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It was a fight to get started tonight, but I picked a scene that would have a lot of emotional resonance for Cian. It's close to where Marc is emotionally this week, and I knew I could try to draw him out that way. And I've got him, a Cian on the cusp of figuring out that he needs to make a major change in his life. From this point in the book it'd be all downhill.

Except for the part where I'm writing out order and there's still half a book to come before this.

Anyway, set a goal of 3000 words for today and bypassed that by 40 words just as I reached a good pause point. Had to make up for yesterday and on Saturday I'll need to make up for tomorrow, unless I squeak a word or three out. We'll see.

9230 / 50000 words. 18% done!

[crossposted to IJ and LJ both]

This is not private p much because I think I have a better chance of remembering to do this stuff if it always on my flist. Ignore at will.

( HOMEWORK AND IRL TODO )

Right, this week is turning out even more stressy than expected. Had an intensely busy day at work yesterday, am in training today all day, and working only a half day tomorrow. My husband has the flu. Last night I took my daughter to a concert, and Friday I'm going to CT to see the same concert myself. My son tested for his belt in TKD last night and my parents are being tapped to help move people around because of the insanity. Sometime Saturday night I may be human again.

Still tagging my log during the moments that I can. If anything has gone up that Peter or Alban need to be aware of, please please please poke me here or on AIM. Right now I'm just trying not to faceplant asleep before I even leave the house for work.

I have just started reading the first book in A Song of Fire and Ice (A Game of Thrones)... and I had some questions. So if anyone out there in my flist land has read this series and is willing to talk a little bit about it with me, that would be great! :D

( uh cut for possible spoilers even though I'm not very far in yet, just in case )

Wow. This is, no lie, my largest batch since Hugh Jackman in 2007 -- and there's still more imagery I wanted to icon but couldn't, since I'm catching a flight tomorrow & leaving my big laptop behind. Just means there's more coming eventually!

Either way, James Purefoy is so majestic and rugged and attractive, I can't even stand it. To me, he's like an unusual combination between Hugh Jackman & Jack Davenport & Mads Mikkelsen. I used him for a while as the NPC PB for Jackman's older brother, and I thought it worked awesomely. Iconset is a combination of period clothing & modern era.

JAMES PUREFOY


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Just a real quick update for today. I wrote. I didn't write as much as I'd have liked. I caused trouble because I exiled my husband from the downstairs and the television while I'm writing since I don't have an office.

I won't get much written tomorrow but if I can even squeak out 1000 words at lunch I'll be in decent shape. Because tomorrow I go to see The Academy Is...! And Friday, too, but even less writing that day which is why I'm considering going straight to a write-in on Saturday when I get back from CT.

6190 / 50000 words. 12% done!

No tidbits today, sorry. I kind of hated the scene I was working on which is why I ground to a halt. Cian's voice still sucks.

ATTN: buggerall folk! In efforts to maybe attempt the RPWriMo, who would like to do threads with me? I offer up Roxie, Mitchell, Tristan, and Dani :) I am up for doing non BA things, too, if anyone wants to throw some ideas my way.

I am not technically doing RPWriMo. But I decided I'm curious to see what I end up with for word count for my characters responding to threads etc. in a normal month. Not even a normal month since I'm absurdly quiet so far.

1602 / 30000 words. 5% done!

Oh, God....please let it be good.

Set a goal for myself of 2000 words today. Yes, that's more than I need to write, but I'm not going to be home for Wednesday and Friday nights, so I figure I'd better get ahead some. I may do a bit more after I go do chores, but for now, I'm done.

Clocked in with 2005 words for the day, finishing out one scene, another short one, and starting a third. The three scenes all flow together and are probably a chapter. Since they can't really be split out, I shoved them into a folder so I can move them around more easily.

4660 / 50000 words. 9% done!

So far this thing is kind of disjointed in my head. Hopefully I can seam it up a bit more neatly when all is said and done.

And for IJ only, a snippet! ( a short excerpt cut for cursing )

[crossposted to both LJ and IJ]

Is officially a success, though I was hoping to get more done. But given how much I did today over all, I'd say I'm doing pretty good.

Word count: 2219

So about 500 words ahead of target for 50k by November 30th.

Also managed to do Recs, the Prophet, edit my K_K and sent that off to the Mods, and got another 250 done on November's D_D. Not to mention brunch with my folks, and watching the latest episode of Merlin with kabal42.

Overall, a good day, so I'm feeling pretty confident. *crosses fingers*

And one more number:
rpwrimo: 1615
From three threads. Not bad. :) At that rate, I'll be at 50k there at the end of the month, too.

2655 / 50000 words. 5% done!

Today was a rough day getting going. First off, one of my characters refused to talk to me. So I skipped over the things I'd had planned for him and went into the random conversation that kicks off the next segment, between Shayne and Jack. And those two were more than happy to get talking. After doing some fighting with myself over the topic of head-hopping, I gave up and let myself do it. If this is worth anything when I'm done, I'll fix it in the revision. At least this is letting me get it down on paper now.

Had hoped to make it to 3k today, but the slower start meant I didn't get that far. I'm pleased with what I did accomplish, though.

In other non-writing but impacting of writing news, started off the day with a broken toilet (after switching on and off between me and Kev trying to fix it, he was finally the one able to do so). Then moved on to Halloween sales, and some cleaning to make a space to work downstairs. EXCEPT. My entire downstairs is still torn up while Kev installs heating, and this includes my office. Thus, no office for me. Now, my house? Is built on a very open pattern. There is NO PLACE inside the house where one cannot hear things elsewhere in the house EXCEPT my office. So even though I'd made space on the kitchen table, it was useless to me. I ended up writing on the back porch. It's about 50 degrees out, and my hands are cold, but at least I was finally able to focus enough to make wordcount.

[cross-posted to both IJ and LJ]

Okay WELL I am long past the delusion that people are actually reading this shit, but I need to sort this shit out so it's settled in my own head. And it will be short and sweet. Totally.

( Neopowerswap '09 - Lucas & Anna )

When I was a teenager, Silhouette books had a line called "First Love." There were other romance imprints that teenage lines as well, and me, being a romance addict, read them all. Therefore, when I became a fledgling writer (I've been writing since I was 12, and my first attempts at writing seriously began when I was 15, so yeah, a VERY long time ago), I wrote to my reading tastes. I wrote Twilight Zone twisted horror, I wrote SF and fantasy, and my very first completed novel was a book called "Kodacolor Summer," intended for those teen romance lines.

In honor of NaNoWriMo, and because I'm damned curious just how long it was, I may type it in and save it here for posterity. With the huuuuuuge caveat that please remember I was 17 when I wrote this, it reads like a 17 year old with absolutely no kills wrote it, and gods I find it embarrassing as hell now! I'd like to hope I've grown a lot in the 20 some odd years since then.

When I need a break, I'll type some in....

As a side note, while I am doing NaNoWriMo, I am not (on purpose) doing the RP version. I suspect I spew that much wordage in a normal month while RPing as it is. *wry smile*

And I actually have quite a few fics to rec.  Mostly adult-rated, of course.

For the Public Good - Blamebrampton
Harry/Draco.  Post-war, long one-shot.  When London goes into a time of crisis, the Minister sends two of his best people to help out the Prime Minister of England.  - PG

OMG, I am so behind on this because everyone and their mother rec'd this back when it came out last year, but--read it if you haven't.  It's amazing.

The Boy Who Baked - unknown
Harry/Draco.  Post-war, long one-shot.  Instead of becoming an Auror, Harry decides to indulge his creative side, and ends up becoming one of the best bakers in Wizarding England.  - PG13

Here's an obscure one for you. Mostly does voice work, but these are all from his memorable turn on Due South playing pathological liar Ian Macdonald. (He was 26 at the time, if that helps you in PBing, because I'm old and 1995 was a long, long time ago.) Aside from his comic timing, which unfortunately cannot be captured via Photoshop, he has a lot of fantastic expressions. From some angles it is possible that he's Jensen Ackles's Italian younger brother.



( Your father never shut up, did he? )

Okay so, this was meant to be a Neopolis powerswap post, but instead it has turned into this total tl;dr about powerswap in relation to Alex and what his mood, general behaviour and Grace's powers on him will be like. Because apparently it is really going to have Implications for him and generally take a toll on him. Which okay, most of which couldn't be helped, but still, it is fun to torture him. I feel slightly like a dick for doing this, but I'm going to bold anything that applies to other chars, just as an fyi. It is 5 in the am (sdfgsdfgsdfg) so I am going to crash, will do Lucas and Anna tomorrow if only for my own peace of mind and will actually freaking get my shit together and RP :| :| :| :| And write a fucking poem for Creative Writing. Joy.

EDIT: Ugh please assume I said "metatron" instead of "metranon" all those times. I KNEW it looked weird for some reason.

( TL; DR :| )

KELLIE MARTIN


From a guest appearance on 30 Something, probably about 12 years of age in these.


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