Long Week

[amberfocus]

I got some writing done today.  It's been a pretty slow week writing wise but I am halfway through the next chapter of You're What? and I am halfway through the next chapter of Leap of Faith.  I am hopeful YW? will be finished tomorrow, but I am more doubtful on finishing LoF.  I am having an issue with this chapter mostly because of current canon.  Basically episodes 605 and 606 kid of Jossed me.  I've had this storyline planned for over a year and I was very, very unhappy to see it show up in canon at all.  At least when I wrote Wolf Moon and had the whole disjunction thing and the two Doctors from one Doctor thing, it was well before there were even hints of having two Doctors in Journey's End.  In other words, I got mine in first and there was absolutely no hint that I'd be copying (even just a little bit) what had happened on the screen.  But with LoF there is some stuff that was going to be pretty similar and I am trying to figure out a way to make it be far less similar.  Honestly the whole time I was watching those episodes I was basically screaming at the writers to GTFO of my head.  I mean, it's different enough, and totally not lame like the way they did it on the show and the moral implications are not even there, but still.

I should probably just get over it and proceed with my own stuff, but I guess I'm still trying to figure out another way, which really makes it hard to just plow forward.

As for me, I am going to have to have a root canal.  I am less than thrilled with this prospect.  But that tooth that has been bothering me since it had a cavity filled is getting worse.  It only hurts when I chew, but not having use of both sides of my mouth when I eat is exhausting.  If it weren't for that I'd let it go until August some time after my surgery.  But I know I'm not getting proper nutrition because I'm mostly just eating soft stuff and giving up halfway through a meal because it's so tiring.

Rose is having her wisdom teeth out on the 22nd of June and we just got a call that the insurance will cover all but $400, which is great because I thought they were only going to cover half of it.

Both Rose and I have managed to catch a summer cold.  I thought it was allergies at first because the cottonwood is blooming like crazy and so it the Scotch broom, but today we both got dizzy and mild fevers so...crap.  I am going to sleep as much as possible this weekend and  mainline vitamin C.  I had...two weeks, maybe, where I didn't feel yucky.  I am so tired of this.  I want to be well and stay well, please, 'kay, thanks.  At least Tobias has been nothing but well since getting his tonsils out.  One less thing to worry about.

Comments

[londoca.livejournal.com]

Your stories and your Doctor universe is your own. The stories that you write without the restriction of cannon are your best ones. I would just go with the plans you have and watch the 11th Doctor for enjoyment.

Lookin forward to seeing your path for this 9 and Rose

[jellybean728.livejournal.com]

Since I haven't seen the latest Doctor Who I don't know what direction it is that you're concerned about, but I think you should write it like you had planned. Your way will undoubtedly be better planned and plotted, and I don't even know what it is.

So sorry that you're feeling sick again. You guys never seem to catch a break!

[tardisblue.livejournal.com]

Like the above two people, I say you go ahead with what you planned to write. To heck with canon! I'm sure yours will be much more satisfying.

Stinks about the summer colds! Hope both you and Rose are feeling better soon!

[develish1]

as everyone else has said, I think you should just go with your own original ideas and to hell with what SM thinks is now canon.

try to wrestle with a fic in order to make it be something else is invariable a bad idea. It rarely works as well and often will fight you and simply refuse to go where you want it to, and that's never fun. I know, because I've been fighting a fic for months now and am close to dumping the thing completely, because it has a mind of it's own but it's somewhere I don't want to go and never did.

If you still like what you originally planned, do it! I'm certain that even if it is similar, yours will be far better written than the stuff SM and his team are churning out these days

as for being ill again? *hugs*

[aj.livejournal.com]

You probably already know this and followed up on it, but I figured I'd duck in and ask if you'd checked with your medical insurance to see if sending her to an oral surgeon would be a good option? If her teeth are impacted AT ALL, the surgery should be free. I actually saved my parents a lot of $ when I flipped out in the dental chair before they were supposed to pull mine and demanded to be unconscious. It's the only dental procedure covered by most medical insurances.

But you probably checked that out already and I'll just duck back into lurker obscurity! One way or another, I hope her surgery goes easily and as painlessly as possible!