Thrihyrne

Woo hoo!!!


If you're at all Roncentric and would like to participate in a non-exchange, non-holiday-themed and multi-genre extravaganza, hie thee hence to go and claim a prompt. This was the comm I founded with the support and assistance of several other Ron lovers a couple of years ago and with my blessing it's been revived/renewed/re-energized. Go and show your Ron love!

So in my current active writing notebook, starting at the front is my weasley_fest fic. I don't want it to be long, I really don't. But I think if the two characters in question simply get together, it's not as interesting as it could be. So still a ways to go with it. Starting at the back of the notebook was my most recent Slave Breakers story, and then the genfic Gimli story. I've decided that the Beornings must have taken a toll in silver or some other useful metal. I had to rewrite a whole section when I realized the Carrock wasn't directly above the Ford of Carrock, as in, not leading directly to it. While initially jazzed with this story, now I'm wondering why I picked this particular moment of Gimli and Glóin's journey to Rivendell. Am leaving it alone for inspiration to come along. In the middle of the notebook I've started another Slave Breakers story; that's the one that I've been envisioning in my mind's eye for a few days and is quite contentedly and at great speed writing itself. PWP with characterization exploration in that realm is just so much fun. Plus the visual in my mind's eye of Andrei/Lee/Bran was simply too exquisite not to write. Hee.

There were the M+M edits yesterday, thanks to Oshun's and my talk on Friday. And I'm about to go through withdrawal as I'm down to the final of the three Lord John novellas, the last book on tape to do with him that my library has. In looking at Ms. Gabaldon's Lord John series, I'm thrilled to see there's another one forthcoming; damn, is she prolific. I would jump at writing Lord John fanfic, but they're nearly all mysteries of sorts and/or to do with military life and that's not my strong suit. Not only that, but for it to be canonical, it would take quite a while for him to get together with anyone, England in the mid-1700s not exactly being queer friendly. The everyday vocabulary of a lord in that time period, especially to do with clothes, transportation and genteel conversation would also be a bit of a trial, at least at first. I've noticed some of it slipping into my current fics, but not specific words like swive, weskit or sodomitical society. :P

Mulling around in my head is what to write for Ardor in August. I checked out both Morgoth's Ring and The Children of Húrin to glean further first age knowledge. The concept and characters are coming to me for this particular story, but I haven't started writing. I'd really like to at least finish this Slave Breakers threesome (which is, surprisingly, turning into an illuminating look into Bran's thoughts on life post-freedom) and the Gimlific so I can focus on weasley_fest. Oh, and incorporate Oshun's edits. She's going to break me of my encourage me to use semicolons with less frequency. I knew I lean on them a lot. Soon I'll know just how much!

Hope you all have had a pleasing weekend!

‡ I went to a wedding in Blacksburg on Saturday, accompanying a friend to his niece's nuptials in a chapel on the Virginia Tech campus. It was, by far, the fastest wedding ceremony I've ever attended. Twelve minutes, tops, from seating of the mothers to the b&g leaving the chapel. I was rather stunned. My friend helped me subversively to collect two male rubber duck groom toys that were included in a few goodie bags for the children there. They were, of course, originally a duck groom and duck bride, but I had Grand Plans for these, and as I think you all know, I'm just not the most heteronormative person out there. The night at the hotel was fine, though I'd had high hopes for a really sound sleep. Why I thought I'd sleep better solo in a hotel bed versus solo in mine I'm not sure. I enjoyed my friend's company, and it wasn't a bad thing to get out of town, even for 24 hours.

‡ When the call went out for people to help out for 4-hour shifts at work over the weekend, I volunteered. If I'm going to spend time online anyway, why not get paid time and a half to do so? I did from 1-5 today. I did have a few calls to answer, but mostly I got caught up on LJ, and typed up fic.

‡ My ginger_lust fic is turning out so completely differently from how I envisioned it. I'd originally envisioned this bleak landscape for Ron and a heartless, manipulative other character (keeping it secret for now). While there is some chemically-induced mindfuck, as I'd planned as part of the plot device, there's humor sprouting up. The way these two have been communicating is, well, just not what I'd expected. Does this happen to other writers, that your characters take over? I think these two may have rather a torrid, albeit dysfunctional time, and I'm no longer certain about the ending. Weird. Also, I'm simply so pleased with the community as a whole. The mods and I will be recc'ing fics between now and January when the fics will be posted, hopefully including older fics that may be new to some, and some writers who don't perhaps get the acknowledgment that they should. I'll never, ever tire of explorations of Ron as a character.

‡ My bestmates_xmas fic has also been started, and I'm shocked to discover that it's going to be both cracktastic, and verging on fluffy. I just don't do that, but, well, I don't know. Perhaps it's more bizarrely romantic than some I've written, or there's simply minimal angst. Go figure.

‡ I'm still in love with Crown of Rope. I may well write a missing scene or two in that universe between now and January.

♥ to you all! Another Sunday night, another looming workweek...