Writing report

[wiseheart]

Mainly for myself to keep track on my progress, since picowrimo is still half a month away. *sighs* I don't know what I'd do without that comm, it's so nice to get regular feedback and encouragement twice a year.

Anyway, the next part of Dwobbit is making nice headway - they've met Thorin and Dwalin in the Prancing Pony and Gandalf has just made his appearence. Dratted story costs me lots of research work, especially concerning timelines and Tolkien's whacky geography, but I'm content with the stand of things as they are now.

I might have gone overboard with the descriptions at certain places - and I mean Tolkienesque overboard or worse - which might frighten people away from the story (those few who actually read it), but I like it that way, I'm afraid, so the descriptions will stay. I've re-read the previous 3 chapters and corrected a few continuity errors; it's easy when you're in the early stages but promises to become a real bitch without a beta as previous experience shows, but that can't be helped.

I put Mazarbul on the back burner for the time being, until I can figure out how to edit the chapter about Ori's marriage a way that wouldn't get my SoA account yanked and would still make any sense. It's all Ori's fault, for marrying another bloke, but they're Dwarves, how am I supposed to tell them what to do? This is a sadly underappreciated story anyway, has a total of 10 reviews on FF.Net (for 13 chapters), but again, this is the kind of story I like to read, which rarely matches the taste of the majority, so I have no right to complain.

Quite unexpectedly, I got a head start on the 5th installment of the Sleeping Dragons series. The title will be, as previously announced, The Old Terror, and I've just caught myself turning it into another crossover. *groans* In any case, it will remain a (mostly) Torchwood story, any other cameos are just for fun.

Adventures of a Consulting Time Lord has reached Part 58, 39 of which are currently posted to the 13th_sherlock DW comm and to FF.Net. The antigwennites are summarily shunning it, perhaps because of the total lack of Gwen-bloody-Cooper, with the notable exception of the wonderfully supportive sammydragoncat, but it's their loss. I'm having great fun with it, especially now that I've reached the dark!Ianto parts. People will probably want to lynch me for that turn, but I don't really care. It's fun to show a different aspect of Ianto, and let's not forget that he was the guy with the half-converted Cyberwoman in the basement, so he's not entirely made of kittens. Neither is he a whimp.

So, this is the progress, so far. There are semi-current pieces in various states of being stuck, like Alternate Resolutions (ST:VOY), Sea-Flower (pre-LOTR), Arthur's Quest (Merlin BBC), Lost in the Past (a TW 3rd season AU/Cadfael crossover that is actually long finished but needs some serious corrections), Emissary of the Mark (also pre-LOTR) and Brothers-in-Arms (Cadfael, a gap-filler for "The Summer of the Danes". All other unfinished stories (and there are quite a few more) are practically dinosaurs by now, so they'd have to go through serious revisions for me to be able to continue them.

And then there are the dozens of story ideas spooking around in my head, existing in notes only, some of them planned out meticulously, some just random plotbunnies. I hope God lets me live 150 years or so, or else I'll never be able to write them all. *g*

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Thanks. :)

Let's hope that I'll be still around, writing madly, when you retire and can indulge in your secret vice of reading. ;))