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Jan. 16th, 2003 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rck(Note: I wrote this all of what I'm going to be posting today last night, and I don't feel like rewriting to make it seem to have been written today. I'm lazy that way.)
Okay, this talks about how things have been going since I last posted some time in early December. I'm mostly writing things as I think of them, and, since I currently have lots of time to think (explanation for that in the next few paragraphs...), a lot of different things are coming to mind in no particular order.
This evening's proving rather frustrating. I'm home alone while Scott plays in Lewis' Star Wars campaign. Normally, I'd be running a session of my weekly Amber game, but one of the players couldn't make it due to family obligations and the others felt that the plot was at a point where proceeding without her would be unwise. I was tired enough that I wasn't really looking forward to trying to GM tonight, so that decision wasn't a horrible disappointment to me.
Sadly, everything else I've been trying to do has stalled out. Our DSL is out or was earlier. It could come back at any point and I wouldn't know; Scott will have to check through the Linux router when he gets home. If it doesn't come back tonight, I'll have to wait until after Scott gets home from work tomorrow to see if it's back. It's all rather frustrating since I do have online things I'd like to be working on.
I've got a handful of e-mails that I really, really want to answer and a lot of others that I really ought to answer. I need to make a decision about whether or not to renew my Open Diary. I'm leaning toward doing it at the moment because there are still people I don't communicate with otherwise, but then I start thinking about how much I actually write in it. To say that I post sporadically is kind. Somehow, I've been finding other things to do with my time than to write in my journal. I rather regret that because I like having a record of my life for my own later reference, but... The things I've been doing are important too.
I'm still writing. I've gotten part 2 of my Weiss fanfic posted, and I managed to get a good recommendation from one reader who's gotten a bunch of other people to stop in and read (and now the website's down. Grr). She's also doing a bit of beta reading for me. I think she may be disappointed when some of her pet theories about the plot don't go anywhere, but hopefully she won't be too upset. I've gotten some very encouraging feedback from several readers (LunarGeography has compared reader feedback to crack, and I'm finding it addictive enough to agree), and I think my posted warnings are working reasonably well because so far I haven't gotten any complaints from readers claiming that I didn't tell them what to expect.
Sadly, my fic writing's also stalled right at the moment. I wrote about three pages this afternoon, and I think it all works. Then-- Well, I hit a transition point. I know what needs to happen next; I just can't seem to bridge things to get there. I need the current scene to stretch a little longer in terms of time passing within the story, and then I need to propel one of the characters into a completely new course of action. It's the stretching that's being difficult really because I could send the character off with a single line of dialog. Doing so would even make sense for the current situation. Maybe I can insert the passage of time earlier in the scene... It doesn't really matter when it happens as long as the characters currently talking part company at the right time relative to other (currently offscreen) events.
Okay, this talks about how things have been going since I last posted some time in early December. I'm mostly writing things as I think of them, and, since I currently have lots of time to think (explanation for that in the next few paragraphs...), a lot of different things are coming to mind in no particular order.
This evening's proving rather frustrating. I'm home alone while Scott plays in Lewis' Star Wars campaign. Normally, I'd be running a session of my weekly Amber game, but one of the players couldn't make it due to family obligations and the others felt that the plot was at a point where proceeding without her would be unwise. I was tired enough that I wasn't really looking forward to trying to GM tonight, so that decision wasn't a horrible disappointment to me.
Sadly, everything else I've been trying to do has stalled out. Our DSL is out or was earlier. It could come back at any point and I wouldn't know; Scott will have to check through the Linux router when he gets home. If it doesn't come back tonight, I'll have to wait until after Scott gets home from work tomorrow to see if it's back. It's all rather frustrating since I do have online things I'd like to be working on.
I've got a handful of e-mails that I really, really want to answer and a lot of others that I really ought to answer. I need to make a decision about whether or not to renew my Open Diary. I'm leaning toward doing it at the moment because there are still people I don't communicate with otherwise, but then I start thinking about how much I actually write in it. To say that I post sporadically is kind. Somehow, I've been finding other things to do with my time than to write in my journal. I rather regret that because I like having a record of my life for my own later reference, but... The things I've been doing are important too.
I'm still writing. I've gotten part 2 of my Weiss fanfic posted, and I managed to get a good recommendation from one reader who's gotten a bunch of other people to stop in and read (and now the website's down. Grr). She's also doing a bit of beta reading for me. I think she may be disappointed when some of her pet theories about the plot don't go anywhere, but hopefully she won't be too upset. I've gotten some very encouraging feedback from several readers (LunarGeography has compared reader feedback to crack, and I'm finding it addictive enough to agree), and I think my posted warnings are working reasonably well because so far I haven't gotten any complaints from readers claiming that I didn't tell them what to expect.
Sadly, my fic writing's also stalled right at the moment. I wrote about three pages this afternoon, and I think it all works. Then-- Well, I hit a transition point. I know what needs to happen next; I just can't seem to bridge things to get there. I need the current scene to stretch a little longer in terms of time passing within the story, and then I need to propel one of the characters into a completely new course of action. It's the stretching that's being difficult really because I could send the character off with a single line of dialog. Doing so would even make sense for the current situation. Maybe I can insert the passage of time earlier in the scene... It doesn't really matter when it happens as long as the characters currently talking part company at the right time relative to other (currently offscreen) events.
