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Been a busy day; as a family (heh and wasn't everyone keen?) we tidied the garden in the morning and the basement in the afternoon. The basement was scary which was why I was damned if I was doing it alone. Never seen such a mess. I threw away with wild abandon and kept screaming for more bin bags.
I also wrote about 3,000 words of Snowbound but lost it at the end so it's not ready to post. 3,000 words with four of them on or in the bed and no smut. It's probably for the best but it's not natural either which may be what's giving me problems ::grin::
I also began my flashfic after picking my pairing from the two offered in a nanosecond or less. Got an idea but it won't transfer from head to page so I won't force it. Also going to be fun making it 1,000 words again; we've gotten pretty flexible on that, but 1,000 exactly always used to be the rules and that makes it interesting. Difficult but interesting. I think I know why; with a drabble, you can tell pretty much if it's a drabble sized idea; a flashfic is trickier to estimate. Your idea could turn out to be one that really needs 3,000 words to do it justice, or one that has to be padded and weighed down to stretch to 1,000. Either one is bad. Takes a lot of luck to get an idea that fits thousand just right...I remember slashing, heh, away at my first one; a Giles/Ethan. Had to chop it up to make it fit and it was difficult.
I'm seething after finishing the latest Jill Churchill, 'Bell, Book and Scandal'. If I'd paid $30+ dollars for this (got it from the library), I'd want my money back. It was a good series years back, but she's writing by numbers now and it shows. A murder mystery where no one dies, clogged up with lectures about how to get a book published, an incomprehensible, unpunished crime, sloppy editing (at one point the two friends are poised for a fight that will tear them apart. Uh, really? Because I read the two paragraphs leading up to this fraught, tension laden sentence and they really weren't) and chapters that end as flatly as the page they're written on. The ending sentence had me poking the page to see if more words would appear. 'That's it?!' was my reaction, followed by an entirely unconceited, 'I could write better than this.'
I'm chuffed to discover that my Snyder, Jonathan fic, 'A Helping Hand' has been nominated in the 'Walk With Heroes' awards. Thank you whoever it was! ::hugs:: So nice.
Oh and the car? Tow truck came, guy tried to back it off the drive and the driver's side wheel came off. Never seen anything like it. It just twisted and splayed out and the fender sank onto it and I shrieked and waved my hands until he stopped moving. He had to go and get a different tow truck in the end. It's the axle and the ball joint. Total cost about $550 which is better than I'd dreaded.
::random snuggles::
I also wrote about 3,000 words of Snowbound but lost it at the end so it's not ready to post. 3,000 words with four of them on or in the bed and no smut. It's probably for the best but it's not natural either which may be what's giving me problems ::grin::
I also began my flashfic after picking my pairing from the two offered in a nanosecond or less. Got an idea but it won't transfer from head to page so I won't force it. Also going to be fun making it 1,000 words again; we've gotten pretty flexible on that, but 1,000 exactly always used to be the rules and that makes it interesting. Difficult but interesting. I think I know why; with a drabble, you can tell pretty much if it's a drabble sized idea; a flashfic is trickier to estimate. Your idea could turn out to be one that really needs 3,000 words to do it justice, or one that has to be padded and weighed down to stretch to 1,000. Either one is bad. Takes a lot of luck to get an idea that fits thousand just right...I remember slashing, heh, away at my first one; a Giles/Ethan. Had to chop it up to make it fit and it was difficult.
I'm seething after finishing the latest Jill Churchill, 'Bell, Book and Scandal'. If I'd paid $30+ dollars for this (got it from the library), I'd want my money back. It was a good series years back, but she's writing by numbers now and it shows. A murder mystery where no one dies, clogged up with lectures about how to get a book published, an incomprehensible, unpunished crime, sloppy editing (at one point the two friends are poised for a fight that will tear them apart. Uh, really? Because I read the two paragraphs leading up to this fraught, tension laden sentence and they really weren't) and chapters that end as flatly as the page they're written on. The ending sentence had me poking the page to see if more words would appear. 'That's it?!' was my reaction, followed by an entirely unconceited, 'I could write better than this.'
I'm chuffed to discover that my Snyder, Jonathan fic, 'A Helping Hand' has been nominated in the 'Walk With Heroes' awards. Thank you whoever it was! ::hugs:: So nice.
Oh and the car? Tow truck came, guy tried to back it off the drive and the driver's side wheel came off. Never seen anything like it. It just twisted and splayed out and the fender sank onto it and I shrieked and waved my hands until he stopped moving. He had to go and get a different tow truck in the end. It's the axle and the ball joint. Total cost about $550 which is better than I'd dreaded.
::random snuggles::