Moderate success

[wiseheart]

For the first time in three weeks or so, I finally managed to write a little yesterday. Not very much, only a few paragraphs for "An Excellent Mystery", but at least the dry spell seems to have ended... or is running out anyway. Now that I've finally got my new "Brother" printer/scanner/photocopier thingy - which takes up an entire corner of my small study - I can print out research results at home again, which I wasn't be able to do in the last two years, so the story might move on again.

Wish me luck. It is supposed to be done in two or three more chapters, and I'd really like to see it finished.

Other than that, I'm still steadily posting old stuff to AO3, including stories that were only available on LJ previously, so the last three weeks weren't entirely wasted, either.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

It's great that your inspiration is returning! Guess it needed a little longer vacation than you had.

Good luck!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, the posting to AO3 is very tiring. I've put up a dozen or so stories, some of them - like Atlantis Café - over 20 chapters long, and I've read through every single chapter to weed out typos I didn't catch the first time, so yeah, it eats all the time and energy that I have.

But this is something I've been planning for years, and at least the stuff posted to LJ is already hand-coded. The really hard part will be when I'm starting to post the rest - those that are only on FF.Net.

[artemis10002000]

Yeah, it's frustrating when you keep finding typos even after all the editing you did before uploading.

But hey, at least this has been a good opportunity to give your older fics a clean-up!

Hopefully transferring will actually work by the time you get to the FF.Net stories

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Yay for the end of the dry spell and for the shiny, new printer/scanner/copier! Also, best wishes for tackling the last few chapters of "An Excellent Mystery".

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That story is one of my personal favourites, and I've managed to put together approximately one-third of the next chapter. Another couple of pages and the Watson part of the chapter will be done. Then I can go to Paris with Sherlock and Dr Sawyer, which will be a real bitch in the post-Expo time. I'm currently trying to work out a believable scenario of them meeting Alice Spice, and the end of the entire story is still very much uncertain. *sigh*

[saki101.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about tying up loose ends, although you are very good at it. I've left a few stories with the ends just dangling. One even requires a trip to Paris!