Being for the Benefit; a DT aside
So I know a great many of you lurk about my journal in hopes that I'll update dirtytrousers.
For just about six entire months I ate, slept and breathed Dirty Trousers. I dreamed about the characters, I spent almost every minute of the day keeping one step ahead of the journal. As many of you know, I'd write it day-by-day... what you got that afternoon was what I wrote on the train into work that morning.
It practically wrote itself. Each character I added had an amazingly distinct voice in my head, and they'd always head off towards places I never thought they would. Justin. I mean, god, Justin. I never thought I'd be in love with him, but *ahem*
You folks made me the happiest authoress alive, because it was apparently just as addicting for you as it was for me.
And then HBP came along, and I found myself disenchanted with the fandom. Not for anything specific, and if anything it was more the book itself than the accompanying wank. I just felt so far removed from JKR's ideas for the characters that even though Dirty Trousers was as AU as an AU could get, I felt I needed to take a giant step away.
I still wrote it. I still loved it. But the segments felt wrong, and then updates petered off.
You can blame SGA, but really, I'd stopped reading anything but D/R by the start of DT, and then soon after I'd pretty much stopped reading any HP at all.
ANYWAY, all this build up is to say that I will resume dirtytrousers updates February 1st (some will remember my previous promise of November, but I fucked that up royally). I'm going to re-read it, wallow in it, make sweet, sweet love to it, and then I'm going to write. I cannot promise daily updates again, but anything is better than the past couple months, right?
And I want to say thanks for all your comments, encouragement and continuing patience.
For just about six entire months I ate, slept and breathed Dirty Trousers. I dreamed about the characters, I spent almost every minute of the day keeping one step ahead of the journal. As many of you know, I'd write it day-by-day... what you got that afternoon was what I wrote on the train into work that morning.
It practically wrote itself. Each character I added had an amazingly distinct voice in my head, and they'd always head off towards places I never thought they would. Justin. I mean, god, Justin. I never thought I'd be in love with him, but *ahem*
You folks made me the happiest authoress alive, because it was apparently just as addicting for you as it was for me.
And then HBP came along, and I found myself disenchanted with the fandom. Not for anything specific, and if anything it was more the book itself than the accompanying wank. I just felt so far removed from JKR's ideas for the characters that even though Dirty Trousers was as AU as an AU could get, I felt I needed to take a giant step away.
I still wrote it. I still loved it. But the segments felt wrong, and then updates petered off.
You can blame SGA, but really, I'd stopped reading anything but D/R by the start of DT, and then soon after I'd pretty much stopped reading any HP at all.
ANYWAY, all this build up is to say that I will resume dirtytrousers updates February 1st (some will remember my previous promise of November, but I fucked that up royally). I'm going to re-read it, wallow in it, make sweet, sweet love to it, and then I'm going to write. I cannot promise daily updates again, but anything is better than the past couple months, right?
And I want to say thanks for all your comments, encouragement and continuing patience.