it's that time of year again . . . .

[swan_tower]

. . . the time of year when I am the laziest laze-about to ever laze.

Seriously. Late January, early February? It's all I can do to pause the Buffy DVDs long enough to go feed myself so I don't die of starvation. I had things I was going to do tonight. I have things I'm going to do tonight.

. . . right?

Maybe if I watch all the rest of Season 7 really fast, then the lack of additional Buffy to watch will compel me to be productive.

Maybe.

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[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

"Maybe if I watch all the rest of Season 7 really fast, then the lack of additional Buffy to watch will compel me to be productive."

My friend, that way lies fanfic ....

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I've never really been the fanfic type, though. Closest I ever really came was my characters in somebody else's setting, doing their own thing.

Of course, the YA I'm trying to finish right now owes more than a little to Buffy in its inspiration. Maybe if I think of it that way, I'll be more energetic about working on it?

I should never try to novel at this time of year.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

This is one of the key differences between the natural writer and the natural reader: I was thinking back to my own initial Buffy obsession, and the loads and loads of badfic that I dug through in order to find the *good* stories that captured the spirit of the thing. Never even occurred to me to try writing it myself ...

.... and now I'm that much more eager to read your YA piece. Has it scheduled its coming out party yet?

P.S. - Also, I'm not making a mental catalogue of texts inspired by Buffy: many lump early LKH in there, I believe that Robin McKinley's admitted to it having played a part in the writing of _Sunshine_ ... oh, there will be papers written, oh, yes, precious.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

The few fics I've read and enjoyed tended to be for a fandom I didn't belong to, I think because then I don't compare them to the original (and find them lacking).

As for the YA, its coming out party will have to wait upon its completion, revision, submission, and sale. Unless by "coming out" you mean going to editors, in which case the list is slightly shorter, but still about two months long.

If'n when you write such papers, I'd be more than happy to talk about what I mean and don't mean when I say this was inspired by Buffy.