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reduced to staring blankly...
I made a mistake last night. One which I'm even now regretting.
Around about 2am, I wrote a short little atmosphericy piece on the Zelbinion.
Round about 3am, while sitting around doing nothing much, I got slammed with a plot. Ideas, situations, people *talking* at me. The fic from hell had arrived.
I typed. And typed. And wrote over 7,000 words before 7am, when I stopped not because I was done, but because I literally couldn't type, my hands were shaking so. (when I have to retyp /quit three times to get it right, it is damned time to go to bed).
But I outlasted everyone in 'cafe, except Pete. I saw Stacy get off work, Ryss go to bed.... I even saw Acey for the first time in months and months.
And I went to bed with the sun shining so brightly I had to pull the covers over my eyes.
Was it worth it? Ask me when it's all over, and the damned thing has been posted.
But I can say this. It reduced my dreams to strangeness, and lousy jokes. "Guess what?" "What?" "Chicken Butt!" being the one that kept going for a while. I think I was asking various Farscape people. And Drea. And Timey. *ponders* It also had the capper, "Guess why?" "Why?" "Chicken thigh!" and on other that I can't recall.
Sigh.
Around about 2am, I wrote a short little atmosphericy piece on the Zelbinion.
Round about 3am, while sitting around doing nothing much, I got slammed with a plot. Ideas, situations, people *talking* at me. The fic from hell had arrived.
I typed. And typed. And wrote over 7,000 words before 7am, when I stopped not because I was done, but because I literally couldn't type, my hands were shaking so. (when I have to retyp /quit three times to get it right, it is damned time to go to bed).
But I outlasted everyone in 'cafe, except Pete. I saw Stacy get off work, Ryss go to bed.... I even saw Acey for the first time in months and months.
And I went to bed with the sun shining so brightly I had to pull the covers over my eyes.
Was it worth it? Ask me when it's all over, and the damned thing has been posted.
But I can say this. It reduced my dreams to strangeness, and lousy jokes. "Guess what?" "What?" "Chicken Butt!" being the one that kept going for a while. I think I was asking various Farscape people. And Drea. And Timey. *ponders* It also had the capper, "Guess why?" "Why?" "Chicken thigh!" and on other that I can't recall.
Sigh.