February - the shortest month!

[slashweaver]

A short month. That's my excuse. There was only 28 days in it. How much novelising can one do in 28 days...?

Well, OK, there were pressing Real Life matters which meant I didn't progress so much this month. Plus, because I had written the Big Turning Point, I had a brief crisis about What Happens Next. Plus, you know... much Merlin slash.

Current word count: 42616. Not too bad. That's just over 4k words in a month in which I might not have managed anything at all. But - i just have to do this - since September I have written 42616 words of my pro novel, and 89533 words of Merlin slash... I leave you to decide what that says about me!

On the plus side, I did come up with a really compelling idea of what my next pro novel will be about. So that's good - leaving aside certain niceties such as actually getting published, I feel as if I have a future in writing this sort of thing. The movie of this next novel will of course star Colin Morgan in the leading role. (The movie of my Keats novel will star James McAvoy.)

Meanwhile... I have a couple of times mentioned my ideas about how life and death work - how we're all made up of matter and energy, which never ends or disappears but simply transforms into something else. Well, I have come across a delightfully succinct and poetic way of saying this. In his poem Adonais, an elegy for Keats, Shelley said: 'He is a portion of the loveliness which once he made more lovely.'

What he said!

Comments

[babydracky.livejournal.com]

Hey! It's really well done if you're asking me! It really isn't easy to wrok on original stories!
I can't wait to hear more from that^^
Courage!♥

Courage!

[slashweaver.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I will indeed take courage. Your support and encouragement is much appreciated... (And, do you know, that's the first time I realised 'courage' is at the heart of the word 'encouragement'!)

Re: Courage!

[babydracky.livejournal.com]

Hey! I never paid attention... You're right!^^ A beautiful word!
Well... It's not that much... But I do like your writings and yourself ;) so I'll be here to encourage you everytime I can and anytime you need! ;)

Re: Courage!

[slashweaver.livejournal.com]

Awww... I am liking you, too. Muchly! [smiles bashfully, but alas not as sweetly as Merlin]

Colin Morgan in the leading role

[ender24]

how about Colin and james together ;D

//I leave you to decide what that says about me!//
just about as much as it says about the rest of us crazies here ;)
we are hopelessly lost in the pretties, that fandom has to offer, yet we have to make a living, and will survive somehow :D

but really, writing fanfic is already difficult, adding all the difficulties to write original fic...phewwwwwwwww, I am glad, you are secure enough in your feelings, that writing in the that direction and getting published is indeed your calling :)

and I will support you, whatever area you will decide to go anyway :D

hopelessly lost in the pretties...

[slashweaver.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! Your support means the world to me...

Obviously Bradley is too pretty to leave out of anything at all, so I'm sure I can work out where and how to slot him in... Oh, but Colin's just gonna be so magnificent! :-)

[loki-dip.livejournal.com]

Heya, it's Kip from yesterday? Just dropping a note to say I friended you!

[slashweaver.livejournal.com]

Hey there, Kip! It was great to meet you yesterday. And of course any fan of both Merlin and Firefly is absolutely a friend of mine. :-)

[jakujin.livejournal.com]

You go where the inspiration wafts you, I say.
Have to admit, in my earlier stages I feared to do word-counts and deliberately didn't - in case I felt like an underachiever. 'Taint the number, I told myself sternly (though hard for a writer not to want a big count, hard not to count at the end of the day) 'tis the quality of 'em.
Huge frigging word count in toto, if you ask me.

[slashweaver.livejournal.com]

Hey there, sweetness! I do SO owe you an email, but have been Merlinising instead like the obsessive little slash bunny I am... Thanks for the support. I am currently feeling like an underachiever re the novel, as I am already heading into the home stretch, and foresee the whole only being a piddly 60k words or so. Much ado about nothing...? Though as you say the quality is what counts. :-)