Rather a Story

Hi all!

By now you've probably given up on me in despair, which is understandable. I'm still kicking around, though, and starting (slowly) to get back into writing. I've been kind of lazy of late and have been lax in crossposting back here from AO3. I think there are one or two Teen Wolf fics that never made it back here. Whoops!

So, me in a nutshell, and why I haven't been posting to my fandom LJ:

• Summer was incredibly hectic. After the very traumatic death of my cat on a personal level, there was also the shooting of several RCMP officers by an armed gunman in New Brunswick, and I was among those who were flown in from all over Canada to help the local RCMP cope with the tragedy. I spent two weeks working 12-hour night shifts with no breaks.


• I am single again. I won't go into details in a public entry, but as of May of this year I was no longer in a relationship, and as of August I am once again on my own.


• I spent the end of the summer and beginning of fall trying to sell my house while still commuting to my 60-hour/week job in another city, which translates to driving roughly 600km a week.


• The house is now sold (yay!), which means I am in the midst of a flurry of packing and trying to get all my ducks in a row before November 1st.

On more fannish notes:

I am pretty much done with Supernatural. I've taken several steps back from not only the fandom, but the show itself. Maybe especially the show. After last year, it went in a direction that I just couldn't follow. I haven't watched any of the episodes of Season 10, nor do I plan to. I might change my mind and maybe binge-watch them farther down the road, but I doubt it. The show has stopped doing the things I loved about it, and I can't watch it or even think about the current events without feeling a bit upset about it. That tells me that it's time to stop and watch and participate in things I actively enjoy.

I am slowly getting back into writing, as I've said, and as such I will probably be updating my 'verses. No one get excited. It's not a done deal yet, and while I used to be able to pull off thousands of words in a day, that's not the case lately. Writing is a muscle, and mine is severely atrophied. That being said, I still have lots of ideas for almost all my 'verses, and I do want to get back to them.

I'm still being fannish about lots of other shows, though much more casually. I've gotten sucked into Teen Wolf, as you may have noticed, and am currently finishing a Hawkeye-centric story for marvel_bang, which I will be posting on November 11th, along with artwork from the lovely and talented branquignole. I hope I spelled her name right. /o\ I've been watching Person of Interest, which continues to be awesome in spite of last year's horrifically tragic feelsfest. Also Sleepy Hollow, which is utterly delightful, as well as a host of other TV shows that I don't feel quite as strongly about. I love watching TV, but not all shows bring out the giddy fangirl in me. Mostly I flail about the shows I love on Twitter.

In fact, Twitter is my social media of choice these days, mostly because it's very portable and I lead a slightly nomadic lifestyle for now. If you don't follow me there and would like to, I'm @ratherastory, though you should be warned that my tweets are not all fannish. Indeed, I tweet about feminist issues, about a number of things that I guess can be lumped under the "social justice warrior" heading, and about my everyday life. Oh, and I tweet a lot about my pets. I remember a few years ago there was a complaint about how much I tweeted about my pets (specifically my cats), and that hasn't changed. My pets are very photogenic. Luckily, following me is not actually mandatory. :)

In the meantime, I've been mucking around with the notion of participating in NaNoWriMo, which kind of has me excited. The problem is that, unlike those people who have more plots than time rattling around in their heads, I've been devoid of new ideas for quite a while. I'm hoping inspiration will strike in the next two weeks or so, before November 1st rolls around. I would love to finish November on a high, with 50,000 new words of fiction to my name. Now I just have to think of a plot.

Hi fandom!

I'm not dead, just busy, as the subject line says. Girlfriend moved in with her toddler. It's been happy but stressful, with added misadventures just to keep us on our toes!

So, yeah. If I'm not around these days, that's why. RL craziness. Good craziness, but definitely craziness.

Hope everyone's doing okay. I owe a few people emails (especially the ohsam volunteers. Bear with me, they will be forthcoming shortly!

Take care!

I spent my birthday at a new place learning a new(ish) job. I'm on a work trip, in short, and thus am far away from the computer 90% of the time. Thus I am even worse at replying to comments and messages than usual.

So THANK YOU to everyone who sent me well-wishes and virtual prezzies for my birthday! They brightened my morning and made me feel good all day.

I love you all, and now I am going to go lapse into a coma in preparation for another work day tomorrow.

Dear America, way to go! I was up with you until all hours, celebrating your choice. Here's to four more years of progress. ♥


And onto fandom things!



Come play happy winter games, all while hurting Sam!

I know I haven't been writing or posting much. I have been remiss, and I do apologize for that. There are reasons, all of them RL related.

( Issues and mild TMI behind the cut )

Long story short: tired + kind of busy + no focus = no writing

I think the universe makes me want to back off Sam 'n' Dean, because the nagging headache I had yesterday has settled right behind my left eye and is SCREAMING at me.

Fucking migraines.

Serves me right, eh? ;)

Sorry, boys!

I am back from my weekend away. I caught fish! There was much rejoicing. And consuming of said fish. And possibly a little too much alcohol. ;)

Good thing I posted my Big Bang, because there will be no fic for a while. I am working on seventeen gazillion things at once, and trying to get all my challenge fics done.

So far summergen stands at 17,000 words (2,000 more today), and I am PRAYING that it will be finished soon. This thing is getting a little out of hand, by my standards. Remind me never to write crossovers again!

The castielfest fic isn't started yet, but I had an epiphany concerning the subject matter over the weekend, so now I at least know how I want to write it, even if I haven't quite worked out all the intricacies of the plot. Wait, didn't I just swear off crossovers forever? CRAP.

And the only other thing I've got on the go with a deadline is the Dean/Cas Big Bang. I've got just shy of 8,000 words written for that, which is nearly halfway! Although I don't think I'm halfway through the story yet.

In short, the writing is going well, but it's stuff that's all going to post later. I will try to post a few one-shots and maybe comment fics here and there, but I can't guarantee anything.

Now I have to go catch up on comments. Egads.

Damn. I have so very little time these days and there are ALL these Big Bangs I want to read.

Woe!

*goes back to trying to sort out her life*

Firefox tells me I've already used that subject line. God, I suck.

I am behind on answering comments, but I got busy with RL stuff this weekend and wasn't online, and the next few weeks are going to be equally busy. Plus, I was victimized by an exploding Pyrex dish yesterday. I have shrapnel injuries! *shows off band-aid*

*cough*

Okay.

I promise to catch up! Right now I am writing fic. I have TONS of things I need to be writing, and a lot of my prompts involve crossovers of shows I've seen but am not super familiar with. Once I'm further along with my writing, I will start answering comments again.

On that note, can anyone point me in the direction of some good fic communities and/or authors on LJ for the following shows:

1- Lie To Me
2- Burn Notice
3- Leverage (I'm about to start watching, since I've heard good things)
4- Dresden Files (the books, in this case)
5- Castle

Any and all help would be much appreciated.


I am aiming for 1,000 words of fic a day on average this month. So far I'm on track, but it's not an even effort by any stretch of the imagination. What I got written this month was over two days. So starting tonight I'm going to try to be more disciplined about it.