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I will never stop wanting to be a wizard

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GOD FINALLY. This was suppose to happen on the 15th! But instead, I sit on 40k for six or seven days idek and THEN write 10,000 words in two days and I, I don't know. I just don't know.

This story is so not over but jeez. At least I officially won NaNo, anyway. Second time EVAR, yes!

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Back in the days of yore when I was super active in fandom, I used FF.net. Really that was all there was. Other than that, I submitted my Digimon and Zelda fics to personal shrines/sites - Mostly on Geocities, if I remember correctly, so they're probably long gone. I have very little experience with fanfiction archives; after FF.net, I primarily used my LJ for fics, both for posting my own and reading other people's work.

Anyone get an invite to AO3? Even if you haven't, what do you think of it?

What I'm really enjoying about AO3 is that so far, the quality of work is great. I like clicking on a link and getting an awesome fic! THIS IS ENJOYABLE TO ME.

Also, hello, hello, I am your friendly Junjou Romantica and Hellboy (movie-verse) tag wrangler. UHM. I have no idea, okay, I blame renay okay. If you would like to know what fandoms need wranglers, see this list!. :3

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I am this close to asking my aunt if I can spend Thanksgiving Break camped out in her sunroom (or the garage) writing and drawing, and be excused from dinner prep and family socializing. Because, despite not doing NaNo, I am feeling overwrought with projects. I did finish my scifibigbang fic (only two weeks after I was supposed to do the rough draft), and am working on my slayers_request fic. The outline looks long, so I might have to go at NaNo rates to get it done in time to edit. Plus, I need to rewatch some anime for yuletide, and I missed MAX entirely*, and gah!

It didn't help that I spent this weekend feeling sick to my stomach sporadically -- tea and quiet time away from the computer seemed to help. And I'm not entirely sure it isn't stress, since it's coming back as I write this. So now I get to spend today doing grading that I meant to do over the weekend -- if I didn't have group therapy, I'd be camping in Borders to avoid the Internets**. And tomorrow there's dinner with the DGS, which I am tempted to skip work before so I can bake and get my kitchen clean enough that I can call in someone to fix my garbage disposal and find out why the sink drains so slowly.

* As much as I love the Anniversary round, I might drop MAX until January just to give myself time to recuperate. And bow out of mrcaex in December as well.

** A lot of the off-campus coffee shops around here have a 'fifteen minutes every hour for free' policy. Their firewalls don't block ssh or ftp programs, though, so I can still remotely work from them, just not use email or my web browser or chat programs.

I got my Yuletide assignment. \0/ and also OMFHDSJKDHSDSHDS

I AM EXCITED

Unfortunately, I didn't get any NaNoWriMo writing done yesterday. This is what happens! I'll have to write double as much today! I WAS SUPPOSE TO HIT 50K, DAMN IT.

The Archive of Our Own is in Open Beta! Learn more about it here. I'm Nan over there but I've yet to upload anything. I am keeping standards here, which means that I'm only uploading crap I'm actually proud of. There, uh, there really isn't that much that I like! D: I must fix this!

There was something else I wanted to talk about but, uh. Memory, memory.

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I haven't done one of these in a while... it's book review time!

( So, in an effort to branch out, I've been trying to read new authors. )

Me: Ugh, my stomach. *emails boss saying she feels like crap and won't be in for group meeting today, then goes to rest*
Nausea: *clears up*
Me: ...

I'm starting to wonder if its some kind of fried food thing. Yesterday I had potato chips and made some fake fried rice -- basically it was rice with veggies and scrambled eggs. Yesterday night, I felt miserable -- hungry one minute and bloatedly full after I ate a normal snack. And today my digestive system is registering its displeasure with me.

(I still have to head out and drop off some anime at the club's business meeting -- we only had the first two discs of one of the shows we show, so that meant buying the rest.)

Comment and I'll give you three fandoms, for which you must answer these:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

I got Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Vision of Escaflowne from corellianrogue.

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Name a fandom and I'll tell you
- three pairings I love,
- two pairings I consider shipping,
- and one pairing I hate*

* In my case, this will be probably 'dislike' or 'would probably never read unless a good friend and awesome writer wrote or recced it to me'.

So, you can either name fandoms for me to answer questions about shipping, or have me give you fandoms to answer about your involvement.

SQ
Working on: Walking along the boardwalk as Mari comes to terms with her little death and Simonsant and Nine flirt/fight.
Word for this chapter: 89

Chugging along in NaNo. I've fallen a bit behind, but I'll be able to catch up this weekend. It's almost halfway done!

I'm not as happy with SQ as I was with TTBtM last year. My writing's just so bare bones; all my sentences are the same and my vocabulary so limited. I have a hard time writing descriptions. Reading Catherynne M. Valente makes me desperate to come up with metaphors and similes like hers, but I don't have her lyrical ability. One of the folks in my writers group said he didn't like my metaphors/similes - Too forced and awkward. Gahhhhhhh I have these images in my brain but somehow they get muddled up and crappy when I translate them into writing.

Blarggggggggggglepants.

I'm a bit stir crazy at work. Not that I don't have plenty of stuff to do, but it's the inability to focus. That and I have a lot to do this weekend:

1. Finish my MAX picture.
2. Make sure everything I need done by Dec. 1 is started. That includes my mrcaex and yuletart pictures -- even a sketch would be nice.
3. If my scifibigbang story isn't done tonight (I have 3 scenes left -- a climax and two denouement scenes, and about 4k words to hit the minimum), then it better be done by Sunday. I need a short break before I edit this sucker to let it gel, and it was supposed to be done two weeks ago. I also need to make sure my artist doesn't hate me for this, since I haven't given much direction (which can be good or bad).
4. Make a start on various holiday things. I've finished 1 of 5 gifts that I'm making and have a good start on a second. I also signed up for four holiday exchanges (two Slayers and two general ones).
5. My kitchen and bathroom are starting to get scary. I need to fix this. And also buy food for the week and make some food for the potluck on Tuesday.

I also need to decide if I'm going to go to anime club, go to Ask an Astronomer Live (I'm not on the panel, but I can help field any observational astronomy questions), or stay in and play in the RP event the game I'm in is putting on. This is why I hate events on Saturday nights -- it seems like everything happens then. And all of these run from the same time window -- Ask an Astronomer is from 8 to 9:30, Anime Club is 7 to 10, and the RP event starts at 7.

I am this close to taking next Wednesday as my 'stay home and get crap done' day, since, as far as I know, I don't have any reason to be on campus except for work. Heck, I'm this close to going home and working on non-work stuff just in hopes that it calms my nerves.