Maius Intra Qua Extra

I love doing memes, so I yoinked this from scifirenegade. Not doing their other one, because of its twenty-six questions, fully half are about shipping and two more are about Tumblr, neither of which I care about.

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I only just realized that the majority of readers would think my last story is just a rehash of the 60th from a different point of view, which it's not. This is a good thing, by the way: I absolutely love writing stories that most people won't actually understand, because it's doubly enjoyable for the ones that do. (Also, I love being obscure.) But, since this is my blag and I can talk about whatever I want, I thought I'd talk about what I intended it to be.

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Lots of DW things going on in our house right now, much of it 60th-related but some not. Well, Disgaea 7 also came out recently and that's the latest installment of my husband's favorite video game series, so he's been nose-down in that, but otherwise, the DW excitement is certainly building. (Hm, I wonder, does he really like it more than NieR? He's certainly played that series more than he has the NieR games, but he's definitely more invested in the lore of NieR.)

The new theme
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Magic: the Gathering
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The Legacy of Time audios
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Anticipation

Random blather
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What I'm hoping the story is going to be but obviously won't actually be (do not read this if you don't want to be horrified by my callousness toward Donna :D )
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Writing
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Hey! I'm not dead. I guess that's an accomplishment. I've been well aware that I haven't been active here, or anywhere really, for a very long time, and I've been meaning to write an entry, but I couldn't get myself to actually sit down and do it. One of the benefits of this is that I can do a better summary of the past few months using hindsight, rather than just bitching as things happened.

I will say up front that things have been pretty good in general - just very different from how they were a year ago.

( Work, cos that's the major part of it )

( Not Work )

( Writing )

And that's about it for now. I do want to talk about Doctor Who, but not in this post. I will say, though, that we're going to Gallifrey One in February, and we're really looking forward to it.

There's this:
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All right, so I haven't posted since the end of September. I kept meaning to - I mean, I left a lot of DW discussions and fun life discussions and a daily meme hanging. But, I got bogged down. You might remember that I was having a lot of work stress. Well, that eased up and it was actually going really well... and then a new bomb went off and it was awful again, and now it's getting back to good. I want to write about all of that, but not today. This is going to be a happy, fun catch-up post.

Doctor Who

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Hobbies

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Writing

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Last week in ushobwri, they mentioned looking back in old folders and finding stories that you wrote but don't remember, reading old stories and going "wow, did I really write that?" and looking back at old ideas that you started but never finished. I started thinking about the fact that I haven't written anything for David despite the fact that I still have tons of ideas for him in my braims (and one completely written first draft that simply needs editing, though I admit it needs tons of it), I never finished the "Calling the Doctor" series, and I totally forgot about "A Teacher and a Housemaid."

Then bas_math_girl started posting her new Doctor/Donna-in-a-Regency-AU story, and that reminded me that I have a 1/3-done "the Doctor and Donna meets Jane Austen" story. That one is completely plotted out in my brain, but never made it onto paper. Well, e-paper.

This only serves to remind me that at one point, I counted over fifty WIPs in my Google docs, ranging from single-paragraph starts to multiple chapters that somehow got abandoned. And this doesn't count that I've been trying to finish this one that I keep hinting at in my journal posts.

I want to write. I just never do it.

I find that if I do actually write, it's only if a prompt at who_contest grabs me, or if some idea pops up that I just can't let go of. If I do pick up a WIP, I read through it to figure out where it's going, and by the time I get to the end, even if I know what happens next, I wander off.

Feh. This is just me whining about my lack of motivation. :)

There's one multi-chapter 3/4-done story that I know why I won't finish it. It's set in the real world, and when I wrote the first draft, I had assumed that the real world setting worked like this. Then I discovered that it worked like that, so I rewrote the entire thing to make it work correctly. Then I found out that no, I was wrong: at the time that this thing was set, it worked like this other thing. I have not gotten up the motivation to re-write the entire thing yet again. :P

Lots of milestones recently. I posted my 120th story on AO3, which means the next one starts page 7! Not many hits, since it's for Good Omens and that's a dying fandom (it really has been nearly a year since the show was released), but people seem to like it. I go by kudo percentage, not by total kudos or total hits: if I can get a 10% kudo rate on a story, I'm happy, and so far it's gotten 20%.

I also just finished my Camp Nanowrimo goal of 10k words for the month across all things I'm working on, so that's done and I'm never coming back. I completed the story I posted, did a good amount of work on the other story I've been picking at for a while, and put some words on paper for an original story that I've been thinking about.

I don't know how anybody else works, but I usually have some kind of narrative rattling around in my brain all the time that I think about while I'm not doing other brain-intensive things, like when I'm cooking or something. Even though I've only actually written fiction since I started doing DW fanfic in 2013, I've always had a narrative going on, as far back as I can remember. By "a narrative", I mean some kind of story with characters I've created, and I imagine scenes or situations, and over the course of however long it's in my head, I replay and refine the scenes and the plot. Nowadays, the narrative is often the story I'm working on; most of the individual scenes for Blue Rain started this way, and then it was just a matter of figuring out how to link them together.

My current one, which I have to admit has the main characters originally inspired by the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble but have completely changed into something else, is a lot more fully formed than my usual narrative, in that there actually is an arc with only a few handwaves for sections of plot I haven't thought about yet, but it's never going to be written, as I really don't have any interest in writing original fiction (and the plot and the world are actually kind of weak). However, I still do enjoy writing the more interesting scenes as an exercise, and so the last thousand words of Camp was spent doing that. These characters, and this world, has been occupying my idle moments for going on six months now, so it was nice to see them on paper for a bit.

Hm. Two milestones. That's not "a lot". I have actually started on learning some pointed pen calligraphy, which is something I've been poking at (ha ha bad pun) but haven't made a concerted effort toward. It's a lot different from broad-edge pen calligraphy, so I'm learning new skills. I haven't decided if I'm going to try learning a formal script like Copperplate, because it is freaky hard (here's an example), or if I'm going to concentrate on learning the general strokes and then do a modified Italic because it's easy. I mean, a few weeks ago, I was messing around with an oblique pen for the first time during a really boring video meeting and this is what I came up with. It doesn't look too bad, considering I was working with only a basic knowledge of how to use a pointed pen.



Anyway, that's life today. Take care and stay safe, everyone!

Me, that is.

As a side note, today in the car on the way to work, my husband and I had a long discussion about how, of all the character in Good Omens, he relates best to R. P. Tyler.

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Not ineffable. There must be an understandable reason - it just escapes me.

Two things.

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