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You know how when you absolutely have to do something you fill your brain with other things you'd rather be doing?

I am NOT allowing myself to write fic until I've done this stupid portfolio thing, which is MOSTLY done and due on Monday.

Then I MUST write the three fics I have unfinished. Because I'm being lazy about them.

And then there is the epic fic, which really isn't very epic yet. It has epic quantities of notes and ideas, but not an epic wordcount.

BUT.

I AM SUDDENLY OVERCOME WITH DESIRE TO WRITE A MERLIN WHODUNNIT. Two laundry maids have been killed in gruesome ways and it's up to Prince Arthur and his trusty manservant to solve the mystery...

Oh God, you can tell my work is going badly: I've posted three times today.

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Sounds good- I hope they have an episode like that at some point, cause we the audience tend to know who the culprit is before the characters- and every genre show has it's whodunnit episode doesn't it.

I was thinking of setting one in the 1930's- maybe during wartime (I can totally see Morgana in that kind of dress and must think of a way to get a romantic scene at a train station between Arthur and Merlin)...

It is difficult not to get distracted while essay writing- only 1,500 more to go (and then re-writing the last 3000)...

That would be fun! (I'm definitely storing the idea away for when I have the time and energy to actually work out a plot)

I'd love to see Morgana in a 1930s dress. You should write it! Definitely including the train station scene. A staid and repressed goodbye that means SO much more...

It's very easy isn't it? Mines 4000, and it is, but it needs editing and referencing. And, really, just to be better.

Yeah I've got a 5000- it's only been a few months since I wrote my last essay but I seem to have completely forgotten how to structure a paragraph. And referencing is making me cry- we don't have a definite way of doing things at Kent so I'm always asked to do it in a different way by each Professor... : O

Now I'm picturing Arthur in army uniform too... no, must not be distracted!

What's the essay on? I'm sure it will come back to you. The one I wrote in November was the first I'd written since I graduated two and a half years ago. It hurt but it came together in the end.

And yes, referencing is evil. I had it drummed into me as an undergrad (possible before that, my father is a professor of English) and luckily on my master's course they don't really mind how we choose to reference as long as we do so consistently. So I'm just sticking to what I know.

Oooh yes. Although I'm not sure about the 40s hairstyle...

The re-enchantment of a person's perspective of the world (assuming it to be disenchanted). Through out the term we had to do a learning journal- basically talking about how the work was impacting our lives and helping us grow and it could be very fluffy and creative and now needing to do anything with structure is killing me.

Ah you see as an undergrad I was told to do it however I felt like as long as it was consistent so have never been very disciplined when it comes to it.

True about the hair. Although I'm quickly warming to the idea of the first world war instead as I type (my Sassoon/Graves obsession from my teenage years rearing its head)- it's just the Blitz brings so many options...

it could be very fluffy and creative and now needing to do anything with structure is killing me
Lol! I can see the problem. Mine is mostly the opposite: I like to have structure and arguement to my writing, and there really isn't space for that in this silly thing. It's about museum documentation and while part of it is a critque, it's mostly just facts arranged into subheadings. Which is painfully dull and I can't wait until it's over and we start the next module (which is interpretation, education and communication - much more my kind of thing!)

I think you have at least two fics here: a ww1 epic soldier romance AU and then a 1930s big house mystery with glamourous costumes.

That's always the way- make you go through hours of dull facts and figures before they let you do anything interesting instead of mixing it all together- we're all so laid back on my course I've no idea what exactly we're doing next term- I know I have to write a commentary on a religious image or painting and write about spiritual/emotional experiences to art and the impact of galleries on the experience but outside of that...

You're right about the two fics, ww1 soldier love needs to be epic and whodunnits work better in inclosed spaces... I need free time and soon!

Yes indeed. They fooled us with the first module and its interesting theory and big ideas. Then they dumped boring old module two on us. *sigh* It can only get better from here...
The commentary on a religious image and emotional experiences to art sound interesting. The impact of galleries on the experience made me laugh: my whole previous essay was on how museums/galleries are not neutral spaces and we are encouraged to think a certain way based on the way in which things are displayed.

WRITE THEM (when you have the time). I love the idea of both. I have a free day on Tuesday and I'm counting down the minutes...

Oh would it be okay to ask for pointers towards any good resources when I come to research?

Next free day I'll have is the 24th- with all the having to earn money and what not. My life has become deadlines (I count Christmas as a deadline, which is slightly depressing- I'm trying to get my family to abandon Christmas next year and just celebrate the Winter Solstice instead- but my grandparents keep making disapproving noises so I'll just have to do it with friends instead).

These fics are quickly growing on me- something to dream up when I'm bored at work...

Yeah, of course, that's no problem. I've still got all my notes here.

My life has become deadlines
Ugh, I know the feeling. I've been concentrating on this one, but as soon as I get to it I have to start worrying about the next one!

Hehe, have fun plotting...

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