G.I.P. & update on husband's output!

[curiouswombat]

This post is really just because I have a new wombat icon - and I did him myself - without S2C, leaving him free to get on with his writing. I promise that I will stand over him with a big stick - the spousal unit not the wombat - and also ply him (S2C again, not the wombat!) with (a) coffee and (b) Kit-kats to (a) keep him awake, and (b) keep his blood sugar levels up.

The only none-writing thing I have forced him to do on this, his week off, is demolish a bed! Daughter-dear has had a 'captain's bed' since she was about 7, and it seemed about time that she got a more normal adult type one. Only problem was that the old one wouldn't come out of her room without being taken into about 20 pieces. It is now in the spare room, in the 20 pieces, and so all those of you who are anxiously awaiting more from him will just have to spare him for an hour on Sunday whilst we squeeze all the pieces into the boot of our car and take them to the 'Civic Amenity Site'!

Trouble is he is not getting on with Life in Shadows, but something new - why can't you guys ever finish the last one before you start the next one - just put your plot bunnies into a holding pattern!!

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[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm.... British Kit-Kats.

I'll warn you, if you ever visit the US, don't eat the Kit-Kats. American chocolate sucks boulders through a crazy straw.

The only time I indulge in Kit-Kats any more is either when I'm able to pick some up at the British Pantry (local British goods store) or when I drive three hours up to Vancouver to do some grocery shopping up in Canada (near as I can tell, I was born in the wrong English-speaking country... since I much prefer the food from the UK, Canada, and Australia).

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Hey, you don't have to go three hours up to Vancouver; The Tea Lady at the corner of 5th and Washington in Olympia stocks all sorts of British sweets, and Branson Pickle, salad creme and other mysterious unAmerican foodstuffs.

Julia, about four hours from Vancouver, or eight if my SU's in charge of the driving

[opalescence.livejournal.com]

Trouble is he is not getting on with Life in Shadows, but something new - why can't you guys ever finish the last one before you start the next one - just put your plot bunnies into a holding pattern!!

Bwahahaha!

[claudia-yvr.livejournal.com]

Trouble is he is not getting on with Life in Shadows, but something new - why can't you guys ever finish the last one before you start the next one - just put your plot bunnies into a holding pattern!!

What?! Stop him! I've been eagerly awaiting the next chapter!

::pouts::

Unless he's following another Spara plot bunny.

::perks up::

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

No, I'm working on my stories for the watchersdiaries ficathon, which is rather like the "Tales of the Slayers" books. I'm currently working on a story called "The Cloak of Mist", about a Slayer in the Isle of Man in 1014 AD, and then I'll move on to my second story for the ficathon, "Tokoloshe Man", about a vampire in Zululand in the 1920s. I've been allocated a posting date in the ficathon of February 11th and I want to get them done in plenty of time.

Then it's back to my WIPs, including "Life in Shadow".

[claudia-yvr.livejournal.com]

Hmm, your plot bunnies intrigue me, but...you'll be working on this all month?

::is distressed::

Still, I shouldn't be selfish. You need to follow your muse. Hopefully, you'll post next chapter by the time my birthday rolls around on February 19th. (Why, yes, that's a not-so-subtle hint. Imagine me making pleading puppy dog eyes. Hee, I can be such an outrageous and demanding brat sometimes.)

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Very well, I shall post a chapter of "Life in Shadow" on February 19th, and dedicate it to you. I'm making a promise to a lady.

Said promise is void if Doc stabs me and throws me off a tower, of course.

[claudia-yvr.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're so sweet! I'm not at all worried about Doc coming after you; you are a kzin, after all.

::smooches::

[jerusha]

Stick, coffee and Kit Kats are all much appreciated. And I say you take custody of the plot bunnies, because I really want more "Life in Shadow!" :grin:

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

You keep out of this, Miss Sassy Teapot.

Actually I think "The Cloak of Mist" might well turn out to be the best thing I've ever done; but it is totally devoid of Spike and the only "Tara" in it is the residence of the High King of Ireland, so it won't appeal to all my normal audience.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Actually he could well be right - it is very different, well apart from featuring a Slayer, a Watcher etc., but it is shaping up to be really good.

As long as the mood holds, he should be able to get quite a bit done tomorrow, as Katherine and I are going to my Mum's, the cat will probably spend all day on Katherine's new bed, and there are no desperately needed household tasks to distract him!!

[jerusha]

Well, I'll read anything you write.

And you shouldn't have introduced me to your wife if you wanted me to stay out. I'll do whatever I have to to get more Spara. :)

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

This post is really just because I have a new wombat icon - and I did him myself - without S2C, leaving him free to get on with his writing. I promise that I will stand over him with a big stick - the spousal unit not the wombat - and also ply him (S2C again, not the wombat!) with (a) coffee and (b) Kit-kats to (a) keep him awake, and (b) keep his blood sugar levels up.

Every writer should have such amenities, especially the ones whose WIPs I'm following.

On the other hand: finishing existing stuff is good. Very good.

Julia, not doing anything even remotely useful again

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am doing my best to turn his head round into the weather and aim him at Life in Shadows - I am even buying lots of strawberry jam - the best strawberry jam (to misquote the dormouse)- to help him in his work - and this from someone who can't eat bread and jam!

At current rate of progress the final book of Pandora's Boxer should be finished by the end of the century!

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I'd be much snarkier about this, if it weren't for the facxt that every sentence I've written on the ship fic this week has had something to do with clothing, and very little to do with getting the plot advanced.

Julia, argh

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I often come across the phrase "the ship fic" but I don't know what it means. Somehow I have the mental picture of a romance between the Queen Elizabeth and the USS Nimitz. Or perhaps Titanic/Iceberg.