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November 22nd, 2009
09:27 pm - NaNo :: Day 16 - 1,688 words; 21,596/50,000.
Day One. Day Eleven.
Day Two. Day Twelve.
Day Three. Day Thirteen.
Day Four. Day Fourteen.
Day Five. Day Fifteen.
Day Six.
Day Seven.
Day Eight.
Day Nine.
Day Ten.
( The Unknown Scourge; Chapter V., cont. )
AAAKIIRAAAAA.
Oh, crazy creepy mad scientist that once had someone vaguely accuse me of minor racism toward the Japanese. XD How I have missed you.
And even the word count is something substantial, too! Now I can go to bed and stop spamming...until I try to do more catch up (maybe) in my typing again tomorrow.
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08:36 pm - NaNo :: Day 15 - 323 words; 19,908/50,000.
Day One. Day Eleven.
Day Two. Day Twelve.
Day Three. Day Thirteen.
Day Four. Day Fourteen.
Day Five.
Day Six.
Day Seven.
Day Eight.
Day Nine.
Day Ten.
( The Unknown Scourge: Chapter V. )
I lied. One more after this section, because I didn't realize Day 15 was so...scant. It's a damn good think that Day 16 hopefully makes up for some of it. And we're back to the ploooooot. That helps tooooooo, I'm sure. XD
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08:22 pm - NaNo :: Day 14 - 466 words; 19,585/50,000.
Day One. Day Eleven.
Day Two. Day Twelve.
Day Three. Day Thirteen.
Day Four.
Day Five.
Day Six.
Day Seven.
Day Eight.
Day Nine.
Day Ten.
( The Unknown Scourge; Chapter IV., fin. )
And, finally! The end of that chapter! One of those chapters that make you have to remind yourself fifty gazillion times that you can always edit and cut later, edit and cut later, edit and cut...
I really feel this chapter dragged me down through days when I already didn't have enough time to really write, so it picks up nicely from here again. Plan to do one more day for typing before I stop flooding FLs because I need to tuck in for bed because wahwaaaah, stupid Mondays.
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07:56 pm - NaNo :: Day 13 - 706 words, 19,119/50,000.
Day One. Day Eleven.
Day Two. Day Twelve.
Day Three.
Day Four.
Day Five.
Day Six.
Day Seven.
Day Eight.
Day Nine.
Day Ten.
( Chapter IV., cont. )
In which I attempt to get the plot moving again and actually start to like the story once more. Because we get away from the girls and bring in a male, for the "Male Book"? Or simply because I bring the cat in?
HMMM. I'm going with cat. And I'll admit that Katarina is totally a combination of my two cats. Her personality is Baldur's, but that squeak when you pick her up is entirely Genghis.
...shut up, I love my incestuous gay cats.
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04:35 pm - NaNo :: Day 12 - 396 words, 18,414/50,000.
Day One. Day Five. Day Nine.
Day Two. Day Six. Day Ten.
Day Three. Day Seven. Day Eleven.
Day Four. Day Eight.
( The Unknown Scourge, Chapter IV, cont. )
It was at this point that I realized that just as much as the book I was working on last month was a "Female Book," this one was a "Male Book," and this chapter just needed to end STAT. Too much SatC, not enough Heist.
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02:59 pm - NaNo :: Day 11 - 274 words. 18,018/50,000.
Day One. Day Five. Day Nine.
Day Two. Day Six. Day Ten.
Day Three. Day Seven.
Day Four. Day Eight.
( The Unknown Scourge :: Chapter IV cont. )
OH HAI THAR. Remember this? So, I haven't updated in approximately twelve days (almost two weeks, holy crap). Yes, that is reflective of how busy I've been lately. However, I have been plugging away at small little bits (barely pages), but every bit counts? I figured as long as I'm still writing, it counts, even if I don't have time to type it up. However, today, I actually met my soft goal for the first time since Day 5 (OUCH), and I'm hoping to get some more typed up and, eventually this week, maybe I'll even catch up. I think I just needed to get through Chapter IV, which I'm not fond of, and get to chapter VI, which is just beautiful, if I do say so myself.
ANYWAY, back to the writing a bit more before typing up another part.
Also, BRIAN, Day 2 link should be fixed and actually go to Day 2 now, so you can get back to reading. :)
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November 19th, 2009
05:23 am - Dum dum dum dum dum.
I'm trying to decide if it's a terrible idea or the best idea ever to have something about Joseph Smith on my Trivia Board at the pool today, since it's the anniversary of his death and New Boss is Mormon...
ETA -1: I should also note that today is International Toilet Day. Yes, my brain is telling me these two points are connected.
ETA: Meanwhile, I've decided to put up a Franz Schubert quote (he died today, too), with a really bad Hulk reference added to it.
ETA 2: Not only does today start my virtually 48 hours of just working straight, save time to sleep about 6 hours at night, but it's crunch day to get lessons entered into the system which means my mind is bouncy, and I will probably add about 50 gazillion ETAs to this post, or start flooding your FLs with random crap every half hour. You're welcome.
ETA 3: Also, I've used my mad icon making skillz to a professional advantage today, actually converting those skillz into making internet ads for the pool for this site. Ours is the one on the far left; it's one of a set of three all using my boss's impossibly adorable kids. I'm in the process of concieving an ad campaign for the pool that will utilize my cats, but that's a little harder.
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November 17th, 2009
05:35 am - trapped in a perfect world.
A random little thought for today:
I like The Lovely Bones. It really is a very good book.
But I feel bad, because I read it, and most of what I think is, "I wish this was written by Jeffrey Eugenides instead."
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November 12th, 2009
05:53 am - Zzzz.
Omgrraarrgh.
I just cannot stay awake this morning; it's terrible. It's going to be an uphill battle all day until 12:30, I can feel it and it makes me just want to stab something. Help?
Song stuck in my head this morning: Killer Queen by Queen. At least this is awesome.
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November 11th, 2009
05:28 pm - NaNo :: Day 10 - 508 words. 17,744/50,000.
Day One. Day Five. Day Nine.
Day Two. Day Six.
Day Three. Day Seven.
Day Four. Day Eight.
( The Unknown Scourge: Chapter IV, cont. )
Or, as I like to call it, "Skylie was even busier Tuesday than she was Monday, so she got even less done on that day and now has a lot of catch-up to do even on today, and WTF, Life, being so busy." But at least there are scary pink cocktails? And I'm not too far behind...I have a long weekend ahead for a trip to Ann Arbor, and hopefully that'll give me some work time.
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04:42 pm - NaNo :: Day 9 - 859 words. 17,236/50,000.
Day One. Day Five.
Day Two. Day Six.
Day Three. Day Seven.
Day Four. Day Eight.
( The Unknown Scourge: Chapter IV cont. )
Day 9. Or, as I like to call it, "Skylie was so busy on Monday that this was all she wrote and she didn't even get a chance to type it up until today." But at least it ends with a cat?
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November 10th, 2009
09:27 am - The horror! The horror!
Oh, dear god.
Not only is my new boss a TwiMom, she's also Team Edward.
...hold me.
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November 8th, 2009
09:01 pm - NaNo :: Day 8 - 2,422 words. 16,377/50,000.
Day One.
Day Two.
Day Three.
Day Four.
Day Five.
Day Six.
Day Seven.
( The Unknown Scourge; Chapter III fin., Chapter IV. )
Ha! Yes! Caught up! And with a number count I'm a little happier with. Writing all those messages for Maria just went extremely quickly and made for a very pleased Skylie, indeed. Though now she must crash because *grumble mutter Monday*
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07:41 pm - NaNo :: Day 7 - 1,077 words. 13,957 /50,000.
Day One.
Day Two.
Day Three.
Day Four.
Day Five.
Day Six.
( The Unknown Scourge; Chapter III, cont. )
Urg. 1077 words for Saturday's writing. I told you I didn't have time for jack crap on Saturday. I'm actually surprised I managed that many, but it's depressing to actually see the number. Still, it's got the twist! that I love so much, and the ease of Chapter IV so far (which I shall be attempting to type tonight, too, hoo boy, but at least I met my soft goal for that one) makes up for it.
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01:52 pm - NaNo :: Day 6 - 1,296 words. 12,879 /50,000.
Day One.
Day Two.
Day Three.
Day Four.
Day Five.
( The Unknown Scourge; Chapter III cont. )
This is so exspositionary, it almost hurts.
So the perfect vision of major catch-up I had planned for Saturday didn't happen and I wound up being busy the whole day. Thankfully, that Saturday is turning out to be today, and today's work should make up for Day 6 and Day 7 (also hopefully going up today)'s pitifully small showing. I didn't even make my soft goal on those. But today's work is going really, really well.
That's all I've really got to say on that, then, unless anyone's feeling up to hashing out some thoughts on what you think of books that end with mega-cliffhangers. Because that's the next thing I'm thinking on, realizing that, structurally, there's no way this book can cover all the different story-lines going on, so I'm pondering the direction of the series as a whole.
Yeah, yeah, I know. NaNo's all about just getting the writing out, but I can't help thinking of crap like this in the interim, anyway.
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November 6th, 2009
06:11 pm - NaNo :: Day 5 - 1,670 words. 11,588/50,000.
Day One.
Day Two.
Day Three.
Day Four.
( The Unknown Scourge, Chapter II fin., Chapter III )
SEEEEEEEEEEX.
That is all. BRB, planning a Silver/Maria chapter to fit this icon....Needless to day, not a Work Safe chapter.
And I've almost caught up with myself! Of course, now my brain is dead from a long day at work plus several hours of typing, so there's probably all my productivity for today. But tomorrow is another one! Catch up is yay.
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04:19 pm - NaNo :: Day 4 - 2,212 words. 9,917/50,000.
Day One.
Day Two.
Day Three.
( The Unknown Scourge; Chapter II, cont. )
Time to play catch-up! This is what I had written for Day 4 but didn't have a chance to upload. Man, this one had some major editing in the typing, and I feel better about it now than I did, but if anyone's reading and has any suggestions or thoughts about how to manage the vagueness of the operations, I'd love to hear them! It didn't feel as stilted as I thought it might, but I worry that it's awkward and not as suspense-building on the "OHGOD WHAT IS IT?" as it should be. More is explained in the next chapter, too, part of which will go up if I get around to finishing the typing of Day 5 today, too.
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04:55 am - Play it again, Sam.
Okay. Hold up.
So, today is apparently Saxaphone Day, most likely because the inventor of the saxophone Adolphe Sax was born today in 1814.
HOWEVER...
John Philip Sousa was also born today in 1854. Now, Sousa was known for a lot of other things that gain notoriety, but why the heck is it not also Sousaphone Day? Huh? Huh?
Consider this one pouty sousaphone player.
...You win this time, Brian. *narrow eyes.*
(( also, it's a shame I don't have my Pratchett Tuba quote icon on this account and am at work and can't upload it ))
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November 5th, 2009
06:56 am - Independance is happiness.
So...I met my light goal for yesterday, but didn't get to post anything due to a horribly fail lasagne incident of epic proportions, and I probably won't get a chance to post anything today, either, since I work all day and by the time I get home, I'll be going to be bed because I've got to get up again at three in the morning to do it all over. Wah-waaaaah. At least I was two days ahead of the typed stuff yesterday, which gives me wiggle room.
But I'm finally past the clusterfuck of vagueness that is Chapter Two, which segues a feeling of fear directly into a feeling of arousal, which I'm fairly proud of and wonder if it's a little bit creepy. Also, this means what I'll be working on at my desk today is a sexy scenes. This amuses me probably more than it should.
And I have a weekend off. A whole weekend off. I plan to read and write so much my hands and eyes will fall off my body and we'll have to keep them in Tupperware.
Blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda, I have a very silly job, la.
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November 3rd, 2009
05:45 pm - NaNo :: Day 3, 3370 words. 7,710/50,000 total.
Day One.
Day Two.
( The Unknown Scourge; Chapter I fin; Chapter II begin. )
...wait. What is this? John actually has a personality? This is new. But it nicely solved my worry that a chapter from John's POV would be lame because he'd been fairly boring up until this point. Apparently, need a fix for a boring character? MAKE HIM PARANOID. =D
Also, Wolfe entrance is now my favouritest thing ever. That is all.
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