Michelle's Journal

I've been clearing out my "drafts" folder today, and wanted to get rid of a few things. These are starts of fics that I know I'll never finish, and so fic amnesty time! They're all Doctor/Rose. (As if I've written anything else in the last couple of years.) Nothing over a PG rating.

( The start of a 'Rose meets Jenny' fic. (Written before Journey's End aired.) )


( The start of a 'Nine drops in on Ten and Rose' fic. )


( The start of a 'the Doctor broods about Rose at Martha's engagement party' fic. (Written pre-JE.) )


( The start of some crack about the Doctor and Rose's bet from Tooth & Claw )

It's official (or so the saying goes) - I am currently empty of words. Words that will produce any sort of fiction, that is.

And I still need someone to write a plot for my Signing Up sequel. Hmph.

So what mythical monster hasn't the Doctor encountered over the years? (I guess I mean ones we're familiar with nowadays like the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster. There are probably a billion that no one's ever heard of.)

*sighs* I'm still trying to come up with a plot for a fic I've been trying to write. A sequel to my "Signing Up" fic. I feel like I need slightly more than "and they landed on a planet and spent the next 5 hours romping in a field of flowers with a pink unicorn named George. The End."

What did I do today? I wrote a Ten II/Rose and Eleven/Rose fic. Eleven. ELEVEN.

And it's not fluff. And it's 4000 words. And I wrote from beginning to end. And it's complete.

WHISKEY. TANGO. FOXTROT.

goldy_dollar did this (and has about 500 fics for 2008), and I got curious about what I've done this year.

( 2008: A Year of Fic Review )

So a Briton, a Canadian and an American walk into a fic...

[Poll #1319167]

ETA: Whoops. Typo in the poll. And this is why LJ polls suck just a bit.

What I've learned so far in writing with goldy_dollar and shinyopals:

• I've learned that Opal is the organized one, with plotting, lists, tags and so on. Which is good. Frances and I, on the other hand, like to write scenes and hope something comes together. It could happen!
  
  
• I've learned that deciding to do hurt/comfort is easy until you get to the hurt part. Much trauma in having to hurt a character! *covers eyes*
  
  
• And related - none of us know squat about injuries, and so it's even harder to hurt a character. "What would require surgery?" "A hangnail?" "I think...yes."
  
  
• And I've learned that if you want to write a Christmas fic, you should probably start in September.

Question: What time of the day does the Queen usually air her Christmas speech?

Related - everyone should have a shinyopals when writing fic. She is just so organized! There are tags! And lists! I think my favorite note is:

Scene 8:
...the nature of which we haven't decided on because none of us seem to know anything about [this].

MWAH!

ETA: Oh hell. Most British types are probably in bed by now, aren't they?

My problem in writing right now is that I'm just writing the fun fluffy scenes. About 11,000 words of it so far. Plot? Pffft. It'll probably wind up being 500 words long. :D

( You ever write one of those scenes that go on way too long? )

Does anyone know of a good online word processor? Google Docs is good, but only up to a point. Once you get over a certain size it starts grinding to a halt. You type a character, it instantly goes into autosave where you have to wait, type another character, wait again... I had this problem before when the document got to be more than 8000 words. What I'm looking for:

• Something where you don't have to download anything, or have to save anything (even the document) on your computer.
  
  
• Something that doesn't try to autosave the doc with every new word. Google Docs' big thing is that multiple people could all edit a document at the same time, which is why it wants to autosave ALL THE TIME. Unfortunately, you can't turn it off.
  
  
• Something where you can type in plain text. I mean, real plain text. No weird double/single/1.5 line spacing either. I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WHEN I HARD RETURN. I SWEAR. *curses the day rich text was invented as it is a plague on humanity*

Also, I'm grumpy with myself. Instead of writing new parts, I seem to be stuck in editing existing parts. But I guess that's better than nothing, eh?