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Best thing about rainy bank holidays: I get time to write instead of mow lawns or whatever.
I finally finished Deception, my sequel to Gambling.
8,000 words of porn :-)
There are still a few things that don't quite work; I'll need to edit it over the next few days which probably means I won't be able to post it before I leave for Asylum Con. I don't know what my internet access will be like while I'm there. I'll post from the con if I can.
In the meantime, I've been giving a lot of thought to what I'm going to write, Sentinel-wise, over the summer. I won't know for another couple of weeks whether my Cry Wolf sequel is going to happen. If it's a go, I have no problems. If not...well.
I'd like to write the prequel, to Cry Wolf about Blair getting bitten and how he and Jim work things out after he becomes a werewolf. But there's a problem. A big chunk of that story is set on a Native American reservation and I have no clue at all about what life there would be like. I've read a lot about the culture - that's not a big problem. My problem is the day-to-day reality of life. I simply don't have time to do extensive research and I'm not willing to post a story where I've just had to invent such important details.
I don't mind inventing stuff. Crap like police procedures and legal loopholes I'll crib from crime shows and not care too much if it's accurate, because I'm writing fiction and TS was never exactly accurate anyway. But this is a whole culture thing; I ain't gonna fudge that. So I either need a way around it, or I need a way to do the research without having to read tons of stuff I don't need to get to the stuff I do. Google is not my friend on this subject.
Alternatives: I'm still mulling over my Bacchanalia sequel but while I've got a terriffic beginning I still have no clue about the end. I can't start serious work on a fic until I know the end: this is why my WIP file is so huge. A lot of stories never let me know where they're going. Or I could - shock, horror - try something new, Sentinel-wise. I really, really, do want to write some TS over the summer. As much as SPN has taken over my brain, I like having Jim and Blair around.
I finally finished Deception, my sequel to Gambling.
8,000 words of porn :-)
There are still a few things that don't quite work; I'll need to edit it over the next few days which probably means I won't be able to post it before I leave for Asylum Con. I don't know what my internet access will be like while I'm there. I'll post from the con if I can.
In the meantime, I've been giving a lot of thought to what I'm going to write, Sentinel-wise, over the summer. I won't know for another couple of weeks whether my Cry Wolf sequel is going to happen. If it's a go, I have no problems. If not...well.
I'd like to write the prequel, to Cry Wolf about Blair getting bitten and how he and Jim work things out after he becomes a werewolf. But there's a problem. A big chunk of that story is set on a Native American reservation and I have no clue at all about what life there would be like. I've read a lot about the culture - that's not a big problem. My problem is the day-to-day reality of life. I simply don't have time to do extensive research and I'm not willing to post a story where I've just had to invent such important details.
I don't mind inventing stuff. Crap like police procedures and legal loopholes I'll crib from crime shows and not care too much if it's accurate, because I'm writing fiction and TS was never exactly accurate anyway. But this is a whole culture thing; I ain't gonna fudge that. So I either need a way around it, or I need a way to do the research without having to read tons of stuff I don't need to get to the stuff I do. Google is not my friend on this subject.
Alternatives: I'm still mulling over my Bacchanalia sequel but while I've got a terriffic beginning I still have no clue about the end. I can't start serious work on a fic until I know the end: this is why my WIP file is so huge. A lot of stories never let me know where they're going. Or I could - shock, horror - try something new, Sentinel-wise. I really, really, do want to write some TS over the summer. As much as SPN has taken over my brain, I like having Jim and Blair around.