The countdown's begin...
We're one week away from the big move. Tonight is our Holiday Party at the Petroleum Club. It's totally la-di-da. Last year, our marketing director (who left in May) planned the whole thing and we had a Christmas Prom at the Marriott. It was the best company party I'd ever been to! We wore prom dresses, got awards for creativity, had a great meal and crowned a King and Queen. It was wonderful! This year... the GM planned it. La. Di. Da. Should be a hoot... not.
I've been working on three fics simultaneously. One is a nearly-complete Christmas fic for my BtVS Santa group. The other is the billiard story, tentatively titled Something Money Can't Buy. And the third is a totally non-Spuffy fic called Lies My Watchers Told Me. I have issues with writing Spuffy... meaning, in order for me to write the good stuff (the Spuffy stuff to most), I have to take a break and bring back bitchy Buffy. When I do that, I don't let her have Spike. I create someone new for him. Someone who can bash Buffy and love Spike. And then I go back to the Spuffy love of my other fics. Plus, I just really feel the need to develop my own characters from time to time. Does anyone else do this? Or am I just off my bird a bit? I got a few reviews on LMWTM and was pleasantly surprised that Heiko and Brunettepet both were encouraging even with the non-Spuffy. Another reviewer I did not recognize did not like it at all. I forewarned that it would not be Spuffy.
The premise of LMWTM is that Buffy was never meant to be the Slayer. She was a Potential, just like the SITS. But, because Merrick kept his daughter hidden with the glamour, she was called instead of Victoria. Now, she's needed in the final battle. And Buffy ain't a happy camper... as her 'Chosen One' status has just been bumped by the light: Victoria and the dark: Spike who are needed to close the Hellmouth once and for all.
I need to wrap up my Christmas fic... can't wait to share it with my LJ friends -- after the recipient gets it, of course!