Another late-comer

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Another late-comer here.

I've done very little writing - a Blake's 7 fanfic many years ago - and I wasn't expecting to be doing any more any time soon. Then the trennels community had a drabble plus ficathon recently, and while thinking about what I might request, should I request anything, I surprised myself, and actually managed to write a drabble and a half. For those who don't know, trennels is for fans of Antonia Forest's books. Forest wrote a series of adventure, school and historical novels, mostly featuring children from the same family.

A few weeks ago, I had one of those "What if?" moments, which took four of the characters from the Forest books (Anne, Ginty, Nicola and Lawrie, on their way back to boarding school by train after the events of Peter's Room, for those who know the Forest books), and put them in Narnia for the events of Prince Caspian, instead of the Pevensies. altariel1 was kind enough to think that this was rather a good idea, so my aim is to write some of the scenes springing from this.

There's no way I'd manage 50,000 words in a month, and I'm aiming for the lower picowrimo target of 500 words, not 5,000, given my average output over the last few years.

I always knew I'd be late starting this, because of planned RL events of the past week, but unplanned ones have taken their toll too. Still, I am determined to do something with this idea this month.

Comments

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Welcome Katlinel. Always good to meet another who is seeking a cure for Putoffititis, and battling the evil powers of the Procrastinator.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm also battling with the "Everything You Write Will Be Rubbish So Why Bother?" demon, since it's words written down that count for nanowrimo and picowrimo.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

At least you don't have to bother too much with the "It's Rubbish Compared With What You've Written Before" demon!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

One of the many things I like about the idea of picowrimo is that it's possible to start nearly a week late, without storing up three weeks of hell, as you try to make up for lost time...

I'm sorry, I'm fairly sure that I never managed to go back and comment to say how much I liked your 'End of Term' fic. But I did! And I'm looking forward to hearing more about how this idea goes. Good luck, and I hope you enjoy working on it.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I may not start today (so far I've washed up, put laundry on, put clean laundry away, have made soup, and sorted myself a picowrimo icon), but this week, there will be words.

I'm glad you liked "Had She But Courage".

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Welcome! Sometimes the plot bunnies need to be petted and played with, so that they will come back and bring their friends, and picowrimo's manageable goals sound like they've been helpful for lots of folks.

(Plot bunnies: the only critter we actually hope will bite us.)


--missiondoll

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's good to have you here, and I'm absolutely delighted that you've been encouraged to write, particularly this fic :-)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I think you're very brave for signing up when you haven't written much before! I've found the challenge is working well at encouragement, so I hope it does so for you too. Surprisingly enough, I don't know the Antonia Forest books, but it sounds like a very plausible crossover, and I'm looking forward to reading the results.

[tawek.livejournal.com]

To Katlinel the Darkeyed, (like the named by the way)

So as well as battling other monster, you're fighting the laundry monster? Me too :)

Good luck with your inner demons. Purge them with an incantation of ... "By the power of a 253 word post that attracts seven replies within a few hours, I do banish thee, Demon of Despair!"

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Like Espresso, I don't know the Forrest books, but that crossover AU sounds brilliant.