| Day 8 - Back on the wagon, kinda |
[09 Nov 2005|12:16am] |
Wrote some today, yay! Not as much as I needed, so now I'm officially behind, but that's nothing new, really. I can't believe I was ahead of the game as long as I was.
Of course, now my days off are over for this week, and probably for the beginning of next week as well (since I took Thursday and Friday off next week for HP madness and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) altrntvgrlfrnd's birthday), keeping from getting further behind will be the hard part. At least the weather is getting miserable again. Huddling up with a blanket makes for a better writing environment than a massive desire to go outside.
La. Am tired like whoa for some reason today, so going to stop babbling now and toss up the writing. Have to drive my sister to work fairly early tomorrow morning (this morning, technically) so I want to get to bed.
::sniffle:: I miss you Sora!! I think that's what's making me hate NaNo the most. ;-;
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| Days 6 & 7 - Oh, hell. |
[08 Nov 2005|01:51am] |
I didn't write anything for two days.
Well. Not entirely nothing. Just nothing for NaNo. This is not good. I'll need to write 2,749 words to be just on time by the end of day 8. Luckily, I don't have to work. Promised the kidlet we'd go to the park if it was nice, but I can take my computer with me.
I'd thought about pulling an all-nighter tonight, to try and fix my extremely messed up sleeping patterns, but that's not going to happen. Instead, I'll go to bed now, and set my alarm for fairly early tomorrow. Hopefully, the two day break will have recharged my inspiration somewhat and I'll jump back into the swing of things without a problem.
Feel free to beat me for slacking off. I probably need the poking.
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| Day 5 - What? Already? |
[06 Nov 2005|12:17am] |
So I lose a bit over 50 words when I save as a .txt file and upload to the NaNo counter. Bleh.
Don't care. Over 10K now and one of my MCs has gone mildly crazy while the other is being abused (though the first doesn't know that yet). All I can say about this story anymore is WTF.
Whatevs. Tiny bit of writing to follow. Soooo tired. Stupid job.
My will to resist fic bunnies is fading fast.
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| Day 4 - Hitting the "OMGWTFBBQ" stage |
[05 Nov 2005|12:19am] |
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So at this point I am suddenly churning out more words in an hour than the length of some of the ficlets that I've written that have taken forever. This is good, I guess. I do believe I'm going slightly mad though.
I still have no idea where the story is going. And I fear hitting the point where I'll be writing along and it'll suddenly be all wrapped up, nowhere near 50K.
I think I wrecked myself by having an outline and an actual plan last year. Not that I finished last year, because I'm not willing to let the utter tripe I'm spilling this time around going into fanfic. Which is why I'm not doing fanfic again this year. But. Damn bunnies. After having almost no real desire to write most of the time lately (exceptions for that MuraWolf piece, since that bunny grabbed me and would not let go) I suddenly really want to work on fics. Both those few in progress that are presently stalled, and other bunnies that are gnawing at my ankles insisting on my attention.
Grr.
It's strange, that I really don't want to write on my NaNo anymore but when I sit down and actually do it the words fly. It's also annoying the hell out of me.
Ah, well. Another 2,159 words today. And I have the urge to rush through the rest just to get it over with. I thought burnout wasn't supposed to set in until week two?
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| Day 3 - I can't seem to help myself |
[04 Nov 2005|12:44am] |
Two hours of writing today. Procrastinated so badly, and didn't write at all until I got home from work. Where I didn't actually have to be to begin with. >.<
But. Made a good showing anyway, typed like whoa. 2,427 words for today.
However, my MCs are dumb and now suddenly have sexual tension. They weren't supposed to! Well. They were, just not this much. It was supposed to be the kind of stuff that makes people want to write slash. Not, you know, actual slash.
::sigh:: Shall keep going with the flow, I guess. Especially as during the scenes today they actually felt a little less like boring 2D characters.
Discovered a problem though, too... Open Office counts hyphenated words as 2 words. Which, technically they are, but I'm not sure if the NaNo counter does or not. Since there are a fair number of honorifics in here, this could mess up my word count. Ah, if it comes down to it, I'll have to run find and replace on all of those and change them for submitting the final count. I'm not going to worry about it right now.
Hungry, tired and I can't stop trying to strip Yuuri.
(Yes, that last part does make sense, but only to certain people. I'm not actually crazy. Yet.)
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| Day 2 - Fading faster than I'd like |
[03 Nov 2005|12:47am] |
Wow, I am unbelievably tired tonight.
I did break my 5K in two days goal, which is nice, but the count for today has got nothing on yesterday. That stupid spreadsheet claims my pace dropped like 47%. Not a good sign, especially since my shifts over the weekend will conspire to screw up what is usually my best writing time. However, judging by how tired I am right now, the best plan may be to go to bed a bit early and forget padding my word count anymore right now. I stopped for the day in mid-sentence, so that will give me further inspiration later... Right? So I've heard, anyway...
In other news, my procrastinating methods do good things for my house. I actually did some cleaning (not a lot, but more than I usually do) and cut my son's hair today. Not really a bad thing.
Okay, posting all but the last half-written sentence and then off to bed. Maybe I shouldn't have skipped out on having coffee this evening...
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| Day 1 - The Writing |
[02 Nov 2005|12:18am] |
This isn't all I wrote today. This is just the first two 'scenes' as it were. The next scene, which takes place the next day is started, but since I'm leaving this post unlocked as a teaser, I thought I'd save that for tomorrow.
Shinigami, Japanese festivals (in Kyoto at the close of the Bon Festival) and gratuitous use of miscellaneous Japanese words follow. The research for this is killing me. For serious. Due to the use of random Japanese, this also has not been spellchecked at all. Feel free to beat me with a stick for spelling and grammar errors. Though, I might like that. XD
Also. The title is bad. I know it. It's a working title, k?
( Soul Fires: Day 1 )
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| Day 1 - Hi Ho, Silver, Away! |
[02 Nov 2005|12:06am] |
Holy "WTF!?" Batman.
I have no idea how it happened, since I spent the vast majority of day one prodding my story in annoyance and being unable to write anything, but I actually blew through wordcount like whoa today. Most of that (like over 2k worth) being from 9pm to midnight, after the kidlet was at least laying down.
However, at this point I swear I keep seeing things moving out of the corner of my eye and other strange things. So, maybe it was bad. My characters seem to actually be doing something right now though. I have no idea what, but they are. There's, like, a mystery plot or something in here.
So, right. 3,542 words for today. 1,042 words over my goal for today (being that I didn't have to work and really wanted to get a jump on things so set my goal for 5k in the first two days). Part of me now says, "Hooray! Procrastinate like whoa now!" while the logical portion of my brain says, "Considering your schedule this weekend, you need to get as far ahead as possible. Write more, wench!" and "You know there are days you aren't going to write later this month. It happens every time. Do it now!"
My brain is mean.
As per the first year, but not the same as last year, this post will be followed up with most of today's writing. One slight change being that the first post is not going to be f-locked like all the rest. The truly terribly opening to my book will be visible to anyone that stops by and might want to read.
Though, considering how busy everyone is, I don't expect that many people will. So, post, then drinking, smoking and snacking in about that order.
Much love to my fellow NaNo-ers. ♥ ♥
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[24 Nov 2004|11:26pm] |
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I've mostly given up on finishing on time, though I am rather further ahead than my current infopage count indicates. If I don't manage 10K in the next 24 hours, I'm just going to have to be content with trying to reach 30K. Particularly since I believe that tomorrow will be my last day off before the end. Unless I manage to get someone to pick up Tuesday night, since Dad has a home show that he just told me about today, and it'll be too late for me to get the day off if I don't (by some miracle) already have it.
Anyway, posting chapter four in a minute. I'm a bit mixed up, since I've gone ahead and written the ending for Hounds of War (mostly, a tiny bit more needs to be added to that) and now I have to go back and connect what I had with that. Hopefully, there will only be a few more chapters of HoW to go. I'm in the middle of chapter six right now, and what I've written for the ending will be split into at least two chapters. I'm guessing I'll come in somewhere between 9 and 11 chapters for this part of the story.
Hopefully, I'll be able to cover my ass on the mistakes I've made thus far too. And, rewrites will fix some of the characterization problems that I'm seeing. ::sigh:: HP is such a big fandom that I end up nervous as hell when it comes to writing in it. I need to just stick with my more obscure anime and manga fandoms before I stress myself to death. Heh.
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[20 Nov 2004|12:25am] |
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Bah. I'm going to have to work at 6am, so I can't get as much done tonight as I'd like. I've gone over 12K now though (just too lazy to update my info page) which is nice.
But. And a big one. I have realized that stuffing Harry into Potions class in his sixth year means he's in NEWTS level Potions, which Snape is all bitchy about and doesn't just let everybody into. I'm going to have to figure out what the hell to do about that.
Chapter five is finished, and six has started off with a quick conversation with the DADA professor. I'm actually rather happy with choosing this character as DADA professor (which, in my NaNo is never, ever abbreviated as DADA, cause there's more words in typing it out). If nothing else, they're helping to up my word count pretty easily, though I can already hear the way anyone that reads it will be going, "WTF!?" And hopefully when NaNo is over I won't have to go back and rewrite all of the portions of this that happen in Potions. Not that it's much, but the next scene there was going to mildly important.. Though maybe I could switch it..
::ponders and starts randomly skimming through OotP before sleep::
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[18 Nov 2004|03:51am] |
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No 5K was made. Not even close. It was the worst day of writing so far, actually. However, shortly after midnight I suddenly managed just over 2K in an hour and a half. WTF? I blame it on Remus. He wasn't even supposed to show up in this part of the story, really, but now he feels the need to bug everybody. I originally thought that this piece of the story would only be around 10 - 12K. It's at just about 10K now, and the actual thing that's supposed to happen hasn't yet. Of course, I'm waiting for Harry and Ron to get their shit together and stop being asshats. Hopefully, Hermione doesn't murder them both first or my story will suddenly be going nowhere. (Or it'll turn into Snape/Hermione/Remus and they'll save the day... Ugh. I think I just made myself ill.)
Okay, I want to see if I can shove off another quick 500 - 1000 words before I collapse. Whee!
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[17 Nov 2004|02:08am] |
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So did not make my 3K goal. Far too many distractions throughout the day.
However, tomorrow (er, today really) is my day off, so I'm hoping to manage at least 5K. That may be a mildly insane goal, since in the last two hours I've only made 501 words. Distractions, distractions.
Chapter three is finished, and includes an encounter I didn't plan for at all. Oh well, it ups the word count, a lot, and it will actually help at the end, I think.
I am very tired, but Kizuna 2 awaits me if I manage to get over 5K, so I'm going to try for another hour of writing before I get some sleep. If I had known this much pressure was all it would take to get over my insomnia, I would have tried something like this sooner.
Chapter two up when I reach 2,500 or so words today. There's a lot of italics, which will require adding tags when I post it, so I don't want to try doing it now.
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[16 Nov 2004|12:09am] |
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Broke my daily 3K goal by 43 words today. Chapter two is finished and chapter three is off to a decent start. Not the start I expected, but okay nonetheless.
I've noticed that I have an alarming tendency to swing between use of Snape and Severus when writing. Never Severus in scenes involving Harry, then he's always Snape. Oh, and I don't mean in conversation here either, I mean when describing what he's doing and such. However, so far in scenes with Dumbledore it switches. It doesn't bother me much, but I'm wondering if it'll be annoying to readers. Eh. Not something to be concerned with now, I'm not supposed to be editing.
Though. I just realized as I wrote that, that I forgot to have him put away his wand before doing other things with his hands here at the beginning of chapter three. I should probably fix that.
And, since I've spent 13 minutes typing this and then randomly staring off into space, I should probably also get my arse back to work. Speaking of arse, I'll eventually have to find someone to Britpick this too, since I know I'm certain to screw that up royally.
Editing is for later, editing is for later, editing is for later. Right.
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| Phoenix Descending Notes and such |
[15 Nov 2004|02:35pm] |
Whee, okay, quick notes on this... Primarily Sev/Harry as mentioned before. (And yes, I get to call him Sev cause he's wandering around my head making me insane. Don't worry, it shouldn't happen in the story at all.) Other pairings at least mentioned will probably include, Ron/Hermione, Ginny/Neville, implied Remus/Sirius, possible Remus/Tonks and maybe Albus/Minerva. (Whoa, look at all the het. O.O) There's one other, but I can't mention it yet. Ratings will vary per chapter, however there will be a fair bit of R and NC-17 content floating around, as well as some controversial stuff. When we hit that though, I'll warn. ETA: Forgot to mention, this is post OotP, with all that means. Spoilers for that part of OotP start right in the first chapter.
Phoenix Descending is divided into three "books", the first of which is presently titled Hounds of War, though that might not stay. Part two is Keep me Caged, and I'm pretty set on that. Part three is another working title and may change, Think no Fear. Having some sort of titles is probably a good sign.
This is going to be rather long, I feel, and if I make it to 50K, I'm guessing that will be around the end of Keep me Caged or so. Rather than posting each day as I write, I'll be posting up each chapter. As of right now, I've just finished up Chapter Two, but I want to try and stay at least one chapter ahead so I'll only be posting Chapter One today.
Obviously, since this is NaNo, the story is going to need beta reading when I'm done and will probably get reworked quite a bit before it goes anywhere else. So, for an advance peek, feel free to friend the journal and read the fic posts. Comments are great, but please forgive me if I don't have time to get to them right away.
Uh, guess that's all I have to say.
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[15 Nov 2004|11:27am] |
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Totally trashed the old NaNo. Was essentially crushed by dropping out of the madness, but just couldn't deal with my characters or the way the plot seemed to want to go. Yesterday, I decided that I'm going to write fanfiction, as I do have plot notes for a Sev/Harry fic. Started again. Am officially crazy, however my daily goal of 3K will take me over 50K by the end of the month, so we shall see...
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[05 Nov 2004|01:12pm] |
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I didn't start until yesterday.
Bloody hell.
However, I'm confident that I can catch up. I don't have a day off this weekend, but as soon as I've got one I'll make a good push toward getting where I need to be. I'm good until the crushing lows of week two set in.
So, 3040 for yesterday's wordcount, then a bit over a thousand more in the few hours after midnight before I went to bed. I've discovered that I'm having a lot more trouble focusing this year and keeping myself on track. Distraction and procrastination are seriously my enemies this time around. I blame that largely on the fact that the Saiyuki fic I just did for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) yaoi_challenge made me heartily sick of writing, particularly since it had to go up while I was still a bit unsatisfied with it. Plus, I've had to put off Submission and I feel a bit bad about that.
Ah, the trials of writing. Anyway, the friends locked post of yesterday's writing will go up in a second. Actually, the writing from early this morning will be in it too, as I'm too lazy to sort it out. Don't ask me what the heck is going on, as my original plot was totally thrown out with the first words I wrote and the character that was supposed to be the main POV has decided that while he still seems to be the MC, he doesn't want to tell the story. WTF mate?
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[03 Oct 2004|01:55am] |
Hah.
Hah, hah.
NaNo, I'm back. Yay 2004!
Okay, so this entry has no point, but this journal hasn't been used since last year. I had to post something here.
I need new icons. And a new layout.
Come on November!
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| AAAAHHHHHHH! |
[29 Nov 2003|02:09pm] |
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I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done!
::dies!!!::
50,347!
The ending is rushed and sucky, but it's over! Rewrites will probably make the whole thing about twice the length that is is now, but for now it's over! I don't have to look at it again except to post the last excerpt!
::runs around throwing exclamation points everywhere!!::
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