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Maybe not such a bad idea after all....
Mar. 11th, 2006 12:49 amI've been working insane hours for the past couple months, and this week I've had insomnia on top of that. And yet, this week I've also started writing again. It feels good. It feels like I've reclaimed something important.
I finally managed to start the next Fragments story, which I'd been totally blocked on since finishing "Before the Dawn of Time." It feels like it's really happening this time (there have been multiple false starts which have never made it off my hard drive).
I know I shouldn't post this yet. It's the start of a long story and I'm not 100% sure where it's going. It's 1500 words written in a state of total exhaustion, un-betaed, and I can't guarantee that all the sentences start and end in the same dimension, if you know what I mean. It's not even a chapter—it ends at an okay place, I think, but it's not a chapter ending (the scene continues after what I've written here).
But I have to put it on my LJ anyway, 'cause that's my only way to back it up in case of disastrous computer failure. And, well, I could put it in a private post, but, uh ... man, I've been feeling so cut off from fandom for the past few months. So I justify this to myself, saying: my LJ is like a workshop! It doesn't have to be polished until I post to communities/my web page! ... Speaking of which, anyone willing to beta read future bits?
Anyway, here's the info:
Title: That Good Night
Rating: Who knows? Maybe NC-17, maybe just R. Probably not PG.
Summary: Another addition to the Fragments 'verse; immediate sequel to "Before the Time of Dawn." A year or more post-NFA, Spike and Xander are together and working for the Watchers' Council. Spike is human, and it's causing him some problems.
Warnings: Important! First of all, given my RL situation there's a higher-than-average probability that I'll go weeks and weeks without updating. Also, as I said, this is a first draft. So, if those things turn you off, you should definitely just wait until it's done and on my website; I'll post when that's the case, don't worry! Also: it's going to be dark. Possibly kinda depressing. Definitely angsty, h/c with lots of hurt. Character death will most definitely be threatened, and I'm not prepared to say what comes of it.
ETA: Now I have a beta (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yourlibrarian), so my chances of making this work just went up!
( Part One )
I finally managed to start the next Fragments story, which I'd been totally blocked on since finishing "Before the Dawn of Time." It feels like it's really happening this time (there have been multiple false starts which have never made it off my hard drive).
I know I shouldn't post this yet. It's the start of a long story and I'm not 100% sure where it's going. It's 1500 words written in a state of total exhaustion, un-betaed, and I can't guarantee that all the sentences start and end in the same dimension, if you know what I mean. It's not even a chapter—it ends at an okay place, I think, but it's not a chapter ending (the scene continues after what I've written here).
But I have to put it on my LJ anyway, 'cause that's my only way to back it up in case of disastrous computer failure. And, well, I could put it in a private post, but, uh ... man, I've been feeling so cut off from fandom for the past few months. So I justify this to myself, saying: my LJ is like a workshop! It doesn't have to be polished until I post to communities/my web page! ... Speaking of which, anyone willing to beta read future bits?
Anyway, here's the info:
Title: That Good Night
Rating: Who knows? Maybe NC-17, maybe just R. Probably not PG.
Summary: Another addition to the Fragments 'verse; immediate sequel to "Before the Time of Dawn." A year or more post-NFA, Spike and Xander are together and working for the Watchers' Council. Spike is human, and it's causing him some problems.
Warnings: Important! First of all, given my RL situation there's a higher-than-average probability that I'll go weeks and weeks without updating. Also, as I said, this is a first draft. So, if those things turn you off, you should definitely just wait until it's done and on my website; I'll post when that's the case, don't worry! Also: it's going to be dark. Possibly kinda depressing. Definitely angsty, h/c with lots of hurt. Character death will most definitely be threatened, and I'm not prepared to say what comes of it.
ETA: Now I have a beta (
yourlibrarian), so my chances of making this work just went up!( Part One )
