Well, I took your advice and bashed out 2,400+ words like a maniac today without stopping to think or look back or mess with it (haven't read UNIT today either - when you're on a roll, you're on a roll, you know how it is). You're right, I've got to get in the same frame of mind I was in with Battlelines or the Torchwood fic and just keep forging ahead without worrying about the consequences!! ;D
I am going to finish that rewrite of the first chapter and the new inserted chapter 2, because I know what I'm doing with them now, but that's it. Once they're done they're done for the time being and I'm moving on with the rest of it.
I will take some time this week or next to finish the Sherlock fic, because it won't take long. It's not an epic - only another chapter or two to bring it to a conclusion (although that will still make it about two or three times as long as the original Arthur Conan Doyle story it's based on...something wrong there somewhere...). Don't know about the 11 fic. It might end up like singing Sontarans, or I might use it as a distraction if/when I hit the next bump with the Bore.
Other than that and the inevitable Xmas fic (gotta have Xmas fic!),though, I have sworn on the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch not to start any more serious fanfic until I've made serious - SERIOUS - inroads into the remainder of the Bore (I'm aiming for 90,000-100,000 words in the completed first draft, simply because I read somewhere that's a good length for a modern fantasy novel). If I break this vow I'm expecting you to come down on me like the proverbial ton of bricks. If I can presume upon you like that... :)
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Date: 2010-08-30 10:53 pm (UTC)I am going to finish that rewrite of the first chapter and the new inserted chapter 2, because I know what I'm doing with them now, but that's it. Once they're done they're done for the time being and I'm moving on with the rest of it.
I will take some time this week or next to finish the Sherlock fic, because it won't take long. It's not an epic - only another chapter or two to bring it to a conclusion (although that will still make it about two or three times as long as the original Arthur Conan Doyle story it's based on...something wrong there somewhere...). Don't know about the 11 fic. It might end up like singing Sontarans, or I might use it as a distraction if/when I hit the next bump with the Bore.
Other than that and the inevitable Xmas fic (gotta have Xmas fic!),though, I have sworn on the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch not to start any more serious fanfic until I've made serious - SERIOUS - inroads into the remainder of the Bore (I'm aiming for 90,000-100,000 words in the completed first draft, simply because I read somewhere that's a good length for a modern fantasy novel). If I break this vow I'm expecting you to come down on me like the proverbial ton of bricks. If I can presume upon you like that... :)