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    Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
    10:07 pm
    Without doubt I am going to go to hell
    I read this.

    And it made me think two things:

    1. I do get the point of having "If you want to read it, there's a warning associated with this story". Except I also agree much more strongly with this (from livejournal, three years ago) and this from fanfic symposium: warnings are not obligatory.

    2. But given that, as she outlined very clearly, a trigger may be something as unexpected as calculus - ought we all then to warn for every event in the story, since any event may be triggering?

    I don't want to cause anyone unwanted distress.

    But if you read my stories, you should know that I want to harrow up your emotions like a fork in butter frosting: to make you cry, make you laugh, turn you on, startle you like a thin knife that pierces your heart before you know your skin is broken, suck you in as if I were a black hole and you were my light, make you shake, make you shiver, melt your brain, make you keep coming back -

    ...if you want me to do that to you.

    If you don't, you shouldn't read my stories.

    Current Mood: indescribable
    Friday, June 19th, 2009
    8:17 pm
    M*A*S*H: Northern Spies
    Northern Spies

    for Jennifer, who loves apples and Hawkeye

    ( a M*A*S*H slash story )

    ( how do you like these apples? )

    Current Mood: amused
    Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
    12:18 am
    In The Mouth Of The Wolf: Part 4
    (This was the eighth part of "End Game", and then had the Author's Note: "Part 8 (and Part 7) are neither of them from Kimble's point of view. I am sure you would notice and not be confused, but as we're all friends here, I just thought I'd mention it. Part 9 is from Kimble's POV, and I think the story should wrap up inside 3 parts. Sorry to be muddled about this. I'd known these characters were going to show up, I just hadn't realised they'd want their own POV-sections, and am finding myself feeling horridly confused about what this has done to the structure of the story. ("Whee?")" Well, I am no longer horridly confused. Hope that you are not too much so either.)

    If you prefer to read a warning before you read the story, there is a warning associated with this story.

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), The Pieces (seven parts), and End-Game (5 parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.

    ( Part 4: For Freedom, standing by the tree )

    tbc

    ( the warning associated with this story )

    Current Mood: weird
    Friday, May 22nd, 2009
    9:16 am
    Meme, apologies, End Game
    I've been going through a bit of a weird period personally, but I have finished Part 8 of End Game (I think - I need to do the usual re-read / review) and to continue on with Part 9.

    I'm going away next week, Tuesday through to Thursday. I will be taking my laptop with me (probably) but I don't know how much writing I can get done. I will post Part 8 before I go away, and let you know where I am with the rest of the story. I'm sorry this has been dragging on like this - I do know where I'm going, trust me *looks shifty* No, seriously, I know how the story ends, it's just some crap has been coming down this month and it's really interfered with getting into the writing zone.

    THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME


    Current Mood: apologetic
    Sunday, May 10th, 2009
    11:32 pm
    In The Mouth Of The Wolf: Part 2
    (This was the seventh part of "End Game", and then had the Author's Note: "Part 7 (and Part 8, to follow) are neither of them from Kimble's point of view. I am sure you would notice and not be confused, but as we're all friends here, I just thought I'd mention it. I'm still frankly not sure if I can squeeze the rest of the plot into part 9, part 10, or if I need part 11, and how the hell this works out for the structure of the story, but, that's what makes this an adventure, right? ...right?" - Well, I have now found out what it did to the structure of the story.)

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), The Pieces (seven parts), and End-Game (5 parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.

    ( Part 2: As I would free the white almond from the green husk )

    To Part 4

    Current Mood: accomplished
    Friday, May 8th, 2009
    9:27 am
    In The Mouth Of The Wolf: Part 1
    (This was the sixth part of "End Game".)

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), The Pieces (seven parts), and End-Game (5 parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.

    ( Part 1: understand the terrible fascinating power )


    To part 2

    Current Mood: relieved
    Sunday, April 19th, 2009
    12:14 am
    Okay... what happened?
    You ever have one of those "Oh shit... oh wow!" moments?

    I'd been struggling with part 7.

    ...and today it occurred to me that I was trying to tell it from the wrong point of view.

    I have no idea what this will do to the structure of "End Game" or how long it will now make it, but I do know that part 7 and 8 aren't going to be told from Richard's POV, and there will be a part 9.

    ...sorry.

    Current Mood: pleased
    Thursday, April 16th, 2009
    4:02 am
    I don't want to be mean
    ( I don't want to be mean )

    Current Mood: exhausted
    Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
    9:32 am
    End Game: Part 5
    This is the fifth part of the penultimate sequence: it's the End Game. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 are here.)

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), and The Pieces (seven parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.

    ( Part 5: I'm a janitor. I do as I'm told. )

    to In The Mouth of the Wolf

    Current Mood: working
    Friday, April 10th, 2009
    8:05 am
    End Game: Part 4
    This is the fourth part of the final sequence: it's the End Game. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 are here.)

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), and The Pieces (seven parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.


    ( Part 4: Every time I look in the mirror )

    to Part 5

    Happy Easter. *wanly* I have looked my Easter weekend in the face and concluded that it's better not to attempt to post Part 5 and continuing until Easter's done with. It's not all chocolate eggs and joy, you know.

    Current Mood: awake
    Thursday, April 9th, 2009
    7:54 am
    End Game: Part 3
    This is the third part of the final sequence: it's the End Game. Part 1 and Part 2 are here.)

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), and The Pieces (seven parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.


    ( Part 3: I won't surrender. )

    to Part 4

    Current Mood: tired
    Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
    8:28 am
    End Game: Part 2
    This is the second part of the final sequence: it's the End Game. Part 1 is here.)

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), and The Pieces (seven parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.

    ( Part 2: I fought with this man. )

    to Part 3
    Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
    8:32 am
    End Game: Part 1
    This is the first part of the final sequence: it's the End Game.

    The previous stories in this series (my Keptverse) began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), The Players (seven parts), The Gambler (seven parts), and The Pieces (seven parts).

    The story may be regarded as fanfic set in [info]poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here.

    There has been rather a long gap. You may want to go back and re-read.

    ( Part 1: Does it hurt when you breathe? )

    to Part 2

    Current Mood: tired
    3:38 am
    I need to go to sleep
    ...but I was reading [info]metafandom, and a neat post about the reading (and writing) of fanfic entitled but i just wanted a hamburger..., and that post links to Ellen Fremedon's Id Vortex post which in turn links to Mirrormash... on my long-suspended livejournal.

    I asked Ellen twice to update the post with working links: once when she didn't I was asking her to link to GJ, and the second time when she didn't (after GJ had gone) I was asking her to link to JF and IJ. But she seems to prefer (or can't be arsed) to leave her ID Vortex post with non-working links to a suspended journal... and this bugs me whenever I see someone link to it, because unless it occurs to them to click on the odd mess of comments just below the story (a suspended comment from me, a reply from Ellen, two anonymous comments) it looks as if MirrorMash has just disappeared off the Internets.

    I need to go to sleep and forget about it. I have more important things to stress about...

    Current Mood: annoyed
    Sunday, April 5th, 2009
    7:36 pm
    Sod OpenOffice, I need MS Word
    Well, it's taken a month of cautiously using OpenOffice before I found something I really got used to being able to do in MS Word, that OpenOffice just doesn't let me do: search and replace on non-printing characters.

    Which means I'm going back to MS Word. I figured I probably would eventually, but I was interested to find out how long I could use OpenOffice before I really needed a function that I didn't have in OpenOffice: and I really need this function to be able to post Part 1 of "End Game" (without going through a lot of tedious by-hand deletion/replacement, which I'm damned if I do when I know MS Word will let me do it a lot faster).

    Last time I used OpenOffice regularly was back in 2001. Back then, that I remember, the main annoying thing about it was that I would reach for a function I knew was there... and discover it wasn't where I expected it to be because OO structured its shortcuts differently.

    I have finished Part 5 of "End-Game". I think you'll find it... disturbing. *evil grin*

    Current Mood: aggravated
    Monday, March 30th, 2009
    6:00 pm
    Fannish meme time
    Gacked from [info]lexin

    Ask any character I've written for advice, and they will provide it, advice columnist style. Your problems or fictional characters' problems both welcome. Management is not responsible for the results of following said advice.

    Current Mood: amused
    Sunday, March 29th, 2009
    8:41 pm
    I'd just like you all to know
    I finished the third and final draft of Part 4 of "End-Game" today.

    (Seriously. I normally don't count drafts because I'm always revising, but when I end up having to go back to the beginning and start all over again twice, then I think I get to count.)

    So. I swear: obviously I have a nightmare week at work ahead of me and I don't know how much writing I'm going to be able to get done, but I think I ought to be able to get it finished off wrapped up and start posting it by a week today.

    I solemnly swear. A week. I promise.

    Current Mood: chipper
    Sunday, March 15th, 2009
    9:23 pm
    Cagney and Lacey meet Hawkeye and Mulcahy
    I was just working out that in 1982, the year of the first season of Cagney and Lacey, Mulcahy will be 64 - so, presumably, Hawkeye will be 61 (I think I worked out three years difference at one point, though I can't off the top of my head figure out my exact logic).

    Both of them not far off retirement, but not yet retired. They'd probably be an insanely cute couple, officially Not Out but in practice everyone officially/unofficially knows, with the possible/probable exception of Mulcahy's employers - if he's still working as a public school teacher.

    (1982 was also the year the US CDC formally defined and named AIDS, and the first gay men's health organisations were being set up to react to it.)

    Obviously neither one would have committed a crime. But witnesses to one? Or one of them a possible suspect? Actually I can see either one of them getting arrested for non-cooperation, or at least taken to the precinct. Hm. Basically I think I'm seeing them as decoration on a C&L story, which means I need to work out a C&L story. I guess.

    Current Mood: amused
    Saturday, March 14th, 2009
    12:41 pm
    On things I am doing
    1. I printed out "Through the Mirror" and am thinking hard about the wrap up. Really I am. I'm about 3 parts from the end, I just need to get it down, right.

    2. I am working on part 3 of "End-Game". It's a bit of a struggle.

    3. I am reflecting on this awesome grudgewank on OTW's FanLore, and ruefully looking at my own stubby little page. If I got OTW pissed off at me maybe someone would want to document my fannish activities over the past twenty-five years in that much obsessive detail. But would I want them to? Every nasty review I ever wrote! Every mean thing I ever said! Every bad thing I ever did! Oh, and I wrote some stories, too.

    (I am also giggling over the Encyclopedia Dramatica entry on OTW, which is beautiful fannish snark.)

    Current Mood: amused
    Sunday, February 1st, 2009
    3:59 pm
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