trying to write

My life has gotten quite abruptly busy. Other than the full-time job with actual responsibility (and I still feel guilty about walking out the door at 5pm when I arrive at 7:30am every morning), I'm training with hockey, joining a bible study, and generally exercising more, socialising more, and volunteering more.

Writing time right now is limited to a half-hour during lunch, and then whatever time I can scrape together when I get home. (And even writing at lunchtime feels guilty. Esp. when someone comes around with more work for me.) So, yeah, that's not much time for writing - not half as much as I hoped.

Then there's the GCADOD (known a RaceFail '09) which I'm barely keeping up with. I'm attempting to submit a short story to verb_noire, and I was planning to sign up for Script Frenzy in April.

Right now, the NAs have gone slightly batty with spring fever and are running every ficathon every invented. Every year, my March, April, and May are overrun! And maybe I don't have to join in, but if I don't, how many of you are going to?

Basically, my writing is coming along very slowly, although it is coming. Current focus is on A Kingdom, Broken, and the various ficathons - including the jacksamfriends ficathon, the sga_genficathon, and the team_sga AU Team ficathon.

I really want to run a Teyla ficathon over at teylafen, but that's going to have to wait until we get closer to summer - if not until we're actually in summer. I just don't have the time right now. And there's the sgabigbang looming, too. I wanted to write the next part of The Astonishing Persistence Of Memory for this year.

So, yeah, the writing is coming along...it's just coming along slowly.

And thank you to those who voted for me in the Isis Awards, and to those who nominated me in the Stargate Fan Awards.

Today is my day off for the weekend. Dr. Who convention with The Fifth Doctor tomorrow in Parramatta, and BSG day (catching up on late S3) this afternoon with a friend.

BSG: end of Season Three

Yes, I am way way way behind.

If there's anything that I'm saddened by, it's that I could never get wholly into BSG fandom back at the start. I don't know why I got stuck in SGA and not BSG - the stories are so much better, all the characters are recognised as people and given layers, the writing is solid, and I have really been enjoying Season Three.

So, today was: A Day In The Life, Dirty Hands, Maelstrom, The Son Also Rises, and Crossroads 1 & 2.

( short version of the last six eps )

We're going to schedule the viewings for S4 a little more often than we managed for S3 (life got busy - it's been six months since we started getting through S3). Of course, I need to get hold of the next 8 episodes of the show in hi-res before we can do that. Anyone know who or where might have them up?

I'm rather sad that I couldn't get into the series in time to watch it with others, or discuss what happens, or to write fanfic for it.