Hey, LJ, get your Northern-Hemisphere-normative header out of my face :(

[fahye]

Bought schiarire's Xmas present today, and that means my Xmas shopping is DONE. DONE. DONE. I quite enjoy wandering around the shops amidst the mad crowds, actually, but at least there is nothing else that I absolutely have to buy.

Yuletide is grumbling along at a snail's pace. I have a feeling that there will be a frantic and entirely undignified scramble to finish the thing, this weekend, but at least I don't hate the 4000 words that already exist.

Speaking of procrastination from Yuletide: I HAVE FINISHED ALL THE EPISODES OF FRINGE THAT I HAVE. TRAGEDY. I want many, many icons of Olivia Dunham but that would require deleting ALL of my uploaded (currently inactive) icons, and -- noooo. I am not ready to let go. Even though I can't even use them. They are too beautiful. (SIGH, FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS.)

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[themis.livejournal.com]

I am always astounded by (and envious of) people who write long stories, especially for Yuletide. I mean, my source is a fat Victorian novel and it's still going to be 2000 words at the most.

Last year my gift story was 10,00 words. I'm trying to decide if rereading it should be a reward or a procrastination technique.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I have become basically incapable of writing short stories. My concept is neither very plotty nor very complex, but it just keeps GROWING THINGS.

[inknose.livejournal.com]

haha, northern-hemisphere-normative XD so true. (Plus... it's just FUGLY.)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

It just looks ridiculous from the point of view of an Australian summer.

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now that I think about it the header is pretty damn stupid. (I probably should have thought about that earlier, actually. Self, de-regionalize brain plz.) Maybe they'll run a southern-oriented one next month to make up for it?

4,000 words doesn't sound especially snail-like from here, but then it's always hard to gauge. Do you know how long you intend it to be? /nosy

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I doubt it. I am quite used to getting spring-themed banners in the middle of autumn, and vice versa.

Snail-like in that I can only get a teensy amount done in every sitting, annoyingly. As for final length, um... current estimate says it'll probably end up around the 7000 word mark, but I am notoriously bad at judging final word counts. So much of it depends on what happens during the writing process.

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

Stupid LJ. And most things, really.

7000-ish words? Whew. I get what you mean about how it varies, though; I can never judge at all beyond "it's going to eat my life."

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoo hoo hoo! I shipped your present too so we are rockstars of Yule!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

YES WE ARE

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

....It was Perth, by the way. But you'd be so PERFECT for each other. She has enough of an age difference that you won't think she's vapid every time she opens her face, and you're both into fashion, coffee, and being far more healthy than those of us in the...Northwestern Quadrisphere.

I now feel it a personal shortcoming that I cannot enliven your wassail with more hawt lady doctors from the land where it is now summer and your festive holiday platters will have grill-charred things upon them.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I will endeavour to remember this, if I ever find myself heading to Perth!

It's true, that would indeed enliven my wassail, but I suppose I will content myself with eating way too many chipolatas.