Oh yeah! Half a million words in 2016 – goal met 🙂 Thank you to everyone for all the kind words and lovely encouragement. You are all amazing and I appreciate all of you *hugs*

Ok I have 4,345 words to write before tomorrow! I’m also procrastinating – yay me! 🙂

Excuse me while I grumble for a second – I had to work that out with a calculator! I know the horror haha 🙂 It’s because I built myself a word count meter, a very rough and dirty one to work like NaNo’s graph and tell me things like how many words I have left to write until target. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to like today and I haven’t coded seriously in years. I coded this meter in the summer and I’m just not up to debugging it today. So I’m just snarling at it because it’s decided not to work.

In other news I saw Rogue One yesterday. Knowing what the outcome had to be because obviously it’s a prequel, and watching the events live and in color are very different. No spoilers but honestly, I was torn between amazement at the wonderful visual scenes, and horror/sadness at the story. Also Governor Tarkin’s very existence gave me so many ideas about digitally created people, and Lord Vader well … I know they said that they kept his scenes minimal because he then had a greater impact but seriously I would watch a whole movie of him swinging a lightsaber around.

I am like a child sometimes. I mean it’s stupid because if I did just see a movie where it was all flash with wonderful fight scenes, then I would be griping because it’s the story that stays with me, not the visual effects. So while I might watch a movie like that, it wouldn’t then be a very good movie. It’s just I mean it’s Star Wars and that means lightsabers. Heh, I came home and I logged into Swtor to swing around the lightsaber myself. I’m going through the class storyline for the Jedi Consular at the moment – double bladed lightsaber and I’m kinda roleplaying as an Obi-Wan type figure. To be honest I have more fun playing on the side of the Empire. The Imperial Agent storyline is epic and I want to play that again. I probably won’t because I’ve had this game since it’s launch 5 years ago and I’m still barely halfway through the base game, I haven’t touched a single one of the expansions.

I’m going to shut up now. I have 4,345 words to write today /slaps self.

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Come on, I know you can manage 4.345 words! Btw, Star Wars is simply too cool for words.

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My mind was boggled by Rogue One, too. I know just what you mean about being torn between euphoria and horror. And yes, the digital effects–to see Carrie Fisher as the Princess Leia before the events of A New Hope on the day she passed away. It was surreal in every respect.And yes, you will get the words done. Remember they don’t have to be perfect words. Just words.

Thank you both, you are so nice!

I have about 500 words, so I’m what 1/9th of the way there? It doesn’t matter, I’ve started and that’s the hard part. I just got to keep going from here. Right now, Emma and Bae have just gone into the school dance and Mary Margaret embarrassed them. I’ll be swapping back to Belle and Gold in a bit, where finally Gold will learn Belle’s plans for their evening. I’ll give you a hint it involves a certain mansion by the sea 🙂

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still-searching47:

Synopsis: Following directly on from All Hallow’s Fall. Due to the events of Halloween, Storybrooke finally becomes aware of Gold and Belle’s relationship and small towns can be vicious places. Gold fears it will tear them apart, but adversity can lead to strength not just ruin, and maybe even one day – a happy ending.

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I am so sorry, and kinda embarrassed, that it’s been over a month since I last updated this. I had RSS and other excuses, and I don’t know where the time went, but well oops. Thanks to @woodelf68 for the frozen turkey prompt, and to @mariequitecontrarie for explaining about the football and the traditional thanksgiving fare. Anyway, no apologies for how fluffy this is – this is the fluffy fic 🙂 Enjoy!

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Belle didn’t
regret a second of the previous day. From the talk she’d had with Alistair,
leading to the sort-of proposal, choosing the ring, the promise of a ‘proper
proposal’ and then celebrating their ‘almost’ engagement all night. Yesterday
had been wonderful. However, if she could have a do-over then she would change one thing. There was only the three of
them for thanksgiving, their first thanksgiving as a family, so the bird was
only small. Unfortunately the size of the turkey didn’t help, given they’d
forgotten to get it out of the freezer last night and it was still frozen
solid.

She had been so
frazzled this morning, with packing everything up to transport to the cabin,
that she hadn’t noticed the turkey’s state. Now, it was sitting on the counter of
the cabin’s kitchen, and she was staring at it with absolute panic. This was
thanksgiving dinner, and thanksgiving was all about the food and the turkey was
the star. Belle felt sick, the horror show in front of her playing out live and
in technicolor. She was a complete failure, their first thanksgiving as a
family albeit unofficial at this point, and she had screwed it up.

Her hand
automatically went to her cellphone. The reception was patchy out here, and all
the stores were going to be closed, but maybe Alistair could think of
something. Belle frowned, and chewed on her lip, contemplating both the turkey
disaster and Alistair’s mysterious errand. She wished that he was here, and
that they had faced the revelation of the frozen turkey together. Alone she was
instinctively panicking which was making it hard to think logically. She had
just wanted today to go well.

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That was the best proposal ever. AND I ABSOLUTELY HATE FOOD PACKAGES THAT DON’T OPEN WITHOUT THE AID OF SCISSORS OR KNIVES. ‘TEAR HERE’ THEY SAY. HAH! YOU COULD STARVE TO DEATH SURROUNDED BY FOOD.

*Ahem* Pet peeve of mine, there. It actually worked out really well with Moe. Belle gets time to prepare for his presence, he gets to go home and watch football, and the turkey gets to thaw. I fully support flexible holidays.

Heh well having just had a flexible Christmas, I suppose “moving parts of the holiday around” was on my mind. Also, it’s thanksgiving in the fic – not the correct time of year for that due to the unexpected months hiatus – flexibility all around 🙂 I’m so pleased you liked it, thank you very much!

leni-ba replied to your post “I Love the Way (Chapter Five)”

*melts into happy puddle* I loved all of this, from the little details like Bae asking for help opening the potato chips bag (didn’t we all, at that age? lol), to Moe’s reaction at being told there was no dinner that day after all.

Poor Belle, lots of stress, but I really loved to see the two of them handle everything.

And then of course the proposal… awwwwww! *hugs fic* This is so good!

At that age? You mean I shouldn’t ask for help opening stuff now? To be fair my family kinda swap things around. The rules seems to be if you can’t open something, pass it to the nearest person. If they can’t open it, then you need to go find the scissors.

Yeah I think Moe was a bit suspicious of the invitation in the first place, and then thought that Gold had pulled a fast one on him. Moe’s theory was that Gold had asked him to score brownie points, knowing full well he couldn’t stay. However, Belle cut Moe off before there could be a fight. Yeah the proposal *cough* that was so fluffy but hey, some extra fluff right before New Year seems like a good idea to me 🙂

I’m so glad you liked it, thank you so much!

Haha well I will definitely be doing Monthly Rumbelling next month. I’ve already written one of the fics. I would blame Ripper, but this fic wasn’t either of the ones that they were encouraging me to write. Yup, it’s entirely my fault 🙂

I know, I know, I’m supposed to be working on WIP’s. I’ve decided to go through them in order that I last updated, as that seems the most equitable way of doing it. That means I Love the Way is first. I need 1k more to finish the next chapter for that. Counting Stars is next which I haven’t even started, then Painting Layers of Love which is about ¼ done.

I need to write 6k more this month to meet my goal. #TeamDoThing