the deep moans round with many voices

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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.)

Note to self: it is NOT, in fact, a good idea to say, "Hey, I could take half an hour and start watching Genesis of the Daleks before going to bed."

Have watched episodes 1 and 2 so far. Jesus, this is creepifying.

*anticipates unsettled dreams*

Here is chapter 15 of "Lemonade." I am not switching this story up on my priority list. Sasuke's POV scene just happened to smack me in the face last night, so I finished this chapter. I am not at all sure that the scene is any good, but it wanted to be written, so here it is. *shrug*

( Lemonade, Part XV )

And now I am off to the library to return a book that I have decided not to finish reading. Then I should get some chores done, since it's my day off, but I suspect I'll probably watch the remaining half of The Sea Devils instead. (I should never have given in and started watching Doctor Who. It is still attempting to eat my brain... and even if I thwart that evil plan, it is slowly and surely succeeding in eating my budget. Woe!)

Okay. I've now watched the first 3 seasons (or series, I suppose -- another case of transatlantic vocabulary miscues) of the new Doctor Who.

I may or may not do some sort of vaguely organized reaction post at some point in the next few days or weeks, but for now, I would just like to say that I love the show, stupid cheesy bits and all, and I really, really hope they release season box sets of the old show, and that of all the script writers they have working, I really think Steven Moffat is the best (not that any of them are bad, exactly, but I think he hits the perfect notes most consistently).

*firm nod*

Right. Now, off to dive headfirst into fanfiction!

They hit me too hard, you see. It's very hard to keep any sort of emotional or critical distance -- maybe through lack of practice, or maybe because a visual experience is just more intense in some ways.

In any case, my brain and life have been hijacked by Doctor Who.

See, I'd been seeing people talk about it for three years now, and I'd sort of picked up some basic notions of the world and story and characters, and I had some birthday money and two Borders discount coupons, and I was bored... and somehow this resulted, on Saturday evening, in me buying the DVD sets of seasons 1 and 2 of the new series.

I am happily drowning. :-)

I also think I'm going to buy season 3 ASAP, and if anyone can give me pointers for where to start with the old series (all 26 years of it, my god!), I would be eternally grateful.

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This does mean that I haven't been writing a blessed thing for the last three days, and I probably won't be much use at writing for another week or so -- brain overload -- but I'm having so much fun I can't bring myself to care. :-)