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rynneYesterday I went up to Lake Tahoe with some friends. It was very fun, but I got several sunburns, though only one of them is noticeable.
Today I noticed that my rear left tire on my car is going flat. I got my tires replaced three weeks ago, so unless I hit a nail or something (which I suppose is possible, though I can't think where I would have), one should not be going flat. Also, I checked and apparently my spare tire also does not have much air, which is not much use in a spare tire (though it does have enough to get me to a service shop). My dad told me I should get it checked out at the place that replaced the tires, which is fine, but that by tomorrow the tire might be entirely flat. Which means I will have to change it. I technically know how to change a tire, and I've still got my owner's manual for the car, but I've still never actually done it before. I think I'm just going to hope that it's not flat in the morning. *sigh*
Also, when I opened my trunk to check the spare, I hit my forehead. So now I have an uncomfortable large sunburn on my shoulder and a bruise on my forehead, gah.
For fic news, it's been a week since I posted Rounded with a Sleep. I'm not precisely displeased on what feedback I got (I appreciate every single comment, and sixteen is pretty good, for one of my fics), but I was hoping more people would read and comment. I suppose the rating and/or the length could have been a bit intimidating, though. *sigh* It's just, I love this fic so much, and I was hoping for a better response.
I like doing ficathons because I typically tend to write well under pressure. If I have a deadline, it's easier for me to sit down and get it done. But given this particular prompt, I think I might still have been able to write it even without the looming deadline.
"The Doctor dealing with Rose being sleepy all the time" is pretty simple, as prompts go. Definitely not as involved as the prompts I gave in my sign-up. XD But it gave me this idea that I loved--how would the Doctor react to the first time Rose fell asleep on the TARDIS, when he was left alone again? I decided he'd need to visit her, make sure she really was still there, and that spawned the idea of more such scenes of him watching her sleep.
Then I wanted to make the fic a progression of their relationship--I knew that I want the last scene to be him falling asleep after they had sex. The entire fic would revolve around Rose sleeping and him needing to watch her sleep because it made him feel relaxed and peaceful, so it seemed the only fitting ending would be him able to sleep as well. I wanted to get him to the point where he could be at peace enough to fall asleep content.
Assignments for this ficathon went out a few weeks before Journey's End, but I decided to wait to write it until I knew what would happen. I thought maybe I could set the last scene post-reunion. Of course, then I saw JE. XD I wasn't sure what my recipient's thoughts on JE were, and frankly I just didn't want to open that pandora's box, so I decided to just keep it pre-Doomsday. The sex could come after The Satan Pit, since I think that if their relationship had changed during S2, that's when it would have happened.
This was my first time writing Nine, which made me a bit nervous, but people have told me I did well on characterization, so that's reassuring. And now maybe I'll finally be able to write more Nine, since I do love him so.
But really, this fic is basically the journey I saw the Doctor taking, throughout S1 and S2. I saw him falling in love with Rose and then growing to accept that love, and everything that went along with it, and I wanted to portray that in my fic. I think I succeeded, which makes me happy, and is the main reason I love this fic so much.
In my first flash of inspiration, I only knew about the first and last scenes (the ones post-The Unquiet Dead and post-The Satan Pit), and didn't know exactly what route I would take to getting the Doctor from his mild panic at being left alone to being able to fall asleep, content with his life. But then everything just sort of poured out of me--I wrote all 11,000 words in three days, which is really damn fast, for me. Sometimes the fic even made its own decisions--the stage the Doctor was in post-The Idiot's Lantern (knowing it was going to happen, and still being afraid but also sort of anticipating) was originally going to be how he was in the post-Girl in the Fireplace section, except he said no, he wasn't there yet. He was still struggling. And I'm glad, because I think it works better this way.
So the fic practically wrote itself, and I am just so satisfied with it. Even if I don't get any more feedback, at least I will still have a fic that I am proud of.
Today I noticed that my rear left tire on my car is going flat. I got my tires replaced three weeks ago, so unless I hit a nail or something (which I suppose is possible, though I can't think where I would have), one should not be going flat. Also, I checked and apparently my spare tire also does not have much air, which is not much use in a spare tire (though it does have enough to get me to a service shop). My dad told me I should get it checked out at the place that replaced the tires, which is fine, but that by tomorrow the tire might be entirely flat. Which means I will have to change it. I technically know how to change a tire, and I've still got my owner's manual for the car, but I've still never actually done it before. I think I'm just going to hope that it's not flat in the morning. *sigh*
Also, when I opened my trunk to check the spare, I hit my forehead. So now I have an uncomfortable large sunburn on my shoulder and a bruise on my forehead, gah.
For fic news, it's been a week since I posted Rounded with a Sleep. I'm not precisely displeased on what feedback I got (I appreciate every single comment, and sixteen is pretty good, for one of my fics), but I was hoping more people would read and comment. I suppose the rating and/or the length could have been a bit intimidating, though. *sigh* It's just, I love this fic so much, and I was hoping for a better response.
I like doing ficathons because I typically tend to write well under pressure. If I have a deadline, it's easier for me to sit down and get it done. But given this particular prompt, I think I might still have been able to write it even without the looming deadline.
"The Doctor dealing with Rose being sleepy all the time" is pretty simple, as prompts go. Definitely not as involved as the prompts I gave in my sign-up. XD But it gave me this idea that I loved--how would the Doctor react to the first time Rose fell asleep on the TARDIS, when he was left alone again? I decided he'd need to visit her, make sure she really was still there, and that spawned the idea of more such scenes of him watching her sleep.
Then I wanted to make the fic a progression of their relationship--I knew that I want the last scene to be him falling asleep after they had sex. The entire fic would revolve around Rose sleeping and him needing to watch her sleep because it made him feel relaxed and peaceful, so it seemed the only fitting ending would be him able to sleep as well. I wanted to get him to the point where he could be at peace enough to fall asleep content.
Assignments for this ficathon went out a few weeks before Journey's End, but I decided to wait to write it until I knew what would happen. I thought maybe I could set the last scene post-reunion. Of course, then I saw JE. XD I wasn't sure what my recipient's thoughts on JE were, and frankly I just didn't want to open that pandora's box, so I decided to just keep it pre-Doomsday. The sex could come after The Satan Pit, since I think that if their relationship had changed during S2, that's when it would have happened.
This was my first time writing Nine, which made me a bit nervous, but people have told me I did well on characterization, so that's reassuring. And now maybe I'll finally be able to write more Nine, since I do love him so.
But really, this fic is basically the journey I saw the Doctor taking, throughout S1 and S2. I saw him falling in love with Rose and then growing to accept that love, and everything that went along with it, and I wanted to portray that in my fic. I think I succeeded, which makes me happy, and is the main reason I love this fic so much.
In my first flash of inspiration, I only knew about the first and last scenes (the ones post-The Unquiet Dead and post-The Satan Pit), and didn't know exactly what route I would take to getting the Doctor from his mild panic at being left alone to being able to fall asleep, content with his life. But then everything just sort of poured out of me--I wrote all 11,000 words in three days, which is really damn fast, for me. Sometimes the fic even made its own decisions--the stage the Doctor was in post-The Idiot's Lantern (knowing it was going to happen, and still being afraid but also sort of anticipating) was originally going to be how he was in the post-Girl in the Fireplace section, except he said no, he wasn't there yet. He was still struggling. And I'm glad, because I think it works better this way.
So the fic practically wrote itself, and I am just so satisfied with it. Even if I don't get any more feedback, at least I will still have a fic that I am proud of.
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Date: 2008-08-20 06:49 pm (UTC)As much as I write for myself (therapy whee!) I like being... an entertainer, I suppose. I like people being involved in the worlds I create, or laughing at the jokes I write. There's nothing wrong with wishing for more feedback, really!
And you already know what I think of RWaS (still win XD).