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Because every now and then I get creative at the wrong times. New fics up at darkstar_tales.

Yesterday's Boy (30StM, Spookathon fic) - part 1
Dance (MCR/HP, Of Dragons and Men 'Verse) - Link

Have at, I've got NaNo to try and catch up with. *grins*

Jenn

I'm feeling energized, if still coughing a mile a minute. I've gotten over 1800 words typed since I woke up this morning. I'm thinking of taking a break to work on a Of Dragons and Men/Duke of Cambridgeshire short. I know I've been a flake, but I started school and did renovations on the house.

So, by tonight, I'll have the ficlet written, but then I've gotta catch up with my NaNo numbers.

Jenn

last two trick or treats are up! YES! Got them all done. They're snippets of some original stuff floating around my hard drive. one is here and the other is here

I'm failing at the whole daily blogging, I realize this. Too many RL distractions and too little sleep, writing is sketchy and too much chaos.

Excitement of the day? A moving blanket that made me go WTF? Boo has a yankees blankie. It was wadded up on the back of the couch and started moving. Yeah major wtf. Took a bit of digging since the cause isn't much bigger than my fist but burrowed in the yankees blankie was the Yankee BabyCatses.

Free for all on questions about fic/characters/writing 'til Monday how's that? (uh yeah, tapped out here on creative w/ writing, so not original or probably not interesting with the attempt to blog for november)

Blanket answer to when something's going to be done....when muses & real life cooperate at the same time.
Blanket answer to will I send you wahtever fic...no.
Blanket answer to when something gets added to the pdfs?...when I get another few ready and have time when my connection and mediafire play nicely.

What's the concentration at the moment? Away With The Boys in the Band, A Little Bit Backwards, Never the Easy Way and the last Try Anything (which is about 1/3 done after being comepletely torn apart twice).

And yup, at best my fanfic is spellchecked/continuity checked rough drafts. relaxation/fun minimal sleep & minimal ability to think in straight line some days. ~shrugs~ so this seems kind of silly to do but...why not? anything want to ask abt character, story whatever. though ~points at blanket answers above~

there's two of the trick or treats left. I'm hoping to get those done tomorrow. hey only a week late. ~sighs~ writing has not been cooperative this week in the least.

Thinking has not been all that cooperative this week. It's just kinda been one of those weeks.

part 1 & part 2 of Pieces out of place were posted as part of the trick or treats did not want to post that as a WIP but I'm to the point am desperate to finish up the treats. And connection has been made of fail to maybe do a few songs for treat.

I wasn't happy with what I was writing and well. Still sick here. So I concede that there is no way on this green earth that I'm going to make 75k this month. I'm going back to the more realistic goal of 50k and just hoping I can catch up.

I restarted my novel from the beginning and yeah, like the way it's going now.

Tomorrow I try to make it through a whole day at school without coughing up a lung. So wish me luck poppets.

Jenn

New word count for today:

3140/50000

And my hands ache.

So I only got a little over a 1000 done yesterday, but got a good chunk done today in between sleeping. Final word count for Day Four?



Going to spend some time with my S.O. and then sleep.

well what do you know. made two days, that's it for blogging every day. ~laughs~ and it was mostly just pointings at that.

Stupid pet rambling today for something to post. Hopefully fic this evening. Sleep has been in 2 hour naps and writing time has been spent trying to inhale coffee and think in a straight line while there was quiet more than writing.

The Invaders have all been named.
King Louie/Louie--the little cream & orange tabby tom kitten
Dot--little black & white female wiht a black dot on her white chin.
Dora--as in Dora the explorer, she's the one in everything most often, the little tortie/black calico.

The other two little tom kittens were named by Boo, round about. He got asked about kitten names, started reciting baseball teams. Since he's obsessed with all New York teams, regardless of sport,

Mets--little black and white tom kitten
Yankee--little black/charcoal tomkitten (mostly looks black, but if he's in sunlight you can see a bit of tabby marking in him)

The Invaders have conquered CookieCat. She herds them and fusses at them more than mama TinyCat. That and Cookie's a typical kid. The night she decided to go down and plunk in the kittens box in the laundry room, I tried to take her out of it how many times. She of course went directly back to it like the brat she is. ~rolls eyes~ way to train a cat? tell it no. it will ensure the cat does what it's told not to every time. And you probably won't break the cat of the habit like you will a two year old human, until two year old hits about 13-15.

At the moment there is a pile of fur next to my desk, mostly dark with some cream/orange & white speckles and spots (Tiny & Cookie are both tortie/mostly black calico) and one little ball of orange sprawled ontop of the longest fur in the pile (Cookie being the long-haired one)

Brandy however is traumatized. Yes. 35 lbs of Beagle, supposedly a hunting/tracking breed, utterly and completely terrified of not even a combined 2lbs worth of itty bitty kittens.

Dora, whose head--the *top* of her head is equal with the ankle of my daughter's tennis shoe (just a plain old running shoe, decent sole on it but not hightop or particularly notably thick sole, size five womens tennis shoe)--Little Bitty Dora was *chasing* Brandy. Brandy ran yelping for the Girl's bed. (Invader's haven't mastered climbing up on the bed yet. Next weeks going to be very traumatic for Brandy because they should have the climbing *up* business down by then. They're just about mastering climbing down from bed or couch or chair they've been put on without going thunk-land-on-nose)

Brandy needs to go out, she either has to be picked up and carried around the kittens or the kittens picked up and moved out of the way, and then Brandy will *RUN* past where the kittens are, to the point of skidding out on wood or lineoleum into oh, walls, the stove, the fridge...

The sooner the Invaders find homes the better. Ugh. You'd think the worry would be the dog going chomp on the kittens? No. It's the kittens giving the dog a heart attack.

Seriously, as sweet (and honestly *quiet* for a Beagle) Brandy is? Never ever ever ever have a purebred animal again. She's allergic to everything. Neurotic to the point you just have to stare at the dog and shake your head (and she's been that way since the day we got her, when she was..2? Only reason we have a purebred or actually a house dog at all was a can't take with move.. Cookie likes laying on couch, she's been dragging Invaders up there with her. Tiny's a convert to the couch as well as long as kids aren't home.)

Brandy is also sulking big time. Cookie's her buddy. Cookie is hanging with Tiny & Invaders. Kids are all gaga over Invaders. ~pets the poor Brandy~

fic pointings
Nightmare--MCR/HL, Bastian Von Schonau Verse Gen, 15ish?
Some 'Splainin' to Do, Timmy 30stm, Dragons Verse, Shannon/Tim mature/adult.
It Sure Is Monday--MCR/Dresden Files, gen
Do You Believe In Magic?--excerpt 30stm/HP


Four more of the trick or treats to finish up. So getting there and not *drastically* late. (Yet)

And hey look, posted two days in a row! (okay fic pointing mostly but still counts! c'mon I posted 2 days in a row)

I am tired and not much for coming up with anything coherent to actually post...so I'll go with what works and point to what might be interesting.

Suvudu Free Library What caught my eye of what flisters might be interested in since I know there's LKH fans and Star Wars though not sure how many go for the Extended Universe in the books--
A Kiss of Shadows- Laurell K Hamilton
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn- John Jackson Miller.

My count for today. Still tired, not quite recovered enough yet to stay awake all night. Will do some more writing sessions tomorrow to catch up to where I want to be.

Jenn

I don't mind being wrong; what I dislike is being stupidly wrong.

That's what I did. Now I'm going to bed. My chest and lungs are killing me. G'night peeps.

Jenn

fic pointings
~Why Do We Let Uncle Batshit Babysit?--Penguins Verse, gen 13ish.
~An Exception to Every Rule--SPN/BtVS, gen 15. Dean & Tara
~The Sword of St. Michael the Archangel--SPN, gen, John-Centric, mature for disturbing imagery, preseries but spoiler for S5 plot point
~Burn off the Crash--DC comics, ADULT, Arsenal/Kid Flash.
~The Beauty of Grandchildren--YitL Crack-bit. harmless
~Matt & Alice--set in Gwionfawyr's Of Dragons & Men verse, gen, harmless.
~More Than Just For Now--set in "Friends" Verse. Matt Cortez/Jepha Howard est. D/s.
~Of Wolf & Man--30stm, sequel to Loup Garou. Mature. Shannon/Jared


I'm going to finish up the Halloween Treats here today (hopefully) was derailed by sick kids and sick me. Spent more time spacing off w/ sickly child on me than anything else the last couple weeks. Yeah every time I think I'm organized? Life reminds me that I know better than to ever imagine that.

As a birthday present for penguincent and a Halloween treat for everyone else, I present a Trinity Blood story. The overall rating is PG-13.

( Reise, Reise )

Well, really it's more like 14 hours for those of us in the CST, but still! It's almost time to NaNo!

I'm just a little hyper right now. So this is my plan. I need to finish all of my homework assignments. STAT! Slather on some Vick's Vapor Rub, and print out a huge picture of Matt Cortez and Shannon Leto. They're going next to Punky, the punk rock beanie bear as my avatar for this year. I need all the help that I can get, I'm going for 75,000.

Writing schedules are posted around the house to deter any misunderstandings and/or hurt feelings. Playlist needs to be done, but I've got time for that. And, coffee beans need to be ground.

Candied Apples are drying on the table and my Tarot cards are ready for WorldBuilding.

All I'm saying, it's a wonderful Pre-NaNo, Samhain, Halloween.

Noted at woodwardiocom:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord Of The Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." —Rogers

Awake, but barely. I finally got bullied into actually going to the doctor and she confirmed that it was Pneumonia. Had it a time or three before, so I know the symptoms. Nearly got caught in the rain yesterday on the way to Programming. Today I've got some last minute WorldBuilding, finish up my Character Profiles, and on Thursday my outline.

Finish my English Comp. homework this morning so I can concentrate. I've got two stories that need to be finished and I'm determined to get them done and soon.

Have picked up a book on Farsi for Language Building, probably will grab a Russian/Cyrillic one on Thursday too.

Last night, I shamelessly indulged my crush on Gina Gershon. Watched PS, I Love You and Prey For Rock-n-Roll.

My friend, Belle, suggested a few books by Karen Marie Moning to read. Only thing that makes me a tiny bit leery is that they're in the Romance section at the bookstore. I've a phobia about Romance books. It's not logical, but there you go.

Cloe's a little perturbed with me right now. Her nice nap has been interrupted by me playing Avenged Sevenfold. She went to go crash on the dog, who's camped out downstairs watching the wind chimes out of the window. My pets have issues, but they work.

Thinking about taking a run to Mickey D's this morning for breakfast, then I remember my promise and am going to get the Cascadian Farms granola. Dang blasted bet.

So, I'm off to do my homework, then back to writing/plotting/raising all kinds of levels of havoc.

See you guys later,
Jenn

So, the way Facebook is making changes, you'd think that they were owned by Six Apart. Not feeling any love there at the moment. The main thing I do there is play games, and the few games I play have put in a lot of changes that have really screwed the code to the point where they are unplayable as is. I'm giving a lot of thought to just deleting the account, or else paring the 900+ names on there down to those I actually know in some fashion.

Twitter isn't as much of an annoyance as I feared it might be, though I'm limiting what I do there as well.I'm not following a lot of folks, including some that I do know, as I read their posts elsewhere.

As for the various blogs -- sigh -- I'm not reading fanfic like I used to, and I haven't written any in a couple of years, so my Nightstalker journal is feeling unloved. Much the same for the rest of them. I just don't have that much to say that I think anyone else would really be interested in hearing about, so I'm not posting much anywhere.

TradWitch.com, the one forum I check regularly, isn't seeing much in the way of new posts, either, and I guess I'm too much of a snob to deal with most of the other sites out there. I look at the posts that show up in dot_pagan_snark, and just want to bang my head against a wall for some of the stupid things that people post.

I backed out of several Yahoo lists, and considered just shutting down the one that I own, but there was enough response to that announcement that it will probably stay open- it's not like there's really anything to it...

I haven't been on Neopets in months...

I haven't updated my genealogy site in months, and am trying to decide if I'm even going to keep it online at this point.

I'm just bored, I guess.

Else it's late Fall and I'm sliding into the seasonal depression....hadn't thought about that until just now.

Two more wallpapers for the Mystery Writers on my f-list.

Jenn