I Can't Put This Off Much Longer...
Aug. 14th, 2011 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddy_radiatorOkay. Way back in history, about 100 years ago, I started a story called Lay Me Low. It grew, as most monsters do, very quickly and took over everything in its path, including my sanity. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm about 5/6ths of the way through it, and it has been moderately successful.
However, at about the same time,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
droxy won a story from me for TPP's Every Flavour Auction. She gave me a very good prompt, and I started on the story. However, I found that, since I was already hot and heavy into Lay Me Low, the story lines were starting to blur in my head, and I asked Droxy's permission to finish LML before starting on her fic. She graciously accepted.
Oh, and then the Exchange came along, and dark arts drabble contest and birthdays with fics came along and DMuse filled my head with GS100 drabbles that had to be written and Fresme essays which were great fun and ... well, this saga is writing itself, isn't it?
I am still working on LML. It is, and I apologise for stating the obvious, AUGUST. I promised her that fic in January. I am starting to feel 1) unworthy of Droxy and 2) that TPP will ban me forever for welching.
I think I am going to have to buckle down, and get this story done. I feel positively riddled with guilt that I haven't really torn into it yet. It isn't right. Droxy has been too good to me to give her less than my best, most concentrated effort.
I am having a word with DMuse this evening. He and I are going to have a chat about it. Then I'm going to consultstgulik, the beta goddess, who is so good at cutting through my BS and laying it the way it should play. I rattled out two exchange fics in July. I should be able to do this.
And to everyone who has ever asked me to write a fic for them: I will do it. I promise. I will not let you down - it just might take me a year to prove it.
However, at about the same time,
droxy won a story from me for TPP's Every Flavour Auction. She gave me a very good prompt, and I started on the story. However, I found that, since I was already hot and heavy into Lay Me Low, the story lines were starting to blur in my head, and I asked Droxy's permission to finish LML before starting on her fic. She graciously accepted. Oh, and then the Exchange came along, and dark arts drabble contest and birthdays with fics came along and DMuse filled my head with GS100 drabbles that had to be written and Fresme essays which were great fun and ... well, this saga is writing itself, isn't it?
I am still working on LML. It is, and I apologise for stating the obvious, AUGUST. I promised her that fic in January. I am starting to feel 1) unworthy of Droxy and 2) that TPP will ban me forever for welching.
I think I am going to have to buckle down, and get this story done. I feel positively riddled with guilt that I haven't really torn into it yet. It isn't right. Droxy has been too good to me to give her less than my best, most concentrated effort.
I am having a word with DMuse this evening. He and I are going to have a chat about it. Then I'm going to consult
stgulik, the beta goddess, who is so good at cutting through my BS and laying it the way it should play. I rattled out two exchange fics in July. I should be able to do this.And to everyone who has ever asked me to write a fic for them: I will do it. I promise. I will not let you down - it just might take me a year to prove it.
