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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 :)
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 :)
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after spending
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.
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.
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you know how i get bursts
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.
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.
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TF 2.0
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.
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.
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i just met
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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!
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brain... on... wrong... fic...
*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
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
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oh man
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.
Yeowch.
Dissective concrit is a GOOD thing, though, even if it is brutal. Helps me make my piece what i want it to be.
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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.
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.
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writers. block. today
I have a few scenes left that I know i need to write, i know how they're going to happen and I know what i want to accomplish. So why can't i write them? Writer's block is a bizarre thing. Really bloody bizarre.
I've been editing the hell out of my draft and taking notes while stuck in places away from my keyboard, things i've thought of that i need to add / make sure are in there somewhere, etc. Details. But still, i seem to be stuck on those paragraphs, after the 3k words i totally pulled out of my arse yesterday. None of it was planned, i just sat down and decided to type and see what happened, and I liked the result of it. I swear i had no plans, it just came to me as it is. Whole conversations just popped in my skull.
All i need to do is a dream sequence and a discussion of said dream, and i swear i just cannot get it going.
Grr.
I've been editing the hell out of my draft and taking notes while stuck in places away from my keyboard, things i've thought of that i need to add / make sure are in there somewhere, etc. Details. But still, i seem to be stuck on those paragraphs, after the 3k words i totally pulled out of my arse yesterday. None of it was planned, i just sat down and decided to type and see what happened, and I liked the result of it. I swear i had no plans, it just came to me as it is. Whole conversations just popped in my skull.
All i need to do is a dream sequence and a discussion of said dream, and i swear i just cannot get it going.
Grr.
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8k, 8k, 8k!
Despite a migraine on the Richter scale, thanks to a quiet house, I've managed to take Tempus Fugit to 8k.
I bet i manage the other 2k by the end of the day! I've just introduced about 6 new characters, and I intend to take it long past the 10k mark, and write the whole 5 years. Just not right now.
After the 2k is finished and I get Raph and the Doctor talking the night before he goes to visit the Bank Manager and joining up as a team to run this restaurant, it'll just be housecleaning and editing and so on from there on out.
Its just pouring from my fingers today, dunno why.
edited: Migraine broke at 6pm. Stopped at 8900 words. Pooped out for the night. 2 more scenes to write, and then its housecleaning from then on, making sure people are speaking in character, making sure that its active voice, not passive, making sure the Hroth are alien enough, etc.
8900 words. W00t. The story's almost told. Now i gotta suss out how to end it, because it ends in a rather abrupt way, really, as i'm finishing it just before the Doc does to the bank and withdraws 20mil credits to start up his restaurant.
So i guess i need to write some grand speech at the end or something about how Tempus Fugit is the story of his lives and how he, though no fault or choice of his own, has to take a break from all the habitual excitement and take the slow road, and how he imagines it will be, or something like that. Hmm.
[suggestions welcome, everyone]
I bet i manage the other 2k by the end of the day! I've just introduced about 6 new characters, and I intend to take it long past the 10k mark, and write the whole 5 years. Just not right now.
After the 2k is finished and I get Raph and the Doctor talking the night before he goes to visit the Bank Manager and joining up as a team to run this restaurant, it'll just be housecleaning and editing and so on from there on out.
Its just pouring from my fingers today, dunno why.
edited: Migraine broke at 6pm. Stopped at 8900 words. Pooped out for the night. 2 more scenes to write, and then its housecleaning from then on, making sure people are speaking in character, making sure that its active voice, not passive, making sure the Hroth are alien enough, etc.
8900 words. W00t. The story's almost told. Now i gotta suss out how to end it, because it ends in a rather abrupt way, really, as i'm finishing it just before the Doc does to the bank and withdraws 20mil credits to start up his restaurant.
So i guess i need to write some grand speech at the end or something about how Tempus Fugit is the story of his lives and how he, though no fault or choice of his own, has to take a break from all the habitual excitement and take the slow road, and how he imagines it will be, or something like that. Hmm.
[suggestions welcome, everyone]
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tempus fugit
Holy crap. 5421 words, and I've only just woken him up, taken the drip out and gotten him to eat and talk normally! He's learning a new language because the TARDIS is too far away to help him translate, and he's had some frostbite that's healing.
There's NO WAY ON EARTH i can wrap this up in 8k words, so i'm utterly ignoring the word limit, and writing what *I* want to write. I'm going to write the entire 5 years, yes. I've decided it. Yes.
And then i can take snippets of it or whatever and assemble the 8k words for Craig's book. But i NEED to write these 5 years. I need to do it, so badly, its rattling round in my brain and its driving me round the bend. I want to read those 5 years, so i want to write them, to satisfy myself.
I've done 4k words today alone, and it wasn't a rush job, it was just a case of sitting down and putting down ideas on paper, that's all!
Plus i think i've gotten a bit wordy in places, like verbal diarrhoea. Its going to need a spit and polish, that's for sure. But it'll be MINE. :D
There's NO WAY ON EARTH i can wrap this up in 8k words, so i'm utterly ignoring the word limit, and writing what *I* want to write. I'm going to write the entire 5 years, yes. I've decided it. Yes.
And then i can take snippets of it or whatever and assemble the 8k words for Craig's book. But i NEED to write these 5 years. I need to do it, so badly, its rattling round in my brain and its driving me round the bend. I want to read those 5 years, so i want to write them, to satisfy myself.
I've done 4k words today alone, and it wasn't a rush job, it was just a case of sitting down and putting down ideas on paper, that's all!
Plus i think i've gotten a bit wordy in places, like verbal diarrhoea. Its going to need a spit and polish, that's for sure. But it'll be MINE. :D
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1800 words
and i'm not finished yet tonight. I'm still trying to think up how to involve Raphael, but otherwise, i've given his foster parents a good motive for adopting him, i've thought up a good way for their real son to have died, and i've gotten him some decent medical attention from a gentle giant (I had the guy who played Jaws in the Bond movies in mind when i wrote him), with almost 1/4 of the words out of the way already!
I'm not so sure i can wrap this up in 8k words. Still, i'll write what i want to write first, and then worry with trimming it up to fit my limit later.
I'm really enjoying Tempus Fugit. I may continue on past this section and write the whole 5 years; I've always wanted to.
In other news, i sussed out how to use my Nokia as a temporary storage drive, and better still i have a program that lets me edit .doc format files, so as long as i remember to convert from .odt to .doc, and save to my phone, i can use my phone to work. Now all i need is a keyboard thats compatible.
I'm not so sure i can wrap this up in 8k words. Still, i'll write what i want to write first, and then worry with trimming it up to fit my limit later.
I'm really enjoying Tempus Fugit. I may continue on past this section and write the whole 5 years; I've always wanted to.
In other news, i sussed out how to use my Nokia as a temporary storage drive, and better still i have a program that lets me edit .doc format files, so as long as i remember to convert from .odt to .doc, and save to my phone, i can use my phone to work. Now all i need is a keyboard thats compatible.
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tempus fugit update
1400 words. The Doc's still unconscious, the Hroth have a medic come in and see to him, diagnose everything that's wrong with him and set up some drips of fluids and nutrition. The Hroth will never tell him all this, naturally.
I am so tired i am about to fall asleep on the keyboard. My god i'm drunk typing. Looks like 9-10.15 is my time for writing these daysl i'm too busy the rest of the time. i REALLY need that keyboard for my phone, yes. Badly.
I am so tired i am about to fall asleep on the keyboard. My god i'm drunk typing. Looks like 9-10.15 is my time for writing these daysl i'm too busy the rest of the time. i REALLY need that keyboard for my phone, yes. Badly.
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Big finish entry number 2 finished
Though i need a beta, i consider it 'finished', possibly only minor corrections needed. Titled 'Loving the Bomb.'
And i called an 86 year old to find out if the British sat on sofas, couches or settees in 1946, she assured me sofas. lol. She helped me with a lot of the war stuff, Wikipedia did the rest (here's hoping their WWII entry is accurate, lol)
I have a third entry idea but i'm not sure if i'll run with it, I'm kindof proud of Loving the Bomb the most, though Mutatus was fun to write.
Cant WAIT to do it. If they want it, that is. Or i might just do it anyways and if they dont want it, archive it on Teaspoon. That's what i'm gonna do with Fallen, eventually, if i ever get a beta for it, and all my Big Finish entries if they are rejected, is archive them on Teaspoon, so fans can enjoy them anyways. And make an 'I was rejected by Big Finish and all i got was this lousy t-shirt' icon. Ha ha ha :)
Mmm. Five in pain. Yes! :D
And i called an 86 year old to find out if the British sat on sofas, couches or settees in 1946, she assured me sofas. lol. She helped me with a lot of the war stuff, Wikipedia did the rest (here's hoping their WWII entry is accurate, lol)
I have a third entry idea but i'm not sure if i'll run with it, I'm kindof proud of Loving the Bomb the most, though Mutatus was fun to write.
Cant WAIT to do it. If they want it, that is. Or i might just do it anyways and if they dont want it, archive it on Teaspoon. That's what i'm gonna do with Fallen, eventually, if i ever get a beta for it, and all my Big Finish entries if they are rejected, is archive them on Teaspoon, so fans can enjoy them anyways. And make an 'I was rejected by Big Finish and all i got was this lousy t-shirt' icon. Ha ha ha :)
Mmm. Five in pain. Yes! :D