taxied home with Don in tow for more conversation.

I checked oceanofpdf in the hope of finding Lou Rand’s The Gay Detective (1960). No dice, but they do have his non-fiction work The Gay Cookbook.

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