In the past few days three people have asked me what I'm on about when I talk about RSS Feeds. Wikipedia has a whole load on it, but frankly I couldn't be bothered to read it, it was very long and detailed. So I will do my best to explain it in reference to Livejournal in particular.
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Happy Chanukah to everyone that celebrates it. I don't get my presents till I go home at Christmas, and I haven't bought a single one of mine yet (since I'm going to miss Chanukah by a few weeks, I might as well do my Christmas shopping after Boxing Day).

I have got one present though - the latest Big Finish Companion Chronicles with Peter Purves. From my grandmother, ordered by my dad from the Big Finish website, since that was the only place that had it for some strange reason. She posted it first class yesterday so my post is clearly back to normal - at last!

I was discussing our Boxing Day film with dad (The Golden Compass, which both me and my sister have read) and I pointed out that next year's will be Star Trek. To which dad responded with possibly the funniest comment I've heard for ages:

me: And 2008 there'll be Star Trek film for Christmas
dad: which month or don't you know?

(he claims he didn't see the word Christmas, just 2008, but excuses, excuses)

Just have to say first, Happy Birthday, Melli! Even though by the time you see this it'll be a day late.

I have been writing recently. I have a first draft of my Yuletide fic, although it is only 700 words and needs the ending changing.

Apart from that I've been writing Doctor Who. Since SJA started I decided I was going to write fic putting Harry in it, but I wanted to wait till it finished before I did. It was after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? where I had an idea of Harry turning up after events in it. So then I wrote Strange Men and Old Girls. Although I put Luke in it and I had more fun writing him than the Sarah & Harry banter. But I just really like the idea of Harry and Luke together.

There's one I'm going to post tomorrow, if I can come up with a title, set during The Lost Boy. And one I've started and can't work out where to finish, involving Sarah/Harry, his uniform and a UNIT Christmas Party. And another I want to write involving Sarah/Harry, Luke staying at Maria's and pink fluffy handcuffs.

I also have a plan for my TARDIS Big Bang fic, which is putting Sarah and Harry into Chalet School (Austrian era). So it'll be Chalet School canon and Doctor Who AU, but staying as close to DW facts as possible. I have half a book to go then I'll have re-read all the Austrian ones. The first draft is due mid-March and the final thing at the end of May. So my plan is:

December: plan the plot and work it out into chapters, so when I come to sit down and write it it'll be a series of shorter bits rather than 20,000+ words. And using the technique I did on my script then hopefully it'll make it easier to write when I know exactly what's going to happen in each chapter.

January: write first draft

February: write second draft. On experience so far my second draft has always involved changing half the plot, and since my second drafts are pretty much page 1 re-writes, it'll be closer to the final thing for artists & vidders to work with

March-May finish it and get it betaed. With as long as possible for betaing.

If I get things done before then, that's great, but that's where I have to be by the end of each month.