| [NaNo] day 8 |
[08 Nov 2009|12:40pm] |
It has taken me several hours to crank through my words this morning. Kept having to find a place to hide, and then weathered lots of interruptions. When it's quiet, I crank along, but when Chick is coming in every five minutes to ask questions, I stutter step. The laundry interrupts as well, but I've gotten all three loads of gentles done and onto the line, now, so YAY.
14343 / 50000 words. 29% done!
I'm trying for 2500 words a day, which is overkill. But that means if I underwrite for whatever reason, I'll be okay. Also, with Thanksgiving and Boo's birthday also this month, plus knitting and basketball and things like that... well, yeah. I need give myself a cushion.
Today I found out more about who Rosemary is, and brought her on screen to give Cian someone to deal with. Cian? Needs some social skills, desperately. He has managed to piss Rosemary off completely, and I can't blame her at all. Also, did a bit of work with Doyle, and sketched out where Trea is. Need to write some with Trea, but she also seems to be living up to her role of "pawn" and "lost princess" and may well not be on screen for much of the first half of the novel. I think rescuing her will be where the pivotal scenes for the halfway mark start happening.
Um, that halfway mark is around the 50k mark. Obviously I need to keep writing when the month is done.
And for fun, a tidbit of Cian and Rosemary. For the record? This is not a paranormal romance. Rosemary is not going to fall head over heels for Cian after he manhandles her because he is OMG the alpha male she cannot live without. She's going to try to beat the shite out of him eventually, and he's just all EW at the idea of her in general.
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Cross-posted to both IJ and LJ.
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[08 Nov 2009|08:30am] |
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The idea that Nicki Aycox would make a great freshly bitten still dealing with her werewolfism Lavender Brown in her early 20s was not an idea I needed first thing this morning.
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| [Icons] Logan Marshall-Green |
[07 Nov 2009|11:37pm] |
Look, it's more Logan Marshall-Green! I swore i was done, but in doing the last two episodes of Dark Blue that I had to do, Mr. Muppet Face had some more lovely expressions that i just couldn't resist. So small set here, but I had to do it.
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| And let us not forget we lost the king of pop on OBAMA'S watch. |
[07 Nov 2009|11:38pm] |
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( Who is Joseph Cao? )
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| [Icons] Nicki Aycox |
[07 Nov 2009|11:29pm] |
Nicki Aycox from Dark Blue, FINALLY. I've been working on finishing out a decent set of her for ages, but I needed to get a few specific episodes done to get it complete. Standard Dark Blue disclaimers of course (there are some odd ones, from before I got the colorations better figured out, too). She was around 23-24 when these episodes were filmed.
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| [Icons] Meta Golding |
[07 Nov 2009|11:20pm] |
Meta Golding, from Dark Blue. Someday I will be a completist and go find photoshoots to do as well, but for now, this small set will have to do. She has no age listing on IMDB so I'll go with guessing 20s, MAYBE early 30s (but I doubt it).
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| [Icons] Dylan McDermott |
[07 Nov 2009|11:09pm] |
Dylan McDermott was roughly 38 when these episodes were filmed. Again, please excuse some really interesting colour palettes!
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[07 Nov 2009|11:00pm] |
I hate iconning Dark Blue, and yet, I continue to do it. Please excuse some really strange colouration, but I've done my best to fix where I can. Omari Hardwick doesn't have a lot of facial expressions, but everyone once in a while he hits paydirt. He was 25ish when these episodes were filmed.
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| [NaNo] day 7 |
[07 Nov 2009|06:26pm] |
Took yesterday off from NaNo because of traveling to go see TAI... with ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) eternaleponine. So I had been spending some time trying to get ahead during the week (considering I took Wednesday off as well, that was a trick and a half!). I went straight from CT to a write-in at Brueggers without going home.
The write-in was a new experience for me. I was there for about 2 1/2 hours, and I was social for part of it. I ended up having to put my headphones in so I could actually crank out wordcount. Everyone was talking a lot, which was good and nice to talk to other people who were doing the same crazy thing, but I just had a lot of trouble focusing. And I really needed to make wordcount while I was there since once I came home I knew it wasn't happening.
Anyway, I ended up making over 2600 words today, which got me to just barely over target for the day. So yay!
11813 / 50000 words. 24% done!
My snippet for the day isn't a story quote at all, but the note I had to leave for myself when I mentally bailed on writing a fight:
[Insert battle here later when you can think. Cat jumps in, takes off one of the critters and shakes it up, ripping it apart. Jack shoots the other one. Shayne ends up injured with a long scratch down her shoulder]
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| PB help! |
[07 Nov 2009|06:18am] |
I come to my CDJ flist because... well, a bunch of you are awesome icon makers and just generally A+ at picking PBs. I put in my holds for steamtrek, but, alas, one of my requested PBs had been swapped to before my hold went in. So I am looking for some ideas to fit the concept.
She's a Mata Hari-type seductress, skilled with a blade and can whisper sweet nothings in about a dozen languages or more. My original PB choice was Eva Green. My tendency now is to go with Liv Tyler. (Yes, it is my goal in life to gank all of Julie's PBs. No seriously, I almost put down Emily Browning for my botanist/chemist.) I have a personal preference for brunettes, but I am not at all adverse to other hair types. The character is supposed to be from Austria, so. And any suggestions at all would be much much MUCH appreciated.
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| now taking requests. |
[06 Nov 2009|12:22am] |
After looking at my current tiny word count for RPWRIMO, I decided to bite the bullet and post the prompt table. I will preemptively say that I worry about butchering other people's characters, but then again, these will be done with love and care, so no bitching. I can't guarantee that they'll be done by the end of November, but rest assured, they will be done.
Also, if you'd like to request a log with me for this month, PLEASE SEE MY OFFICIAL PLANNING/PROGRESS POST.
( I stole this table from Sarah, but again, with love and care. Now start requesting. )
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| [NaNo] day 5 |
[05 Nov 2009|07:53pm] |
It was a fight to get started tonight, but I picked a scene that would have a lot of emotional resonance for Cian. It's close to where Marc is emotionally this week, and I knew I could try to draw him out that way. And I've got him, a Cian on the cusp of figuring out that he needs to make a major change in his life. From this point in the book it'd be all downhill.
Except for the part where I'm writing out order and there's still half a book to come before this.
Anyway, set a goal of 3000 words for today and bypassed that by 40 words just as I reached a good pause point. Had to make up for yesterday and on Saturday I'll need to make up for tomorrow, unless I squeak a word or three out. We'll see.
9230 / 50000 words. 18% done!
[crossposted to IJ and LJ both]
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[05 Nov 2009|02:57pm] |
SNAP CUPS MEME, hosted by the amazing Rian. I'll be hitting up everyone in a bit.
Also, I woke up feeling like someone repeatedly punched me in the arm, shoulder, and armpit. It hurts like a mother. I'm pretty sure it's just strained muscles from nearly dying at work yesterday on account of pants.
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