So last night -- or should I say, early this morning -- was the first time I've been able to focus enough to actually write something. Wrote almost a whole scene for Getaway. Of course, I thought I'd have all of part 4 finished by now, but all I've got is almost a whole first scene. Feh.

I did however manage to sit down and hash out a rough outline for my novel. I'm calling it Modern Brides, and it focuses on the three brides of Dracula in the present day. I will say that I originally conceived it as a Drac/Harmony DL meta-fic, but then I remembered that I'm not writing any more fanfic after DL is done, and then it occurred to me that neither Dracula nor his brides are creations of Mutant Enemy and they're in the public domain. So all I have to do is ditch Harmony and any other Buffy-verse associations and voila, I've got the makings of an original story. Stick close to the Stoker mythology and toss in a sexy but clueless vampire hunter who is the last of the Van Helsing line, and I've got the mix of horror and dark romantic dramedy that I like so well. So, yay. Looking forward to writing this story.

Since pretty much everybody got caught up in the mess last week, DL is behind again. Not that it was ever caught up in the first place. So if you're wondering when the next episode will go live, I have no idea. I know it's in progress, but I haven't actually seen any of it yet. But 6 and 7 are also already in progress, so hopefully it won't be as long a wait for those two, at least.

I'm going to see Star Wars tonight. I'm really proud of the amount of restraint I've shown for this round, considering that last time I was one of the diehards helping to organize lines and other celebratory events and standing in line for hours and hours to see the very first midnight showing. Although, really, my restraint can be attributed almost completely to being plum exhausted. Also, I avoided as much of the hype for this one as I possibly could. I'm not so good with movie reviews, so I doubt I'll post one; but I expect to like it. I'm so easy to please, and I'm totally George's bitch. I actually liked Phantom Menace, and I didn't hate Jar Jar. I also lack the deep resentment of the Ewoks that so many SW fans have embraced. I think sometimes the fans tend to get possessive and imagine all kinds of ways they could have done it better, and they forget that these movies are for little kids as much as they're for anybody else. Hence why so many of us first became Star Wars fans when we were still in pre-school. So, get over the kiddie stuff, and focus on the kick-ass cool stuff, and just be glad to have some new Star Wars. And if you really think you could've done it better, well, that's what fanfic is for.