Tales from the Tourist Trap

I've done well at writing for at least an hour each day this month. I don't have a word count and if I did it would be sad but that doesn't matter to me. I should work on Displace since that's the closest to done and I would love to put FINIS at the bottom of that thing before the year is over. I don't know why I've lost interest in doing it. Maybe because it only needs to be wrapped up and I know how it ends? The mystery is over for me unless I add an unplanned twist at the end. Something like that would come off very bad unless it added a complication that would require a lot more chapters and mean the story would go on another year.

I'm working on an Anya chapter of T&P. I may change my mind, ut think the aftermath of last chapter needs somebody who knows demons and can see the tragady without getting bogged down. This story has really gotten to close to peak of angst. You know I decided to try story with an alternating POV after reading Fire & Ice I had no intention of trying to match the scale of the cast of that book. Ha my OCs will be back soon and it's very possible somebody from AtS will show up without dying. In case you haven't noticed the muse loves this one right now.

I don't know if you can call Take Me: Take Two a WIP it's so episodic. I do have part of the next episode done. I like the idea of it but I'm not pleased with how it's turning out. On the show it would've been Beer Bad and just a fluff epi. Mine is sort of a turning point.

Some thoughts on how I got over a simalar problem with T&P i( f you haven't read chapter 13 skip it )

I was showing somebody my crochet today and she was baffled by the lack of a pattern. She asked how I knew if it was right if I didn't have a pattern. I explained that I did [in this case a pillow form] You crochet every which way until you have enough pieces then sew them together and fill in the gaps to make it fit. This person claimed she'd never do this type of work because she'd be so worried about getting it right that all her edges would the same. I explained that you first worry about getting it done then you fix and fiddle until it's "right"

Sometimes I think that writer's block is that kind of perfectionism run amuck.I understand the concept of a first draft but I want it to all fit perfectly right away. I get to a point in a story and I stall. Not because I can't figure out what happens next but because I have an ideal of what it should be in my head. Once the words are on the screen they fall flat collapsing under my expectations. I should apply the freeform thinking to my writing too. First get it done, then fill in the gaps and add texture to hide the "mistakes".

So it's official, I've gone insane. It all started because of this little problem I had with my hand for years... I tend to raise it and volunteer for things. My Dad doesn't understand where I got it from they had to drag him to Korea. Anyway I saw that southernbangel need back up writers for her Happy Endings ficathon and my darn hand went up. I said to myself, Self, if Buffy is one of the pairing I'll do it from her POV, it'll be good for me. So I'm 600 words into a B/A fic that's Buffy with Angel and committed to a happy ending. I'm setting it in a Spike & Riley free season 4. So I don't feel too bad for my Spike. He's safely with Dru in far off lands. It's actually going quicker than the Spuffy does {hides in shame} Maybe because it's easier to convice Buffy she loves Angel. Don't worry this is a one off I'm not going over to the dark side. Don't think I'll post it in own LJ. You guys'll hate it.

I've got one double drabble and a almost 4000 word short story done for seasonal_spuffy So I start back to work on Displaced and maybe get it done soon. I've been really pushing to get the Spuffy done because my original idea didn't pan out. I couldn't come up with an idea at all until I chanel surfing and saw a crime show and heard somebody report, "I knew they were giving him a hard time and and calling him a fairy but I didn't know they were beating him up." My mind works in sick ways sometimes I guess because I thought Aha, Spike rescues a Good Fairy from a beating and get three wishes as a reward! unfortunely the aha came only a week ago so really had to rush and haven't had much time to keep up with my flist.

My face is sore and itchy but doesn't look so bad tonight. Thanks for the hugs and sympathy.

Well working Displaced backwards didn't work out so well all I really managed was vague outline-ish stuff. I wrote and rewrote I did a few drabbles. I wrote 500 words of the AU HLoD bunny. Then tonight I put on Billie Holiday and wrote 700 words on chapter 10 of Displaced and I think they're good words. I have no idea why music I'm certain neither Giles or Anya actually would like seems to feed my Ganya muse but it does.