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emospritelet:

thatravenclawbitch:

This week has been crazy and we’ve had something going on every single night and I’ve barely written a word and I feel crappy about it. November is always a terrible writing month. Why isn’t NaNo in like June? 

Same here, I’ve written like 16 words 🙁

Fun fact! Or maybe not so fun idk but NaNo’s very first year (1999) it took place in July. In 2000 it moved to November to “more fully take advantage of the miserable weather”.

Much to the dismay of college students everywhere :p hehe

Although next year when the new site launches I think there will be tools for year-round NaNo. They will still have the big event in November but it should be easier to stage your own. I fully expect many community groups will do just that.

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Sitting here feeling rubbish (stupid cold) and an old memory surfaced. I can’t 100% recall the year, I think it was 2013 but it might have been 2012. I visited Grandma and I was talking about NaNo. I think I was having trouble deciding on a project, or it was part-through the month and not going as well as I’d like – either way I was groaning a little bit how writers do heh.

Grandma responded with “didn’t you do that before?”

“Yes, a few times”

“Then why are you doing it again? You’ve done it.”

I was a bit too flabbergasted at the time to come up with a reasonable response but in the face of today’s disappointment I think I have one – a translation for the rest of the world.

Picture this it’s some big sporting event, football final or something which happens every year. You clear your schedule/take time off work to watch the games. The day they start you get sick, you can’t watch them live. Oh you can watch them later but it’ll be more difficult because you’ve used your work-free days to be sick in bed. You watched them last year? One game is the same as any other? I don’t think any sporting enthusiast would agree, different teams, different match-ups = different results.

Anyway ignore me I just felt like sharing that.

#ignore me#it is only day two after all it just feels like forever when you are in the middle of it#just feeling a little bitter and annoyed today#sorry for whining#this time next week I hope I’ll be groaning in embarrassment at this and everything will be fine

The NaNo Report: Day One

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Taking a leaf from Worry’s book like I said.

Nothing really to report today because I’m sick. I just about managed to go to class and come home without incident. I then had a two hour nap rather than wording but as breathing is a challenge right now (and my watch is having fits because my heart rate is way too high for someone not moving) I’m going to consider day one a write-off but an acceptable loss.

Tomorrow I don’t have class so I’m hopeful that I’ll manage to scrape a few words to get off the starting block at least. It’s still only the beginning of the month, no need to panic just yet 🙂

Words written: 0
Current total: 0

#seriously I’m still annoyed that I made it halfway through the semester without getting sick#and now its my favourite time of year I get a cold and I know it’s only a cold but it’s yucky and it sucks ugh

All NaNo’s Eve

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Well 5 days ago I had a list and everything bar one thing has been completed (or at least completed to the amount required for the moment). The one thing that didn’t get done is writing so duh just going to write it next month AND get to count the words for it – no brainer really.

So yeah. Wow. Did not expect that. Go me! Hehe 🙂

Anyway, what is on the list for this month? Not sure if I’ve already said. If I have then bear with me:
– 35k of a lingering original project (aka finish the neglected first draft)
– finish the poor languishing celeb/fan AU for Ripper (Garcy fic)
– Painting Layers of Love (Chapter Eleven)
– post-season 2 fic for Ripper (Garcy)
– In You Arms: Part Three
– One night stand turns to true love (Rumbelle)

I think I’ll probably take a leaf out of Worry’s book and do a little report everyday. I’ll make sure to pick a tag so you can blacklist if it bugs you. That list is in order of priority. If the last two items don’t get done then I can live with that, but I really want the other four.

How about posting? I would like to post something during November but it definitely won’t be this week heh. Maybe next week. I don’t know what percentage of my writing time will go where during the month yet. Have to see.

I’m excited – next week I’ll be groaning heh – but for now I’m just enjoying the anticipation of my most favourite time of year 🙂

(even if I am being a rebel which doesn’t have quite the same magical sheen as a trad nano)

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fuckyeaheliotspencer:

Ok, so we’ve got best of eliot and parker, now how about best of hardison?

Basically anytime he mentions his nana? So the orphan job when he says she was his foster mom, the high school job with the flashback to Iceland paying her medical bills, the low low price job when he says buying from that chain store was the only way nana could feed them all. Oh and the Juror job when he says about how he was taught to talk to people

I like the interactions with Chaos too so “I have the cameras” “now I have the cameras and motion sensors” etc. The pilot when he put the office together – actually it’s always Hardison that finds them the base isn’t it? “For the horde” on that airline job when he didn’t even work there but had a birthday party and pretended to get fired and nobody realised he was only there a day.

Erm what else? Oh definitely the job when they were split and it was just the three of them and he says about the NSA “did they give me a cool nickname?” – oh man I could go on. That’s the thing with Leverage to be honest. EVERY  episode is “best of” for pretty much every character. There’s so many wonderful moments.

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I am totally pants at estimating length BUT I just outlined from Day Twenty-Two (where we left off) to Day Thirty-Nine of Panting Layers of Love. Yes that is right

Painting Layers of Love has the start of a plan!

I’m thinking I might put a bit of a time-skip in after Day 39 but I’m not sure because I have to go out! I have to stop! Honestly stopping once something is flowing is the most annoying thing in the world I swear. I’m terrified that I’ll lose momentum and get stuck again

buuuut even leaving aside that I have no clue on length (because I suck) there are 15 scenes I just planned – that’s 4 and a bit chapters comparing to previous chapter scene allocations.

So I think it’s safe to say that I know what’s coming next for a little bit 🙂

Finally!

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I made it to week 6 – WEEK SIX – of the semester

It is the day before NaNo!!!

and I’m sick

NaNo plague I swear /grump /grump

Only a cold but still could do without! DO. NOT. WANT! ugh!

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galactic-pirates:

Trying to plot my post-Season 2 Garcy fic and I just have to do it

“I really hate Time Travel”

– Eve Baird (The Librarians)

avoiding a paradox is headache-inducing.

SOLVED! 🙂

Ok so that is one fic planned, one to go…

(still had time travel btw)

T – 2 (Update)

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So three days ago I was panicking a bit. Had a big long list of stuff to do pre-NaNo and was despairing being ready. Last November I had my worst NaNo total ever and I so want this year to be different and it just felt like a bad omen

Buuuuuut

Progress!

I finished my series bible and created the book bible for Painting Layers of Love. They were big tasks, lots of reading and I got good practice typing with all the notes. I also thought about it and combined the two Garcy fics I needed to plan into one fic, seeing as it was turning out longer anyway.

Still to do:
– plan that Garcy fic
– outline PLL (if I can that is)

I decided to shift the poor languishing Garcy fic to next month. It’s been shifted every week to next week for a month or more already, so it’s kinda used to it heh. Also my tutor did send us more homework as I predicted (why can’t she give it to us in class so we have the weekend?) so there is that to do pre-Thursday as well.

Ultimately though I have staged a comeback and caught up a bit. Which given that today was a bit of a day and I did next to nothing off this list, thank merlin the weekend came through for me.