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out_thereBugger. Just got told that the receptionist is resigning. At least there's two weeks notice, but I'll still miss her. She's the one in the office that I chat to the most.
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In other news, I'm blaming![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thete1 for a new idea for a WW fic. Admittedly, I can't really blame her, but I'll try.
Would you believe I actually dreamt not only about fandom, but about meta conversations last night? I dreamt that I was talking withthete1, for ease of reference she shall now be DreamTe, about pairings and writing. We were talking about how some pairings are canonically dark, or start off being dark, but a good writer should be able to show the light inside each character, to make the reader see them glow. Then, she illustrated her point by writing a Wes/Connor fic as I sat there.
Seriously, I can remember looking over her shoulder as she typed, and I could hear her words as she wrote them, but when I looked at the screen, it just showed Wes and Connor acting out the fic. It was just a conversation and I can't remember it well, except for being very impressed by it.
Then, DreamTe was giving me advice about writing. I told her about a fic that I want to write (Five Things That Never Happened to Sam Seaborn) but was too intimidated to try. She told me to stop trying to plan it out, trying to make it easy and possible, and to just sit down and try it. That it was only by trying to write the impossible that I'd become better, and that even if the fic didn't work, I'd still learn more by trying and failing, than by avoiding it.
*blinks* I'm starting to wonder about my subconscious. I think that most of the things in that dream I could trace back to either fics, LJ comments or conversations I've had over the last week or so, but it all made so much sense at the time.
I mean, that's a fairly detailed dream and I don't think the advice itself is wrong. The intriguing thing is that I hadn't even thought about the Five Things fic, but I woke up at 5am thinking about it (before I crashed again), and now I want to do it.
You know the other interesting thing? DreamTe looks like Jasmine (from Angel), except with an afro about an inch long.
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In other news, I'm blaming
thete1 for a new idea for a WW fic. Admittedly, I can't really blame her, but I'll try.Would you believe I actually dreamt not only about fandom, but about meta conversations last night? I dreamt that I was talking with
thete1, for ease of reference she shall now be DreamTe, about pairings and writing. We were talking about how some pairings are canonically dark, or start off being dark, but a good writer should be able to show the light inside each character, to make the reader see them glow. Then, she illustrated her point by writing a Wes/Connor fic as I sat there.Seriously, I can remember looking over her shoulder as she typed, and I could hear her words as she wrote them, but when I looked at the screen, it just showed Wes and Connor acting out the fic. It was just a conversation and I can't remember it well, except for being very impressed by it.
Then, DreamTe was giving me advice about writing. I told her about a fic that I want to write (Five Things That Never Happened to Sam Seaborn) but was too intimidated to try. She told me to stop trying to plan it out, trying to make it easy and possible, and to just sit down and try it. That it was only by trying to write the impossible that I'd become better, and that even if the fic didn't work, I'd still learn more by trying and failing, than by avoiding it.
*blinks* I'm starting to wonder about my subconscious. I think that most of the things in that dream I could trace back to either fics, LJ comments or conversations I've had over the last week or so, but it all made so much sense at the time.
I mean, that's a fairly detailed dream and I don't think the advice itself is wrong. The intriguing thing is that I hadn't even thought about the Five Things fic, but I woke up at 5am thinking about it (before I crashed again), and now I want to do it.
You know the other interesting thing? DreamTe looks like Jasmine (from Angel), except with an afro about an inch long.
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Date: 2003-07-17 05:33 pm (UTC)Oh, that's so cool! Wes/Connor, hunh? Maybe someday. And yeah, that is totally the advice I'd give you, though I'm betting Dream!Te is way more articulate. ;-)
You know the other interesting thing? DreamTe looks like Jasmine (from Angel), except with an afro about an inch long.
*Bwah* Really, I look *much* more like Queen Latifah. ;-)
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Date: 2003-07-17 05:54 pm (UTC)Yay! *g* I want to see Wes/Connor fic. I've wanted to see it since you did that purple picture of the two of them...
And yeah, that is totally the advice I'd give you, though I'm betting Dream!Te is way more articulate. ;-)
Yeah, that's the odd thing, that it *sounded* like Te advice. I'm guessing it's coming from reading your meta LJ entries...
My mind is an odd place. Makes me wish I remembered more dreams. As it is, it's only the very strange one or the very cool ones (like this) that I remember.
*Bwah* Really, I look *much* more like Queen Latifah. ;-)
My first reaction to that? Mmmm...boobies!
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Date: 2003-07-17 06:21 pm (UTC)Actually, that pic was inspired by a
My first reaction to that? Mmmm...boobies!
Big ones!
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Date: 2003-07-17 06:35 pm (UTC)My first reaction to that? Mmmm...boobies!
Big ones!
*leers*