Fractured Thoughts

I wrote 400 words of part 3 of politics and reality (my 3x4 fic) today... yay must keep writing. Hope to have something new to post soon. My problem is I'm trying to work on so many things at onc I never finish any of them. I have not one but two Dr Who/highlander crossovers I'm working on, a highlander fic I've been writing for about 18 months, another highlander fic I decided didn't fit for hlh but I want to finish  writing. The mad highlander shapeshifting cats thing. A highlander/mag7 crossover, a Mag7/GW crossover and 3 GW wips. I'm sure there's more but that's all i can think of off the top of my head.

Meanwhile in a fit of constructiveness I've been updating my archive of our own site barring a couple of drabbles I think everything's on there now.... next on the list my fanfiction.net.

Enjoyed the Doctor Who Christmas special tonight, there was plot holes big enough to drive a truck through (probably not helped by my Grandmother sitting next to me asking what was going on every 5 minutes, so maybe they were filled in whilst she was talking) but it was great fun and Matt Smith is a lovely and very funny Doctor.

Went from Dr Who to (sort of) Torchwood as I watched the Strictly come dancing christmas special, complete with John Barrowman competing. Not surprisingly he's a very good dancer. Though when Len Goodman (one of the Judges) said John Barrowman 'gave me jingle bells' in response to his dance I couldn't help think of that icon of pat_t 's which was a very scary mental image when applied to Len Goodman (wikipedia entry).

Well all the hlh_shortcuts fics are up.... it's sort of sad that's it's over but for any highlander fans there's a whole treasure trove of highlander stories to read Well done to tryfanstone on running her first fest.

I'm trying to work out who I think wrote which, but I am terrible at guessing it'sstill fun to try and work it out.

No more work all year :0). I'm travelling down to my Mum's for Christmas tomorrow, which could be interesting as we've had lots of disruption on the trains the last couple of days (mostly from ice and snow). She has internet so I shouldn't be totally cut off but I don't know how much I'll get a chance to use it over the next week or so. I have a crazy amount of days off left which have to be used by the end of January so  I'm off work until the 10th how much of that I spend at my Mum's I'm not sure.

On a totally different note I've been working on part 3 of my 3x4 fic, reality and politics, though I think I may abandon what I have already drafted on it because this scene is not working and I feel like I'm just repeating bits of part 1 & 2, so I may time skip through it and move it on.

Oh and BTW I have lots and lots of dreamwidth codes (they keep giving me more even though I haven't got rid of the last lot). If anyone would like one or knows someone who might.....

The good news is that delicious is apparently going to be sold rather than closed down :0). I'm still nervous enough about the whole thing that I'm mirroring my delicious account on pinboard: you can find mine here someparts of it I prefer to delicious other bits are annoying. I don't think I'll use it  except as a backup.

Awhile ago someone (I think it was marbleglove) mentioned that Adrian Brody in Predators could be Methos, so when I passed it I had to try watching it, and she was right.... Royce is so Methos, he even kind of looks like Peter Wingfield, well OK it's just the nose and the colouring but still. Royce is totally unlike Adam Pierson in everyway but I could totally see him Methos (former horseman and all). It makes me want to write crossover drabbles and it's not even a good film.... apart from the Methosness, watching it as a crazy highlander future made an otherwise bad film interesting.

Have done most of my Christmas shopping, today yay :0). The rest of it is for people I'm notseeing until after christmas so no panic buying on Christmas eve :0).

Yay I got my hlh_shortcuts fic in before the deadline (just). Much kudos, thanks and internet cookies tomackiedockie for heroically wading through my run on sentences to help me make it readable.

Double yay posting starts tomorrow..... new highlander fics I'm so excited. Anyone on my flist who isn't a member and wants to read them you can find the comm here, they'll be posting for about a week I think.

Anyone still working on theirs - don't panic. You can do it.

Well now I've finished that there's several highlander/ magnificent 7 crossovers that have been torturing me and I keep getting Bleach plotbunnies, not to mention the other highlander fic I decided not to complete for hlh.... I'm hoping to ride this to a wave of productivity.

Half way through the weekend and I have doubled my hlh_shortcuts wordcount today, but if anything I'm further away from finishing it than I was before. I've turned it from a little slice of life to something with *whispers* plot.....  Nooooo. At least I know sort of what's going to happen in it now. I blame Joe it was simple until he turned up. But it's flowing again :0) I love writing when it just flows.

Ahh the amusing British, 'it's snowing should we go home?' debate has begun in the office. Considering how much time and energy we're spending watching the snow fall, looking at the car park and examining traffic update and weather forecasts I doubt it'd make much difference to how much we got done anyway.

Every year it snows and every year there's chaos, when you consider how some places regularly handle serious amounts of snow you would think we could manage a few inches. Still I would quite like to go home, just tossing up the day of doing nothing versus losing a day's (well half a day's anyway) pay. Then of course there's the question of whether or not I'll be able to get home.

Yay it's friday, and yay a little more progress on my hlh-shortcuts fic. At the moment it's not so much a fic as unconnected paragraphs.... This is however a step up from bullet points so progress has been made. It's funny how my method of writing changes between stories.... Some start out as random ideas in bullet points and get written out of order as paragraphs more bullet points get added and turned into paragraphs and then (hopefully) the whole lot is fit together. Others I start at the beginning, and just write without benefit of plot and see where it takes me. (Amusingly the one's which basically are bullet points were written in order, from start to finish in one go). None of them ever turn out quite what I originally planned and whenever I read them back I am always surprised by which bits worked and find things I didn't even notice before. I always do when I read other peoples writing, but you would think that having written that I would know it inside out . Does anyone else find that with their writing?

Have actually started to write something for my hlh_shortcuts fic... it's a miracle. I have a whole 120 words done (all at work... :0)). Of course I only really have the one scene firm in my mind, hopefully the rest of the story will come to me later. Though another plot bunny that would work sprung up whilst waiting for the bus this morning. Maybe I'll start writing both and see which one flows better as I go.

I've sort of forgotten about the Mag7 mininano for the last few days, oops, am going back to it now. Why is it the only time I want to write is when I'm at work, and am thus... supposed to be working.... on things that aren't fanfiction. After all if I do it at work, I would probably have to say I get paid for doing it, plus you know eventually my bosses will complain that none of my work gets done.

In other news, now that I have been in my job 6 months (how did that happen it was supposed to be a short thing until I got a proper job) I get free gym membership. This means free gym, free swimming, free classes and free activities at any city council leisure centre. Brilliant :0)!!! So now I am back to regular exercise for the first time in months. Went to a gym induction on Sunday, swimming on Monday and today I'm going back to the gym. My shoulders and calves hate me but otherwise I feel fantastic. Hopefully that will get the scales moving downwards again too, would be nice to get down to the 140's for Christmas, it's great though when I think this time last year I was 195 lbs.

So I signed up to do 100 words a day in the Mag7wrimo.
Day 1 - 106 words of a mag7/hl crossover :0)

Right must go and do some of my hlh-shortcuts fic. I have one scene in mind, the rest of the plot sadly remains a mystery to me at this point.