Let's write!

I didn't do much actual writing this weekend, but I did do research. The first bit was on a fic that I've done bits and pieces of work on in the past and caught my attention this weekend. The research wasn't so much research as cleaning up my room to find the notebook in which I'd written my previous research. :) Much of it would have been reproducible from web searches if I hadn't been able to find the notebook, but the notebook also had maps I'd drawn of the important places that I would not have been able to reproduce. But, I did find it! What I need to do is transfer the maps to a drawing app on my iPad, because I won't lose that.

The second bit was real research for a story idea that occurred to me a couple of weeks ago. The story has to do with an episode ("Human Nature" / "Family of Blood", actually, which is why my entry last Friday was also about that), but I needed to get a good grasp of the episode's events, so I spent the weekend poring over the transcripts... instead of just watching the bloody episode! (I am such a doofus.) The next step will be to review and collate the extended information that I've already created in my existing stories about that episode (like all of the new characters and events I've created), because I want it to all be in the same space. I also wrote an outline of the story that I want to tell, and of course I want to fill that outline in with all of that information as well.

As you can imagine, don't expect a finished story any time soon. But I'm actually eager to start writing, which is a change from the past, oh, four years or so.