Yes it is that time again. In July there is another session of Camp NaNo and just like in April I will be running a cabin! I know RCIJ has to be posted on the 23rd but for the first three weeks camp could be a boost if anyone wanted it.
For anyone that doesn’t know Camp NaNo is different from regular November NaNo in a couple of crucial ways:
You can set your own word count goal (I don’t think there’s a minimum value so set it as high or as low as you like)
They allow you to track time and pages, in addition to words. So you could write a screenplay, edit a story, plan a story, write poetry, whatever you want really.
They have these things called cabins
It is because of these cabins that I am making this post.
A dozen Rumbelle writers signed up for the April session, and I think it went well so let’s go again. The cabins are for 20 writers and they have like a messageboard thing allowing communication on the NaNo site. I’ve always found it’s easier to write knowing I’m among friends, rather than sitting alone banging my head against the keyboard. I’ve been doing Camp NaNo for years and it always sucks if the cabin is a ghost town so in my cabin:
I post daily facts everyday for inspiration purposes
I post a daily word count challenge
Time zones permitting I run word sprints
Generally I’ve found that so long as somebody’s talking, then the cabin picks up in activity anyway. So got a fanfic you want to finish? Doing RCIJ? Just wanting a boost in the writing stakes?
Camp NaNo is a lot more relaxed than regular NaNo, as I said above you can work on different kinds of writing, or different parts of the writing process, or even on lots of projects at once. Camp is really about just making progress on things, and getting stuff done in a supportive and friendly environment. So there’s no real barrier to joining in the fun 🙂
If you would like to join then sign up and/or create a project on the Camp NaNo site. Then reply/reblog/message me with your NaNo username and I will send you a cabin invite. You must create your project first or the invite won’t work. Any questions or anything let me know 🙂
This sounds awesome! Is it all right to join the cabin if you’re a Rumbeller but aren’t working on a Rumbelle fic? Maybe if the project takes inspiration from Rumbelle? ;D
Absolutely! It’s called Rumbelle Style because the advert for the cabin was aimed at the Rumbelle fandom. You can work on whatever project you like during the month! It doesn’t have to be inspired by Rumbelle at all. I just figured if we all had ‘liking Rumbelle’ as a common point of interest, it would make for a friendly cabin is all 🙂 So you are more than welcome to join!
(cont) And I was also thinking of having someone like Mal or Ursula be Gold’s boss/the restaurant owner, someone that he would respect but not be afraid to speak his mind to, and vice versa. Let me know what you think! ~ Santa
Hey Santa *waves*
That’s alright I haven’t had chance to start my RCIJ fic either, there’s still plenty of time. That sounds like a great way to get Bae/Neal involved! As a teenager there could be a lot of friction there, which Belle could soothe as only Belle can. Regarding Gold’s boss, I hadn’t really given it much thought. I suppose I’d given passing consideration to Regina because she’s a favorite of mine and it would be nice if she was involved somehow.
I don’t know how you feel about Regina, please don’t feel you have to try and include anyone you don’t like. I want you to enjoy writing this fic! Either Mal or Ursula sounds great! Personally I’ve always struggled to get a handle on Ursula as a character, I find Mal easier to write myself, but basically choose whomever you would like to write and think fits best, it’s all good with me 🙂 I’m happy with whatever honestly. Just have fun!
I hope you have a good week Santa!
ETA: I’m an idiot. I just assumed it was a fic because probability says that’s likely. If it’s not a fic then that’s very cool Santa! I love everything! Seriously, anything and everything that you could make is fine. I will flail excitedly no matter what 🙂
Thank you! Also good choices heh, I’ve written sod all in ages but you picked good words 🙂
Untitled GoldenLace Bonnie and Clyde
Gold laughed, actual honest laughter. That hadn’t happened to him in a while, but then he hadn’t been this amused in a while either. There hadn’t been much to laugh about inside, he had been far too busy calculating his next move.
*****
She was petite, and it pissed her off how occasionally she was intimidated by guys
because they towered over her even in heels. Gold’s slight build meant that wasn’t a problem, his accent sent tingles down her spine and his deft movements made her wonder what else he could do with those hands.
*****
He had never been the type of idiot to fall for a pretty face, and think with his cock rather than his brain. If he was going to even think, about thinking about taking this job, he needed to do so with a clear head.
From upcoming WIP Nightwalkers
Gold laughed, not a soft chuckle, but a full blown body shaking laugh. His face transformed, losing the smugness that made her want to slap him, and turning warm. Uneasily Belle realized that he was actually a very attractive man.
*****
Finally Aurora ran out of combinations for Belle to try and she was allowed to get dressed in her own clothes. Belle checked her watch and her eyebrows shot up to her hairline. She’d been trying on clothes for three hours, no wonder the whole process had felt interminable.
*****
Belle prowled round the table, taking care to look disinterested when her gaze hit the table. If Cora was paranoid about others cheating, perhaps to deflect attention from her own cheating ways, then the last thing Belle wanted was to fall under suspicion for that.
(OOC: Oh man I feel so guilty about this story *hides in box of shame*)
My stories stem from characters so I write anything and everything. Most of my stories have an element of romance in but the genre background varies wildly. Right now, I’m writing a mystery romance story. As for a Lachlan type character, well I don’t intentionally ever write anyone I know into my books, but sometimes things wind up in there anyway. Never say never.
Ask me about the show. Ask me anything about my fics, ask my characters anything. You can send me a word and if it’s in my WIP doc then I’ll post a teaser snippet. I accept prompts for any of my existing verses.
This week I posted: Nothing relevant. I did post a little missing scene ficlet from Captain America: Civil War, but that’s not Rumbelle so it doesn’t count.
I just noticed that my last story tipped me over the 500k mark on AO3. I didn’t quite make it before my anniversary so in One Year and 8 Days I reached half a million words of Rumbelle/Anyelle fic. Another milestone unlocked!
When you proofread something, pointed out the typo, swear you saw it got fixed. 1000 copies of the document are printed.
Typo is still there.
What to do? What to do? Well for a start let’s not mention it at gone 10:30pm, so that’s going to be a really fun conversation tomorrow morning. Maybe I’ll just stay in bed all day…
I’ve rewatched a fair bit of Stargate the last few days and the Genesis List came up. Now I’m not going to go into that because it makes me really sad, but it did spark a memory. A while back on netflix I watched this mini-series called Ascension. It wasn’t very good because it couldn’t decide what it was going to be; it tried to be everything and then failed at everything.
Basically the people on board thought there were on a 100 year mission to cross space and form a colony. I know that concepts in lots of things but it’s interesting. Space/resources are limited, concepts like an economy would be thrown out of the window, the power dynamics alone are fascinating. Plus the psychological points of people being born, growing old and dying within the same small structure. Knowing when growing up that they’d already seen everything they were going to see, and knew everyone there was to know.
Matches were made by the ships computer to maximize bloodlines and once a year a handful of couples were authorized to have children. Unfortunately because someone else on the ship had died so there was a ‘space’.
Anyway I was just thinking about the fic potential.
– Belle and Gold are matched together. Belle hates the very idea, everything about their lives is controlled and Belle loves her freedom. Obviously eventually when she stops hating it on principle she realizes she loves Gold.
– Belle and Gold aren’t matched together, but they are in love and they despair of the day when they will be matched as the chances are it’s not with each other (not everyone is because of the disparity in male and female numbers).
– Either Belle or Gold is matched to someone else, but they love one another and it’s miserable snatching time together, having to hide because it’s against the rules.
Then there’s the fluffy potential, like Gold wanting to get Belle a gift but in a contained world, how can he get her something new? I don’t know, this was just what my brain was mulling over today. Actually having written all this out, have I rambled about this before? Hmm I can’t find it in my tags.
I don’t want to write this myself, so if anyone likes any of this have at it 🙂
Biology question for the day: Is it possible to be allergic/intolerant to milk but not other milk products (cheese/yogurt etc)?
I have absolutely no idea but I’m thinking the answer is yes for one simple reason. Someone else (I’m on mobile sorry) mentioned taking lactose tablets which meant someone could then eat more dairy and be fine. Whereas they don’t work for me. If I have any milk (or milk product) I’m so ill. So there must be multiple things about milk that people can be allergic to.
I’ve been violently allergic all my life so I don’t know the difference, so anything I say probably won’t be helpful. I drink my coffee black, eat cereal dry etc. If I cook then I use soya milk. That’s just normal to me. Whereas I guess if you tried to cut out milk you’d really miss it? *hugs you* I’m so sorry 🙁
