| [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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| [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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| where you at?! |
[07 Nov 2009|07:31pm] |
PEOPLE OF EARTH!
Srsly update your CDJs. Slackers.
Why you ask? Because I am a creeper. That's right, I like to stalk all you all and you all make it difficult when you don't keep them updated. How am I supposed to fulfill my duties if you aren't! Tsk. Srsly. Disgraceful. ;)
Really, I'm just avoiding writing an app and doing some tags-- so I'm checking on my peeps, but my peeps don't peep often enough. Really I just wanted to say peeps. On a side note, I like where I am at in the RP world for once. Horror of horrors, I know, but I am. First in a long time.
MINUS I AM NOT PLAYING WITH ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) inotherwords AND lolo! NOT ON!
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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 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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| is it next year already? |
[07 Nov 2009|12:20pm] |
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I can't wait for this damn movie, okay. Y'all, I have missed seeing him on screen, for real. Also, next year we get Iron Man 2 and From Paris With Love (JRM OM NOM NOM NOM) and... I'm certain there's others but so far that's my trifecta (RDJ, JRM, and... Topher. WHY CAN'T YOU HAVE FUN INITIALS, MR. GRACE, GOD).
And unrelatedly: Stephenie Meyer is going to be on Oprah next Friday.
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[01 Oct 2009|12:01am] |
I'll play just about anyone, so don't be afraid to ask! Males and females are fair game. These are just a couple of my favorite faces.
GIRLS
Anna Kendrick, April Pearson, Bonnie Wright, Ellen Page, Emily Browning, Emma Roberts, Emma Stone, Juno Temple, Sherri DuPree, Stacy DuPree, Taylor Momsen.
GUYS
Gabe Nevins, Jamie Bell, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Justin Chatwin, Michael Angarano, Reece Daniel Thompson, Shia LaBeouf.
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| Fandom Request: Help! |
[07 Nov 2009|01:10am] |
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I went to a pop culture conference last weekend and met a guy who's doing fandom studies (specifically Livejournal fandom studies). Long story short, we got talking about the phenomenon of comment-fic. Now, I mean the old school like, fic that was actually posted as a comment (or comments) to someone else's fic. Not this new comment fic genre that just means comment length (and how exactly is that different from a drabble? anywho).
He's never seen a real comment fic before, and wants some examples. Anyone have any suggestions? It can be any fandom, any pairing. He knows about the slash. I'm really looking for comment fic examples where like, a BFF or someone inspired by the fic wrote it and the author swept in and loved it, because that's what comment fic is to me in the Platonic ideal.
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[06 Nov 2009|07:33pm] |
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Yeah, starting to feel like this was all a mistake.
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[06 Nov 2009|01:20pm] |
Kingsley's app has been sent in! As I wait, I will make icons, and I'll probably post them later for reference, because I think I'll have more than 100.
And my weekend SUCKS. Once I go in to work tomorrow, I won't be available until Sunday, and even then for only half the day. Unless I do something stupid like stay up until 4 in the morning tonight when I have to be up for 10:30 on Saturday. But I'm not going to do that. *stern face*
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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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[06 Nov 2009|11:03am] |
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Snaps Cup please?
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[05 Nov 2009|04:03pm] |
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Holy snaps cup, Batman.
I don't remember when the last one of these I saw was; I just remember that I didn't participate and comment on nearly enough people's posts. This time, it's my resolution to do better, and so I will.
My only real complaint about the past few days is that the leg I busted at Rocky Horror is restless. It is both sprained and restless. So, I've been taking it easy, trying to NaNo/RP/write for class/do my research assistant stuff, and, then, out of nowhere, it'll start going, "You know what we should do? THINGS. We should go do THINGS. Like, I don't know, DDR. Or running a marathon. Or going up and down the steepest hill on campus just because! Or, or, or SOMETHING. That'd be AWESOME, let's do stuff." …And it's sprained, so I can't do much more with it than the awkward, gimpy walk thing I can do with my crutches. I had no idea a limb could be both sprained and restless.
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| and time stopped moving |
[05 Nov 2009|09:11am] |
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+ Thanks to everyone who left me birthday wishes yesterday! Tweets, PMs, emails, v-gifts, facebook wall thingies, LJ posts and comments - I really rather love you guys. ♥♥♥♥ And I had a great day, btw. :D
+ ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) miakun wrote me happy Merls fic what has Gwen/Morgana and OT4 at the same time! Go looky!
+ Yuletide signups! I'm excited but a little freaked out by them. I have the fandoms I nominated, but there are so many more to choose from and I don't know where to start! I'm going to think on it a bit more before I sign up for reals.
+ That's all for today. I have to give a presentation tomorrow at work, but I only have half a day to work on it because we all have to go to this award ceremony/holiday party/contract renewal celebration thing. Free food and the possibility of heading home early, always good.
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