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Nov. 25th, 2007 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm behind on a lot of things this week. I have a lot of e-mails to answer (I've been lacking the mental wherewithal), and I have to get back to working on my Yuletide story. I still don't know what's supposed to happen next in it. Anything I add is going to alter the mood and direction. It needs more. I'm just not sure which alterations might add and which detract.
I'm still fiddling with other things in an effort to get my brain to shake something loose on the Yuletide story. I haven't written up my books read list since July. That's so daunting that I keep staring at it blankly then fiddling with the formatting.
I've worked more on the list of things I like and dislike in stories. Dislikes seem to be easier to identify than likes. I'll probably post the likes and dislikes separately whenever I actually complete them. I hesitate out of fear of freaking out my Yuletide writer. These lists include things that I hadn't thought of before and therefore didn't mention in my dear-Yuletide-writer letter. Right now, there's enough time before the deadline for writers to think that they *might* be able to gut a story and start over but not enough time for it to be a pleasant undertaking even if it's possible. Then again, I don't know if I want to keep the dratted thing pending until February or March. Stories having something in them that I don't care for doesn't make them bad stories. It doesn't even make me automatically dislike them. It just... skews things.
Still, late November seems like the wrong time to do the equivalent of suddenly announcing to someone who's knitting me a sweater that I'm allergic to wool and won't wear yellow, red or green.
I'm also working on that wishlist meme. That one has gotten a bit out of control and has turned into three lists-- stuff for Delia, stuff for me that's realistic (or at least not utterly unrealistic), and stuff for me that's utter fantasy.
I'm still fiddling with other things in an effort to get my brain to shake something loose on the Yuletide story. I haven't written up my books read list since July. That's so daunting that I keep staring at it blankly then fiddling with the formatting.
I've worked more on the list of things I like and dislike in stories. Dislikes seem to be easier to identify than likes. I'll probably post the likes and dislikes separately whenever I actually complete them. I hesitate out of fear of freaking out my Yuletide writer. These lists include things that I hadn't thought of before and therefore didn't mention in my dear-Yuletide-writer letter. Right now, there's enough time before the deadline for writers to think that they *might* be able to gut a story and start over but not enough time for it to be a pleasant undertaking even if it's possible. Then again, I don't know if I want to keep the dratted thing pending until February or March. Stories having something in them that I don't care for doesn't make them bad stories. It doesn't even make me automatically dislike them. It just... skews things.
Still, late November seems like the wrong time to do the equivalent of suddenly announcing to someone who's knitting me a sweater that I'm allergic to wool and won't wear yellow, red or green.
I'm also working on that wishlist meme. That one has gotten a bit out of control and has turned into three lists-- stuff for Delia, stuff for me that's realistic (or at least not utterly unrealistic), and stuff for me that's utter fantasy.
