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An early christmas present arrived in the mail this morning – my NaNo wristband. It reads “The sword with which I slay the beast called doubt” and I don’t think I’ll ever take it off.

Lately I’ve been going through my blog archives. I’ve done 2016 so far (May-December) which is when I was most prolific with my fic writing. The thing that struck me the most wasn’t how much I wrote (though I am jealous of past!me), it was how I stuck to my routine like glue.

– Every week I did a summary of fics posted
– Every month I did a summary AND a plan outlining what I wanted from the upcoming month
– Without fail for that entire time pretty much I posted every single week, on a Tuesday, it was my thing.

I know from reading my #Sam talks writing posts that I didn’t write every single day, but I wrote every week – I had a writing routine! I can’t really stress that enough because of how opposite things are with me right now, I’ll go weeks/months without writing fic and I hate it. I feel like I’m losing who I am.

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I was right. Spite is an excellent motivator. Nearly 2000 words and it isn’t even lunchtime yet.

ETA (4:20pm): Getting on for 4000 words now.

Spite is good, spite is helpful, but I’m starting to run out of steam. Contemplating whether I should try and power on through and (miracle on miracles) finish this today, or if tomorrow is good enough.

I have 4 scenes left. I have well and truly broken the back of this fic and thankfully it’s not as long as I guesstimated originally. It’s just shy of 10k right now, so I’m thinking it might top out at around 12k.

I’m thinking maybe I’ll have something to eat and see how I feel. Breaks are usually bad for me as I struggle to start again BUT I can kinda taste the end, and finishing things is so sweet, kinda all downhill from here you know? Plus – spite.

Really nothing helps typing speed more than fix-it fic I swear.

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“I’m avoiding spoilers!” I said yesterday.

*reads comment on the AU fluff I posted yesterday*

Oh 🙁

Seriously is nowhere safe?

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since it aired. I thought there was a 3 day etiquette to these things at least. Ugh.

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Status Update!

I’ve broken the back of the AMR drawing. I am not going to admit how much time I’ve spent *cough* but I have learned tons so that’s what took the time really. After all speed comes with practice and I’m still fumbling around.

I know I should have been working on the RBB but this was like practice? I now know so many more things which should hopefully make the RBB art much much better *cross fingers*

My Timeless post-season 2 fic is still at 5k *rolls eyes at self* I’m just going to dodge spoilers for the next week or so. If the wrap-up is good I’ll probably lose all motivation. If it isn’t I’m not sure I want to know. Although having said that spite is helpful for typing speed, gives me a lot of steam to write.

Nope, no, dodging spoilers. I have no clue when/if I’ll get to watch as I haven’t heard about UK broadcast, maybe netflix will add it at some point? They have season 1 but not 2, so maybe? Idk how it works. So I won’t be able to avoid them for forever but maybe at least until I finish my fic.

Anyway now I’m pretty certain I’ll be able to finish this drawing for the end of the month I need to swap to writing. My time to do everything is just slipping through my fingers like water, it’s scary! Eeeek.

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Just watched the new Tomb Raider movie. I confess I enjoyed the older Angelina Jolie movies more. They were just more fun.

Although I suppose the timing was different. Jolie’s Lara was a seasoned adventurer and had the skills to match, this new one was like an origin story so I guess it makes sense that she spent most of the movie screaming in pain.

I’m sorry I guess I just like slick escapism more than gritty quasi-realism /shrug

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Right let’s do the time warp again let’s do the plan and then make it happen. It worked for NaNo prep, even if NaNo then torpedoed.

I have until January 13th. In that time I want need to:
– finish post-season 2 Garcy fic that I promised Ripper
– finish the Celeb/Fan AU Garcy fic that I promised Ripper
– finish Chapter 11 of Painting Layers of Love (I know I can’t even say it’s been 84 years because it’s been so long *cringes*)
– finish that lingering novel draft
– make heavy inroads into my RBB art
– do the art I have planned for this months AMR

The celeb/fan AU is written I just need to look it over as I wasn’t very happy with it, so some potential redrafting and then post it.

This post-season 2 fic I wanted to have done before the wrap-up movie aired on the 20th (in 4 days!!) so I doubt that’s going to happen but I have no idea when/if I’ll be able to see it, and I can avoid spoilers for a while so I guess a slight delay is ok? *cringes*

The PLL chapter is planned but not started. That novel is only half-written so a long long way to go with that.

I have the basic line art for the AMR drawing but nothing else yet, and I have nothing but the idea for the RBB piece.

So that’s where I need to be and that’s where I’m at.

I’m throwing myself at the post-season 2 fic first and in a few days/hopefully when I’ve made some decent headway I’ll reassess work order priority. Obviously the AMR art needs to be done before the end of the month and cleaning up that fic should be relatively quick so I could just do that and take it off the list.

Ok, here’s hoping I can actually concentrate. Let’s do this thing! 🙂

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Don’t you hate it when a TV show is better in your head? So when you want to watch it, what you actually want to watch is the version in your head and reality disappoints and you know that, which kinda stops you from watching it at all.

Don’t you hate it when you rewatch a show so many times because it is so genuinely awesome that you get a bit over it? It still feels like coming home, like a warm comforting blanket but the magic thrill is slightly less due to too much exposure.

Don’t you hate it when you really want to watch something but don’t know what? And all you can think about is option A or B above and so nothing feels right?

I just know what’s going to happen now. I’m going to roam about for half an hour, going ugh! throwing up my hands, getting super frustrated, and then I’m going to pick something. Self, can’t we just skip the annoying part and have a nice evening please? kk thanks *rolls eyes at self*

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Ok I’m on the 4th scene of this epic fanfic I forgot I was supposed to be writing.

There are 14 scenes on the plan.

I have nearly 4.5k already (not all from today, about 1.5k is todays) and the fourth scene isn’t finished so it’ll probably be about an average of 1250 per scene? (trying to guesstimate length, I suck at this) so that’s what about another 13k perhaps?

Before the 20th. Which is in 6 days.

Oh yeah that’s over NaNo-pace

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I’m toast.

#I suck I’m sorry#the deadline kinda snuck up on me#why did I forget I was supposed to be writing this?

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Rogue One always makes me cry a little.

I know it’s realistic for good guys to get killed, I just hate it.

I always start sniffing when the space battle begins and I start mentally counting how many fighters the rebels are losing 🙁 it’s not just the main characters that saddens me, it’s everyone. They are all fighting for the same cause and just yeah, it makes me sad 🙁

Usually I cheer when they take out those two star destroyers but I must be extra sappy tonight because all I could think was even more death. Honestly it was very brave imo for them to make a movie where the tagline could have been “pretty much everyone dies” or “we’ll spend two hours making you care about them and then kill them all”.

In less depressing news I’ve decided I want a Bail Organa movie because this guy is a legend.

– Coruscant is in flames. Everything is confusing. He instantly acts to protect the Jedi, reaching out to try to warn them.
– He picks up Yoda and Obi-Wan. He personally rescues Yoda the second time fresh from his battle with Palpatine.
– While doing all of this bold as brass he goes to the senate chamber, right in the heart of Palpatine’s power.
– He offers without hesitation to adopt Leia, even though at that point he had no idea whether Vader/Palpatine would be hunting for the kids or not. There was a definite possibility it would put a target on his back.
– He’s obviously an instrumental part of the rebellion/alliance as seen in Rogue One and he raised Leia to be well – Leia, as awesome as we know her.
– I don’t know much about his background or what is even canon anymore outside the movies, but in the movies he seems to just be a politician? I think it’s important that he’s not a fighter. He doesn’t have the skills to pick up a gun and take down the bad guys but he still does whatever he possibly can.

Bail Organa guys.

You know they could even combine it with a Obi-Wan movie during the Tatooine years and the formation of the Rebel Alliance. I’ll just try and ignore the fate of Bail Organa and Alderaan as honestly him leaving Yavin 4 for Alderaan knowing what’s going to happen soon after 🙁 🙁