miscellany post

So, just feel like chatting about various random things . . .

-- "Turn Again" is going well; I've passed the 1500 word mark on chapter 3 and I'm maybe, oh, halfway through I think? So I'm glad I decided to split things up and make it a 4-chapter fic instead of 3. Of course, the way things are going it might turn out that my last chapter will run long too, and also need to be split up, but so far I don't think so. And I probably shouldn't keep mentioning my screw-up, but as this is still primarily a writing journal, which means sharing the problems as well as the successes: remember how I confessed that I had completely forgotten that the Doctor's death in "Turn Left" occurs on Christmas Eve? Well, not only have I fixed that little problem in chapter 3, but it's become part of a plot point in a way that I now actually kind of like. In fact, if I had remembered about Christmas from the beginning, and been forced to decide between either putting it into chapter 1 (as additional angst, probably) or putting it into chapter 3 the way I have it now, I think I would have opted for the way I have it now. So I think it's all worked out for the best. Now I just have to pretend that I planned it this way from the beginning. *looks shifty*

-- I keep thinking about possibly going to Gallifrey One, but I just don't know. I guess I feel that if I'm going to spend the money and time on a trip to California, I need to go visit my family too, and that would mean taking off even more time from work which would be problematic. And if I knew for sure that I would love the convention then I would go ahead and do it as a "sneak" (not telling people I'm coming out) but I'm worried that I'll just end up sitting in the back of a bunch of rooms hardly talking to anyone and not having that great of a time. Standing in long lines to pay for a celebrity's autograph does not appeal to me -- sorry, I just don't care about the autograph that much -- and panel discussions might be interesting, but they might also be crowded and hard to find a seat in, which also doesn't appeal to me at all. So, I don't know. If I don't decide soon then the decision might be made for me if the convention sells out (or flights become prohibitively expensive) but that thought doesn't bother me too much. Which is maybe a sign that this isn't the year for me to go.

And I think that's enough randomness for the night . . .

miscellany post

So, just feel like chatting about various random things . . .

-- "Turn Again" is going well; I've passed the 1500 word mark on chapter 3 and I'm maybe, oh, halfway through I think? So I'm glad I decided to split things up and make it a 4-chapter fic instead of 3. Of course, the way things are going it might turn out that my last chapter will run long too, and also need to be split up, but so far I don't think so. And I probably shouldn't keep mentioning my screw-up, but as this is still primarily a writing journal, which means sharing the problems as well as the successes: remember how I confessed that I had completely forgotten that the Doctor's death in "Turn Left" occurs on Christmas Eve? Well, not only have I fixed that little problem in chapter 3, but it's become part of a plot point in a way that I now actually kind of like. In fact, if I had remembered about Christmas from the beginning, and been forced to decide between either putting it into chapter 1 (as additional angst, probably) or putting it into chapter 3 the way I have it now, I think I would have opted for the way I have it now. So I think it's all worked out for the best. Now I just have to pretend that I planned it this way from the beginning. *looks shifty*

-- I keep thinking about possibly going to Gallifrey One, but I just don't know. I guess I feel that if I'm going to spend the money and time on a trip to California, I need to go visit my family too, and that would mean taking off even more time from work which would be problematic. And if I knew for sure that I would love the convention then I would go ahead and do it as a "sneak" (not telling people I'm coming out) but I'm worried that I'll just end up sitting in the back of a bunch of rooms hardly talking to anyone and not having that great of a time. Standing in long lines to pay for a celebrity's autograph does not appeal to me -- sorry, I just don't care about the autograph that much -- and panel discussions might be interesting, but they might also be crowded and hard to find a seat in, which also doesn't appeal to me at all. So, I don't know. If I don't decide soon then the decision might be made for me if the convention sells out (or flights become prohibitively expensive) but that thought doesn't bother me too much. Which is maybe a sign that this isn't the year for me to go.

And I think that's enough randomness for the night . . .