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Good things
May. 8th, 2011 11:07 am
Good Thing #1: Today I managed to walk all the way from my bedroom to the bathroom crutch-free!
Believe me, that's worth celebrating. I doubt I could have made it much further, and I'm still taking more painkillers than I like, but it's definitely progress.
I'm going back to work next week. Sis is going to drive me there, since I doubt I'm up to walking that distance. I'm not sure about the getting home part yet; Sis works pretty late so I think I'll either have to use a taxi or beg a lift from someone I work with. My manager already offered, but she tends to have a pretty full schedule of meetings and I suspect the wish will be stronger than the practical implementation in this case. But I'll figure something out.
Mum wouldn't let me leave the house this weekend, so I didn't get my weekly cinema trip. I won't be able to make Wednesday next week, either (sorry, Mel). There's some good stuff out right now, too. But next weekend I'm going if I have to climb out the bloody window. If only because I have got to get out of this house!
Good Thing #2: One good part of being laid up for a week is I got the spn_summergen match-ups done in record time. It was a tough job this year, too. I think it's getting harder each year, partly because participation is going down and partly because with each new year of canon there's more variety in the requests and offerings. If SPN goes to ten-plus seasons this will become impossible. I still need my co-mod to check over my spreadsheet, make sure I haven't done anything dumb like assign someone their own prompts (easier to do than you'd think). Then I can send them out. I love summergen. Modding stresses me out, but I love it. We get such fabulous stories every year! Every fandom should have one :)
Good Thing #3: Speaking of challenges, artist claims for spn_j2_bigbang just closed. My story was claimed in round one! (With the size of the challenge, this may not seem surprising, but this never happens to me. I don't tend to write the popular pairings or genres. SPN fandom has a real hate-on for het fic.) I'm really excited about it this year, too. Officially I don't know who the artist is yet, but of course I saw the claim (who doesn't watch, come on) and the art in her LJ is amazing. I can't wait to see what she comes up with for my story.
My fic is pretty damn dark (yeah, yeah, I know - quelle surprise, right?) and complicated; and with final edits it clocks in at 55,400 words...give or take.
I'm still dithering over whether to cut one scene from the fic that might skirt a bit too close to the wincest line for a het fic. Of course, the story was originally going to end as Sam/Dean, so that scene made perfect sense. I still think it does fit, it's just a small incident, the kind of thing guys do. (I think. Not being a guy and not having a brother I'm kinda going on what I've read and assumed.) But it feels odd in an SPN fic that isn't going down that road. Actually, I'd only have to lose 2-3 sentences to gen-ify it, but I like it the way it is. It's a funny moment, and I so rarely write comedy.
...and I'm2,000 3,200 words into the sequel.
Believe me, that's worth celebrating. I doubt I could have made it much further, and I'm still taking more painkillers than I like, but it's definitely progress.
I'm going back to work next week. Sis is going to drive me there, since I doubt I'm up to walking that distance. I'm not sure about the getting home part yet; Sis works pretty late so I think I'll either have to use a taxi or beg a lift from someone I work with. My manager already offered, but she tends to have a pretty full schedule of meetings and I suspect the wish will be stronger than the practical implementation in this case. But I'll figure something out.
Mum wouldn't let me leave the house this weekend, so I didn't get my weekly cinema trip. I won't be able to make Wednesday next week, either (sorry, Mel). There's some good stuff out right now, too. But next weekend I'm going if I have to climb out the bloody window. If only because I have got to get out of this house!
Good Thing #2: One good part of being laid up for a week is I got the spn_summergen match-ups done in record time. It was a tough job this year, too. I think it's getting harder each year, partly because participation is going down and partly because with each new year of canon there's more variety in the requests and offerings. If SPN goes to ten-plus seasons this will become impossible. I still need my co-mod to check over my spreadsheet, make sure I haven't done anything dumb like assign someone their own prompts (easier to do than you'd think). Then I can send them out. I love summergen. Modding stresses me out, but I love it. We get such fabulous stories every year! Every fandom should have one :)
Good Thing #3: Speaking of challenges, artist claims for spn_j2_bigbang just closed. My story was claimed in round one! (With the size of the challenge, this may not seem surprising, but this never happens to me. I don't tend to write the popular pairings or genres. SPN fandom has a real hate-on for het fic.) I'm really excited about it this year, too. Officially I don't know who the artist is yet, but of course I saw the claim (who doesn't watch, come on) and the art in her LJ is amazing. I can't wait to see what she comes up with for my story.
My fic is pretty damn dark (yeah, yeah, I know - quelle surprise, right?) and complicated; and with final edits it clocks in at 55,400 words...give or take.
I'm still dithering over whether to cut one scene from the fic that might skirt a bit too close to the wincest line for a het fic. Of course, the story was originally going to end as Sam/Dean, so that scene made perfect sense. I still think it does fit, it's just a small incident, the kind of thing guys do. (I think. Not being a guy and not having a brother I'm kinda going on what I've read and assumed.) But it feels odd in an SPN fic that isn't going down that road. Actually, I'd only have to lose 2-3 sentences to gen-ify it, but I like it the way it is. It's a funny moment, and I so rarely write comedy.
...and I'm
