There was a meme a while back about "personal writing rules"; this is sort of a variation on that; not so much writing rules but some of my personal axioms and rules-of-thumb for writing fan fiction in particular.
( here be somewhat organized thoughts )

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Okay, I've signed up for remixthedrabble as both a remixee and a remixer. This is the first time I've signed up as a remixer; I'm hoping it won't be too hard. Part of my motivation is that it's supposed to be short, another is that I just realized that, while I've been working on various stories this year, I haven't actually finished anything since the drabbles I did for tthdrabbles in March. Rather than feeling guilty about that, I thought it would be nice to do a little ficathon as a sort of inspiration-break. Plus, a remix doesn't require plotting, since the plot is there already. Plus, having to enforce a maximum length is an interesting discipline.

Another thing I did today was put up a number of stories on my page on fanfiction.net; I decided I might as well put all my stories up there anyway, to make them easier to find. I may find I run out of energy before I manage it, but at least I made a start.

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I got some more writing done yesterday!
Old Word Count: 5623
New Word Count: 5831
New Words: 208

Also, ice cream experiments from last week. I've had a lot of apples to use up (because they keep well, they get eaten last) so here are some more ventures with stewed apples.
( If the world were made of apple pie... )

Old wordcount: 5377
New wordcount: 5623
New words: 246

Though half those words were suggested by JB in our last brainstorming session. Still, they are now Proper Words rather than Notes.

I had two passionfruit (passionfruits?) as part of my dinner. Passionfruit is (are?) one of those kind of fruit (my grammar is confused) - I like them best fresh, by themselves without anything else. Passionfruit sprinkled on other things (such as pavlova or fruit salad) leaves me completely unmoved, and as for passionfruit flavour - bah! So I kind of surprised myself by actually enjoying the by-themself fruit, freshly chopped open and digging out the insides with a spoon.

I'm kind of like that with mango too; mango-flavoured things leave me unmoved, but the whole eating fresh mango experience is YUM. And the only reason I haven't made any mango sorbet yet is because my fresh-fruit-and-veg mixed-box delivery hasn't delivered me any mangos yet. Hmmm. Surely I have them listed as a fruit I like? Maybe they're too expensive to be included. After all, this isn't Queensland.

I have a couple more ice cream experiments to post, but I get the impression you're all bored with them. Problem is, I still want to post them so that I have them all in one place (under the "ice cream experiment" tag)
( here, have a poll )

Things come and things go. I have decided to release my crossovers100 claim, because it wasn't really helping me write more fic, and I was just feeling guilty about it. Whew! It will take a little while for it to sink in, I think; I'm too used to it being a weight on my back.

In other news, as expected, the finish-a-thon results declare that I am to spend the next two months writing my Donna fix-it story. Ah, well, it should be a challenge...

Here's what I'm working on, stuck on, wanting to polish, guilty about not working on.
( wat i ar ryting )

Yo! I need a beta for my Multiverse story. Anyone interested? Yes, yes, I'm finishing it far too early, but I promised myself that if I finished it before the sign-ups for dw_cross closed, then I could sign up for that. So I've been working hard on it, though it's barely over the 1000 word requirement. And I don't like it, and I don't have a title either. Doctor Who/HHGG. I need some Britpicking too. Help?

Stolen from rj_anderson:

Part 1: Quote a bit of my fic at me? Find that one fic of mine that you really like, and find a sentence or a paragraph that presses your prose-buttons in the right way, and comment here with it? Don't care how long or short.

Part 2: If you're a writer, quote a bit of YOUR best writing at me. Find a sentence or paragraph you're particularly proud of, and comment here with it.

I kept on putting off watching it today, because I was trying to use it as a bribe for myself, to do chores and writing. Well, I did write a paragraph or two of my Multiverse story, but at this point I feel like ripping it up, because someone else has already written a story (which I read recently) which crosses these two particular universes, and they did it so brilliantly that anything I do will be crap in comparison. This year's multiverse there's only one of the three I can do at all, because I haven't seen the shows for the other choices.

Anyway, on to Doctor Who squee!
( here be spoilers )
Overall, a very promising start. RTD was writing to his strengths this time, that is, the characterisation was good, and the plot wasn't too handwavy.

I have been working on making a proper (albeit not long, 1700 words) story from those Buffy/Doctor Who drabbles I posted earlier. I need a beta-reader. Any takers? The only characters in the story are Buffy and the Tenth Doctor, so I'd prefer someone who is familiar with both. advTHANKSance