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Dec. 12th, 2017 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI've gotten about half of today's chores done, and now I desperately want a nap. I probably won't just yet because Cordelia tends to text during her second period if she runs out of homework or otherwise has too much time to think. She sits in the library second hour because that's when she'd have gym if she were taking it in person instead of online. Second period starts around 9:00.
I went to bed early last night, around 8:00. Scott woke me when he came to bed, and I had a very restless night after that. I may have slept more, but if I did, it wasn't much or even vaguely continuous. About twenty minutes before the alarm this morning, I suddenly felt the muscles in the middle of my back relax, and I started feeling like maybe I could sleep. I didn't, of course, because I only had twenty minutes, but I'm desperately hoping that I can nap today because the odds are pretty good that Scott will have to go in early tomorrow which will mean that I have to stay up until 9:30 or 10:00, depending on when Cordelia finally goes to bed.
If I don't manage to nap today, I doubt I'll be coherent by dinner time.
Apart from napping, I've got laundry (load in dryer, load in wash, load waiting), trash/recycling, and the dishes. I'd like to shower, too, but the nap is more important. I can get Cordelia to put away the clean dishes after school, so that might be the way to go on that.
I spent a few minutes this morning making a list of the structural things I know need to be done on the Amber fic I finished in draft yesterday. The list includes some largish things like having a character who is present during a scene but ignored by everyone. Why is she there at all? Well, I know. I need her before and right after, but she kind of ought to do something in response to the unexpected drama and bloodshed. I'm just not sure what she'd be likely to do that my POV character would notice because the character who needs to react is some distance away and not going to intervene directly while my POV is blind and very focused on what's in close. It makes character sense for the POV character not even to remember that the other character is there, but it doesn't make narrative sense.
The other Amber fic is probably postable as is. I've been putting it off mostly because I wanted to run it by the person who gave me the prompt before they get a 'gift for you' notice from AO3. Well, and also this story and the one in the paragraph above are kind of, sort of in the same continuity as last year's Yuletide story. Maybe. If I make them a series, I need a name for the damned thing, and a series makes sense, especially as I have one more WIP that fits.
I'm just tired of naming things. I suppose I could just tack on Vialle's name or some such since she's the POV character in the posted story, one of the two in draft, and the one that's not yet done.
I really hope that there aren't too many people out there who keep checking AO3 for Amber stories in English and being disappointed that it's me posting again. There are currently 110 stories there in English, including the incomplete stuff and the crossovers, and 15 of them are mine. That's a problem when reading in a very small fandom-- whether they're good or terrible-- can produce a few fics and still be a significant portion of what's there. If their stuff isn't to your taste or even just not to your taste right then, you can't just go and read something else.
A lot of the Amber fic that used to exist is gone because it was OC game logs and character journals created by people playing the tabletop RPG based on Zelazny's books. The rules included character creation points given in return for promising to document the game sessions or to, effectively, write fic about your character (or to make fanart or anything else creative). Each of those promises got a a player an additional 10 points at character creation but was a promise for continuing the project in perpetuity or, at least, as long as they kept playing the character.
That was the 90s into the early 00s, and I think that most people didn't realize they were creating fanworks (I certainly didn't until later). They knew they were creating something and often posted it on personal websites so that other players could see, but I don't think that much of it made it to any fanfic archive. (FFnet calls the series something like 'Book of Amber', so it's hard to find the category there. It's not large, but there maybe stuff posted without the category name.)
I wonder if Roger Zelazny realized that, in licensing the game system, he effectively permitted fanworks in his world? Most of the game rules assume that player characters will be OCs, generally children of the canonical characters, but there's a lot of stuff in there aimed at making the canonical characters playable as NPCs or even PCs.
I went to bed early last night, around 8:00. Scott woke me when he came to bed, and I had a very restless night after that. I may have slept more, but if I did, it wasn't much or even vaguely continuous. About twenty minutes before the alarm this morning, I suddenly felt the muscles in the middle of my back relax, and I started feeling like maybe I could sleep. I didn't, of course, because I only had twenty minutes, but I'm desperately hoping that I can nap today because the odds are pretty good that Scott will have to go in early tomorrow which will mean that I have to stay up until 9:30 or 10:00, depending on when Cordelia finally goes to bed.
If I don't manage to nap today, I doubt I'll be coherent by dinner time.
Apart from napping, I've got laundry (load in dryer, load in wash, load waiting), trash/recycling, and the dishes. I'd like to shower, too, but the nap is more important. I can get Cordelia to put away the clean dishes after school, so that might be the way to go on that.
I spent a few minutes this morning making a list of the structural things I know need to be done on the Amber fic I finished in draft yesterday. The list includes some largish things like having a character who is present during a scene but ignored by everyone. Why is she there at all? Well, I know. I need her before and right after, but she kind of ought to do something in response to the unexpected drama and bloodshed. I'm just not sure what she'd be likely to do that my POV character would notice because the character who needs to react is some distance away and not going to intervene directly while my POV is blind and very focused on what's in close. It makes character sense for the POV character not even to remember that the other character is there, but it doesn't make narrative sense.
The other Amber fic is probably postable as is. I've been putting it off mostly because I wanted to run it by the person who gave me the prompt before they get a 'gift for you' notice from AO3. Well, and also this story and the one in the paragraph above are kind of, sort of in the same continuity as last year's Yuletide story. Maybe. If I make them a series, I need a name for the damned thing, and a series makes sense, especially as I have one more WIP that fits.
I'm just tired of naming things. I suppose I could just tack on Vialle's name or some such since she's the POV character in the posted story, one of the two in draft, and the one that's not yet done.
I really hope that there aren't too many people out there who keep checking AO3 for Amber stories in English and being disappointed that it's me posting again. There are currently 110 stories there in English, including the incomplete stuff and the crossovers, and 15 of them are mine. That's a problem when reading in a very small fandom-- whether they're good or terrible-- can produce a few fics and still be a significant portion of what's there. If their stuff isn't to your taste or even just not to your taste right then, you can't just go and read something else.
A lot of the Amber fic that used to exist is gone because it was OC game logs and character journals created by people playing the tabletop RPG based on Zelazny's books. The rules included character creation points given in return for promising to document the game sessions or to, effectively, write fic about your character (or to make fanart or anything else creative). Each of those promises got a a player an additional 10 points at character creation but was a promise for continuing the project in perpetuity or, at least, as long as they kept playing the character.
That was the 90s into the early 00s, and I think that most people didn't realize they were creating fanworks (I certainly didn't until later). They knew they were creating something and often posted it on personal websites so that other players could see, but I don't think that much of it made it to any fanfic archive. (FFnet calls the series something like 'Book of Amber', so it's hard to find the category there. It's not large, but there maybe stuff posted without the category name.)
I wonder if Roger Zelazny realized that, in licensing the game system, he effectively permitted fanworks in his world? Most of the game rules assume that player characters will be OCs, generally children of the canonical characters, but there's a lot of stuff in there aimed at making the canonical characters playable as NPCs or even PCs.
