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NaNo – Day Five

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While I’m being random and procrastinating how about a status update?

You might have noticed I skipped posting on Day Three and Four… yeah it’s not going so well.

I didn’t write at all on Day Three, yesterday I wrote just shy of 1k and today so far nada – basically getting increasingly off pace. I currently have 5,555 (which was totally by accident) and I should have 8,333 by the end of the day.

This is not insurmountable and there are reasons *cough* excuses *cough* but bah basically I have mid-book blues because… I’m in the middle of the book! I started with a project that was about 35% complete. I know myself, I know how the drafting process goes and the middle is a slog.

It’s far enough away from the beginning the enthusiasm has waned and the end feels so far out of reach. I have those pesky writer thoughts like “why did you ever think you could write?” “who are you kidding this is terrible!” “burn it with fire” etc. etc. Once I get close to the end then it’s all downhill in a rush to the finish line, it’s just the middle is a sticky swamp of despair.

Not to fear though *strikes heroic pose* this book will be finished! I will get back on track eventually. It’s just a mental hurdle I have to overcome. By the end of the month I will have my finished first draft and that’s a promise.

Oh and I know I still haven’t repopulated my queue. I have liked a bunch of things in preparation but haven’t got round to it. One day. Same with my TBR pile. If you want anything read soon then send me links. I’m reading stuff under my nose first.

Now I’m really going to shut up now, I need to finish my script for the presentation I’m giving on Wednesday.

#I love you all still I promise I’m just lousy at doing things#my time management sucks

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Oh and as I’m being random today (aka procrastinating because being self-destructive is how I roll) – Thor: Ragnarok.

Spoilers, spoilers, don’t read if haven’t seen.

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Question! If Thor gets his power from Asgard like Hela, now that Asgard is gone does that mean he’s no longer the god of thunder? Does that mean no more lightning powers? Inquiring minds want to know.

NaNo – Day Two

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Today didn’t start off great.

My alarm went off at 6am so I could get an hours writing time before the day began. It does that everyday but yeah – I just whacked it and didn’t get up this morning, which was dumb because Thursday should theoretically be the easiest day for getting up early as it’s my early day. I need to leave the house around 7:30am but apparently bed was where it was at this morning.

Thursday is my longest day but I have a big gap in the middle, 11-3pm sized gap actually so I headed for the library and did a few words. I’ve agreed to run point for a write-in on Thursday’s so I walked to a nearby coffee shop for 1:30pm and did a couple of sprints with other writers.

I was home about 6pm which was good, rush hour was kind to me today, but I had a tension headache and felt very tired. Dinner kinda revived me and I decided to try and hit 5k today. I wrote more words … but not quite enough words. Tiredness won and I’m going to bed now after typing this.

It’s 9:30pm, so that’s totally legit. Hehe actually when the clocks went back last week I actually went to bed at just gone 8pm on a Saturday night – I know how to have a good time 🙂

Today: 1,815
Total: 4,606  

NaNo – Day One

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still-searching47:

Urk I have forgotten how to word.

Seriously!

I suppose I deserve it after writing next to nothing all year, and then trying to write a) an original story and b) something partly started, I’m picking it up in the middle for crying out loud! No runaway fun with the beginning.

Still this is painfully slow, like I’m shocked and appalled at how little I’ve done when I was hoping instead for shock and awe.

I was hoping to start the first day with a bang but this is more like a whimper, a little pathetic plea of suckage. Disgruntled! That’s the word, that’s what I am.

Hmm this is not the status post I wanted to write. I wanted buzzing excitement and success. Boo hiss. Soon! Only way is up right?

Right so all of this is true ^^ BUT…

I might have been a little bit hasty with the negativity.

While it’s true I didn’t get anywhere near what I wanted, I got the daily target and then a bit extra. I also finally finished the scene which had been laying unfinished for over a year, my speed increased as time went on, and something unexpected happened. I always love that! I plan quite thoroughly but sometimes things still surprise me.

I had a new character appear. All I know about him is that he looks like Ewan McGregor in Star Wars II or III and I think he’s going to tie in with a subplot in book four that has previously had ???? all over it and “the Captain returns” so yeah that’s cool.

Today: 2,791
Total: ^^

Anyway, I need to go to my club meeting. I think I’m going to have a comic published in the uni’s “comic book society” book, it’s exciting!

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With the recent casting announcement I’m going to post a crack idea that adds season seven details to a crack fanfic idea I had from when I was having a snarky day.

Apparently I’m having a sarcastic day today as well. This doesn’t really reflect my views of the show. I’m just being silly.

Anyway an adult Robyn (Zelena’s daughter) is now in the picture so…

Basically – Wicked Witch 2.0.

She heard about her mother’s past and was proud for all of two seconds until she learned of Zelena’s failure. She decides to succeed and actually “change everything” with time travel wahoo because nothing is more confusing on a show that has frequently flashbacks than then playing around with the timeline.

Only trouble is … presenting the “ooops broke it trope” where she succeeds in traveling back in time but she also kinda fractures the universe. The barriers between realms start to break down, time goes weird with some people aging and some people not but because it was a spell – nobody notices.

It’s like when you travel across the galaxy and fall out of the wormhole and get somewhere weeks earlier than you left – it makes that kind of sense aka not much at all.

Then we present the “amnesia trope” and “you thought it was the bad guy but it was us trope” which is a rehash of ‘Dark Curse 2.0′ aka echoing Zelena’s story even more (because they love that) where the good guys cast the curse to go to Hyperion Heights as that evacuates everyone from the collapsing realm and they add the cursed memories to keep Robyn out of the way while they take care of it.

The only trouble is they have to team up with Lady Tremaine in order to cast the spell (because plot twist) and of course Lady Tremaine has her own plans and so she double crosses them. They weren’t supposed to have cursed memories, just like Regina never did the first time around, but Lady Tremaine swaps their exception for her own.

Wait, wait, I hear you ask – what was that darkness that came for Henry, and then Lucy and Tiger Lily in the forest. Well
1) this show drops plots like that all the time, it was last season does anyone remember that?
2) as a less snarky response and because they like to juggle lots of plots at once, that was ‘the darkness’ coming for Henry.

Also because my sarcasm valve is stuck wide open let’s say that Henry is the guardian but the vault doesn’t want to stay closed. Rumple heard that legend when it was just the dark one but it’s Merlin’s powers as well now and it’s just too much.

So Rumple takes the curse back, which is why he has it and didn’t die in Hyperion Heights. He sacrifices eternity with Belle to be the hero that she would want him to be.

Only this is a show about hope! Happy endings! So blah blah season seven and then they defeat Robyn but there’s only one way to knit the timelines back together *drum roll please*

Once Upon a Time there was a small town in Maine.

*knock knock* “Are you Emma Swan?”

and the bug drives into town.

“Every story in this book actually happened.”
“The End”

NaNo – Day One

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Urk I have forgotten how to word.

Seriously!

I suppose I deserve it after writing next to nothing all year, and then trying to write a) an original story and b) something partly started, I’m picking it up in the middle for crying out loud! No runaway fun with the beginning.

Still this is painfully slow, like I’m shocked and appalled at how little I’ve done when I was hoping instead for shock and awe.

I was hoping to start the first day with a bang but this is more like a whimper, a little pathetic plea of suckage. Disgruntled! That’s the word, that’s what I am.

Hmm this is not the status post I wanted to write. I wanted buzzing excitement and success. Boo hiss. Soon! Only way is up right?

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So … I’ve only just got in and I’m about to collapse into bed so I’m still on mobile. That’s why I haven’t:

– replied to the lovely comment puddlejumper38 left me earlier

– repopulated my queue

– read my friends fic (I want to I swear)

– though mentioning fic makes me think of my ever increasing TBR pile *cries*

And it’s NaNo tomorrow.

I wanted to post about NaNo before it happened as I think I’m going to take a leaf from Worry’s book and do a daily status post. I always really enjoy reading theirs and I think it could be fun.

Anyway I wish I could say I’m so late because of studying – but that was yesterday (16 hours in total) – I went to see Thor: Ragnarok and while I have a lot of thoughts on it my main one is…

I forgive them now for Lady Sif not being in it.

I was so disappointed when she wasn’t in the cast but given the events of the movie my new headcanon is she is out being awesome somewhere hence her lack of presence and *cough* continued life.

If I had a timeturner and didn’t have a gazillion more pressing things to do I would totally write some Lady Sif fic. You know what actually my new, new headcanon is she wasn’t in the movie because she is so badass she would have dealt with the bad guy and left Thor nothing to do.

I’m going to shut up now. I really need sleep.

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Do you ever have completely the ‘wrong’ reaction to something? Then wonder why you are the only one?

In class today we saw a clip from “The Room” it was in the context of a film being so bad it was good and how the culture around watching it changed the experience.

However, all I could think was this was a class depiction of the beginnings of an abusive relationship. Maybe it was the clip and in context it wouldn’t appear like that I don’t know. I just found it very disturbing that people were laughing at the emotional blackmail and beginnings of physical abuse.

I didn’t say anything because of the ridicule I faced a couple of weeks ago. We watched this advert which I’d never seen before and until the end I thought it was for childline or something like that and the tag would be “emotional neglect is not ok” or something similar but apparently it was advertising John Lewis at Christmas. Other people were saying how the advert was all about love and family and I just hadn’t read it that way.

It really makes me wonder sometimes if there’s something wrong with me.

puddlejumper38 replied to your post “Do you ever have completely the ‘wrong’ reaction to something? Then…”

I know the film you mean, and although I haven’t seen it myself, my sister has and she was describing it like it was the funniest thing in the world. And… well… I agree with you. Things she was laughing at sounded pretty awful, and I think I should add that no one else in my family laughed either.

This is so reassuring thank you! It’s really nice to hear that I’m not alone.

I wanted to reply to you yesterday but I wasn’t on the PC. I really miss the reply extension when I’m on mobile. I’ve got so used to it that it’s annoying to realize it’s not an actual feature.

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Can I have a time-turner please?

Too many things to do and not enough time.

There’s this scene on NCIS where Tony gets out of the car, walks three paces, screams and then gets back in the car – it feels a bit like that!

#cries#I know taking the time to write this post is self-defeating but gah I need to let it out somehow