is it a kind of dream?

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TF 2.0 sent off to Adrian tonight, after i spent 2 hours beta'ing it myself. 9924 word count according to OO.

And someone in the OG chatroom has promised me David Warner's phone number.

I will *die* if he's serious.

And i will have another night of dreams of boning Mr Warner, yes. I can forsee it :)

 most of the night dreaming about boning David Warner (!!) or traveling with the Fifth Doctor, i woke up and had a superb ending idea for TF.

I t rewrote the heretofore last paragraph a little, so it doesnt feel like it just ends abruptly for no reason, and then i sat down after cooking breakfast for the pumpkin, to write it.

Took me til about 10am to write, trimming up some fatty tissue elsewhere so i could fit it in, and it stands at 9980 words at the moment. Two betas have passed the idea as a good one, that seals up all loose ends, etc, so i'm feeling pretty good about it.

I've printed a copy, i will beta-fy it myself today during school, looking for small is and full stops and punctuation, and hopefully ship it off to the editor/beta tonight. And that will hopefully, fingers crossed, be me done with TF.

So i can move on to The Remnants, damnit! I am so DYING to write David and Susannah/David and Joanna. Yes.

of creativity at weird hours? I had a sudden flood of knowing who my villains were after i took a bath and picturing some of David Warner's villains throughout the years, and then all of a sudden, i was finishing the piece before i knew what i was doing, filling in all those paragraphs that were just bits in brackets.

I have some more editing to do, some flushing out of scenes and descriptions to put in, but omg.

It stands at 9k now. And my arse is going to BED.

is coming along, hovering about 7100 words, with a few more scenes needing being written instead of just notes in brackets.

Then i need to make sure it flows and isnt just one scene cut to the next without anything connecting them (which is what i'm afraid if, having moved so many paragraphs around yesterday)

I am pooped, and totally running on fumes, lol. My brain's turned to mush. I think its time to Watch David Warner's episode of B5 again, just because it finished downloading a little while ago, and he's yummy. And makey icons.

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!

*headdesk* Why is my brain still working on S&S fic?

Until i get the actual line by line shredding of TF, i cant do any more work on it. In the meantime, my head's in the wrong place, thinking about the wrong characters.

I tried even listening to Circular Time Winter today, to get back into the Who groove, but alas, had S&S fic ideas on the walk home. ARGH.

Memo to brain:

    Stop the S&S stuff, already, okay?
    It aint gonna help TF if you're busy lusting after Steel, yeah?

Signed,
Me

S&S fic on hold for the mo - TF comments back from main beta/editor, and I have a LOT of rewriting to do :/

Yeowch.

Dissective concrit is a GOOD thing, though, even if it is brutal. Helps me make my piece what i want it to be.

Finished it before bed last night. 10100 words.

Today spent a bit of time doing some majour editing, and now i'm satisfied enough to call it a 'first draft.'

Anyone who wants to read it, let me know. I can email in double spaced .doc format.