A few random things

1. SGA premieres on Friday! :D :D :D :D

2. I updated my 12in2008 banner (which can be seen on my profile page). I pledged to write 12 stories of 5000 words or more in 2008, and the plan was that they'd all be original fiction, but that's, er, not happening, so I'm counting both original and fanfic in the total. (On the banner tally, I'm using white text for original fic and red for fanfic.) Counting the Big Bang story, I'm up to 7 of 12 completed, and, well, since it's July, I'm right on track!

3. Speaking of the Big Bang story, I think naye and I may be finished with our preliminary rough draft -- or almost finished; once she's awake, she needs to look over what I wrote tonight, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. Our betas pointed out some legitimate structural problems with the story, but since we don't exactly have another month to do a total rewrite, I think we've managed to solve them pretty well within the time limits that we're working under. We have until the 25th to turn in the final draft, but I'm vanishing this weekend for a couple of Internet-free weeks in the Alaska Bush. I'll be offline until about the 23rd or so, assuming I don't get eaten by bears in the meantime. (Ha. I jest. Uh, mostly.)

Edited to add a Thing 4: I just discovered via tardis80 this wonderful article by Stephen King on the joy of, well, joy. The joy that we get from music or movies or TV that aren't good by any objective stretch of the imagination, but things that make us happy. And that's really the whole point of creating anything, isn't it? (This video is -- probably -- the video clip that he talks about in the article. Watching it, I was struck by how little value we place on sheer joy in our lives. Looking at that video, you can either see a middle-aged guy making a fool out of himself in the middle of Best Buy -- or a guy having uninhibited fun in a way that most of us are trained out of in our teens. We're all too likely to see the former and not the latter.)

A few random things

1. SGA premieres on Friday! :D :D :D :D

2. I updated my 12in2008 banner (which can be seen on my profile page). I pledged to write 12 stories of 5000 words or more in 2008, and the plan was that they'd all be original fiction, but that's, er, not happening, so I'm counting both original and fanfic in the total. (On the banner tally, I'm using white text for original fic and red for fanfic.) Counting the Big Bang story, I'm up to 7 of 12 completed, and, well, since it's July, I'm right on track!

3. Speaking of the Big Bang story, I think naye and I may be finished with our preliminary rough draft -- or almost finished; once she's awake, she needs to look over what I wrote tonight, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. Our betas pointed out some legitimate structural problems with the story, but since we don't exactly have another month to do a total rewrite, I think we've managed to solve them pretty well within the time limits that we're working under. We have until the 25th to turn in the final draft, but I'm vanishing this weekend for a couple of Internet-free weeks in the Alaska Bush. I'll be offline until about the 23rd or so, assuming I don't get eaten by bears in the meantime. (Ha. I jest. Uh, mostly.)

Edited to add a Thing 4: I just discovered via tardis80 this wonderful article by Stephen King on the joy of, well, joy. The joy that we get from music or movies or TV that aren't good by any objective stretch of the imagination, but things that make us happy. And that's really the whole point of creating anything, isn't it? (This video is -- probably -- the video clip that he talks about in the article. Watching it, I was struck by how little value we place on sheer joy in our lives. Looking at that video, you can either see a middle-aged guy making a fool out of himself in the middle of Best Buy -- or a guy having uninhibited fun in a way that most of us are trained out of in our teens. We're all too likely to see the former and not the latter.)