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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 (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
4:02 am	I don't want to be mean ( I don't want to be mean ) Current Mood: exhausted (6 Comments |Comment on this)
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 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 (4 Comments |Comment on this)
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 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 (6 Comments |Comment on this)
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 poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here. ( Part 3: I won't surrender. ) to Part 4 Current Mood: tired (9 Comments |Comment on this)
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 poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here. ( Part 2: I fought with this man. ) to Part 3 (6 Comments |Comment on this)
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 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 (6 Comments |Comment on this)
3:38 am	I need to go to sleep ...but I was reading 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 (Comment on this)
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 (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 30th, 2009
6:00 pm	Fannish meme time Gacked from 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 (Comment on this)
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 (4 Comments |Comment on this)
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 (Comment on this)
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 (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
3:59 pm	On being told you just said something racist ( Background ) ---- ( Long comment written about the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate 2009 ) ( On wanting evidence of racism ) Other comments made by me in that discussion: ( On what racism means ) ( Following from that, asking if it's productive to engage in labelling ) ( In response to a comment pointing out that some posts/comments have been ill-mannered ) ( In response to a query about how white people should respond to being told they've done something racist ) Current Mood: tired (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
1:09 am	*is sad* In about 6 or 7 hours, the comments I got on "Through the Mirror" and a handful of other stories pubbed on GJ between June 2006 and December 2007 are going to vanish forever. Well, I still have copies of most of them on Gmail, hopefully (where GJ emailed them to me, which it didn't always). I have all my entries - I'd backed them up to IJ and JF ages ago. But comments can't be transferred, only backed up if you can get LJArchive to work (which I can't with GJ) or LJbook (which won't, with GJ, because of its database issues). "Export Journal" won't work except for journal entries, and only on a month by month basis. I'm sorry. I liked your comments. Current Mood: unhappy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 30th, 2009
4:36 pm	Meme time.... Sorry. "End-Game" is not stuck, it's just RL is happening to me quite fast. But plot and stuff is being worked out, and scenes are being written. It might not start to get posted now till Monday next week, but it is still happening like a happening thing. Mean time, meme time! From telesilla: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page. I will not answer questions about "The Games". ...not till it's done. ;-) Current Mood: sheepish (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 26th, 2009
2:05 am	The Pieces: George This is the final part of a 7-part sequence. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6). Oh God. I just finished part 1 of "End Game". Okay. Tuesday for that. *insane giggles* 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), and The Gambler (seven parts). The whole series will terminate with the next sequence, "End Game". Which, at the moment, I know what happens, have the first part written, have a clear idea of where it's going, and need to rough out the arc so I can tell you how many chapters. Yes I do. *more insane giggles* Really, it feels so weird to be almost done. This is 56 000 words of fiction done already, and at least 10 000 words to go... The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here. ( An error of judgement on your part, then? ) The final part of The Games, “End Game”, begins tomorrow... Current Mood: exhausted (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
1:18 pm	The Pieces: Giles This is part 6 of a 7-part sequence. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5). I apologise for the long delay! Part of this was a bit of a discussion I had with Poisontaster (which worked out all right in the end, but we hadn't ever actually talked about my writing FPF in the Keptverse: cleared the air/clarified things, basically, this is definitely not-official not-supported fanfic, but it's cool.) But that was last week. Most of the delay was I've had this hideously awful cold and it's eaten my brain and I was fighting to get part 6 and part 7 written and get at least 300 words into "End Game" before I posted part 6. But I did and I have and here you are. I am so sorry. 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), and The Gambler (seven parts). The whole series will terminate with the next sequence, "End Game", which is being written! Yay. The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. There is a species of cast list here. ( I am retired. I was Ripper. And then I was Giles. And now I'm... someone else I don't even know. ) to Part 7 Current Mood: accomplished (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
12:15 am	*tired yay* I finished writing Part 6, at last, despite many distractions. Also, my ankle is better. Part 6 will be posted when Part 7 is written. And then I finally get to start on "End-Game". *hums merrily* Current Mood: tired (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
12:50 pm	AU Keptverse community - update post Hooray, I've updated the au_keptverse. About the Community The stories so far - a linky post with links. About the AU Keptverse - a meta post. Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)