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Well. First off, I learned something new and exciting this week: apparently, when I archive these posts after their moment of weekend glory, they do, in fact, make the same change on people’s Flists and retire themselves to the back of the line. Foo. I’m archiving them to 2002, and they’re all tagged ‘egregious egotism’. I may put up a link to the archive at some point, if there seems to be any point to it.
The final chapter of Revision was posted on Monday night, which means it’s now the sixth day since I had an active project, and I started twitching by the third day. Guess I’m addicted.
Really, since I started writing in earnest, the only time I’ve taken a substantive break between projects was the month I took between finishing Phoenix Rising and starting Aftershocks, and Gatecon took place during that month. Other than that, it’s usually no more than a week or less. Even when my partner was visiting. Enablement can be a beautiful thing. (Of course, she got to read all the brand-new material.)
Admittedly, I don’t spend the bulk of my day writing (I wish!), but I do write almost every day. It feels weird not doing it, and desolate. So last night, I started jotting down story notes again.
The working title for the new story is Reverb. Thematically, it will (hopefully/probably) deal with how past events have long-term future effects, and how the present grows out of the past. There’s also a private joke in there, because ‘MacGyver’ is a verb. And yes, it has a plot. A rather complex one. (Anyone surprised?)
There was never really much of a question about what I’d do next, anyway. I actually started writing Reverb back in May, at the same time that I started Revision; the two stories are somewhat related. But Revision had to be done first. The only real question was whether I’d go straight back to Reverb, or do something else in the interim – and that really hinged on whether my imagination would be sufficiently caught by the story to be willing to start the heavy lifting of making the ideas work. This is going to be a big project: another novel, with some very interesting canonical challenges.
So last weekend, while I was waiting for some final beta response before I finished posting Revision, I re-read the partial chapter and the notes I’d made back in May. My imagination started chewing on it by Tuesday. Insatiable little bugger. Admittedly, I spent all day Tuesday in a professional technology conference, and the first two sessions were entirely Old Stuff, and I needed something to keep from climbing the walls or falling asleep or otherwise behaving in an unprofessional manner.
For the next two weeks, I’ll be doing short presentations at our staff meetings of What I Got From the Solutions Conference. Imagine what it would be like if I actually reported on all of it . . . “Well, I realised I need to research criminal drug syndicates, and South American coups, and the skiing season in Switzerland, and . . . ” But really, I was paying attention in the conference. When they finally started covering new material, I stopped thinking about MacGyver. Mostly. Pity there's not much in database administration that I can use in a story. But you never know!
Cheers to all, and stay tuned for more LOLs next week. For some reason, I've been getting tons of Jack ideas and only a few for Mac. Nice of the boys to take turns!
'Beth
August 2009
The final chapter of Revision was posted on Monday night, which means it’s now the sixth day since I had an active project, and I started twitching by the third day. Guess I’m addicted.
Really, since I started writing in earnest, the only time I’ve taken a substantive break between projects was the month I took between finishing Phoenix Rising and starting Aftershocks, and Gatecon took place during that month. Other than that, it’s usually no more than a week or less. Even when my partner was visiting. Enablement can be a beautiful thing. (Of course, she got to read all the brand-new material.)
Admittedly, I don’t spend the bulk of my day writing (I wish!), but I do write almost every day. It feels weird not doing it, and desolate. So last night, I started jotting down story notes again.
The working title for the new story is Reverb. Thematically, it will (hopefully/probably) deal with how past events have long-term future effects, and how the present grows out of the past. There’s also a private joke in there, because ‘MacGyver’ is a verb. And yes, it has a plot. A rather complex one. (Anyone surprised?)
There was never really much of a question about what I’d do next, anyway. I actually started writing Reverb back in May, at the same time that I started Revision; the two stories are somewhat related. But Revision had to be done first. The only real question was whether I’d go straight back to Reverb, or do something else in the interim – and that really hinged on whether my imagination would be sufficiently caught by the story to be willing to start the heavy lifting of making the ideas work. This is going to be a big project: another novel, with some very interesting canonical challenges.
So last weekend, while I was waiting for some final beta response before I finished posting Revision, I re-read the partial chapter and the notes I’d made back in May. My imagination started chewing on it by Tuesday. Insatiable little bugger. Admittedly, I spent all day Tuesday in a professional technology conference, and the first two sessions were entirely Old Stuff, and I needed something to keep from climbing the walls or falling asleep or otherwise behaving in an unprofessional manner.
For the next two weeks, I’ll be doing short presentations at our staff meetings of What I Got From the Solutions Conference. Imagine what it would be like if I actually reported on all of it . . . “Well, I realised I need to research criminal drug syndicates, and South American coups, and the skiing season in Switzerland, and . . . ” But really, I was paying attention in the conference. When they finally started covering new material, I stopped thinking about MacGyver. Mostly. Pity there's not much in database administration that I can use in a story. But you never know!
Cheers to all, and stay tuned for more LOLs next week. For some reason, I've been getting tons of Jack ideas and only a few for Mac. Nice of the boys to take turns!
'Beth
August 2009
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These days, I tend to read the fanfic of specific writers most of the time -- Lothi, wabbit, Kirsty, Sid and a few others. Much of the fic I read is by writers for whom I edit or beta. I occasionally wander around at random looking for Good New Stuff, but there's a lot of rubbish out there, as we all know. (Of course, that applies to published books also!) I sometimes hop to the profiles of people who read my work, and then look at their own lists of Favourites; I've found some real gems that way.
As far as Stargate goes: I don't think I'll even contemplate writing in that fandom until I finally finish watching the whole series (I just finished Season 8 on DVD). Then I'd have to have a good idea, something compelling enough to make me willing to set Mac aside for long enough to write Jack. And I'm not at all comfortable with writing in a military setting. It might be interesting to try a crossover someday -- there are a lot of "MacGate" stories already out there, but most of them get Mac wrong.