Beth Winter

My Joss Whedon experience is spotty at best. I've watched most of Buffy Season 1, about two-thirds of Buffy seasons 2 and 3, Angel 1-3 and then three quarters of 5. The problem being, I now want to write a Buffy crossover that, for plot purposes, has to be set after Angel discovers the Shanshu thing. This puts it between Season 4 and Season 5 of Buffy. Hence, characterisation problems.

• Willow's with Tara at that point and somewhat aware of her power, but at what stage of her transformation? Still geeky, Wicca girl, Terrible As The Dawn, somewhere in between?
  
  
• What was Giles' status throughout season 4? Any changes in his character since season 3 that I should be aware of? And what was he doing for a living - I believe he only opened up the Magic Box in season 5?
  
  
• And finally, I know what Spike was like at the time, but where was he living between Season 4 and Season 5? I saw mentions of a crypt, I suppose with Harmony tagging along?
  

I know there are Buffy fans on my f-list. I'm sadly deprived through lack of time and money to buy full seasons :( Help me out?

I wrote 7 pages in longhand today. That's 3,500 words at the very least, and most of it wasn't conversation. Geh.

Yeah, still writing Nano, despite the break for anthropomorphication smut :) I have 20,500 words down typed and 33 pages written. At average, in the previous notbook I had 550 words per page; this one doesn't have side margins, just top and bottom. I think I might actually stand a chance of winning Nanowrimo. Yay me.

The book itself? Going along nicely. I've been surprised quite a few times at how much some characters evolved. At those 35,000 to 40,000 words, I'm barely through the halfway point of the book, maybe less. And I've found out that I can write that many, in three weeks, and neither feel particularly burned out on writing nor disinterested in my story. I'm really glad I went on with this :)

Oh, and I heard something about a certain someone who just appeared on the last episode of Angel. Since they're re-running season two right here and my attraction to him is at a high again, guess what I'm downloading on Bittorrent ^__^ Woo!