A Procrastination List

[ithildin]

I'm supposed to call an endontist per my new dentist to see why I've had pain in one tooth for three years. But I just keep looking at the referral note.

I've hit a wall on my fic. I know where it ends up, but can't seem to get there.

My blog continues to languish even though I received a lovely write up as one of the 'Blogosphere's very best of the distaff persuasion'. I just can't seem to write current events 'non fiction' types of things when I'm writing fiction. My brain seems to work on an either or sort of setting .

Can't seem to find a new fandom to rival my old ones. Is it they just don't make shows like they used to, or is it that I'm getting old and am in a rut? Or is it the people? Sometimes I think that may be it. I think enjoyment of a fandom is as much fellow fans that touch you as it is the show itself. I know, I know, when I started we banged rocks together and walked five miles in the snow :)

Don't mind me, I'm just feeling maudlin tonight.

Comments

Walls, and fandoms

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

As you know, I can sympathise on hitting walls - it's my general modus operandi (write a sentence, hit a wall, wait a month, write another sentence, hit another wall, etc.) I have a stop-and-go brain, it seems. *g*

As for fandoms... well, if you want TV, I'd recommend Farscape, Life on Mars, Doctor Who - in exactly that order. Farscape's the show that bowled me over and moved my world, Life on Mars is the recent discovery I'm still quite passionate about, and has a nice, cozy little fandom, and Doctor Who, well, need I explain Doctor Who? ;-)

Re: Walls, and fandoms

[havocthecat]

I adore Farscape, have been getting into Doctor Who recently (I've discovered my husband is a fan from back in the days with the Third Doctor, so he knows all the trivia), and have never heard of Life on Mars. What's that one about?

I've also heard Supernatural is good, and I have a friend coming over the weekend of the Fourth to try to hook me on it.

Re: Walls, and fandoms

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Hehe. A friend of mine is trying to get me hooked on Supernatural, too! The same friend, incidentally, who got me hooked on LoM in March. *g*

Life on Mars is, well, I like to describe it as 'Farscape as a 1970s British cop show'. I.e. there is the fish-out-of-water element (even the opening narration has a certain similarity to FS's!), there is angst and insanity - but the hero, instead of being lost in space, is lost in time. He's a police detective from 2006 Manchester who's suddenly transported back to 1973 where, mystifyingly, he has a job, a flat and an identity. Or perhaps he's just mad. ;-)

Here's the BBC's website for it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lifeonmars/

It's about to come to the U.S., too - in a week or two, I think, to BBC America.

Here's the LJ community for it:

http://community.livejournal.com/lifein1973/

And the main discussion board:

http://domeofstars.com/forum/

At the moment, it's a nice, small fandom, but it's growing. :)

Re: Walls, and fandoms

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Okay, that sounds seriously odd :) I'll have to check my BBCA listings.

Re: Walls, and fandoms

[havocthecat]

Oooh, looks interesting! I'll have to see if I can track it down someplace--since I don't get BBC America, sadly.

Re: Walls, and fandoms

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been peer pressured into watching Supernatural. Just have seen 3 eps so far. I'm liking it better than Veronica Mars, which I was also pressured into watching.

Re: Walls, and fandoms

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I used to be really involved in Who fandom back in the 80s, early 90s, but I'm not much into reading the fic, and not into writing it at all. Farscape, I love the show, dabbled in the fandom. Life on Mars, I've never even heard of that one :) I think some of it is just avoiding getting passionate about anything new in the once bitten, twice shy mode!

Re: Walls, and fandoms

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

And you know what's worse than the wall? The corrider to writing a frickin different story than the one you're currently writing! Argh! That's what happened at some point last night. And if I give in to the impulse, it will be the first purely HL fic I've ever written -- not a xover! It's in the Emily series I've been writing, but since it's like 2065, all the Grey's Anatomy characters are long dead. Not wrting a xover for me is a strange and odd thing :) I've only ever written two non xovers, and those were Forever Knight. Well, maybe more than two if you count the erotica I wrote back in the 90s. Heh. But real stories: 2