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 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 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 )

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.

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 )

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.

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 )

...I've put it elsewhere.

( For anybody following NaNo '08 )

Whew! I did 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 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 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?

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

( Novel Mutterings )

( so to not spoiler anyone )

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