New work in progress, plus life in general

[aadler]

 
My son turns 18 today, which means no more court-ordered child support. I think I’ll celebrate by making the monthly check I send his mother about 60% larger. What the heck, he’s in college now, and it feels different now that I don’t have to do it.

After mulling on it for awhile, today I started on a new fic. This one shouldn’t be too long — it just has that feel to it — and I got 1,300 words done on the first round. Maybe a week, maybe less.

liz_marcs’ recommendation on her LJ got me attention I hadn’t expected (or at least not so quickly), including a few people with whom I had already corresponded in the past, or with whose work I was already familiar. Nice.

The weather is cooling here. I don’t think the temperature broke 85° today. After months of letting my blood thin in the Afghan heat, I have to start planning on how to deal with winter when it arrives.

So, the story I’m on right now; then another one when I finish (that one somewhat longer, between 20,000 and 40,000 words); then — assuming nothing has come up in the meantime — I can consider addressing another story I’ve had in the back of my mind for a few years now.

Anticipation is fun. Doing a story is even more so. Each in its own turn.

Comments

[aadler]

I very much appreciate your appreciation. It feels odd to realize that I wrote “In Ev’ry Angle Greet” over four years ago, but time continues to move and I just have to try to keep up. At the time, “Angle” was probably the closest I had ever come to classic genfic, and absolutely was the first to use the entire Scooby Gang (or a plausible version) all at once, so it’s no surprise that it should be better received by fandom at large than most other things I had done.

As far as taking a deeper look into background characters, yeah, that’s pretty much my trademark. I’ve made a deliberate effort to go light on original characters; even Tana (the ‘Asian Cordette’ in “the Wish”) and Sandy (the luckless young woman killed at the Bronze by VampWillow in “Doppelgängland”) actually come from canon. Everybody has a story; we just have to find the right one and tell it in the right way …

Anyway, thanks again. I’m always happy to be told I accomplished what I set out to do.