and I wonder why I never seem to get anything finished enough to post these days...

A good while ago, I started idly writing backstory for Belial (working title: "Ephemera"), attempting to explain how se wound up so disenchanted with heaven and got hir particular obsessions about sex and truth and sin and emotional bonds.

It is currently about 6,600 words long and has split into a three-chaptered thing instead of a one-shot. *headdesk*

On the one hand, this is good because it's more interesting, involves a lot more characters, is less of a blatant "and here's why se was vulnerable to Lucifer's words!" pop psych analysis, and allows me to play around with theories about the history of heaven and hell and so on. On the other hand, jesus, this was only meant to be a short fiddle to amuse myself! Where did I go wrong?

Anyway, chapter 1 is done in rough draft, but I'm going to sit on it until I'm much further along with chapter 2, because I do still conceive of this as an extended one-shot (albeit in three parts) and I want to make sure all the thematic stuff matches up tidily at the edges.

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Am now heading out into the cold and damp to run several errands. Bah. Aside from the absolute extremes of hot and cold, 35 to 40 degrees with wind and rain is the worst weather imaginable.

wherein Liz talks about writing processes and stuff

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Writing for Femgenficathon 2008
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I am always fascinated by other people's writing processes, since everybody seems to have different habits (and then any given story may demand a totally different process from one's normal pattern). I also find ficathons interesting, since they're more directed than random plot bunnies.

So. This is how I dreamed up and then wrote The Affairs of Dragons for Femgenficathon 2008, with a lengthy digression into Doctor Who and a brief digression into The Dark Knight.

( tl;dr rambling on writing processes )

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And that is one way I write stories.

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In real life news, I refused and returned the unwanted books, turned the bad checks over to my bank (which will try ordering them again), bought two more shirts, bought some wire for making Christmas ornaments, and bought two more Doctor Who DVDs, thus exhausting the stock of my local Borders. *sigh* I really need to spend less money, but I suppose I could say that I'm doing my part to support the economy?

(I'm not really in debt -- I pay off my credit card bill in full every month -- so I suppose it's not as bad as it sounds to me. But my family will definitely be getting stories and homemade ornaments for the holidays this year, rather than presents that cost actual money.)

wherein Liz talks about writing processes and stuff

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Writing for Femgenficathon 2008
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I am always fascinated by other people's writing processes, since everybody seems to have different habits (and then any given story may demand a totally different process from one's normal pattern). I also find ficathons interesting, since they're more directed than random plot bunnies.

So. This is how I dreamed up and then wrote The Affairs of Dragons for Femgenficathon 2008, with a lengthy digression into Doctor Who and a brief digression into The Dark Knight.

( tl;dr rambling on writing processes )

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And that is one way I write stories.

...

In real life news, I refused and returned the unwanted books, turned the bad checks over to my bank (which will try ordering them again), bought two more shirts, bought some wire for making Christmas ornaments, and bought two more Doctor Who DVDs, thus exhausting the stock of my local Borders. *sigh* I really need to spend less money, but I suppose I could say that I'm doing my part to support the economy?

(I'm not really in debt -- I pay off my credit card bill in full every month -- so I suppose it's not as bad as it sounds to me. But my family will definitely be getting stories and homemade ornaments for the holidays this year, rather than presents that cost actual money.)