Ok so you know how yesterday I said I’d been a little distracted, and had written the bare minimum to get my 5k weekend, thus putting paid to my pie in the sky hopes about reaching 20k this weekend as that would require 4k and that was never happening. Well…

Yeah I got my 20k! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Wriye did a twitch stream this evening and so I joined in with the sprints after dinner. When it was over I realised I only needed another 600 words to get that 20k and so I kept plugging away until I got it. Crazy, crazy. Like this is NaNo magic again. This is what used to happen in November until it stopped working a couple of years ago.

It’s entirely Sanctuary’s doing I think. I love that show far too much at the moment. I’m a little bit sad that I’ve run out of ideas of tags I can deep-dive and I need more gifsets. I actually wound up googling today how I can get footage off DVD’s as I briefly considered learning how to make my own. I’m sorry I just need all the Sanctuary content. I don’t care the shows a decade cancelled. I need it.

Anyway, the five have now been executed and resurrected, I had a fluffy christmas OT3 flashback and Helen’s all screaming in her head now “I didn’t want to remember that! I’ve spent a century trying to forget how much I love them dammit!” Xan wants them just to escape already but Helen’s not leaving until they get what they came for – the source blood.

Fun times 🙂

Words Written: 4,032
Current Total: 20,007

I was singularly distracted all day. Not by memes this time but by the wait, it was really starting to wear on my last nerve. The world has heaved a great sigh of relief this day and I offer my heartfelt congratulations to all Americans.

So words! Did they still happen? Yes, yes they did.

Not very many before PA saved our collective sanity and announced but I kept plugging away at it after dinner to make up the count. On WriYe the challenge is “5k weekend” and so I wanted to get at least half that today so tomorrow wouldn’t be a total uphill slog. Ideally this morning I wanted a bit more because I did have some pie in the sky thoughts about trying to hit 20k for the month tomorrow (I’d need 4k tomorrow for that so that’s not likely).

Anyway, Helen has finally allowed herself to think about feelings a tiny bit (she was avoiding the topic even in her own head up until now). They got caught entering Praxis and are currently restrained in the execution chamber. Oh no! How will our heroes get out of this one? Hehe 🙂 

Although to be honest I think at the moment Helen and John are more concerned by the fact that James was taken somewhere else….

Words Written: 2,523
Current Total: 15,975  

Well holy shit that was a lot to wake up to this morning.

I can’t stop laughing. The constant stream of memes has been a distraction but dear god didn’t we all need a laugh. Plus it amuses the hell out of me to think of some poor college student in the future trying to make sense of it all for a paper.

Anyway, I still wrote words. I must waffle or something because the gang are just in the tunnels approaching Praxis now. So no action yet but tomorrow for sure there will be soldiers with guns, and yelling and shooting, and death and resurrection, and daring escapes and stealing stuff.

That’s the plan anyway. I also think I need to start getting a little less subtle with this OT3. Maybe I’ll work in a flashback to Oxford days, I think that would go well with the whole death/resurrection thing. You know, my last thought was of you. I just got to do it. Honestly this ship is so damn tragic.

Oh! And I’m now 2 days ahead of pace. I love Sanctuary 🙂

Words Written: 2,052
Current Total: 13,452 

We’ve left Helen’s office, rejoice! Haha.

Honestly I didn’t think words were going to happen today. I woke up tired which I didn’t get because I’d had my usual amount of sleep (I was less tired yesterday after only two hours sleep!) and then I had to clean the house. That made me even more tired and the news really doesn’t help.

It got to 3pm and I opened up what I wrote yesterday. I fiddled with it for an hour and so it was even later. I mean I struggle to start things at the best of times but at 4pm? Yeah that’s a stopping time, not a starting one. However, I decided I had to a least get a few words – get out of the damn office – so I finished that. I was then only a couple of hundred away from 10k so I started the next scene, and then I was only a bit away from 1k, and anyway I managed to grow it.

I’m proud of myself for today. It would have been easy to have not bothered, I was a day ahead of pace anyway. It would have been easy to have watched TV or played Warcraft this evening, but instead I kept plugging away at it. I actually chose to do that, so yeah I’m proud of me.

Tomorrow will be a bit more action-orientated as The Five (four) break into Praxis to steal the blood. I wonder what that’ll do for my words.

Words Written: 2,454
Current Total: 11,400

Ok I got maybe 2 hours sleep last night. I felt really jittery and weird this morning but as the day went on it passed. To be honest I don’t even feel tired. I confess I’ve been refreshing the news pretty much constantly, desperate for any crumb of good news. I guess we always knew that the only way Trump would leave the white house is kicking and screaming. It’s going to be a long few weeks I think 🙁

Anyway, enough of that. My tumblr is supposed to be a safe zone. Back to the words! Bizarrely they did still happen today. I know right? I’m as shocked as you. But no we still have not left Helen’s office. In fact we weren’t actually there at all because the whole of today was spent on a flashback to 1945 Praxis.

It’s times like these that I wonder why I’m writing this because nobody but me will ever read it, as nobody would want to. I mean seriously, a couple of thousand words on a flashback? I mean it had Nikola in it but no other show characters. It’s probably a bit too plotty at the moment (I’ll get to the OT3 stuff later) but I suppose I could always try and fix that in editing.

Words Written: 2,089
Current Total: 8,946 

Today was harder. Got to be honest I had nightmares most of last night, undoubtedly triggered by the election. I know I don’t usually mention it, tumblr is for happy things as I need at least one escape in life but man it’s a real worry. Sleeping tonight is going to be interesting to say the least. Anyway, it took me forever to actually start and I wasn’t very focused.

Still, all that being said I made par so I have maintained my ‘day ahead’ buffer which is nice. But no they have not managed to leave Helen’s office yet. Nikola is still telling his story about Praxis but we are reaching the end of his tale. We’ll probably leave the office tomorrow for … I don’t think I actually decided where I should have Lania hide out. Somewhere in Europe I think, Italy maybe.

Soon The Five (or rather the four because poor Nigel didn’t make it to the 21st century) will be storming the castle metaphorically speaking. That’s a Soon™ though because Nikola needs to get slapped first. Definitely planning a “I might have deserved that but not sure I deserved that” line hehe.

Words Written: 1,788
Current Total: 6,857

So yesterday was not a fluke!

Honestly you could knock me down with a feather. I did more writing! In fact I did pretty much the same amount of writing as yesterday! I’m a day AHEAD of pace! *falls over* like what is happening here? An overuse of exclamation marks obviously but yowzer.

There be words on the page.

Awful, awful words really. I did go back today and try and put in where people are standing. I am terrible at remembering to do description. I want to break up dialogue, ok now my character can do some thinking instead. Seriously it’s bad, especially as the scene isn’t changing (they are still in Helen’s office) we’re just having breaks for flashbacks as Nikola is telling a story. So obviously people are going to forget who is in the room and where they are etc.

Honestly I’ve always been terrible with remembering to describe but this is definitely a new low. Fanfic just makes me lazy I think because you guys know what they look like already *guilt, guilt* ok let’s not focus on that too much. I mean I’m not posting it so it doesn’t matter, moving on. WORDS!

Maybe if I just keep on writing the ability to describe will come back to me somehow, I mean I don’t think I used to be quite this bad… anyway no, it’s fine, it’s fine, perhaps when they are moving around a bit and not just talking it’ll be easier. I hope. We can always hope.

Words Written: 2,532
Current Total: 5,069