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hobgoblinnI did indeed cut my hair yesterday, donating my 10 inch ponytail to "Locks of Love" and getting a free cut in return, though I didn't know about that part until I tried to pay at the end. I got something called a "bob" and I'm not entirely sure I like it. But I can go back anytime in the next couple of weeks and get it re-cut, so I think I'll live with it another few days, anyway.
And last night I ran across the most Amazing program. I downloaded the 30 day trial and, Dude. This is going to be my birthday present to me. It Really Rocks. Between this new tool, into which I imported the disjointed mess that is "In Loco Parentis," and the fact that LJ was not letting me in all night, I got the first half of Ch 7 banged out. I think lost text will be significantly less a danger with this tool, plus it allows me to look at multiple things at once and start fresh on a new page when I need to. I was doing a lot of the same organizing before, but with multiple open documents. And it has a kind of advanced "Write Room" interface-- a word processor where it's just you and the text, not all the other toys and gadgets on your desktop to distract your attention. Plus a lot of other features I can see definite possibilities for.
One very cool feature I want to use, as soon as I find some good image files, is the Research Section, where you can store notes, photos, even quicktime and audio files. I can stick an image in the right hand side of the viewer and have it up on my screen while I'm writing. There's some screen shots on the link above-- see the creepily atmospheric castle? Anybody who has/ knows where I might lay my hands on suitable files, please let me know.
Finally, with regard to my "Summer of Giles" Poll: Thanks to all who voted and commented. I've said before, crossing the Buffyverse with the Potterverse is fraught with difficulty, not least because the ridiculous aspects of both combine to a kind of critical mass far too quickly. And I don't write shipfic, much less slash. And just about any concept I can come up with intersecting the worlds, I've seen done. So, no. I won't be doing a crossover. I'll rewatch the series over the next few weeks, and I'll start dusting off my 06 Nano novel, probably availing myself of my new noveling tool to get a handle on the material.
And last night I ran across the most Amazing program. I downloaded the 30 day trial and, Dude. This is going to be my birthday present to me. It Really Rocks. Between this new tool, into which I imported the disjointed mess that is "In Loco Parentis," and the fact that LJ was not letting me in all night, I got the first half of Ch 7 banged out. I think lost text will be significantly less a danger with this tool, plus it allows me to look at multiple things at once and start fresh on a new page when I need to. I was doing a lot of the same organizing before, but with multiple open documents. And it has a kind of advanced "Write Room" interface-- a word processor where it's just you and the text, not all the other toys and gadgets on your desktop to distract your attention. Plus a lot of other features I can see definite possibilities for.
One very cool feature I want to use, as soon as I find some good image files, is the Research Section, where you can store notes, photos, even quicktime and audio files. I can stick an image in the right hand side of the viewer and have it up on my screen while I'm writing. There's some screen shots on the link above-- see the creepily atmospheric castle? Anybody who has/ knows where I might lay my hands on suitable files, please let me know.
Finally, with regard to my "Summer of Giles" Poll: Thanks to all who voted and commented. I've said before, crossing the Buffyverse with the Potterverse is fraught with difficulty, not least because the ridiculous aspects of both combine to a kind of critical mass far too quickly. And I don't write shipfic, much less slash. And just about any concept I can come up with intersecting the worlds, I've seen done. So, no. I won't be doing a crossover. I'll rewatch the series over the next few weeks, and I'll start dusting off my 06 Nano novel, probably availing myself of my new noveling tool to get a handle on the material.
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Date: 2008-04-17 11:08 pm (UTC)I've written a couple HP/BtVS crossovers before and I disagree (though I'm also not sure what you mean by "the ridiculous aspects combine to a kind of critical mass," so maybe that's it). I think you have to be careful and account for differences in the universes, of course, particularly re: magic, but IMNSHO the point of crossover is not to make the worlds mesh perfectly - this is usually not possible, though there are exceptions, mostly canons that are purely RL with no supernatural element, like House. For me, rather, the point is to get the two universes in dialogue with each other; if I have to ask my reader to suspend some disbelief in order to achieve then, well, we are all here to read fiction, aren't we? I think that people who read/write crossovers understand that even better than most.
Which is not to say that it isn't fun trying to get the worlds to mesh. I spent a bit of time addressing the issue of magic in both my Remus/Giles fic and my Hermione/Willow fic and I like what I came up with well enough. But that wasn't the point of either of those stories - the point was that I wanted those two characters in a room together so that they could talk and the canons could talk. Sure, there are points of intersection that aren't 100% sensible, but, frankly, who cares?
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Date: 2008-04-17 11:59 pm (UTC)I've grown to love my bob, though when I first got it, I wasn't entirely sure about it either. Four years later, I still have my bob and I really couldn't imagine having my hair any other way! Perhaps it'll grow on you too (especially the fact that it's very low maintenance).
Bobbing away,
qui-quae-quod