ephemera

[rivendellrose]

The office is dead today, and you know what that means... I'm bored, so I'm pestering all of you. :P It also means I've been reading random articles online, and have gotten through the news sites and out into the scary land of MSN Lifestyle (ugh) and, even worse, iVillage. OMG so. frigging. bored. And depressed about my utter lack of dating life, because that's what I get for reading those damned lifestyle sites. Must find ways to meet people. Absolutely must. Otherwise will wither away into Bridget Jones style prose and old-cat-lady-hood much too early. *Headdesk* Still, though... it's remarkably hard to think of places to meet either women who wouldn't freak out if I tried to flirt with them or men who I wouldn't want to smack upside the head. I'm afraid of clubs and bars as meeting venues, largely because... it never seems to work, or I end up with guys who I want very badly to Leave Me Alone. I've heard coffee shops claimed as great places to meet people, but I think Seattleites are too locked into our own little social groups for much of that. And of course there's the added thought that going out to bars/coffee shops/etc = money, and my last credit card bill was... ahem. A bit more than usual. And that wasn't the one with the seaplane ticket. o_O

Moving on from that series of complaints...

So I open my notebook, figuring I can at least make some notes on stories I want to work on when I get home or something... and the first thing that hits me in the face is the 12+ hand-written pages I wrote over my little sailing-vacation... which have been dashed into tiny little pieces by later revelations in canon. The worst of it is, aside from one stupid-big-hurking plot device that I had to use, I really liked that fic. Alas.

Also, there's a big paddle-wheel boat (don't actually know what to call them...) passing through Seattle waters today - she was sighted up in Portage Bay earlier, and about half an hour ago we saw her pass through the channel here at Shilshole. Her name is Empress of the North - apparently she cruises Alaska in the summer, and comes down here for the fall months.

Comments

[oszras.livejournal.com]

My problem is JMS creates these perfect character progressions like Londo and G'Kar, and how in the hell are you supposed to make it better when imho it couldn't be any better? Then the ones he leaves huge holes in I wouldn't want to write anyway. Like Byron. I really disliked Lochley but I wrote in her pov a couple of times to really *get* the character (if that makes any sense? I don't think it did.) and for me it worked I could understand her better even liked her a little. But there is no way in hell I would EVER write in Byron's pov or anything about him. Not unless it was a AU and was in Susans pov were she killed him or something.

Ah, okay. I've never been on a boat my father made me watch Jaws when I was really little, I loved it but there's no way in god's green earth I'm getting on a boat. That movie left me scarred, man.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

He does, certainly - I just like to play in the little bits and pieces he leaves unspoken. Although I'm finding increasing trouble with that as the series goes on... I keep running into spots that I thought were going to be left unspoken and then, whoops! Turns out he's actually stomped all over that. *Growls* I guess I'll just have a lot of AU fics to put up once I'm done with the series.

See, I like Lochley, but I can't imagine a situation where I'd write from her POV. I'm fond of her, but she doesn't interest me in the way a character has to for me to write for them. If someone requested her, I would, but otherwise...

I actually thought of writing something from Byron's POV, just to see if I could make him likeable. But I was half afraid I'd fail, and half afraid I'd succeed and then be stuck feeling a grudging fondness for the bastard, and I'm not sure I'm up to either of those conclusions.

Aww, that's too bad. I grew up on and off boats - my dad and his family do quite a bit on them, whether fishing, motorboats, sailing... It's a bigger thing up here than it is in a lot of place, though, I'd guess. We've kind of got the geography for it. ;)

[oszras.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem, earlier in the series you could play around with the missing moments. Like the Lumati thing with Delenn.

(crap I just remembered I was going to get the names for you. Okay, Correlilmurzon is the Ambassador and Taq is the translator. I got the Abassador's name off imdb.com I had no idea how to spell it.)

Anyway, like the Lumati thing with Delenn or what G'Kar experienced when he went looking for the Shadows at the end of S2. You can really play around with stuff like that and of course the stuff before B5 went online. But I have a hard time coming up with anything during S4. Well that's not entirely true but it's hard to make it fit in between episodes and still stay canon.

I wrote Lochley's pov in a flashback involving Zoe and Lochley's father also I've been playing around with a Lochley piece for months about Lochley's thoughts during the Earth Civil War. Being conflicted between Sheridan, duty and morals it's kinda hard because I side with Sheridan so trying to make her sound creditable without making her a Clark flunky is hard for me. And that is mostly because of the ham handed speech she made to Garibaldi, that pissed me off right there no matter how much of jackass he was being. And the clapping audience killed me. I was like 'hello? you people were on the supposed bad-side?'.

There is that quandary and the fact that I would have to use brain bleach on myself for trying to get into his head.

Yeah, I live in the middle of my state nothing but ponds around here. Now the Gulf is really nice but I don't get down there a lot and I don't get in the water anyway. :D