Writing Merlin

[wiseheart]

The picowrimo magic has worked again. I've written two new chapters to "Arthur's Quest", meaning that I now have 11 finished chapters. Unfortunately, the dratted fic has spontaneously spawned three brand new chapters-in-planning, making the end count 18... so far. By this rate, I'll never get to the end of this tale. *sighs*

Also, Hotmail has played a funny joke on me, telling me that one of my addresses has been used by someone else (fat chance!), so they'd need a confirmation mobile number from me. Promising that they would never use it for anything else but for sending me an e-mail that would unblock my account. Do they really think I'm such an idiot?

I just wish to know how could I unblock the dratted account. It's not one I'd use very often, but it has its uses - for example if I don't want to share the private or the fandom e-mail addie. :(

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Glad it is going well for you!
Stories do seem to do that! No matter how much you start off with a plan, something happens, new ideas, characters etc - then the whole thing gets eaten by a new idea. :)

No idea about how to deal with that wrt hotmail - I stopped using it a long time ago due to far too many problems.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Really? I've been using Hotmail since I got onto the internet - more than a decade ago - and never had any problems... until now. The other two Hotmail addies that I regularly use are okay *touches wood*, so perhaps the system got confused that I happened to use the third one again, after years?

And yes, most stories develop a life of their own, the longer they are, the more so. And since I usually write multichapter monstrosities, the chances are always good that they would completely get out of control. Not that *that* would be such a bad thing. They more often than not end up better than I originally imagined them. It's just a lot more work.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

It had a tendency to eat all my messages, put messages I wanted in spam and spam in my inbox - then delete the spam as there were too many messages,.... I can't remember the rest - but if you haven't had problems that's good. It is quite possible that I was just unlucky with it.

Agree about stories. Usually it is the ones that run away that are the most fun to write as well. :)