Mixed bag

[vilakins]

So now I'm back at work and the weather's been glorious both days: sunny, summery, and still. Thanks, Auckland. Why didn't you deliver that last week? Never mind, I'm just grateful it only rained one day.

I went to the Kings Garden Centre after work today to buy a pot plant as a gift, and they have a resident cat. She came up to me and I gave her my hand to sniff before I stroked her and she was so impressed with my cat manners, she followed me round the place until I found a plant I to buy. :-)

There are only three more days to go till my finishathon story is due and this is the closest I've come to defaulting on a ficathon after more than two weeks of failing to write any of it. [worries] At last I know where it's going, but I'm not sure I have time to get there. Even if I take a shortcut, this one will probably not be beta-read. :-(

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

If you end up needing a really fast last-minute beta, let me know. It looks like I've actually got a lot of free time this week, so I might be able to accommodate ya. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That would be great! At this rate it won't be till my Friday though and I think that's when they're due. Actually I'd be very happy with one after the fact if it comes to that so I can at least correct any errors before I link the page to anywhere else on my site. :-)

[kerravonsen]

Actually, they're due Friday night GMT, which makes it Saturday morning for you and me.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah. That doesn't help much though because I'm away all weekend. I think I'll be putting in some late nights.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure I could at least do that. :)

Good luck!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm feeling a bit more optimistic today because I've got a lot further on. :-P

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Yay, progress!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

This story originally only had a handful of scenes which is why I hadn't started it let alone finished it, but it now has an actual plot and some mayhem. Pity it took so long to come to me.

[kerravonsen]

{hugs}

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Mind you, it might be too summery for your taste this week. :-) It's time to break the fans out and I'd be lazing in the hammock after work if I didn't have to finish this story. However it's only this week that the ideas have come, and there are too many of them. :-P

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I imagine finishathons must be the hardest kind to write for, because there's usually a reason why a fic is languishing unfinished, and if it was easy to solve the problem, then it wouldn't be languishing unfinished...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. In the case of this one, I didn't know how it would end after the first few scenes, but I have some good ideas now--just too many of them and not enough time. :-P

The others I fielded for selection (people vote for them) are respectively almost finished, half finished, and not started but threatening to be a novella so I'm glad that one wasn't picked.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

not started but threatening to be a novella

That one sounds like you should enter it for a startathon ;-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

None of the three finishathons I've entered have involved a story I'd actually started. :-P

When this one's done, I plan to finish the other two, then reward myself with the alteregothon one, Rebels and Amagons which is going to be so much fun, it will be a writing holiday. :-D

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I'm seriously impressed by your dedication! I only ever write things I want to write (though I agree that the alteregothon has been a total blast to write for).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

But I want to write these stories; they're in my head waiting to come out. I just happen to find it so much easier to write comedy which the alteregothon story will be. [note to self: add more comedy to the Star Trek one]

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Yes! More comedy is always a good thing!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

This current angstfest hasn't much room for it. Perhaps I can fit some biting Avon and Vila snark in when they've both recovered a little.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you deliver that last week?
I'm sure that's one of Murphy's Laws.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's now morning and another absolutely perfect day which I have to spend inside. Feh. Still, I prefer it to rain; it's very cheering even through glass.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

You are obviously a well trained catisan.

Sometimes it's okay not to finish things.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The thing is, if I let myself go I mightn't finish anything. I need deadlines and I let this one get too close. And it's a matter of pride: I haven't defaulted before. :-P It took me this long though to know what was going to happen in the story.