Writing Updates of Little Interest, and I Ask a Tech Question
Writing Things Wot I Have Accomplished:
1. I wrote a Duck/Dan Wilby Wonderful snippet for the Rapidfire challenge last week, and I just posted an angsty F/K snippet today. Perhaps next weekend I'll shock and surprise the internets with...another snippet!
2. Finished a thorough edit of the first half of meresy's Horribly Belated Birthday Fic o' Doooooom, which I have been writing since last May. And as soon as my beta sends me her notes on the second half of the story (it's, um, a big story!) I will be DONE, and Meres will have her pressie, and all will be right with the world.
3. I added 2,000 words to the Rentboy!AU yesterday (yep, still on that one) and did a rough outline of each scene for the rest of the story. There are 12 scenes left to write. This story now clocks in at 49,000 words. I kind of want to die.
Writing Things Wot I Have Not Accomplished
1. My Wilby Wonderful Big Bang story has been sitting at exactly the same place since January. I suspect it will continue to exist in this state until just before the June 7th posting deadline. *sporks self*
2. Still no movement on any further Torchwood stories, despite my desire to write more in the fandom.
3. My WIP folder is depressing. The thing about me is that I am a really frickin' slow writer. And either I finish a story in one or two sittings, or it takes months and months (or, in the case of the Rentboy AU, years) to finish something.
Speaking of which, where is the magical mental implant that will allow us to transmit exactly what's in our heads onto the screen, thus negating the need to do any actual writing? Because I want one. Now.
Anyway, if all goes well, I'll have finished all of my long-standing due South story commitments by the end of the year, and then I will be DONE and can start new stuff. I miss writing new stories. *wistful sigh* And because this is doubtlessly fascinating to everyone, here's a
Here's my list of current long projects, sorted by priority, because I'm weirdly anal about this and need to make some kind of list:
Long Stories on the Verge of Done-ness
1. Rentboy AU (49,000wrds)
Fraser is a male prostitute, and Kowalski is the queer Chicago cop who loves him.
2. The Arizona Kidfic (31,000wrds)
Kowalski's older brother dies, and he and Fraser return to the United States to attend his funeral and figure out what will happen to the brother's two small children.
3. The Cancer Epic (31,400wrds)
In which I give Kowalski leukemia and then makes Fraser and Kowalski get gay married
Long Stories That I've Started and Want to Finish
1. Kowalski and Fraser go head-to-head with a pedophile who abused Ray when he was a kid. And yes, this is just as cheery as it sounds. (I have an outline! And 3500 words of story!)
2. That one where Fraser and Kowalski live in Churchill, Manitoba and it's all about life in small-town Canada and polar bear tourism and Samuel Hearne. The story told from the Churchill residents' perspectives. (3240 words)
3. The "Kowalski is a radio DJ in Inuvik, and Fraser is the Mountie who falls in love with the sound of his voice" AU (exactly one sweet page)
4. The "Unfinished Universe" sequel, wherein Fraser deals with having lost his leg, and Kowalski helps him through it. (Um, does a transcript of an IM conversation with qe2 count?)
5. An AR in which Fraser was paralyzed by Vecchio's bullet in "Victoria's Secret", and now lives in a convalescent home in Calgary. (You may now call me the dS writer of sunshine and light). (3300 words)
This is totally OT, but sdwolfpup pointed the way to jarrow and laurashapiro's beautiful and bittersweet Six Feet Under vid, and now I am IN LOVE with the song "Half Acre" by Hem. I felt that I needed to inform all of you about this development. I would like to provide you with a download of this song, but I do not know how to convert .m4a files to .mp3. (The security of the iTunes store has foiled me yet again!) Is there some way to get around this, um, issue? On a Mac? When you're not particularly tech-savvy? Halp!
1. I wrote a Duck/Dan Wilby Wonderful snippet for the Rapidfire challenge last week, and I just posted an angsty F/K snippet today. Perhaps next weekend I'll shock and surprise the internets with...another snippet!
2. Finished a thorough edit of the first half of meresy's Horribly Belated Birthday Fic o' Doooooom, which I have been writing since last May. And as soon as my beta sends me her notes on the second half of the story (it's, um, a big story!) I will be DONE, and Meres will have her pressie, and all will be right with the world.
3. I added 2,000 words to the Rentboy!AU yesterday (yep, still on that one) and did a rough outline of each scene for the rest of the story. There are 12 scenes left to write. This story now clocks in at 49,000 words. I kind of want to die.
Writing Things Wot I Have Not Accomplished
1. My Wilby Wonderful Big Bang story has been sitting at exactly the same place since January. I suspect it will continue to exist in this state until just before the June 7th posting deadline. *sporks self*
2. Still no movement on any further Torchwood stories, despite my desire to write more in the fandom.
3. My WIP folder is depressing. The thing about me is that I am a really frickin' slow writer. And either I finish a story in one or two sittings, or it takes months and months (or, in the case of the Rentboy AU, years) to finish something.
Speaking of which, where is the magical mental implant that will allow us to transmit exactly what's in our heads onto the screen, thus negating the need to do any actual writing? Because I want one. Now.
Anyway, if all goes well, I'll have finished all of my long-standing due South story commitments by the end of the year, and then I will be DONE and can start new stuff. I miss writing new stories. *wistful sigh* And because this is doubtlessly fascinating to everyone, here's a
Here's my list of current long projects, sorted by priority, because I'm weirdly anal about this and need to make some kind of list:
Long Stories on the Verge of Done-ness
1. Rentboy AU (49,000wrds)
Fraser is a male prostitute, and Kowalski is the queer Chicago cop who loves him.
2. The Arizona Kidfic (31,000wrds)
Kowalski's older brother dies, and he and Fraser return to the United States to attend his funeral and figure out what will happen to the brother's two small children.
3. The Cancer Epic (31,400wrds)
In which I give Kowalski leukemia and then makes Fraser and Kowalski get gay married
Long Stories That I've Started and Want to Finish
1. Kowalski and Fraser go head-to-head with a pedophile who abused Ray when he was a kid. And yes, this is just as cheery as it sounds. (I have an outline! And 3500 words of story!)
2. That one where Fraser and Kowalski live in Churchill, Manitoba and it's all about life in small-town Canada and polar bear tourism and Samuel Hearne. The story told from the Churchill residents' perspectives. (3240 words)
3. The "Kowalski is a radio DJ in Inuvik, and Fraser is the Mountie who falls in love with the sound of his voice" AU (exactly one sweet page)
4. The "Unfinished Universe" sequel, wherein Fraser deals with having lost his leg, and Kowalski helps him through it. (Um, does a transcript of an IM conversation with qe2 count?)
5. An AR in which Fraser was paralyzed by Vecchio's bullet in "Victoria's Secret", and now lives in a convalescent home in Calgary. (You may now call me the dS writer of sunshine and light). (3300 words)
This is totally OT, but sdwolfpup pointed the way to jarrow and laurashapiro's beautiful and bittersweet Six Feet Under vid, and now I am IN LOVE with the song "Half Acre" by Hem. I felt that I needed to inform all of you about this development. I would like to provide you with a download of this song, but I do not know how to convert .m4a files to .mp3. (The security of the iTunes store has foiled me yet again!) Is there some way to get around this, um, issue? On a Mac? When you're not particularly tech-savvy? Halp!