Here, then gone again

[amatara]

A short note, to say just two things, really.

#1 We bought the house. Zomg WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE. Well, technically speaking it's not a house yet, it's plans for a house that still needs to be built in a street that isn't there yet, but if all goes well, the actual house should be there by the end of 2011. Which is - still slightly stunning to contemplate. We're getting a house. Wow.

#2 After a lot of stressing out over Europe's airspace closure due to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland erupting and spewing ash all over, it finally seems like we'll be able to leave on our long-anticipated holiday tomorrow! *wipes sweat off face* Destination: South Africa! I'm not taking a computer, so it will be an internet-less holiday. I'm hoping to come back relaxed and with lots of fresh inspiration!

How are you all doing? I'm still pretty much swamped by RL stuff, so have been sucking not only at posting but at reading too. Is there anything big that I missed? 

Comments

[thebunnybag.livejournal.com]

You're going to South Africa I am SO JEALOUS! That is beyond awesome! Can't wait to hear all about it!

[amatara.livejournal.com]

It was awesome! We're back since this week-end, and I'm missing all of it already. An absolutely gorgeous country (if also quite weird, in some ways) so if you ever get the chance to go, don't hesitate!

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the house-buying and your fantastic trip, whoo! I hope you have a great time and get lots of hard-core relaxing in! :)

I've finished up the second Peter David novel and am sad about it! I don't think I like the way he writes Vir, alas. His Londo and G'Kar are just right, but he seems to feel Vir needs "toughening up," whereas I've always liked to believe his tenderness is part of why he survives all the insanity. But I'm glad I'm reading them as they're giving me Interesting Ideas. :)

[amatara.livejournal.com]

The relaxing worked out completely, lol. :) I'd dragged all kinds of stuff with me on the trip (books, games, etc etc) and didn't even unpack most of it - that's a good sign, I daresay!
How have you been? Haven't been reading much on LJ, I'm afraid, and nothing at all during the past few weeks. Have I missed anything?

Hm, I share your unease with the Peter David novels. The way Vir was written wasn't the biggest problem I had with it - though like you, I hated to see sweet, trusting Vir slowly be replaced by someone different. Mostly I disliked how it devolved into Londo-whumping rather quickly (yes Mr Author, I get that the Drakh are EEEVVIL without having to watch them torture poor Londo a dozen times over), plus I thought the under-using of G'Kar was a wasted opportunity. And it won't come as a surprise that I'm verrry Interested in your Interesting Ideas, yes I am!

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally agree that having G'Kar have one conversation with Londo before the end, and hardly appearing at all elsewhere, is such a damn shame! I haven't tackled the third book yet, but I agree Londo is getting whumped pretty severely.

This fic is taking longer to gestate than usual for me--well, wait, that's not true. Usually a story can take six or seven months to a year of thinking and researching for me, but because I write so much of one pairing it rarely feels that long, because I'm putting something out along the same lines somewhere! I'm working on a long Superman/Batman fic that I thought about for two years before starting to write, lol. And probably won't finish for another six or seven months, so...I guess it's not that unusual. I'm anxious to get to work on Londo and G'Kar soon, though...

[amatara.livejournal.com]

Wantss your Londo and G'Kar fic, yesss, precioussss.... *shiny eyes*

Two years for a fic: umm, it may be because I haven't been into it long enough, but that sounds - absolutely daunting. I usually start work on one thing, then go on till I finish it, and if that takes longer than, say, a few seeks, I start to get nervous. That Twin Peaks fic I wrote about in the other post has been gestating for a few months, which is longer than ever happened to me, and I was near despair it might never get finished! :) So - wow, I admire your patience. Do you finish most of what you start, or does part of it die a silent death along the way for whatever reason?

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Well, it's two years not of writing, but of saying "Oh, that's an interesting idea," and putting it into a folder, pulling it out every couple of weeks and glancing at it, bouncing ideas off friends, going and buying a few books on gardening (because the main character spends a lot of time gardening and I know nothing about it), deciding to actually TRY some gardening so I can reference things better, thinking about it some more, etc. :P I'm super-slow about certain things, it seems. Once I actually start writing something, like really typing on it, then it's "just keep going until it's done no matter what" for me. But I do have a tendency to put aside ideas for months or longer and just look at them and think about them a lot, and some do die out before I get to them, sadly. Others end up a lot stronger because I've taken a while to think about them, so it tends to balance out. :)

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