Hospitals are good for Writing

[primsong]

Hugs and thank yous to all who expressed their support - my hubby is safely home now and recuperating nicely on the recliner with his laptop and blankets, so far so good. Nice to have him home and looking much better. Now we just have to convince the cat to not knead any sore spots.

One nice bonus that came out of all that hanging around the hospital twiddling my thumbs was getting my calufrax recommendations for next week pretty much written out, which had been threatening to become something I was going to regret signing up for because I was wondering when I would have a chance to do them - now I get to look forward to next week happily instead as they are nearly ready to roll. All I have to do is hope whomever is doing this week doesn't snag any of 'mine'. Going to doublecheck that, I THEN found out one of my own stories was rec'd there this past week, the TARDIS-centric Knowing Her Place, which is enough happy-writer-review-rocket-juice to keep me floating for some time. ^_^ With little starbursts and rainbows!

Spent the evening writing a Three-n-Jo adventure thing, but I don't really know why... now it's a four-page fragment with no story to go with it, so one more thing on the back burner. But darnit, it was fun. I guess that's why! Maybe I can park it inside one of my other WIPs. Sorry I missed this fic_rush, I hope everyone had a good time.

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[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Next week?! *goes to put Calufrax back on watch*

Fic_Rush was fun... a bit quiet, but I actually finished a story for the MFU remix challenge - well, mostly finished, it seems RL has swallowed up my beta reader - and had a long conversation with Beth about characterization for that MacGyver/MFU crossover she requested a few months back.

(On a loosely related tangent: I've been meaning to ask you how the heck you come up with your alien species designs. They're all so amazingly original. Gurgifrens, star-puppies, fractal clouds... whereas I have two separate Three stories, including one you requested, stalled for lack of necessary alien creatures.

Or is that one of those questions like "How do you do crossovers anyway?" Which I don't, really; they just come to me.)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Nope, they don't just come to me - would be nice if they would! I usually cook them up by starting with something that is a part of this world and then running it through some kind of morph/mix. The leaf-and-bark people for One came from contemplating what leaves would be like if they were sentient, the fractal cloud from a combination of the tail of a comet with the natural design of ferns, the star-puppy from mixing a pet with a christmas ornament.

The idea is to produce something that is enough "earthlike" to be recognizable and natural without it being quite of Earth. Choose a 'base design' from nature and try crossing it over with something else organic then running it over a fun-house mirror and see what you get. Then winnow out the strongest from the lot.

Who knows what will spark something though - A couple of them have come from doodles on my notebook (the little goat-child of Sweetest was one of those) or even from an icon (The tall alien that makes a cameo in Blue Moon to goggle at Ian and Barbara was from an amusing smilie I came across).

Good luck!

[shirebound]

Great news about your husband's recovery! :)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

Good news all round, then!

Good luck with calufrax! I've loved doing it. I've got a new list & mean to volunteer again. That's how much I liked it... Can't wait to see what your choices are - its' always fascinating, even if I don't necessarily go off and read them all, like a good person would.

:-)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

The problem I keep running into is having nearly all of my faves already done by someone else - last night one of those I'd picked was snagged, in fact, so I have to start over on that one. I hadn't really realized how many recs there already are over there until I started crossing them off.

And yes! I love seeing what catches someone else's eye as well, even if I don't read all of them either.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

'having nearly all of my faves already done by someone else'

Heh... yeah, when I was reccing, I had five new authors - two of whom were so good I'd made them get Teaspoon accounts so I could rec them - then to fill out the list I picked my two favorite authors (you and Rutsky) and just went through the tags till I found stories that hadn't been recced yet. Took a while.

I really wanted to do The Shining Furrow, but I just can't get the sheer awesomeness of it into English words. Maybe if I spoke the language Tom Bombadil sings in, "an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight". :D

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I have a couple that are just light little snippets but they're such fun they deserve more readers, and I was also thinking along the lines of looking for people who have never had a rec before, mixed with a couple old favorites.

Thank you so much for your even considering Furrow, it's still one of my own favorites and I'm always extra pleased to share it with others, hey a-dillo, sing hey!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, yes, it's so funny how often someone in the week before nicks one of your carefully-planned recs, especially when it's not new or anything. ;-)

[stellastars]

Glad to hear your husband is home, safe and sound, and recovering well!

I look forward to seeing the fics you select next week!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your well wishes - the familiarity of home is a good thing all around. :-)

[livii.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear the husband is doing well!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Thank you, ((((livii))))

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

Oops, arrggh, I forgot to comment on your husband, I think... so good news to hear that he's home safe!

Good thing that you were able to get something done while hanging around the hospital. Mom couldn't even sleep during her recent hospital stay, and it certainly didn't help that someone on-staff was crazy enough to go around singing at night until security had to be called. *snort*

I saw some beautiful irises blooming in the last week and thought of you, knowing you'd enjoy seeing them. They were purple, with fuzzy pollen-dispensing strips of blue and yellow, with some very pretty purple and white patterns deeper in. (Unfortunately, their life span has pretty much ended, aw.)

[estellye.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it went well! Kitties are usually very good nurses but leaping and kneading can be a problem, lol.

Also, some excellent writing time! Wonderful! I am working on my post for Throw the Bottle, and I keep contemplating it in my head as a Rose/Tennant fic. I've decided I should just write it so it will be out of my head and I can do the other.