"It's easier to talk to God in The Olivier than The Cottesloe"
- Oliver Ford Davies, via NT Live. It made us laugh anyway.
Completely unrelated to the real life nonsense right now, I also saw The National Theatre's broadcast of Marianne Elliot's All's Well That End's Well. If you get the chance to see one of the encore broadcasts, do take it up. Gorgeous, dark, funny, grown-up fairytale (as all the papers have it).
In other other news, I really need to stop posting my fic to ff.net. I tend to only post the more conventional pairing or gen fic anyway and mostly I get enough nice reviews that it's worth it. But then you get the 'why does everyone like Gaila so much she's only in the film for three minutes anyway?'. Because I gave her a paragraph.
Or, "why did you get W/X/Y/Z in my X/Y?" on a clearly marked fic. I always clearly mark, especially there, because the readership is oftentimes a little less enlightened...
It's not that writing fic is becoming any less appealing to me, or any less rewarding exactly. I write all the time: when I'm happy and I want to spread it around; when I'm angry and I want to bend the world into a better shape; when I'm miserable and I want to be anywhere else. I still want to write the sequel(s) to Taking the slower path (we'll get there in the end) and the Idol AU (any of them), and one of the longer Merlin fics. It's just that I'm getting tired of the writing being the biggest part of my life - the only time I'm completely engaged with what I'm doing lately - and still not being able to say "I'm a writer". Instead of, "well, you know, I try and write a little- nothing, you know- it's not like it's going anywhere so I guess my job's okay and-"
Nano is a little less than a month away. My goal is to bash out a chapter-by-chapter plot plan by then. I think I know which one I'm writing and I have an idea of the themes, but I need the plot. If I managed ScriptFrenzy in April this should be doable, right? And then a new life awaits... :/ Hmm.
Completely unrelated to the real life nonsense right now, I also saw The National Theatre's broadcast of Marianne Elliot's All's Well That End's Well. If you get the chance to see one of the encore broadcasts, do take it up. Gorgeous, dark, funny, grown-up fairytale (as all the papers have it).
In other other news, I really need to stop posting my fic to ff.net. I tend to only post the more conventional pairing or gen fic anyway and mostly I get enough nice reviews that it's worth it. But then you get the 'why does everyone like Gaila so much she's only in the film for three minutes anyway?'. Because I gave her a paragraph.
Or, "why did you get W/X/Y/Z in my X/Y?" on a clearly marked fic. I always clearly mark, especially there, because the readership is oftentimes a little less enlightened...
It's not that writing fic is becoming any less appealing to me, or any less rewarding exactly. I write all the time: when I'm happy and I want to spread it around; when I'm angry and I want to bend the world into a better shape; when I'm miserable and I want to be anywhere else. I still want to write the sequel(s) to Taking the slower path (we'll get there in the end) and the Idol AU (any of them), and one of the longer Merlin fics. It's just that I'm getting tired of the writing being the biggest part of my life - the only time I'm completely engaged with what I'm doing lately - and still not being able to say "I'm a writer". Instead of, "well, you know, I try and write a little- nothing, you know- it's not like it's going anywhere so I guess my job's okay and-"
Nano is a little less than a month away. My goal is to bash out a chapter-by-chapter plot plan by then. I think I know which one I'm writing and I have an idea of the themes, but I need the plot. If I managed ScriptFrenzy in April this should be doable, right? And then a new life awaits... :/ Hmm.