przed: (never far apart-pros)
przed ([personal profile] przed) wrote2006-03-29 12:02 am

Random Burbling

Ya know, maybe I should bitch and moan about not being able to write more often. 'Cause that Boromir gen story I complained wasn't going to happen yesterday? It's at 2,700 words and counting. With luck, I'll finish a first draft of the f*cker tomorrow.

Sweetie update: still feverish, but managed a screening of Les Desmoiselles de Rochefort (Yay, Gene Kelly! Yay, dancing French people!) at Cinematheque tonight. Here's hoping the bloody antibiotics kick in soon.

Also, GIP! 'Cause what else is a gal to do when she's stressed and blocked and spinning her wheels but make Pros icons.

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
2700 and counting? I think that puppy's gonna make it. Good going!

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
I think so. Yay! (Wanna beta some Aragorn & Boromir hurt/comfort?)

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. Unless it's War and Peace in length.

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
5,000 words max, and it'll probably top out below 4,000.

You're the best! Will email later.

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Just finished the Boro story and sent it off to both your yahoo and gmail accounts. (I'm not getting all my gmail mail, so I'm a bit paranoid of it at the moment.)

Done! Yay!

Although this means I've got to get cracking on the next Pros stagesoflove piece. And I'm not even going to think about the half-finished WWW story. Sigh.

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Backatcha! And keep on doin' it 'til the nibs are worn blunt.

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

Yep, I've got some work to do on this one. Which I already knew, but ya know, ya live in hope. (Maybe the wacky stuff works. Maybe.)

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
I also have to ask, were you up insanely late, or insanely early? :-/

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Insanely late. Courtesy of our friend, insomnia.

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Boo to our not-so-friendly friend insomnia.

Thanks again for taking a look at the story. And I feel the need to apologize for getting you to read something that needed so much work. (I usually don't show anything to even a beta until I've made a few editing passes on it myself, but I didn't have the luxury of time with this one.) Mea maxima culpa.

I still need to get working on the Pros disks for you, too. I'll try and test and burn at least one disk this weekend.

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
No apology necessary. And it doesn't need *that* much work. I was just offering some thoughts, which you can take or leave as you wish.

On the Pros disk front--obviously, no rush.

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Your thoughts seem right on the money to me. And okay, it's probably not going to take *that* much work. It just feels like it, since I'm working my way into sleep deprivation again. And since I find editing way easier than writing the first draft, it probably won't even be that painful.

I've got a whole set of the Pros disks Justacat kindly provided so that I can copy them for you, but we already found errors on one disk when we tried to play it in London, so I know I'm going to have to make sure they play through all the way before I even burn them. Otherwise you would have had them ages ago. I've got some huge encoding runs to do today (I'm working on some corporate video at home today) so maybe I'll test some eps while files are encoding. Nothing like multi-tasking. And watching B&D is far more interesting than watching a completion thermometer on an editing program.

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
And watching B&D is far more interesting than watching a completion thermometer on an editing program.

Now I wonder why that could be?

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny that, isn't it?

Unfortunately, I spent the afternoon going through a ton of boring footage trying to find the best take and didn't yet hit the encoding part of the job, so no testing Pros disks for me. I think the thermometer might have been more interesting.

But in other news, I ripped apart the story tonight and re-wrote great chunks of it. All it needs is a final, non-sappy paragraph, in Boromir's POV. Thanks again.

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck with the rewrite and the thermometer. I'm here if you need me--just ask.

[identity profile] blktauna.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Awww give Sweetie a kiss and my wish he feels better. I'll think of him as I watch Inheritor of Kung Fu later on ;)

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'll give him a virtual kiss (trying to avoid the real thing until he's over the fever) and let him know you're thinking good thoughts as you watch Shaw goodness.