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The NaNo Report: Day Four

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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 

The NaNo Report: Day Three

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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

The NaNo Report: Day Two

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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

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It’s NaNoWriMo time! My project this year is fanfic. That’s weird for me because I usually try and write an original novel. However, I’ve written next to nothing all year. Original just feels too serious and scary right now. I figured if I’m going to...

It’s NaNoWriMo time!

My project this year is fanfic. That’s weird for me because I usually try and write an original novel. However, I’ve written next to nothing all year. Original just feels too serious and scary right now. I figured if I’m going to stand any chance of writing then it’ll be on something fun.

It’s a Sanctuary fanfic (my current obsession). As you can tell from the cover it’s going to mainly feature The Five. Is it shippy? Maybe a little hehe 🙂 What can I say I want my OT3 to be happy.

Synopsis:

An infection, created by the evil Cabal, is sweeping through the abnormal community. Doctor Helen Magnus theorises that a cure/vaccine can be made from the source blood that gave The Five their abilities. Her father, Doctor Gregory Magnus, took the remainder of the vial away to secure it saying that only The Five working together would be able to retrieve it.

James Watson and John Druitt join Helen at the Sanctuary but Nigel died years ago and nobody has heard from Tesla since John put his fist through his chest – literally. However, before they can leave for the ruined city of Bhalasaam (where the blood is hidden) Tesla appears at the sanctuary. He confesses that they aren’t going to find the source blood where Gregory Magnus hid it … because he’s already retrieved it but the problem is he doesn’t have it anymore. Where is it? Praxis.

For anyone familiar with the show it’s mostly an AU branching from the season 1 finale. I’ve not seen past episode 3×15 yet so I may contradict any canon that is revealed after that point. Not that it matters as I haven’t decided whether to post it or not yet. This is mainly for me. Let’s hope it’s as fun as I hope 🙂

The NaNo Report: Day One

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Back by popular demand for an audience of one (aka me) I’m not just going to do NaNo I’m going to ramble about it too 🙂

Honestly I didn’t know what to expect out of today. Oh, I made some noises about a DORG (day one ridiculous goal) of 5k but in all honesty if I’d written absolutely nothing I wouldn’t have been surprised. I’ve been the living embodiment of “yours for the taking, and then you choked” all year long. The words have just not happened.

So the fact that I managed to write anything is cause for celebration. The fact that I wrote the daily target of 1,667 is cause for a massive dance party. The fact that I wrote a bit more than that? Man I might just break out the icecream. Talk about a red letter day.

I guess today proved my hypothesis that a non-serious project, based on my current obsession, would be the thing that did the trick. Thank you Sanctuary! 🙂

Words Written: 2,537
Current Total: 2,537 (as it’s day one)

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I did start off attempting to write a Bering and Wells trope-tastic christmas fic (and that still might happen) but my 444 words a day prompt (thank you 4thewords) has devolved into dissecting Myka’s character. It’s not something that will ever see the light of day because it isn’t really fiction, it’s kinda like Myka just thinking to herself about herself. I guess I’m trying to get a handle on the character.

It’s the kind of exercise that I’ve never really done before (but read about) and actually I think it’s not bad. It feels enough like writing that I feel free to do it and it’s sort of half-planning as well.

I think I might do the rest of the warehouse next (not all at the same time obviously) because I really, really, really want to write some AU fic but it’s essential to really know the characters before changing details like that. I have a lot of ideas that I want to explore!

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I want to write a christmas fic. I want to write a trope-tastic completely indulgent fic. I just have absolutely no idea where to start. I feel like I’ve got all the ingredients on the table – a handful of tropes here, a nice stack of christmassy prompts over there and and and… I’m stuck.

I haven’t written anything since April and that was just 1500 words. I am hilariously out of practice, my brain is just doing a “can not compute”.

Seriously I literally do not know where to begin 🙁

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I have a love/hate relationship with discovering shows late.

One aspect of this is yay binge watching but boo so much canon material I haven’t seen.

I’ve had this with Agents of Shield. I watch an episode and something makes me want to write fanfic but I’m weeks/months behind and as I don’t want to be completely spoiled I have no idea if what I’m thinking is stupid or not based on the episodes I’ve not seen thanks to living in the U.K.

I’ve written canon-divergence of course but doing so knowingly (or before it gets rendered thus by canon) is different from exploring something that canon has dealt with and I just don’t know because I’m behind.

It’s a very frustrating feeling.

But seriously if “how Hera and Kanan” met isn’t covered at some point then I’m going to write it.

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Do you ever start planning a new story and then think it’s actually the same story?

Or

Is it just repeating themes because that is common, authors do explore the same topic in different ways over and over, drawn to what interests them?

#todays dilemma should I combine the stories

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A couple of important writing thoughts:

  1. I have been super down on my writing for ages, actually starting to despair that I could write anything worth reading and then it hit me – I still get emails from AO3 multiple times a week saying I have Kudos. I haven’t posted anything really in a couple of years now. This proves two things:
    1. Everything is always new to someone. I have said this before when I have discovered shows several seasons in/after they were cancelled, they are old but ‘new to me’ and the same applies to written works.
    2. Obviously I can’t be that bad or people wouldn’t still be reading my stuff. I know it’s free and I have the inbuilt ‘in’ of writing about someones favourite characters, rather than having to try and make them love characters I’ve invented but even so.
  2. I’m not the same person I was a few years back. Stuff has happened in my life and I’ve got older and I have new perspectives on things now – so why would I expect my writing to be the same? The answer is I can’t. The stories that fit me back then, don’t fit me now and that is ok. It’s evolution and why Chris Baty is right. He said “the novel you write at 20 isn’t the one you’ll write at 30″ and that applies to me. The one I wrote at 25 isn’t going to be the same as the one I write at 30. I need to adapt my ideas to my new outlook.

So I don’t know what to do with this yet ^^ but I felt like saying it.