2008-11-30 07:26 pm
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Kercollapse and meme

And I have finished NaNoWriMo. Yay! (Kercollapse) Now if I'd only managed a complete plot outline for novel #1. *sigh* But thanks to Meg Cabot's little pep talk, I did finish!

In the typo department, here's one that was a bit Tomorrow People-influenced:

"If you two promise to not break out in the car," Emery's grandmother said, "I'll leave you to your fun."

(The funny thing is, Emery can apport - teleport other things - and possibly teleport herself, so....)

Between the full novel and the aborted one, I managed about 65,000 words. Whew!

Now, I'll post the last bit of the novel to [livejournal.com profile] esti_rise at some point in the next 24 hours. I also want to put together all of novel #2's posts (so far) and add them to a master post that can be added to the Queen's Gambit post on [livejournal.com profile] estorise (I have plot bunnies complaining about wanting a rewrite on a fic I've got as a WIP).

I couldn't have done it without the web program "Write or Die". The novel might have been less cohesive because of it, but it got me through. ("Write or Die" is very useful for NaNo. The fic "Worn Down Blood" was also mostly written in "Write or Die".)

What character am I most like in X fandom meme )
2008-11-27 02:22 pm
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Bleh. I lost about 600 words (of a major scene) in one of my NaNo novels due to an errant paste. *sigh* I guess I rewrite it after Dinner.

Parse the review? )
2008-11-24 09:42 pm
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Weird...

I lose a couple of hundred words in word count when I paste novel #2 for wordcount, and gain less than a hundred when I paste in novel #1. Very very weird. Same word processor, too.

Well, at least I wrote/posted another ~1200 words for #2.
2008-11-23 10:56 pm
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Misc stuff

I'm caught up once more on NaNo (for novel #1). Which is very good. Novel #2? Good question. I intend to write it after Yuletide. My problem is that my characters keep wanting to make it a short story instead of a novel. Oops ) I might write more of #2 tonight because I can't sleep yet (why would probably be TMI).

And, this morning, I discovered Kyou Kara Maou. *Facepalm* I like it, but it's sucking away my time. And I twittered fic.

ETA: The excerpt for novel #1 is here.
2008-11-17 08:05 pm
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Going in, going out

Thanks to a web thing called "Write or Die", I'm getting a lot more of NaNo in. Which is good, as I'm completely winging novel #1's plot now.

probably more of interest of me than anybody else )
2008-11-13 10:14 pm
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I seem to have regained my NaNoWriMo muse.

*thud*
2008-11-11 09:25 pm
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Plan

I just... can't get into either of my novels at the length and speed I need to. With full-time work, classes and everything, I just have not been feeling it. So, I'm going to put a halt to them, to the most extent, and drop out of NaNo (though if I do write, I will update the word count).

Here's my plan:
1. I'll still write them. I just can't get motivated right now to write at the crashy speed NaNo requires at this point. I want to tell these stories. This just doesn't seem the time to do them. (Yes, full-time work, school, and various and sundry personal problems just have sapped me this year.) These characters do have stories to tell, I just can't manage the speed. (I'm not going to feel guilty about it, though.) I still reserve the right to suddenly pick up a ton of speed and catch up, though.

2. I have Yuletide. Normally, I'd start the fic in December (so, no pressure here), but this will give me time to review source material/check out a new fandom. I'm going to try pinch-hitting this year.

3. Instead of writing NaNo (unless I get inspired), I'm going to continue on with my fics. The latest Kiva arcs have gotten me really fic-inspired, and I have other stuff to do.
2008-11-09 07:13 pm

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I think I bit off more than I could chew with two novels this year. Oh well. Usually I'm motivated. This year I seem not to be. So, to keep up with NaNo, primary novel "Late Bloomer" will continue and if I get up enough, I'll write little bits and pieces for #2, "Song in a Painting". (Which is the one, incidentally, I asked for advice on.)

I've also signed up for Yuletide. I'll be making my DYW post public late Monday.

Anyway, on top of everything else, I have a plot bunny from Kiva. This has spoiler for 39-40 from the summaries I read, is very short, and doesn't realize that November is NaNo, dangit!)

Spoilers for Kiva 39 and 40 preview )
2008-11-08 01:46 pm
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I'd ask this in the little details comm or the NaNo forums, but I figure I have enough people who know about this kind of thing. (Oh, and hi - frantically catching up my double NaNo this weekend!) Maybe someone can give me an idea what to do with the action sequence.

The details )
2008-11-02 09:48 pm
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Very quick stuff

Day 2's bit of novel #2 (Song in a Painting of the Crimson Moon) is up here. I'm pleased to announce that between the two novels, I am now over 10,000 words.

Yuletide signups are up. Yeah, the lack of PR is a bummer, but I chose 4 fandoms to be a recipient in and 8 to write in. Amazingly, only 3 of the fandoms I volunteered to write in are Japanese. Speaking of which, there are several Sentai series and a Kamen Rider one for the Toku inclined, and I think in several of them, the same person is the only one requesting and writing in the fandom so far. If Toku is not your thing, there are lots and lots and lots of fandoms out there to choose from.
2008-11-01 10:16 am

Writer's Block: Novel Ideas

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Two, this year.

#1: A young woman discovers a fantastic heritage that her father has hidden from her.

#2: A girl discovers that she's heir to a title... with powers that will enable her to take revenge on her mother's killers.
2008-09-27 11:06 pm
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Whew! I did [livejournal.com profile] finalauraburst!

So, you've probably noticed I haven't been writing much fic the last few days. There are a few reasons for this.

1. I really don't like "Useless Things" 29 right now. I know what needs to be done (the last section needs to be expanded badly, and there needs to be more tension), but I'm not sure what to do with it. And dangit, I need to get my pairing in bed, finally.
2. Useless Things, Second Son, and Promoted Pawn have the same general... well, not idea, but similar themes. plots ). I'm having to remember what's going on in which. I think figuring out Useless would be a good thing.
3. I wrote an Aya flashfic, and then I decided it needed expanding. Bad idea.
4. I keep meaning to finish up a Kiyoe fic, but then I don't and I guilt trip a bit over it.
5. I hopped into [livejournal.com profile] kamendressing, which is very fun but has sapped some of my energy. (I'm currently playing two characters there.)

Multi-fandom vs one fandom, crack!RP vs regular RP )
(Teal Deer/tl;dr: I seem to do better in basically either one-fandom or cracky RPs.)

Oh, and I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, so I do need to wrap these stories up by then.

This will be my third year in NaNoWriMo. My first year was the fanfic "Discovering The Sun", which may get done one of these days. The second year was "Sloshing Along The River", which I managed to get through without introducing any canon characters until the very end (though not without introducing any canon species), which was pretty good, considering it was set vaguely in the "New Dawn" RP universe and featured various and sundry of my OCs. (I accidentally signed up last year and had to come up with a plot fast, and [livejournal.com profile] fikgirl was kind enough to let me kidnap her universe.)

This year, my novel is very loosely based upon a pre-Kiva plot bunny. I've got my Main Character named, and I have a vague idea of the plot, I just have to figure out the rest of it. This will be interesting.

Anybody else on my Flist doing NaNo?
2008-08-10 03:39 pm

Finding a story, and other things

I have this feeling I'm forgetting something possibly important. This isn't it, but I'm going to ramble on anyway.

First of all, there was a fic I want to find. It's a Doctor Who fic. It had to do with Lucy Saxon, Martha, and it's implied that Lucy is pregnant with her husband's baby and wants to get rid of it. I know it's somewhere, on Teaspoon, I think, but I can't find it.

I found it. It's called "The Women", by nostalgia.


And the fic things for the rest of the year )
2007-11-15 08:47 pm
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NaNoWriMo: Halfway through

Actually, since I'm aiming at 29,000 today, it's more than that wordcount wise.

Novel Mutterings )
2007-11-13 08:19 pm
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NaNoWriMo progress

NanoWriMo: 25483/50000

Now if I can just keep the invasion from happening that I don't want happening. Bad plot bunnies!

(I think I also have a useful fic idea for the Dekapink/Abarekiller shortfic. Though with my wordcount, it's not likely to happen until this weekend.)
2007-11-09 05:52 pm
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More Nano goofiness

so to not spoiler anyone )

I'm at sixteen thousand something, hope to get to 17500 before bed.