should i panic now?
Is it time to start panicking about Gabriel Big Bang yet? I've exactly 1900 words written this far, which is way, way too little. I'm not even entirely sure the whole idea will work for a story, at least a longer one. Actually, to be entirely honest, I'm not even exactly sure what the idea is supposed to be. That's just how I usually write; I start writing and things just... happen. There's never really all that much planning involved.
There's also the co-writing challange that's way late. But things are actually happening with that one and I'm not all that worried. Even if I should totally sit down and write some more of it.
Then there's podfic. There's two longer fics I've been trying to get done. There's no time limit for those, but I did promise the author of the other one of those stories that I'd record the fic and I'm feeling a bit bad about how long it's taking me. The other one is just a question of personal frustration, since I've recorded the whole story, several times actually, except I keep redoing parts of it since they just don't sound right to me... and then the new part totally doesn't fit with all the old parts and... I'm pretty sure I've done the whole fic at least three times, even edited it and then decided something just doesn't sound right... *headdesk*
And at the moment there are a few practical problems when it comes to podficcing. Mostly the fact that I just moved and my PC is... well definitely somewhere in this appartment, but not exactly anywhere where I can use it for anything. I sort of need at desk for it too. And I love this apartment and all, but there's not exactly anywhere here where there isn't some kind of background noise and it's nothing I can do anything about. It's not like I can sabotage the air-conditioning for the bar downstairs or something (well, I could, not even all that hard; you can totally get into the bar from my appartment if you really want to, but it doesn't seem like an entirely good idea for various reasons). It's not like that's the only noise either, there's the trafic outside and people leaving the bar aren't always entirely quiet either in the evenings and there's the music from the bar during weekends... I don't notice any of it all that much, so it doesn't bother me, but it's not so nice when it comes to the podficcing.
I'm just hoping none of it will turn out to be loud enough for the mic to pick it up when I'm actually recording, or at least that it won't be too bad. Not much else I can do. Well, unless I sneak in when the bar's closed and start using the sound recording equipment there, which is pretty decent. Not that I would even know how to use all of that stuff. And again, maybe not the best of ideas. :D
Oh... and I could mention the fact that the bar just under my apartment... the owner is my brother. Otherwise I think the way I talk about the place might sound a bit weird. I'm not supposed to go in there when it's closed obviously and I officially I have nothing at all to do with the place, sometimes I just don't seem to quite remember that (and the people who work there will never tell me I'm not allowed to come and go as I please. I'm not, and I really try to remember it). :P
There's also the co-writing challange that's way late. But things are actually happening with that one and I'm not all that worried. Even if I should totally sit down and write some more of it.
Then there's podfic. There's two longer fics I've been trying to get done. There's no time limit for those, but I did promise the author of the other one of those stories that I'd record the fic and I'm feeling a bit bad about how long it's taking me. The other one is just a question of personal frustration, since I've recorded the whole story, several times actually, except I keep redoing parts of it since they just don't sound right to me... and then the new part totally doesn't fit with all the old parts and... I'm pretty sure I've done the whole fic at least three times, even edited it and then decided something just doesn't sound right... *headdesk*
And at the moment there are a few practical problems when it comes to podficcing. Mostly the fact that I just moved and my PC is... well definitely somewhere in this appartment, but not exactly anywhere where I can use it for anything. I sort of need at desk for it too. And I love this apartment and all, but there's not exactly anywhere here where there isn't some kind of background noise and it's nothing I can do anything about. It's not like I can sabotage the air-conditioning for the bar downstairs or something (well, I could, not even all that hard; you can totally get into the bar from my appartment if you really want to, but it doesn't seem like an entirely good idea for various reasons). It's not like that's the only noise either, there's the trafic outside and people leaving the bar aren't always entirely quiet either in the evenings and there's the music from the bar during weekends... I don't notice any of it all that much, so it doesn't bother me, but it's not so nice when it comes to the podficcing.
I'm just hoping none of it will turn out to be loud enough for the mic to pick it up when I'm actually recording, or at least that it won't be too bad. Not much else I can do. Well, unless I sneak in when the bar's closed and start using the sound recording equipment there, which is pretty decent. Not that I would even know how to use all of that stuff. And again, maybe not the best of ideas. :D
Oh... and I could mention the fact that the bar just under my apartment... the owner is my brother. Otherwise I think the way I talk about the place might sound a bit weird. I'm not supposed to go in there when it's closed obviously and I officially I have nothing at all to do with the place, sometimes I just don't seem to quite remember that (and the people who work there will never tell me I'm not allowed to come and go as I please. I'm not, and I really try to remember it). :P