is it a kind of dream?

adrian_middle, and he's a really great bloke and a terrific fountain of knowledge re Who stuff and Craig himself.

Better still, he's a fantastic editor with a very nice manner about him, so it was much easier to take "your first draft of TF sucks ass and isnt worth the paper its printed on" from him than it would've been from anyone else!

He chopped me up and spat me out, but so gently and inoffensively that i was able to take on board his very helpful suggestions without letting my ego get in the way, which is a talent many many many people lack. He was able to show me my own strengths and weaknesses without making me feel like the total n00b amateur that I am, and it was a really pleasant meeting.

There IS a story in there, and I have to draw it out. My first draft was more suited as the beginning of an 80k novel, not a 10k anthology piece, so lots of verbal diarrhoea and pain-fetish wanking got in the way of a potentially good story and interesting original characters. *puts on thinking cap*

I have a large scale rewrite to do, with 19 days to do it in. *hits the panic button*

If i'm absent from LJ, its because i'm busy working on the most important piece i've ever written, and certainly the one that means the most to me emotionally.

S&S fic is on hold i'm afraid. Assuming i can stop me old tinker from thinking about it!