hale pupule

My back ached something fierce this morning, so I took the day off for a damned good thrashing from the chiropractor and rest. I also worked on the hobbit hole a bit; now all the clutter is at right angles! (Nah, I did a little more than that.)

( Blah blah blah Sherlock fic writing. )

*yyaaawwwwnnnnn*

( Simple pleasures. )

I had a somewhat productive weekend. ( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's or Singles Awareness Day for them that celebrates it. For me, it's just Tuesday.

It's Monday. Yay. Here's my weekly Cheer Myself Up to Get Over the Monday and Tuesday Blahs List of Happiness:

1. I proved last night that I definitely have one of those brains that will come up with SOMETHING if I just force myself to sit down and write. It's not fantastic, but it's words. One scene down, about a dozen to go.

2. Saw the family Saturday. Everyone was sick, unfortunately, but well enough to go through with Squirt's baptism and lunch afterwards. Had a nice chat with Boo-Girl about college plans.

2a. Neither Dad nor I has showed signs of getting the dreaded lurgy that the Jimbos have, though we won't be sure we haven't caught it until tonight.

3. Mom was home very briefly this weekend. Not long enough to hang out properly, though she did listen to an episode of Cabin Pressure and laughed her butt off. And she adored the Ottery St Sherlock crossover vid I posted here last month.

4. Finally bothered remembered to get iTunes so I could get the aforementioned Cabin Pressure from Audible and burn it onto CDs for the commute.

5. New-to-me books! A few overviews of subjects I might try at college and a novel sent by mistake -- I was ordered Bob Balaban's Spielberg, Truffaut, and Me (his diary of making Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and got the novelization of Close Encounters of the Third Kind instead. They refunded my money, told me to keep the book, and I'm trying my luck with another bookseller.

6. A clean-ish hobbit hole. I maintain a certain, slightly-below-average level of neatness and cleanliness most of the time (the black dog's visits and tech week of plays being the exceptions), but I make an effort when I expect someone else -- even Mom -- to set foot inside any time soon. And once it's halfway decent, I make an effort, at least for a while, to keep it that way.

7. Rain tomorrow!

Happy Monday, y'all.

Today's gratitudinal thought is another It-Made-My-Day thingy:

I love those light bulb moments when I start thinking about an established character and what little we know about some aspect of hir life from canon and then start extrapolating details from that and create an entire background for a fic based on that little bit we know.

It's exhausting, though.

And frustrating when I'm not in a position to write as much as I'd like right then. I did fill several large post-its with ideas in tiny writing during lunch, though, so I have stuff to go on when I do have time to focus later. Yellow post-its are background and research to tie canon to the universe I'm creating for the fic, orange ones have to do with the story/plot/characterization.

Since this is my fandom journal, talking about fandom-related stuff once in a while might be a good idea.

Much gratitude to all who have been reviewing Wolfsbane at OWL and Ashwinder. I'm not ignoring your reviews; as most of you know, I'm just in the middle of a lengthy laptop repair with no backup computer. I do appreciate and enjoy the reviews I get for all my fics, even though sneaking glances at them during work is the only way I get to read them right now.

More sneaking later tonight when I post chapter five. This chapter contains a few completely new scenes that weren't part of the original fic.

( Day eleven of the laptop drama: )

softobsidian74 put out a call yesterday for writing buddies for this morning. She's on the East Coast, so 10 a.m. is a perfectly reasonable time for her, but I'm still groggy at 7 my time. But I'm here, though I'll only be on for about an hour.

Edit: One hour, my foot. Over the last two hours, I've done a bit of research, watched a YouTube video several times (more research ... really!), and written 590 words. UST scene in a way that's been done a few times before, but as the UST stays U, I hope it's different this time: ( Read more... )

The UST needs more ST, but this is only the first draft.

*puff, pant* Just got home. Who's writing this evening? I'll be on for the next hour and a half.

Edit: Just 320 words tonight, mostly editing, but I added a new sub-scene to the prologue: ( Read more... )

I know I've mentioned it before, but 5_for_five is a great way to measure your progress, no matter what you're writing. The goal is to write five hundred words, five days a week. That's manageable!

As of today, the summer session is over and the autumn begins, so go here to sign up. Fer made a pretty parchment, and Shug will give out "stickers" to attach to it as we make progress.