Writing

[hmpf]

I'm mostly busy with uni and computer stuff at the moment, but in addition to that I'm on a writing kick:

- The BSG ficlet I accidentally 'finished' a couple of days ago, 'Atlas', is going through some rewriting, with a little help from beccatoria who says, "I agree with your assessment, it's not your best work, but it *is* good, and there are some sparkling moments there." Heh. I happen to agree with her aggreeing with my assessment. ;-)

- I've taken another look at one of the three old Methos fics I'm revising, though that wasn't very successful. Maybe I should just leave them alone, after all? I dunno... I seem to be well and truly stuck.

- I've been working on my two Life On Mars fics, mostly just revising what I already have (two pages of the one, and one page of the other). My recent medical research pretty much killed one of them, so that needed some serious revising; the other was just a bit sketchy and needed some fleshing out. Both has been accomplished to my satisfaction, for the time being.

- I'm five wives away from finishing '68 Wives'! Well, or at least from creating the 'meat' of the story. As usual, I'm a bit hazy on what kind of structure I want to put that meat onto, but that will be easier to decide once I have all the parts and can lay them out in front of me. I'm afraid this will have to be another jigsaw puzzle...

ETA: Heh. It just occurred to me that I could let you guys do some of the thinking about the remaining wives. So: it's Suggest a Wife time! Suggest something interesting, and 'your' wife may well make it into my fic! (Yes, I'm feeling a bit silly today... but, you know, I'm half serious about this...)

Comments

[mmapmaker.livejournal.com]

The always-tired lady who drove the schoolbus for the kiddies in the early 70s. (America, of course; don't know how they got the kids to school in Europe).

Not sure about the 20th century...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I kind of have too many wives for that century already, and also, in my mind Methos was last married in the 1930s (I don't get a 'recently married' vibe off him. *g*)

I really like your idea, though. :-)

Re: Not sure about the 20th century...

[mmapmaker.livejournal.com]

no worries. my thought was of a woman who was forever tired, and wondered what life would be like married to her. In terms of a job, all I could think of was those schoolbus ladies, but I'm sure there are other jobs or times that wear one down.

And she's not nearly as interesting as being part of any royal court by proxy. -g-