gearing up to writing workshop

Three more days until my week-long Arvon writing workshop (with real-life published prize-winning authors, help)!

So I've been having thoughts

(that in orig I'm having to make up my own canon first, and then having to twist it into fanon -- a fanon of one, in this case -- and how even to do that? and where to find the slashy fandom passion?)

and gearing up by actually physically writing something!

I shlepped three ringbinders to Caffè Nero yesterday afternoon, in my trusted and fabulous granny trolley -- one of them my collated excerpts on 'Writing' (from the millions of self-help writing books I like to read with the sole purpose of procrastination), and my nanowrimo drafts, and other Clever Things About Orig.

So I open my laptop and what do I do? Type up handwritten notes for Harry Potter opus, of course.

*facepalms*

But oh my, it was so exciting! I wrote these notes in 2006. I have five A5 notebooks full of these notes! Some of these notes are fantastic! I love them! I can't remember writing them; it's like reading someone else's fic and thinking, wow, this person is totally on my wavelength and loves my OTP and everyfink!!

Um. Will the people at Arvon share these obsessions? I fear not.

So then I took another sip of the (meanwhile stone cold) cappuccino and opened another document and started writing a chunk of nanowrimo Nov. 2008 orig, sort of, kinda, pretending that the orig character I was typing about was not really Draco Malfoy.

Is this perhaps step 1? When transferring the fandom love to the orig uphill-march? Take droolworthy fanon object, slap a new name on him, restyle his hair somewhat and give him a new skin colour while keeping all the adorable drooldetails (bony wrists, pointy nose) and the angst (always the angst!), and make him do more or less what fanon character in fanfic has been doing in an AU sort of a way -- and hey, is not AU the fanfic equivalent of orig?

Maybe I should just look at this orig malarkey as one big giant AU???!

*tears at eyebrow hairs*

Anyone out there? Any thoughts??

octogenarians are go

Okay, I just need to know:

Is there any Just A Minute slash out there?

(BBC, Radio Four)

It occurred to me when browsing the yuletide brainstorm and I immediately went 'omg' and keeled over at the mere thought.

Not that there's much fanoning to do. It's all oh so canon!