Mini-updates are in at the moment, or so I hear

This is my last night before I go back to work, and although I really should stay up until 5 in the morning to get into the right sleeping pattern I’m feeling much too tired and I’ll be lucky to make it through another hour. My plan had been to keep writing through the night, but I can’t.

I have done a couple of thousand words on “Angel of the Morning” anyway, and I’ve decided to post them now. I’m not sure about where I’m going to break the chapters up when I put the finished version of the story up on my site; this might be a better place to stop than the last one was; or not. In a way you’re acting as my preview audience. Please let me know if I’ve used any Englishisms.

Part one was Here

Part two was Here

( Angel of the Morning Part Three )

Mini-updates are in at the moment, or so I hear

This is my last night before I go back to work, and although I really should stay up until 5 in the morning to get into the right sleeping pattern I’m feeling much too tired and I’ll be lucky to make it through another hour. My plan had been to keep writing through the night, but I can’t.

I have done a couple of thousand words on “Angel of the Morning” anyway, and I’ve decided to post them now. I’m not sure about where I’m going to break the chapters up when I put the finished version of the story up on my site; this might be a better place to stop than the last one was; or not. In a way you’re acting as my preview audience. Please let me know if I’ve used any Englishisms.

Part one was Here

Part two was Here

( Angel of the Morning Part Three )

Sunnydale Passions

rahirah made a post last night in which she, among other things, commented on her dislike of character-bashing in fics; when one character is made to act like a complete jerk in order to make another seem saintly in comparison. She said:

but there's no reason to make Riley a wife-beater, Giles a drunk, Willow an evil mastermind, Xander a moron, Spike a malicious idiot, Angel a Neanderthal, Buffy a stone bitch who glories in her bitchness, or whatever.

to which I replied

I'm deeply tempted to write a story in which all of the above apply. I'm not sure who I would sanctify by contrast; unless I make the hero the tragic. misunderstood, benevolent Adam.

and she responded

Do it! I triple-dog-dare ya!

So I did. 2,350 words. Rating – PG-13-ish, probably. If I hadn’t done this I still wouldn’t have been able to do a ‘Savage Beauty’ chapter as that requires actual research and plot and stuff, whereas this – well, see for yourselves.

( Sunnydale Passions Episode One: The Fandom Menace )

Continued in Episode Two: Attack of the Crones

Sunnydale Passions

rahirah made a post last night in which she, among other things, commented on her dislike of character-bashing in fics; when one character is made to act like a complete jerk in order to make another seem saintly in comparison. She said:

but there's no reason to make Riley a wife-beater, Giles a drunk, Willow an evil mastermind, Xander a moron, Spike a malicious idiot, Angel a Neanderthal, Buffy a stone bitch who glories in her bitchness, or whatever.

to which I replied

I'm deeply tempted to write a story in which all of the above apply. I'm not sure who I would sanctify by contrast; unless I make the hero the tragic. misunderstood, benevolent Adam.

and she responded

Do it! I triple-dog-dare ya!

So I did. 2,350 words. Rating – PG-13-ish, probably. If I hadn’t done this I still wouldn’t have been able to do a ‘Savage Beauty’ chapter as that requires actual research and plot and stuff, whereas this – well, see for yourselves.

( Sunnydale Passions Episode One: The Fandom Menace )

Continued in Episode Two: Attack of the Crones