Covenant (My latest A-Team fanfic)

[ostarella]

Well, I've posted Chapter Five of "Covenant" to both my fanfic website and FF.net. Have to send it to the archives yet. Nothing like full coverage, right?  LOL   Now trying to work out the remaining glitches on Chapter Six, but Chapter Seven is finished, ready to be posted after I get done with Six. BIG thanks to both JFM and Billy for their help and input.

Then, back to Chapter Eight, which is turning out a little bit on the dark side - another little experiment, based on building up to the Ruckus crossover. Now *that's* going to be fun to write <EG>

Starting to get my enthusiasm back for writing now - figures, since I've started back to work again. I drive a fork truck, and handle the shipping department on third shift, usually a week at the end of each month, and then anywhere from 4-6 weeks at the end of each quarter. Every week I work is one month's expenses paid, so I like that. I don't like driving in the winter, especially at night (I have to be at work at 10:30PM). I'm thinking of getting a full time job the end of February/early March, and then working until fall. Then I can take the whole winter off. Maybe go down to the Gulf of Mexico and be a beach bum - literally. I've heard there are places down there where you pay a miniscule annual fee, and you can "camp out" on the beach as long as you move every few days. Other places you can stay a few days, then have to leave for 2-3 weeks before coming back. That would be okay, too - I could travel around the southern states and then come back. Whatever. I just know I don't want to spend another winter in Minnesota. ;-)

Comments

[beckyblack]

Gotta have full coverage! I have the archive, my site, fanfiction and Live Journal. Crazy!

Ooh, darkness ahoy, I'm looking forward to that. And I'm very keen to see how Ruckus comes into it, since I've seen that thank to Billy loaning me the movie, with the hilariously awful cover. :D

Having just come on out of the freezing cold (probably nothing as scary as Minnesota though) I'm finding the idea of being a "beach bum" someplace warm very appealing!

You sound a bit like my cousin Katherine. She likes to work for a few month, living very simply, saving up most of her money, and then go off travelling for months to far flung places.

Personally I'm a boring old homebody. :D

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

"She likes to work for a few month, living very simply, saving up most of her money, and then go off travelling for months to far flung places."

Definitely! I think I've always been a "gypsy" at heart ;-) But after being a single parent, and then caregiver first for my dad and then my mom, and then suddenly being none of the above, there didn't seem to be much reason to maintain a "normal" life. I've done more traveling in the last three years than I had in my whole life - driving everywhere, sleeping in the backseat at rest stops, eating at the small, out of the way family-owned cafes, yakking away with the locals about the weather and traveling - it's just great. I haven't gone anywhere for almost a year now, and I sooooo miss it.

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

Personally I'm a boring old homebody. :D

I kinda envy people who can *travel*. Most of my cousins have done it, and now finally settled down. But I've never been able to just up root and live out of a suitcase (or a very small rucksack) for a year. I'm a boring homebody too. I like my roots. I think the closest I came to *travelling* was when we went to New Zealand for 5 weeks and travelled the North and South Island. Admittedly, I could have been out there for months ;o(

on another note... I'm too very interested to see how Ruckus comes into play with Covenant. I keep on imaging Dirk all dirty and rough one minute, and then coming out of that shower all cleaned up ::sigh::

[beckyblack]

That image can keep me warm in this cold weather! :D

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful image! mmm.... I'm feeling better already this morning! ;o)

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

wow be a beach bum for 6 months.... where would you plug in the laptop? ;o) Or would you write the old fashioned way, with pen and paper?

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking laptop, if I can find - what do they call it - WiFi? But when I was out in California (putting in a brick patio for my sister - anybody need one? LOL) I used pen and paper - filled a whole notebook. Which was fun, actually - had to think a little longer before I wrote anything, and then scribbled it out, and drew arrows to move things. The only bad thing was transcribing it all when I got home again :-(

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

Whenever I do write anything on paper, I do find it hard to then get it onto the pc. I sometimes have two notebooks on the go, which can get completely confusing. I don't tend to do it much lately. With little ones, it's just hard to stop and write up some notes. I've been throwing things onto OneNote, which is kinda working. It's all in one place, and i can just open another page!