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Diz

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Thursday, April 7, 2005

My very first blog! Try to keep yer excitement under control.

I'm starting this because I have been a lurker here for awhile, and while I enjoy reading posts and everything else here, I just don't have time to post enough to be a regular part of the community. However, I am such a huge Firefly fan that I probably check this site at least once a day, as well as a few others.

What has really drawn me in to posting here is the fan fiction. I have never really been very into fanfic, perhaps because most of the shows I love have several seasons under their belts. Like BUFFY. While I would love it if Joss wrote something else in that 'verse, I just feel no real desire to seek out new stories.

Ah, but Firefly. Not only is it my favorite thing that Joss has done, as well as ranking as my all-time favorite show, there is just so little of it. I started reading fanfic as a way to get more of the characters. And let me tell you, there is some really good stuff out there. The fanfic really fills my need to see the story continued.

I write quite a bit myself. It's what I do in any spare time I have (spare time? What's that? I'm a single mom to a three-year-old, I work full time, and I take classes. Not to mention I'm looking for a house right now, and I'm involved in a big project for my library. Phew!). I have been working on a young adult novel for the last few months. I'm at almost 30,000 words right now, and I've been stuck for about 2 weeks. Get down maybe 200-300 words a day. So I sat down the other day, and as an exercise, decided to try my hand at some Firefly fanfic. And just like that, I had 3500 words. And I had to stop working on it because I had to go to work. That never happens. I think if I had 8 hours, I could write for 8 hours. I'm having a blast with it.

That said, I have a lot to learn. I posted the second part of my story as soon as I finished it, flush with writing fever. Only later did I realize that it was in desperate need of a rewrite, and my grasp of some of the cannon was weaker than I thought. Just watched a couple of episodes, and I am shocked at some of my mistakes. River and Simon don't share a room? Who knew? Uh, probably everyone but me.

In any event, I am also learning to write within someone else's world. A good thing, and it exercises a muscle a writer rarely uses. It's one thing to decide my own characters will do something wacky, I know them inside and out, and I can justify what look to be character aberrations. But I could never have, say, Mal, decide to quit crime and get a desk job. Not that that wouldn't be funny!

Anyway, too much fun is being had. I hope to polish the second part of my story, and keep it nice and cannony. So no more Jayne-being-shy-with-hookers scenes.

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