it's full of neat words to learn and say, like wilt and henceforth ...

This managing of multiple fics thing is *hard*. I'm writing and that's good, at the very least, if not great because they look like words that I'll keep.

That infamous "shape" that tkp and I have been discussing is starting to coalesce right before my eyes. What a wonderful thing. The key was Maayan. I've been re-reading Red Shift to help me envision fic as epic and it's working. Although I always remember how much I adore her fic, I always forget how much I adore her fic. Until I re-read and am swept up and away all over again. Her John was the most real to me.

Anyway, Red Shift has helped me to find an entry point into Someday and it's helped me to re-format my style for a longer piece.

Last night, I also started reading Caitlin Kiernan's Daughter of Hounds and I am floored, as ever.

It's all helping me to modulate my voice towards what I want to do with Someday. Problem now? Now, I've got more ideas on how to tighten up the still unnamed Angel post-NFA Hell piece. I'm focusing it down and that's what I want but I don't want it Right Now because I'm writing Someday.

As a bonus yesterday I got an idea for a post-Bring On the Night that I would call Girl World. Dawn again, maybe. The final part of what was going to be a Dawn/Xander trilogy (That Which Survives, Hemorrhage) is also rearing its ugly head. I'm *really* not ready to go there because that way lies difficulty, characters that I don't hear well and who don't like to play with me … Angel, Cordelia, Connor. It promises to be almost as difficult as writing Riley fic.

It's crazy because all I wanted to do last year was write and I could just barely manage drabbles, then this year comes creeping in and suddenly my cup runneth over. WTF! I guess that's how it goes.