NO NOT THAT KIND OF PACKAGE. The kind with a bow! Yes, it's getting to be the gifty time of year, and so (via Lifehacker) I bring you: making your own low- or no-cost holiday bows by hand!

(Yeah I know, right - what the hell is this blog nowadays, Good Housekeeping? Your guess is as good as mine.)

Not sure if this is how it's done. Tried to go on the site to input words in for a word count but site is down. I doubt I'll put a word count up everyday. Maybe once a week?

So far so good. Worked on "Reinventing Pavlov" for Star Trek and "Eye of the Storm" for Torchwood. So far:

"Reinventing Pavlov" = 2086 words
"Eye of the Storm" = 3190 words

Hm, the count feels a lot small than it felt like typing it. The goal was 50K?

(thud)

And that was day 1...

... somehow, I doubt I'm ever going to be at a rock concert again where they get the whole stadium singing Hey Jude, Champagne Supernova and freaking Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. :D

*EPIC FLAILAGE*

I was at the Green Day concert in Manchester last night (Hallowe'en - which reminds me: Billie sang "Happy Hallowe'en" to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down, which was just hilarious), and it was so fucking awesome! :D I would try and write about just how amazing it was, but I think that's fairly impossible - but suffice to say, I got my shiny Converse covered in lemonade (so they're now really sticky), and I DON'T CARE.

*MORE FLAILING*

*sighs* Happy now, even though I've just got home and I need a shower - and I have to work. Hmm.

DON'T CARE.

:D ♥

Yes, yes, yes!  Doing the happy dance at my house this week.  The new Sony reader works perfectly with the fan fiction I saved as Word documents.  No more schlepping massive sheaves of paper printouts with me when I want to read a torchwood story away from my computer.  Plus, I bet this is less expensive in the long run, not having to buy paper and ink...more ink and did I mention ink.  Transfer to reader and voila, read anywhere I please.  First up was a re-read of all the merucha stories I had saved, next up Attrition.  Now that I know this works I'll have to go out hunting and gathering stories again, just not ready for those post COE without Ianto. :(

I signed up for NaNoWriMo to get me back to writing my sequels.

What have I done?

Life has been strange, during which I wrote then squirreled away into my hard drive. Only now, I slowly bring them out as I continuing writing a few certain sequels and a hurt!Bones one I had promised snowinginjune long ago. It's coming, my dear. :)

Title: Literary Companion
Author: d8rkmessngr
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy established
Rating: PG
Words: 2,591, complete, betaed by soullessminion
Summary: Spock encounters something more than zygomorphic samples on Feltar II. Fascinating…
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: Star Trek is owned by Paramount, Roddenberry and all the more awesomer people out there who made this awesome legacy that's not me.
Notes: To soullessminion, who finally succumbed to trying out Star Trek Reboot verse despite the avalanche of editing she's doing of "The Oncoming Storm". And to gingerlr, because oh, it's wonderful to see her name on a fic again…

( Under a tree, shaded by a generous canopy of violet hued leaves, sat Doctor McCoy. )

Right, for anyone that doesn't know, I'm a shameless fandom whore *waves*

Anyway, I was having a bit of a ponder today when I considered the differing outputs, and general quality of fic from the different fandoms I dabble in. To take three examples;

-Why is it that the Libertines fandom, whilst being really rather tiny, produces such a high standard of fic?
-Why is there so much Torchwood fic? Just what is it that gets so many people writing?
- Why do some shows (eg. The L Word) have bugger all fanfiction, despite being widely watched (probably more so that Torchwood, I'm guessing)

For me, I've always thought that outside of RPS, fiction is partly about correcting what you might perceive as wrongs in the canon, or just fleshing out things that you would have liked to see. But that interpretation leaves me kind of stumped when I apply that to my last example, because S3 of The L Word is a whole series worth of potential 'oh crap what the hell are they doing to these characters?....fanfic!' moments, and no one seems to have lept on that bandwagon. Of course, RPS is a bit of a different kettle of fish (although with Peter and Carl, the 'it shouldn't have gone like that' theory still works to a certain extent) and a think there's a lot of different motivations there.

So, I'm fielding this to you, lovely f-list, as I know a fair few of you are fic writers. What is it that motivates you to write in your fandom? Why do you think that different fandoms draw differing quantities/quality of fiction? Or any related thoughts really, I'm interested in anybody's two cents on any of this :)

Well, just a few weeks ago I discovered the joys of ipod ownership.  Last week I spent saving my audio cd collection to iTunes...all +600 of them.  They're just like rabbits, I had no idea there were that many.  They must have been breeding, I couldn't have bought all of them.  I also discovered that and 8G ipod can not hold a 95G music collection!  Oh woe is me, now I have to pick and choose what to have at my beck and call.

Then, over the weekend Staples put temptation in my path again.  I've been a good girl saving my Staples gift cards and redeeming my ink cartridges to save up for a Sony e reader.  Well, they pushed me over the edge with a 10% off coupon and I picked mine up on the way to work.  I've got it registered and the new baby is charging beside me.  All this just so I can read my Torchwood fan fiction away from the computer and not be awash in print copies of the stories.  I guess I will justify this by saying I'm saving trees....

                                                                                                                                                                                                       .....I bad!