Yeah, my parents didn't go into work until noon today. So I vacuumed and cleaned my bathroom from 9-10:15, went walking with my parents from 10:15-11:30, had lunch from 11:45-12:30, and took a shower until one. After which I got dressed, relaxed for a bit, read the last Heroes comic, and started to edit. . . when, sure enough, my sister came home from school early and asked me to help her with her homework again. And she bribed me with homemade cookies to put my full time and effort in. I then realized that I had yet to wipe down the bathroom sinks and counter and finish cleaning my room which had somehow gotten messy in a few days. And then I replied to some LJ comments, and my friend who I haven't talked to in days got online.
So the universe DOES, in fact, enjoy getting in my way. I suppose I jinxed myself by saying I'd have it done. The world said "Oh HO? Finished on Tuesday, you say? WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!" So I'm going to just say that I HOPE to finish it tomorrow (Wednesday), and cross my fingers that fate does not see fit to punish my cockiness this time.
I hope you find time to write them soon! I really do love them, not that you could tell by the rate I've returned them. I need to just start getting up earlier, so I have more time for things.
I'm also kind of torn on how to start my fic. I have a couple ideas, none of which are fantastic or particularly winning out over the other ideas. Options: A. Start with immediately post-explosion right off the bat and only fill in the changed events from the few days before in various flashbacks when relevant. B. Begin with a moment that we saw in episode 20, and then leap back to either post-explosion or the beginning of the pre-explosion changed events and go from there. C. Start a bit AFTER the events of 20 and do the same. D. Start with the moments directly before the explosion, as in Peter's already radioactive and all that jazz. or E. Start with a vague, not really specifically any time reflective first-person thingy that's more setting the stage and theme and then leap in at either post-explosion or pre-explosion stuff.
Plus, I've already run into a few roadblocks, such as: If Claire was directly by Peter when he exploded, wouldn't she be basically turned to ash and not be able to regenerate (and by extension: How exactly do nuclear blasts work and what do they do at what range? How could one explain Claire NOT being there but still have HRG convince people she died there? Would the explosion necessarily be radioactive? How will people explain Peter still being alive if found in the bombed NYC? Would his clothes be burned away (XD)? Would Sylar have had to have gotten radioactive but NOT exploded to convince those around right before the exlosion that he could have caused it?) I know how to explain DL and Niki not getting Micah back and surviving, and how to get Mohinder/Molly and HRG/Matt out (Micah's not in the hallway so the Mo's get caught by guards and flown away (Linderman's also alive- you'll see), and Hiro is there earlier, doesn't sword Sylar, and teleports the latter two out of there. Of course, that begs the question of how they'll explain the shot-up Matt to the police.) SO yeah. This is going to take some thinking. What HAVE I gotten myself into?
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Date: 2007-05-29 11:33 pm (UTC)So the universe DOES, in fact, enjoy getting in my way. I suppose I jinxed myself by saying I'd have it done. The world said "Oh HO? Finished on Tuesday, you say? WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!" So I'm going to just say that I HOPE to finish it tomorrow (Wednesday), and cross my fingers that fate does not see fit to punish my cockiness this time.
I hope you find time to write them soon! I really do love them, not that you could tell by the rate I've returned them. I need to just start getting up earlier, so I have more time for things.
I'm also kind of torn on how to start my fic. I have a couple ideas, none of which are fantastic or particularly winning out over the other ideas. Options: A. Start with immediately post-explosion right off the bat and only fill in the changed events from the few days before in various flashbacks when relevant. B. Begin with a moment that we saw in episode 20, and then leap back to either post-explosion or the beginning of the pre-explosion changed events and go from there. C. Start a bit AFTER the events of 20 and do the same. D. Start with the moments directly before the explosion, as in Peter's already radioactive and all that jazz. or E. Start with a vague, not really specifically any time reflective first-person thingy that's more setting the stage and theme and then leap in at either post-explosion or pre-explosion stuff.
Plus, I've already run into a few roadblocks, such as: If Claire was directly by Peter when he exploded, wouldn't she be basically turned to ash and not be able to regenerate (and by extension: How exactly do nuclear blasts work and what do they do at what range? How could one explain Claire NOT being there but still have HRG convince people she died there? Would the explosion necessarily be radioactive? How will people explain Peter still being alive if found in the bombed NYC? Would his clothes be burned away (XD)? Would Sylar have had to have gotten radioactive but NOT exploded to convince those around right before the exlosion that he could have caused it?) I know how to explain DL and Niki not getting Micah back and surviving, and how to get Mohinder/Molly and HRG/Matt out (Micah's not in the hallway so the Mo's get caught by guards and flown away (Linderman's also alive- you'll see), and Hiro is there earlier, doesn't sword Sylar, and teleports the latter two out of there. Of course, that begs the question of how they'll explain the shot-up Matt to the police.) SO yeah. This is going to take some thinking. What HAVE I gotten myself into?