I got dreams so wide like a country mile

Well, I seem to have finally unblocked myself on the Martha fic I've been trying to work on for a while. Which has ended up with it taking a totally different shape from the one I envisaged at first and likely being twice as long. I do seem to find it easy to think about these things while cycling - something to bear in mind for the future.

Why oh why has my happy prompt fic decided that it wants to be written from Owen POV! I don't even like Owen! I obviously have bizarre and perverse plot bunnies.

Have syndicated copperbadge's fic feed at twfic_rss for easy access to recs - I have spent far too much time over the last week reading through things I found in that list, why should I be the only one to suffer :)

Am finding at the moment that things are much easier to start than finish. Also, I need to come up with some way of storing the ideas that are just ideas at the moment where I won't forget about them.

Well, this writing thing is hard than it looks (and I always thought it looked pretty hard anyway). Possibly it's bad for me to read so much writing process meta while writing my first story but I don't seem to be able to stop myself. And anyway, that tends to be my modus operandi. I also find myself wondering what I'll write when I finish this. Some Torchwood maybe? I can't see myself writing Pratchett fic - the source material is too good - and I was never quite engaged enough by the Potter-verse, although some of the AU stuff I've read there is great.

Since finishing the first draft, I have re-drafted the first half to be first person present/retrospective, and taken out the middle short scene which means I can leave the second half in first person present. I'm now at the stage where I re-read it and tweak words and grammar around a lot. I've just been through and marked up the bits where I don't think the tone is quite right and I guess I'll have a look at those tomorrow. I go through phases of being really pleased with it and phases of thinking it's actually pretty terrible and maybe I won't show it to anyone after all but I have made a pact with myself that I will eventually post it no matter what.

Hmmm. I'm not sure if I'm going to be good at this or not. I'm not even sure if I'm ever going to finish this story or not! I still like it while I'm reading it, which is good, but on the other hand, I've been reading a lot of meta stuff about writing (as well as one or two really good stories) the last couple of days and now I can see lots of things I want to change. Hence the will it ever be done bit. Actually, I'm determined that I will publish it eventually, just because I never even thought I would write any fic, but I don't know when it's actually going to happen!