The Crossover Begins
Aug. 10th, 2009 12:56 amWent to the movies late tonight, and managed to consume about a liter of Cherry Coke and a handful of Dots while watching Julie & Julia for a movie review I need to finish.
So, liter of caffeine later, here I sit, looking at Google Maps and pictures of prison buses.
Seriously, movie theaters could charge less for their soda and offer it in smaller containers. Why do their 'small, medium and large' actually resemble 'large, larger, and here--just stick your head under the spigot?'
This weekend has been a busy one, but I think![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amberdark and I finally got a good, healthy start on our collab fic. I can't say as I've ever done a collab fic before of the size this one promises to become, and it'll be the first one where my collaborator is working on it simultaneously, rather than each doing a portion that mirrors the other, from a different character's perspective.
Woo, long sentence.
Working on several road blocks right now, some of them literally involving stretches of California Highway. This is the part I both love and loathe of writing any detailed piece of fiction - linking the pieces of the puzzle. Trying to understand what the writers had in mind, where they were going to go, how they planned to pull something off. I always seem to bite off more than I can chew when I first write fic for a fandom where I'm going to end up as a 'lifer,' and the reason for this seems to be some sort of subconscious excuse to obsess over character details, timelines and maps; to pore over websites that probably, probably, six people have looked at in as many months.
Remember, photos of prison buses.
The only people who have these kinds of photos on their websites are people who make and sell them, and people who - for some inexplicable reason - have one. Neither is probably going to generate much traffic online.
This feels a bit like research I've done in the past for police-issue firearms: vaguely uncomfortable. Like somewhere a red light is strobing over a government computer because I googled 'prison buses,' and 'Lompoc prisoner transporation.' Really, it is just for a fic!
We'll see how it continues to go. I'm really glad I finished that video and got it out of my system. That two and a half minute flick was bugging me ridiculously while it was waiting to be finished. Now I can focus on other things!
Hopefully other things that involve far less Han.
Fic status, meanwhile: still in the outline stages.
So, liter of caffeine later, here I sit, looking at Google Maps and pictures of prison buses.
Seriously, movie theaters could charge less for their soda and offer it in smaller containers. Why do their 'small, medium and large' actually resemble 'large, larger, and here--just stick your head under the spigot?'
This weekend has been a busy one, but I think
amberdark and I finally got a good, healthy start on our collab fic. I can't say as I've ever done a collab fic before of the size this one promises to become, and it'll be the first one where my collaborator is working on it simultaneously, rather than each doing a portion that mirrors the other, from a different character's perspective.Woo, long sentence.
Working on several road blocks right now, some of them literally involving stretches of California Highway. This is the part I both love and loathe of writing any detailed piece of fiction - linking the pieces of the puzzle. Trying to understand what the writers had in mind, where they were going to go, how they planned to pull something off. I always seem to bite off more than I can chew when I first write fic for a fandom where I'm going to end up as a 'lifer,' and the reason for this seems to be some sort of subconscious excuse to obsess over character details, timelines and maps; to pore over websites that probably, probably, six people have looked at in as many months.
Remember, photos of prison buses.
The only people who have these kinds of photos on their websites are people who make and sell them, and people who - for some inexplicable reason - have one. Neither is probably going to generate much traffic online.
This feels a bit like research I've done in the past for police-issue firearms: vaguely uncomfortable. Like somewhere a red light is strobing over a government computer because I googled 'prison buses,' and 'Lompoc prisoner transporation.' Really, it is just for a fic!
We'll see how it continues to go. I'm really glad I finished that video and got it out of my system. That two and a half minute flick was bugging me ridiculously while it was waiting to be finished. Now I can focus on other things!
Hopefully other things that involve far less Han.
Fic status, meanwhile: still in the outline stages.
