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UMS!Lachlan : Would you stop drinking to nail Belle ?

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Is this a trick question? I don’t understand what one has to do with the other. I can drink AND I can have Belle (if she’ll have me), why would I need to stop drinking? Are you trying to say I have a drinking problem? I like a drink but doesn’t everyone? I really don’t understand you, I thought we were getting along, you had some great ideas earlier but now …

#oh Lachlan is in for a rude shock#he is going to have to choose#well actually spoiler alert Belle doesn’t mind the drinking so much as the reasons behind it and that it’s to excess because of those reason

UMS!Lachlan, hey love, ya know that Belle is in your flat, there’s no electricity… You’ve done her candlelit dinner (good move, boy), now sing her a love song and romance her properly !

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I like how you think man, I really do. However, it wasn’t a candlelight dinner, it was a candlelight cup of coffee and she ran off before I could even offer food, let alone put the moves on her. Still we’ve arranged to meet early in the morning for the drive to LA. The power will likely still be out when we get back, so who knows …

UMS!Lachlan, Hey Lachie ! How are you, boy ? You like the new neighbour ? What do you think of her ? Do you like reading ? Would you play a song for her ? Would you write a song for her? Would you like her in your bed? She looks so nice :p

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What is this twenty bloody questions? Who signed me up for this? Alright, alright, I’ll answer. Yes I like her, who wouldn’t? She’s young, pretty and definitely would look very nice in my bed, or I would love to be the man in her bed, so long as a bed is involved it doesn’t really matter, Not that there has to be a bed just some kind of … well a gentlemen doesn’t kiss and tell you know, so use your imagination.

I don’t read much now, but back in the day all that time on planes, and tour buses, reading did help fill the hours. Would I play a song for her? I haven’t picked up a guitar in a long time *stares into the distance* I suppose if I had enough whiskey inside of me, it always was a good closing move.

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I’ve been going back and forth about sighing up for the Rumbelle Showdown. As far as I know, I’ve taken part in every event since I joined the fandom but I think I’m going to give this one a miss. To be honest I’m not brave enough, and that is the real reason. However, I am legitimately busy as well, which makes for a good excuse.

I have 5 WIP’s, a prompt verse with half a dozen unfilled prompts, three new WIP’s I’d like to write next, several oneshots *cough* or long oneshots on the list as well and that’s just the immediate fandom stuff. I have a lot more ideas on the list, plus my actual real life to do list … well let’s not go there heh 🙂

Why am I posting about this? I’m procrastinating basically. Rather than knuckle down and write, I just did the “organizing” in choosing what I’m writing next, and putting everything in neat priority lists. Does anyone else do that? Never fear though, writing will happen! Thanks to my migraines I still have 13k to write before new year – oops.

Under my Skin Lachlan: So, what are your thoughts on your lovely, literary neighbor?

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I almost fell over when I first saw her, of course I’d had a few but I know how to hold my whiskey thank you. It was dark, and she was all lit up by the outside light, just like an angel. I could not believe someone that pretty was living next to me on the farm. I was going to ask her out you know, but up until last night I barely got in a “hello” and a “goodbye”.

Her creative passion reminds me of the past and I don’t know if that’s good or bad, or whether it even matters. I think I probably will ask her if she wants to get a drink. She looks like she could use one and it’s not like I’ve got anything to lose.

Really random question since you said that you’re going to be writing today: are there any particular things that help you focus when you write? Idk, some songs that you like to listen to to fuel your imagination, or a special font that you always use, or a comfy chair that you need to sit on to feel completely relaxed and ready to write… I’m curious!

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Yup I have a bit of a routine for writing! I sometimes because of circumstance have to shake it up, but mostly it’s the same.

If I’m at home then I’m on my PC. I have a black office swivel chair, it’s kinda old and a bit collapsed and fraying but it’s still comfy. It’s kinda big for the room, especially because a couple of days ago I lost my home office and everything has been squished into the one room, but I wouldn’t swap it out for anything. I write in Word 2003, in Calibri font. I don’t know why but I always fix the margins to 2cm and Calibri before I start.

I have two monitors. Every day I have a fresh document, and if I work on multiple projects in a day then I have a new document for each. I open this in the right monitor. On the left monitor I have my planning document, and the overall document for the current project. Plus google chrome so I can spellcheck words I’ve spelled so badly Word’s dictionary can’t fix them, or I can pull up the thesaurus when I can’t think of a word, and of course tumblr when I need a distraction 🙂

If I’m home alone then I play music through the speakers – I’m always playing music – but if people are here then I put my headphones in. What I listen to varies, sometimes it’s music that fits the project (I create project playlists occasionally), or sometimes it’s something to get the blood pumping. There’s this song Odd One by the Sick Puppies, which if I really can’t focus, I always put on repeat until I get going. There’s something about the line “we’ll laugh at this one day” which just helps me calm down and put the work into perspective.

I can work away from home. I have a Macbook Pro laptop, which isn’t as old as my PC (my PC is 2 years older). The U key is loose and I have to hammer it on occasion as it falls off, but the battery life is still really good (it’ll last hours and hours) despite being 8 years old. I have Pages on that, and I don’t do anything special as it’s a Mac and doesn’t have any fonts. I just create a new document and write. It usually messes up my formatting which is irritating when I port it back to Word but that’s fixable. Headphones are a must to cut out distractions.

To be honest though. Routine is irrelevant, it’s all about mentality. If my subconscious says “nope, won’t, you can’t make me” then nothing on Earth is going to get me to write. However, if I’m in the right headspace, then I could be in the living room, half-holding a conversation and still write. I could be anywhere, and then jot a few paragraphs down on my phone. I don’t know why sometimes I can write, and sometimes I can’t. It’s very annoying.

Thanks for the question! 🙂

TMI Tuesday

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Ask me anything about my fics, ask my characters anything. You can send me a word and if it’s in my WIP doc then I’ll post a teaser snippet. I accept prompts for any of my existing verses.

This week I posted:
– Chapter One of Under My Skin

Ask Box

Masterlist

You could also ask me a question off any of these lists.

I don’t imagine anyone is really doing this because it’s two days after Christmas but I’m going to be writing fic today (well that’s the plan hehe). So if anyone is around, feel free to distract me, I’ll be here all day 🙂

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woodelf68:

still-searching47:

theoneandonlylittlebird:

still-searching47:

What even is this fic? I keep typing to discover where it’s going and I swear to merlin if I’ve accidentally started another damn verse … 

Well 1) it’s Lachbelle and anyelle is never as popular, so I’m probably safe. 2) I think I’ll just have to keep typing and make it a long oneshot, rather thank risk ending it ambiguously in a way that could be construed as chapter one. Alright problem solved *stares at fic* ok, so what is happening with you? I’ve already used all the prompt words and I have no clue /headdesk

*perks up*

Did someone say Lachbelle?

*creeps closer*

How can I best encourage this behavior?

You just did! Thank you 🙂 It’s reassuring to know that maybe at least one person will read the fic. There’s such a dearth of Lachbelle on AO3 I thought perhaps nobody liked it. It’s not like that would stop me though, in fact that’s why I’m writing it. I want more Lachbelle so I figured I better write some 🙂

Of course this kind of inspiration helps too …

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Of course the problem now is that I’m getting more ideas. I quite want to write Lachlan and Lacey as well. They fit together just as well as Lachlan and Belle but in a different way.

Is it set in California or after he gets to Scotland? I keep hoping someone will write one that would carry on from the end of the movie.

The Lachbelle is definitely set in California as I’ve already started writing it. I haven’t started writing the Lachacy but thanks to @ripperblackstaff I have a pretty good outline, which would also set it in California.

Ripper tried to persuade me to set it post-movie in Scotland, and you’d think given I’m from the UK I’d want to do that, but I don’t. I’ve spent so long writing America set stories, I don’t actually have the confidence to write my home country.

Plus a post-movie fic would be depressing. Either everyone would hate him, or they’ve forgotten about him/don’t care. He would need to get a job but with his circumstances he’d probably get a dead-end job he hated, certainly nothing like his farm job. The weather is miserable. He probably wouldn’t be able to rent anywhere nice, especially if he had to furnish it. Hopefully it would be decent enough his daughter would be allowed to visit, but that would be awkwardness itself, then after she’s gone he’d be even more alone. I’d be surprised if he didn’t start drinking heavily again.

The problem is (in my mind) is that even if Lachlan then met Belle/Lacey who was in Scotland for some reason, his situation isn’t really fixable. He can’t go back to the life he made for himself in California. I suppose (you are making me think now heh) that the solution is to keep moving. Perhaps Belle/Lacey is travelling, and Lachlan doesn’t have any ties so he could go backpacking with her. Along the way perhaps he could stumble across a better life for himself, maybe a farm that reminded him of California on the Mediterranean coast. I don’t know.

ripperblackstaff:

omg where can I read Lalacey, lachacey or whatever their shipname is ? I haz a mighty need

Heh I haven’t written it yet. I’m writing Lachbelle at the moment which will be posted before the end of the month. I have plans for Lachacy but that’ll be sometime next month now probably. I will tell you when I post if you like 🙂 Got any prompts you’d like worked in if I can manage it?

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That moment when you have opened and closed all your WIP documents, so you start something new …

#i really can’t focus today#i regret everything#but i’m desperate to write something – anything at this point

whitesheepcbd replied to your post:
That moment when you have opened and closed all…

Are you asking for prompts? 😉

I wasn’t actually but consider me intrigued … what was the prompt? I’m guessing you had one. No promises (just in case) but if I like it, then I’ll write it for you anyway. How does that sound? 🙂