Less than a month to go before the highlander secret santa's are due. So far I have bullet points, I wrote when I first got my assignment. Really need to start drafting something now.
Haven't been doing much in fandom recently (been ages since I last posted anything) I'ver barely even skimmed through my friends list. So I'm hoping writing the highlander fic will prod me back into being a bit more active. Recently I've just been lurking and reading supernatural fics (I think the may have eaten my brains).
To get me back into the habit here's a highlander/SPN snippet I wrote earlier:
( Highlander/SPN - spoilers for HL season 5 )
This was going to be something long and complex but in the end this is all I had on it. Maybe someday.
Haven't been doing much in fandom recently (been ages since I last posted anything) I'ver barely even skimmed through my friends list. So I'm hoping writing the highlander fic will prod me back into being a bit more active. Recently I've just been lurking and reading supernatural fics (I think the may have eaten my brains).
To get me back into the habit here's a highlander/SPN snippet I wrote earlier:
( Highlander/SPN - spoilers for HL season 5 )
This was going to be something long and complex but in the end this is all I had on it. Maybe someday.
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My assignment for the hlh_shortcuts secret santa fic exchange was in my inbox this morning :0). I can definintely work with that, I have a plotbunnies already hatching (apparently plotbunnies unlike other bunnies are not mammalian but are reptilian, amphibian or maybe avian... hmm bunnies with wings, that would explain why they keep flying off).
Sorry moving on from the poor stretched metaphor now. Should be fun to write I think and I can hardly wait to read them all... except then I would have no time to write mine so it's good that it's still a little way off.
Everything has been changing over at delicious, where I keep my links/recs/bookmarks and many people are already deleting and moving on. I'm keeping my delicious account active (at least for now). They seem to be adding bits of the old functionality back everyday, so I'm sticking around to see how it looks in a few weeks and whether I think I can use it (though mine keeps switching between the old and new versions at the moment).
I am however already on Pinboard and Diigo (they both mirror my delicious account), if anyone wants to take a look. Pinboard is probably the best in terms of fandom because diigo automatically makes certain links private and doesn't allow certain tags, but it does charge a small one-off joining fee. Diigo does a lot of other highting and comments and various other bits I don't use so haven't really looked at, and Pinboard seems to be a more straightforward plain indexing system. It's easier to see who else has saved a link on Pinbard too and thus find similar bookmarks. If anyone wants a look at the sites in use or subscribe/follow/network/whatever I've put in links to my bookmarks below.
My Pinboard account
My diigo account
Sorry moving on from the poor stretched metaphor now. Should be fun to write I think and I can hardly wait to read them all... except then I would have no time to write mine so it's good that it's still a little way off.
Everything has been changing over at delicious, where I keep my links/recs/bookmarks and many people are already deleting and moving on. I'm keeping my delicious account active (at least for now). They seem to be adding bits of the old functionality back everyday, so I'm sticking around to see how it looks in a few weeks and whether I think I can use it (though mine keeps switching between the old and new versions at the moment).
I am however already on Pinboard and Diigo (they both mirror my delicious account), if anyone wants to take a look. Pinboard is probably the best in terms of fandom because diigo automatically makes certain links private and doesn't allow certain tags, but it does charge a small one-off joining fee. Diigo does a lot of other highting and comments and various other bits I don't use so haven't really looked at, and Pinboard seems to be a more straightforward plain indexing system. It's easier to see who else has saved a link on Pinbard too and thus find similar bookmarks. If anyone wants a look at the sites in use or subscribe/follow/network/whatever I've put in links to my bookmarks below.
My Pinboard account
My diigo account
Been awhile again. It's official ever since I started reading supernatural fic I've become a bad LJer, I haven't checked my flist in ages let alone posted. I'm blaming Dean Winchester it's clearly his fault... too much fic written about him.
Because it is fun (and I am nuts) I've signed up again for this year hlh_shortcuts - highlander secret santa. So I'll definitely write at least one complete fic this year. I think the last complete fic I wrote was for last years.... I do have more ficlets for various fandoms to post though :0).
Really looking forward to reading all the stories everyone writes for this year. If you're a new (or lapsed) highlander fan it's definitely worth checking out, the more the merrier and it always produces some excellent stories.
I'm hoping it will motivate me to write more in some of my other fandoms too, nothing like having one thing you're 'supposed' to write to make you want to write other things. But I'm not promising anything
Because it is fun (and I am nuts) I've signed up again for this year hlh_shortcuts - highlander secret santa. So I'll definitely write at least one complete fic this year. I think the last complete fic I wrote was for last years.... I do have more ficlets for various fandoms to post though :0).
Really looking forward to reading all the stories everyone writes for this year. If you're a new (or lapsed) highlander fan it's definitely worth checking out, the more the merrier and it always produces some excellent stories.
I'm hoping it will motivate me to write more in some of my other fandoms too, nothing like having one thing you're 'supposed' to write to make you want to write other things. But I'm not promising anything
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So,*shifty eyes* that posting a ficlet a day thing hasn't been happening for the last couple of days. But I have written some of them, though not actually finished... perhaps it's better to post them in a batch anyway.
Well either way they are still happening, so expect more soon.. and I am still writing (almost) everyday which is great, and I'm reading my flist regularly again. Hadn't realised how much I missed you all, happy to be back.
Well either way they are still happening, so expect more soon.. and I am still writing (almost) everyday which is great, and I'm reading my flist regularly again. Hadn't realised how much I missed you all, happy to be back.
Hi again, have decided that the only way I am going to get back into writing is to make myself. So I want to challenge myself to write drabbles/ficlets etc every night. So here is my challenge to write drabbles/ficlets (one a night) on the following pairings (some of which may end up gen). A month's worth of writing if I do one a night - that should get me into the habit. Here then is my todo list:
( highlander )
( Gundam Wing )
( Leverage )
( Prince of Tennis )
( Doctor Who/Torchwood )
( Magnificent 7 )
( Supernatural )
( Miscellaneous )
Wish me luck... I'll need it.
( highlander )
( Gundam Wing )
( Leverage )
( Prince of Tennis )
( Doctor Who/Torchwood )
( Magnificent 7 )
( Supernatural )
( Miscellaneous )
Wish me luck... I'll need it.
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Hey all,
Have just realised it has been a horrendous length of time since I looked at LJ/DW. I'm still around, just haven't been on LJ/DW for awhile. I've been sucked into the black hole that is supernatural fanfiction. I am on a mission to read it all... But unlike my other fandoms this one seems to be... a little big. I don't think I'll be able to catch up on 6 years worth of fanfic.
This is strange to me, I've read just about everything there is to read (in English) in the highlander fandom, probably twice at least (or anything ever recced and still available online), at one point I'd read all the highlights of the gundam wing fandom (I'm now totally out of date, I rarely read anything new just catch up with updates of a few favourites), made fairly significant dents into Charmed, Magnificent 7, Hikaru No Go and Prince of Tennis and in the last few months just about all of the recced stuff in the Leverage or Loser fandoms. Supernatural though appears to be a never ending supply. Am unsure whether this should please me or not, on the one hand will probably never run out of new stuff to read, on the other think of all the fic I will miss.
Anyway I'm sure you can see now why I haven't got round to checking my flists. New leaf, I shall try to be a better flister and keep up with peoples posts. And I really, really must start writing fic things again, I have lots of snippet type ideas i should probably commit to screen.
Have just realised it has been a horrendous length of time since I looked at LJ/DW. I'm still around, just haven't been on LJ/DW for awhile. I've been sucked into the black hole that is supernatural fanfiction. I am on a mission to read it all... But unlike my other fandoms this one seems to be... a little big. I don't think I'll be able to catch up on 6 years worth of fanfic.
This is strange to me, I've read just about everything there is to read (in English) in the highlander fandom, probably twice at least (or anything ever recced and still available online), at one point I'd read all the highlights of the gundam wing fandom (I'm now totally out of date, I rarely read anything new just catch up with updates of a few favourites), made fairly significant dents into Charmed, Magnificent 7, Hikaru No Go and Prince of Tennis and in the last few months just about all of the recced stuff in the Leverage or Loser fandoms. Supernatural though appears to be a never ending supply. Am unsure whether this should please me or not, on the one hand will probably never run out of new stuff to read, on the other think of all the fic I will miss.
Anyway I'm sure you can see now why I haven't got round to checking my flists. New leaf, I shall try to be a better flister and keep up with peoples posts. And I really, really must start writing fic things again, I have lots of snippet type ideas i should probably commit to screen.
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I remember now how much I dislike internet explorer...
Ever since the last update firefox on my home computer has been freezing my computer and has become basically unusable so I have switched back to IE. Ahh... it fills in addresses by alphabetical order rather than most used and I can't figure out how to make it reopen my last session automatically (I can click a button to reopen the last closed window each time but that means I can't reopen more than one window) and I just don't like it :0(. *Wonders what chrome is like*
This my excuse for being so slow with the highlander recs on crack_van (and I'm sticking to it) should make up for it this week.
I've started writing ficlets again, leverage so far (I have a strange fascination with Hardison's Nana) but might shake out a few other fandoms too whilst I'm at it.
Ever since the last update firefox on my home computer has been freezing my computer and has become basically unusable so I have switched back to IE. Ahh... it fills in addresses by alphabetical order rather than most used and I can't figure out how to make it reopen my last session automatically (I can click a button to reopen the last closed window each time but that means I can't reopen more than one window) and I just don't like it :0(. *Wonders what chrome is like*
This my excuse for being so slow with the highlander recs on crack_van (and I'm sticking to it) should make up for it this week.
I've started writing ficlets again, leverage so far (I have a strange fascination with Hardison's Nana) but might shake out a few other fandoms too whilst I'm at it.
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Back at work.... I want another holiday :0). The mornings may just kill me but part of me is glad to get back to a routine. I put on 5lbs over Christmas (which could have been a lot worse) and I have to wait for work to renew my gym membership before I can get back to it (grr I'm trying to make sure I keep active anyway whilst I wait). Hope it'll drop off quite quickly this month with going back to stricter eating and regular exercise.
I spent my break well though, I'm behind on Bleach again so have started to catch up and I have finally got round to watching Leverage ... I'm now half way through the first series - brilliant am loving it so far.
I also got curious after someone mentioned the Strachey Mysteries, so have made my way quickly through all the films (twice), the first two books and pretty much all the fanfic I could find. I think I love movieverse Donald & Timmy. I think they are the most clearly in love couple I have ever seen, I've been trying to think of any couple I know in real life who are that happy to see each other and am coming up blank (though some of my friends came close on their wedding days), actually that's a rather depressing thought.
Writing wise I'm still whittling away at the unfinished pile in my hard drive... mainly working on a mag7 (ATF) fic at the moment. Though I have highlander, gundam wing and doctor who fics simmering too. Though there may be a series of multi fandom ficlets coming out first if the persistent plot bunnies of the week have their way. Hmm... that reminds me, must post my hlh fic and the politics and reality update to the various archives I have dotted around and add them to my index.
I spent my break well though, I'm behind on Bleach again so have started to catch up and I have finally got round to watching Leverage ... I'm now half way through the first series - brilliant am loving it so far.
I also got curious after someone mentioned the Strachey Mysteries, so have made my way quickly through all the films (twice), the first two books and pretty much all the fanfic I could find. I think I love movieverse Donald & Timmy. I think they are the most clearly in love couple I have ever seen, I've been trying to think of any couple I know in real life who are that happy to see each other and am coming up blank (though some of my friends came close on their wedding days), actually that's a rather depressing thought.
Writing wise I'm still whittling away at the unfinished pile in my hard drive... mainly working on a mag7 (ATF) fic at the moment. Though I have highlander, gundam wing and doctor who fics simmering too. Though there may be a series of multi fandom ficlets coming out first if the persistent plot bunnies of the week have their way. Hmm... that reminds me, must post my hlh fic and the politics and reality update to the various archives I have dotted around and add them to my index.
Whee, the next part of politics and reality is written. Think I'm going to sleep on it though before posting, it's a pretty.... busy chapter and I want to read it with fresh eyes to make sure everything I wanted is in there and makes sense, not sure what warnings (if any) this chapter needs yet either. It's only been a little over a year since the last Gundam Wing fic post.
Think I shall do some work on one of my half written highlander fics for now.... or hmm that Mag7/highlander fic, though the DrWho/highlander fic is tempting.
Think I shall do some work on one of my half written highlander fics for now.... or hmm that Mag7/highlander fic, though the DrWho/highlander fic is tempting.
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I wrote 400 words of part 3 of politics and reality (my 3x4 fic) today... yay must keep writing. Hope to have something new to post soon. My problem is I'm trying to work on so many things at onc I never finish any of them. I have not one but two Dr Who/highlander crossovers I'm working on, a highlander fic I've been writing for about 18 months, another highlander fic I decided didn't fit for hlh but I want to finish writing. The mad highlander shapeshifting cats thing. A highlander/mag7 crossover, a Mag7/GW crossover and 3 GW wips. I'm sure there's more but that's all i can think of off the top of my head.
Meanwhile in a fit of constructiveness I've been updating my archive of our own site barring a couple of drabbles I think everything's on there now.... next on the list my fanfiction.net.
Meanwhile in a fit of constructiveness I've been updating my archive of our own site barring a couple of drabbles I think everything's on there now.... next on the list my fanfiction.net.
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Well all the hlh_shortcuts fics are up.... it's sort of sad that's it's over but for any highlander fans there's a whole treasure trove of highlander stories to read Well done to tryfanstone on running her first fest.
I'm trying to work out who I think wrote which, but I am terrible at guessing it'sstill fun to try and work it out.
No more work all year :0). I'm travelling down to my Mum's for Christmas tomorrow, which could be interesting as we've had lots of disruption on the trains the last couple of days (mostly from ice and snow). She has internet so I shouldn't be totally cut off but I don't know how much I'll get a chance to use it over the next week or so. I have a crazy amount of days off left which have to be used by the end of January so I'm off work until the 10th how much of that I spend at my Mum's I'm not sure.
On a totally different note I've been working on part 3 of my 3x4 fic, reality and politics, though I think I may abandon what I have already drafted on it because this scene is not working and I feel like I'm just repeating bits of part 1 & 2, so I may time skip through it and move it on.
Oh and BTW I have lots and lots of dreamwidth codes (they keep giving me more even though I haven't got rid of the last lot). If anyone would like one or knows someone who might.....
I'm trying to work out who I think wrote which, but I am terrible at guessing it'sstill fun to try and work it out.
No more work all year :0). I'm travelling down to my Mum's for Christmas tomorrow, which could be interesting as we've had lots of disruption on the trains the last couple of days (mostly from ice and snow). She has internet so I shouldn't be totally cut off but I don't know how much I'll get a chance to use it over the next week or so. I have a crazy amount of days off left which have to be used by the end of January so I'm off work until the 10th how much of that I spend at my Mum's I'm not sure.
On a totally different note I've been working on part 3 of my 3x4 fic, reality and politics, though I think I may abandon what I have already drafted on it because this scene is not working and I feel like I'm just repeating bits of part 1 & 2, so I may time skip through it and move it on.
Oh and BTW I have lots and lots of dreamwidth codes (they keep giving me more even though I haven't got rid of the last lot). If anyone would like one or knows someone who might.....
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Yay I got my hlh_shortcuts fic in before the deadline (just). Much kudos, thanks and internet cookies to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mackiedockie for heroically wading through my run on sentences to help me make it readable.
Double yay posting starts tomorrow..... new highlander fics I'm so excited. Anyone on my flist who isn't a member and wants to read them you can find the comm here, they'll be posting for about a week I think.
Anyone still working on theirs - don't panic. You can do it.
Well now I've finished that there's several highlander/ magnificent 7 crossovers that have been torturing me and I keep getting Bleach plotbunnies, not to mention the other highlander fic I decided not to complete for hlh.... I'm hoping to ride this to a wave of productivity.
mackiedockie for heroically wading through my run on sentences to help me make it readable.Double yay posting starts tomorrow..... new highlander fics I'm so excited. Anyone on my flist who isn't a member and wants to read them you can find the comm here, they'll be posting for about a week I think.
Anyone still working on theirs - don't panic. You can do it.
Well now I've finished that there's several highlander/ magnificent 7 crossovers that have been torturing me and I keep getting Bleach plotbunnies, not to mention the other highlander fic I decided not to complete for hlh.... I'm hoping to ride this to a wave of productivity.
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Drat how is it the 13th already.... looks at hlh_shortcuts fic, it's almost there: it has a beginning, a middle and an end but, *tilts head and squints* something's missing between the middle part and the end and I still can't work out where to put that explanation paragraph... it doesn't really fit anywhere but without it, the fic doesn't make sense. Still nearly there, nearly there, ready for beta by bedtime tonight I hope. Yay :0)
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Half way through the weekend and I have doubled my hlh_shortcuts wordcount today, but if anything I'm further away from finishing it than I was before. I've turned it from a little slice of life to something with *whispers* plot..... Nooooo. At least I know sort of what's going to happen in it now. I blame Joe it was simple until he turned up. But it's flowing again :0) I love writing when it just flows.
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7 days to hlh-shortcuts deadline.... yikes. Guess what I'm doing this weekend :0)
Really want to get it drafted before I go away Monday-Tuesday. It's coming along though so fingers crossed, just need to... Yeah well, anyway that's why we have weekends.
How's everyone else's going? Please tell me I'm not the only one with (what feels like) half a fic.
Really want to get it drafted before I go away Monday-Tuesday. It's coming along though so fingers crossed, just need to... Yeah well, anyway that's why we have weekends.
How's everyone else's going? Please tell me I'm not the only one with (what feels like) half a fic.
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So I was planning to finish my hlh-shortcuts fic this week as I will be away from 6th-7th it would be good if I could at least get it off to a beta before then (as the deadline is the 10th). With that in mind I have of course decided to abandon the fic I was writing and start a whole new one..... of course.
I prefer this new one I think, it's practically writing itself (which means finishing it before Monday is actually possible, and usually means the end product is better) and I think I actually have a (mostly) in character Duncan which is a first. So I have two partly written fics which fit the brief given, whichever gets finished (or if by some miracle I finish both) whichever is better will be my secret santa fic :0) then who knows I might have another fic to post in January.
Hmm... on a totally different note I was at the gym the other day and as I was leaving the changing rooms two cleaners came along. Was slightly bemused by the fact the female cleaner went in to clean the men's changing room and the male cleaner went in to clean the women's changing room. I'm sure there is some boring explanation involving rotas but it does seem an odd division of labour given that there was both a female and male cleaner there.
I prefer this new one I think, it's practically writing itself (which means finishing it before Monday is actually possible, and usually means the end product is better) and I think I actually have a (mostly) in character Duncan which is a first. So I have two partly written fics which fit the brief given, whichever gets finished (or if by some miracle I finish both) whichever is better will be my secret santa fic :0) then who knows I might have another fic to post in January.
Hmm... on a totally different note I was at the gym the other day and as I was leaving the changing rooms two cleaners came along. Was slightly bemused by the fact the female cleaner went in to clean the men's changing room and the male cleaner went in to clean the women's changing room. I'm sure there is some boring explanation involving rotas but it does seem an odd division of labour given that there was both a female and male cleaner there.
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Yay it's friday, and yay a little more progress on my hlh-shortcuts fic. At the moment it's not so much a fic as unconnected paragraphs.... This is however a step up from bullet points so progress has been made. It's funny how my method of writing changes between stories.... Some start out as random ideas in bullet points and get written out of order as paragraphs more bullet points get added and turned into paragraphs and then (hopefully) the whole lot is fit together. Others I start at the beginning, and just write without benefit of plot and see where it takes me. (Amusingly the one's which basically are bullet points were written in order, from start to finish in one go). None of them ever turn out quite what I originally planned and whenever I read them back I am always surprised by which bits worked and find things I didn't even notice before. I always do when I read other peoples writing, but you would think that having written that I would know it inside out . Does anyone else find that with their writing?
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Yay, my hlh_shortcuts fic has an actual plot :0). Some of the details are still a little - 'fuzzy', but progress is being made and the muses are currently cooperating (at least during work hours) .... they're probably lulling me into a false sense of security.
Bizarrely I have also started to write a gundam wing/ mag7 crossover. I think there might be one other person on the entire internet who likes both these fandoms, but the way it's unfolding it can be read as a new Mag7 AU or a GW universe fic from the POV of a bunch of OC's (probably with cameos from the GW characters).
Been going to the gym every other day this last week. Feel great, even if this hasn't apparently made any dent on the weight plateau I've been sitting on these last few months. Been circling between 155lbs and 159 lbs for ages, this morning back up to 158 :-(. If nothing else the gym should get me healthier though :0).
Also going to give blood today, which always makes me feel virtuous and means guilt free biscuits :0).
Bizarrely I have also started to write a gundam wing/ mag7 crossover. I think there might be one other person on the entire internet who likes both these fandoms, but the way it's unfolding it can be read as a new Mag7 AU or a GW universe fic from the POV of a bunch of OC's (probably with cameos from the GW characters).
Been going to the gym every other day this last week. Feel great, even if this hasn't apparently made any dent on the weight plateau I've been sitting on these last few months. Been circling between 155lbs and 159 lbs for ages, this morning back up to 158 :-(. If nothing else the gym should get me healthier though :0).
Also going to give blood today, which always makes me feel virtuous and means guilt free biscuits :0).
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Have actually started to write something for my hlh_shortcuts fic... it's a miracle. I have a whole 120 words done (all at work... :0)). Of course I only really have the one scene firm in my mind, hopefully the rest of the story will come to me later. Though another plot bunny that would work sprung up whilst waiting for the bus this morning. Maybe I'll start writing both and see which one flows better as I go.
I've sort of forgotten about the Mag7 mininano for the last few days, oops, am going back to it now. Why is it the only time I want to write is when I'm at work, and am thus... supposed to be working.... on things that aren't fanfiction. After all if I do it at work, I would probably have to say I get paid for doing it, plus you know eventually my bosses will complain that none of my work gets done.
In other news, now that I have been in my job 6 months (how did that happen it was supposed to be a short thing until I got a proper job) I get free gym membership. This means free gym, free swimming, free classes and free activities at any city council leisure centre. Brilliant :0)!!! So now I am back to regular exercise for the first time in months. Went to a gym induction on Sunday, swimming on Monday and today I'm going back to the gym. My shoulders and calves hate me but otherwise I feel fantastic. Hopefully that will get the scales moving downwards again too, would be nice to get down to the 140's for Christmas, it's great though when I think this time last year I was 195 lbs.
I've sort of forgotten about the Mag7 mininano for the last few days, oops, am going back to it now. Why is it the only time I want to write is when I'm at work, and am thus... supposed to be working.... on things that aren't fanfiction. After all if I do it at work, I would probably have to say I get paid for doing it, plus you know eventually my bosses will complain that none of my work gets done.
In other news, now that I have been in my job 6 months (how did that happen it was supposed to be a short thing until I got a proper job) I get free gym membership. This means free gym, free swimming, free classes and free activities at any city council leisure centre. Brilliant :0)!!! So now I am back to regular exercise for the first time in months. Went to a gym induction on Sunday, swimming on Monday and today I'm going back to the gym. My shoulders and calves hate me but otherwise I feel fantastic. Hopefully that will get the scales moving downwards again too, would be nice to get down to the 140's for Christmas, it's great though when I think this time last year I was 195 lbs.
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