Tim at Buffy's House
1630[is this right?] Revello Drive was not what Tim expected.He thinks he should find something more mystical, like something the Dalai Lama would live in, but he finds a suburban house. He suspects that this makes the collective amnesia of this town easier to understand and accept. He thinks of his own home that looked normal, but was anything but. "Get a grip, Bayliss," he says and takes a few deep breaths.
"Can I help you?" A pretty blonde woman, a few years older than Tim is at the door.
"Detective Bayliss, Homicide. I'm here to see Buffy Summers."
" This isn't about Ted, is it? Cause he was a robot."
Bayliss thinks that the late nights are catching up with him. She would never say such a crazy thing. She would remind you to take your vitamins, or to change your oil, but not expect you to come by in case of roboticide.
Thee and me both, Deb.
(In other news, I'm all chuffed at having added another 8000 words to my big fuckoff Potterverse story these past couple of days. I think I might actually get the bugger finished before I leave the country! I do hope so. It's at 58,000 words at present, which is more than double the size of the longest thing I've ever written in my life. I'm quite excited.)
58K??? Fay, love, that's a frellin' novella.
Well, it pretty much is, yes. I think it should be around 70k when it's finished. I'm pretty chuffed.
Once this is out of the way I'm going to concentrate on trying to rewrite some of my fanfic into an idea I've had for an original novel. I know that in the real world publishers mostly don't look at anything less than, what, 100k? But 40 or 50k is allegedly novel(la) length, I think? So that's what I'm aiming for, just to see if I can
do
it. As a writing exercise, type of thing.
100K? Um, "Weaver" is just about 70K on the nose.
Really? Well, bugger me. That's
immensely
cheering.
Actually, it's 69,422, and that includes acknowledgements. The second book, "Famous Flower of Serving Men", is longer, about 78K. Don't know where "Matty Groves" is going to finish up, but likely around 74-75K.
"Plainsong" was 70K almost to the word.
I dreamed of Ethan Rayne last night. No fic has come of it, yet, but I take it as a sign that I should pick up Ethan and Giles on the Road to Shanghai pretty soon. Especially as Ethan was chanting and taking off his shirt as he studied a statue in a circle of candles. I'm afraid my muse is contracting spell-hits on me. Or, she just knew I liked seeing Ethan without his shirt on.
I agree with your muse. There should be more Ethan and Giles.
Mine you, my dream last night had naked Lex drinking tea. I'm a little at loss to work out what the muse wants, except to take it as encouragement with the Smallville fic.
