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Fangs for the memories
Jun. 5th, 2008 09:15 pmWe have a canine! (a toothie-peg, that is, not a bow-wow) Confusingly, it's a top one (the bottom set usually come through first, as has been the way with all of her other teeth) and she still only has the four molars - I thought babies were supposed to get their back molars before their canines. So she's going to look like a little vampire for a bit with only a top set of fangs. A bit of gumache meant that she took forever to settle down for sleep, but shes finally nodded off now. Went to Baby Dance class this morning! Was ridiculously early, we were home again by quarter past ten, which threw me out for the rest of the day, since when we go out for morning activities we're usually not back til near lunchtime - everything felt like it was an hour later than it actually was. Anyhoo, Vi seemed to enjoy the class - not so much having to sit still with Mummy while we went through the songs' actions when she wanted to be running around, but when the music was going she was too distracted to attempt escape and allowed me to Shake Her Hands Like This, And Stamp Her Feet Like Thaaaaaat, and so on. She much preferred the end bit of the class where she got to play with ribbon sticks and a parachute. Doing the Hokey-Cokey with a 10kg toddler in your arms at 10 in the morning is a rubbish idea, though. I nearly died!
I think the big problem with my writer's block this week has been that the fic that's been in my mind all the time, that I'm constantly thinking about how I'm going to work it, is Rollercoaster, which I have to put on hold until LoveFilm send me Season 2 of TNG (don't want to buy it, since I recall it not being very good. I shouldn't have bought S1, really, either). I know almost exactly how the scenes should go, but I'm definitely not going to write a chapter around a TV episode I haven't seen in a good decade. I also want to watch and see if there are any episodes before that that would have had good Data/Tasha potential, had she been in the land of the living.
It's not like I haven't got other projects on the boil - I've got the New Adventures still, and I really have to crack on with The Specials, but I just haven't felt able to work on either of them, barring a little light editing work on the Specials, and not writing agitates me. Which is why I'm very glad of the D&DC Fic Festival. Set to work on one of my prompts during my nap-break, and have got more than 1/2 way already. Quite happy with it, although I've now changed my mind about the end twist so bits of it will need a rewrite. This should be just what I need to get me out of this furze. plus I got a lovely review for Rollercoaster yesterday, which supplied a much-needed ego puff!
Only three votes in the poll so far, and one of them's mine. Vote, vote, people! Which is better - a giant battle cruiser plummeting through the atmosphere, spewing out fighter craft and then turning into a sonic boom and a fiery outline, metres from the surface, or a weeping man pushing a donkey wheel in a frozen cave, like a bitter, bug-eyed Lara Croft, in order to make a five mile wide tropical island disappear in a burst of purple light, leaving nought but a wake trail and a very confused helecopter? THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE, PEOPLE!!!
I think the big problem with my writer's block this week has been that the fic that's been in my mind all the time, that I'm constantly thinking about how I'm going to work it, is Rollercoaster, which I have to put on hold until LoveFilm send me Season 2 of TNG (don't want to buy it, since I recall it not being very good. I shouldn't have bought S1, really, either). I know almost exactly how the scenes should go, but I'm definitely not going to write a chapter around a TV episode I haven't seen in a good decade. I also want to watch and see if there are any episodes before that that would have had good Data/Tasha potential, had she been in the land of the living.
It's not like I haven't got other projects on the boil - I've got the New Adventures still, and I really have to crack on with The Specials, but I just haven't felt able to work on either of them, barring a little light editing work on the Specials, and not writing agitates me. Which is why I'm very glad of the D&DC Fic Festival. Set to work on one of my prompts during my nap-break, and have got more than 1/2 way already. Quite happy with it, although I've now changed my mind about the end twist so bits of it will need a rewrite. This should be just what I need to get me out of this furze. plus I got a lovely review for Rollercoaster yesterday, which supplied a much-needed ego puff!
Only three votes in the poll so far, and one of them's mine. Vote, vote, people! Which is better - a giant battle cruiser plummeting through the atmosphere, spewing out fighter craft and then turning into a sonic boom and a fiery outline, metres from the surface, or a weeping man pushing a donkey wheel in a frozen cave, like a bitter, bug-eyed Lara Croft, in order to make a five mile wide tropical island disappear in a burst of purple light, leaving nought but a wake trail and a very confused helecopter? THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE, PEOPLE!!!
