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My Fingers Are Bleeding (Figuratively)
I'm not sure if it was a busy weekend or not. I got hit by a big writing bug yesterday, and I seem to have completed 18 pages since Friday night, which is like 3700 words according to the count in Word. I actually rather enjoyed writing it, too, which is notable -- too often I'm tied up by worry that what I'm writing won't be any good, or I'm ready to concede defeat before I get to the bottom of the page.
Even if I have mixed emotions about the overall project this is for, because I'm basically crossing over several original characters of mine -- who have several seriously long stories that may yet get turned into novels already written about them -- with Due South characters. Which still seems to me to be basically pointless, because I feel guilty about a) not directing my energy towards finishing the original stories and b) not believing that many Due South fans are going to want to wade through a lot of angsty superhero soap opera. So I'm not writing it for much more realistic reason than my own enjoyment.
But, on the third paw, I'm enjoying it so much... and something more -- when I started writing the crossover, I saw some of my original characters in a new light, through other eyes (it didn't hurt to have a new viewpoint character at all) and that has spurred quite a lot of new plot developments, and just productivity in the original standalone fiction department. By loosening up and letting myself go to town on the fanfic, I seem to have also overcome some of the blockage that was preventing me from writing the original stuff.
(In the current piece, I've realized lately that I'm verging on a weird variation on the Mary Sue story. It's not my character(s) who are perfect -- far from it, they're neurotic and angst-filled with justifiably good reasons. It's Fraser and Ray who are helping solve the original characters' problems -- well, not so much solve as provide some needed insight, et cetera.)
Aside from the writing, it was a pleasant enough weekend -- we had some pretty good weather, I got out into the garden for a while and did a little weed-pulling, vine-cutting, grass-cutting & et cetera. The backyard is still largely a mess, but at least it's a mess that looks like somebody cares about it. I caught up on some TV that's been sitting on the TiVos for far too long, I cleaned up my study a bit, had![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
helvirago over to burn a CD and let her practice her neural networks presentation on me, since if I can make sense of what she's saying then a classful of neural networks students are going to be able to understand it. I feel all kinds of productive, even if I didn't go much of anywhere but to the grocery store....
Even if I have mixed emotions about the overall project this is for, because I'm basically crossing over several original characters of mine -- who have several seriously long stories that may yet get turned into novels already written about them -- with Due South characters. Which still seems to me to be basically pointless, because I feel guilty about a) not directing my energy towards finishing the original stories and b) not believing that many Due South fans are going to want to wade through a lot of angsty superhero soap opera. So I'm not writing it for much more realistic reason than my own enjoyment.
But, on the third paw, I'm enjoying it so much... and something more -- when I started writing the crossover, I saw some of my original characters in a new light, through other eyes (it didn't hurt to have a new viewpoint character at all) and that has spurred quite a lot of new plot developments, and just productivity in the original standalone fiction department. By loosening up and letting myself go to town on the fanfic, I seem to have also overcome some of the blockage that was preventing me from writing the original stuff.
(In the current piece, I've realized lately that I'm verging on a weird variation on the Mary Sue story. It's not my character(s) who are perfect -- far from it, they're neurotic and angst-filled with justifiably good reasons. It's Fraser and Ray who are helping solve the original characters' problems -- well, not so much solve as provide some needed insight, et cetera.)
Aside from the writing, it was a pleasant enough weekend -- we had some pretty good weather, I got out into the garden for a while and did a little weed-pulling, vine-cutting, grass-cutting & et cetera. The backyard is still largely a mess, but at least it's a mess that looks like somebody cares about it. I caught up on some TV that's been sitting on the TiVos for far too long, I cleaned up my study a bit, had
helvirago over to burn a CD and let her practice her neural networks presentation on me, since if I can make sense of what she's saying then a classful of neural networks students are going to be able to understand it. I feel all kinds of productive, even if I didn't go much of anywhere but to the grocery store....