3307 words today, and I am at 25,050 total. finally, finally, finally I am caught up to where I am supposed to be!

*victory dance*

Okay. Now I get video games. And by "I get video games" I mean I am still not installing Dragon Age because I can't afford it to eat me alive. But maybe some Last Remnant.

Tags: fuck your 50000 words, nanowrimo 2009, oh fuck nano
Feeling: accomplished

Hi, Yuletide Santa!

( letter goes here. Potential, though vague, spoilers for Lost Odyssey, Persona 3, Persona 4's Priestess S.Link, and Digital Devil Saga. )

All of that aside, though, Yuletide Santa - whatever you want to write is OKAY by me.

Tags: yuletide
Feeling: chipper

A kid I used to *babysit* (who by the way is in her last year of college and that is just TOO WEIRD FOR WORDS) has added me on Facebook.

*slightly dead*

I mean my FB is pretty sanitized, since it's employer-safe and I, uh, never use it anyway, but still. ACK.

Tags: halp halp!, the internet is for porn
Feeling: uncomfortable
Hearing: Eve 6 - Amphetamines

I'm up to 16,716 as of this moment (3000 words on the day--okay, fine, 2939--and I'm calling it quits.) That means I'm only one day behind! I've made up one of my two totally missed days thanks to flu! It's all very exciting.

Characters are doing all manner of strange things, like going crazy and killing people. I am pleased.

And now, I get video games, for I have been a good and dutiful kitty today.

Tags: fuck your 50000 words, nanowrimo 2009
Feeling: productive

( NaNo shenanigans, NSFW )

Tags: nanowrimo 2009, writing process
Feeling: amused

1947 words today. I am catching up! Slowly. Excerpt:

He reined up next to her. "Is there even the slightest chance, if I were to ask you what was going on in that meeting besides what was said, that you'd tell me?"

The question surprised her into true laughter. "It would depend on how you asked," she said, "but it is unlikely that I would tell you--now."

They are too much fun. I am having far too much fun with this. :D

ALSO. Dear LJ and DW, on which all knowledge is contained:

I need a word that evokes the same high-class/caliber associations as "courtesan," but that is gender-neutral. Does such a thing exist? Should I just co-opt "courtesan" and readers can deal? Or should I invent a word? Inquiring minds must know. It is Relevant To The Current Scene.

and now, my hands hurt, and I am going to go snuggle on the couch with the boy while listening to a CD full of my father's music. (Cognitive dissonance: writing intricate political maneuvering beneath the surface while chair-dancing to "Brandy, You're A Fine Girl." Yeah.)

Tags: nanowrimo 2009
Feeling: accomplished
Hearing: Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream

super-gross TMI (cold/flu related) behind the cut.

( Do not pretend you weren't warned. )

Tags: sick
Feeling: disgusted

Real update tomorrow - when I have had more sleep - but I finally got a full day's worth of NaNo in. I'm up to 2391 words total, of which I wrote 1878 today. My brain feels clearer and that is awesome.

I know i'm really behind on commenting on everything. I'm sorry, guys! This stupid flu is making me sleep 18 hours out of 24 most days :( I am feeling much better today, though, so hopefully I will be back to awesome tomorrow. (I still have to write up weekend summaries and catch up on NaNo and get my stuff together for this weekend holy cow.)

Tags: fuck your 50000 words, nanowrimo 2009
Feeling: accomplished

Proper weekend update coming later (and thank you, everyone, who commented to previous posts - I think I thanked everyone individually but if I didn't it is not an intentional slight).

IN the meantime I appear to have caught the flu. I'm not sure who I caught it FROM, but it is the fail. I am going to bed now.

(240 words on first day of NaNo. Deeply disappointed in self. fffff.)

Tags: sick
Feeling: sick

Mike: You don't think you're awesome because you're neurotic, self-conscious, and you have an inferiority complex. Everyone else thinks you are awesome based on empirical evidence. Who are you going to believe?
Me: Myself, obviously.

Tags: i haz a paladin, quotes: real life
Feeling: amused

celeloriel spent an hour and a half this afternoon brainstorming with me.

I HAS A PLOT FOR NANO.

Cel is made of the awesome in every way. (Huge thanks also to seventhe who brainstormed character stuffs and initial plottings with me yesterday.)

omg, you guys. I have a plot. And it seems to be just about the right length of plot, too! (Of course, I said that about Every Light. And we know how that one ended. Or rather how it hasn't ended yet.)

Tags: cel rocks my socks, fuck your 50000 words, nanowrimo 2009

By which I mean, new comm, for which Gabranth's Cock Shot is eminently appropriate.

lex_et_iustitia is a place for all fanfic regarding the Judges of FFXII. It is also welcoming to characters from other FFs being written as judges. See below:

"Judge Highwind."

They are two of a kind in some ways, he and Judge Magister Gabranth. Both refugees from lands crushed under the Archadian boot, traitors to home and hearth, servants of the power that wrested independence from their lands.

It seems those considerations trouble only him.

He turns to face his superior, and salutes. "Judge Magister Gabranth," he says cautiously. He is yet unsure why he was transferred from Judge Zecht's command to Judge Gabranth's.

"I would speak to you privately," Gabranth says.

I trust you all grasp the concept.

Come play with us! (I would like to note that this thing is entirely the fault of seventhe and justira. Blame them as you will. But mostly come play with us!)

Tags: fandom stuff, must have the shiny
Feeling: amused
Hearing: Nine Days - So Far Away

I thought I had another month's worth of birth control pills left. Am supposed to start a new pack today and came to the realization last night that no, I was in fact on the last pack already.

*sigh* Going to put in my mail-order right now, which of course won't get here in time, and then call my doctor's office first thing tomorrow and hope that they are nice. It's not the hugest deal in the world if I have to miss a month, since I'm using it primarily for non-contraceptive reasons, but it is really aggravating.

Tags: argh!, you bring this on yourself, you rolled a nat one
Feeling: annoyed

All the fill-in bits are done for Every Light. Now I just have the last 9 chapters to do!

But first, I must go retrieve Mike from the airport. :D YAY I CAN HAS SNUGGLES.

Tags: every light casts a shadow, victory theme!
Feeling: accomplished

Snicked from Puel and others.

Pick a paragraph/passage of under 500 words from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, or anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Fic is at athyn or rose_in_winter.

*mopes off to sulk about having to go out in the dreary dull grey cold rain*

Tags: memes: fic

I got another 1800 words wrangled out of Every Light today. With this result as the total wordcount:



I am so close to done. SO CLOSE. I need to do like 200 words of a transition somewhere in one of the chapters, and maybe 700ish words of a scene in Chapter 14, and then I pick up where I left off at the end of last NaNo in Chapter 26, and full steam ahead. Maybe I can finish the damn thing this year. I'm certainly going to try.

(No, this is not my NaNo project this year. Though it certainly could be.)

Sleepy cat. Bed times now.

Tags: every light casts a shadow, writing
Feeling: accomplished

So apparently, as much as I hate starting to work on Every Light, once I get started the words just happen.

Witness yesterday, when I whined and griped and moaned and stared at the blank page (as I've been doing for this particular chapter for a few weeks now), forced myself to write two crappy paragraphs, then blinked and found 1500 words on the page.

For those wishing to play along, that means the rough draft is currently at 120,879 words. (And I almost always add words during editing, not subtract.) Projected end wordcount of rough draft: 200,000. \o/

Half of Chapter 13, a smidge of Chapter 14, and then chapters 25-35 to go (and 35 barely counts, it is hopefully going to be under 1000 words. I hope I hope I hope. Cooperate, you twits.)

Hey maybe I'll finish this stupid thing someday.

Tags: every light casts a shadow, gywo, poking kain with sharp sticks
Feeling: accomplished

Today was a gorgeous day. 70s, sunny, breezy. Perfect. I wish I'd spent more of it outside, but I didn't realize how fantastic it was until too late.

In other news, hornets are invading my apartment. (seriously.) I located one last Saturday, and another today. Thank God I have Raid under the sink (hello, allergy to bee stings, NICE TO SEE YOU) and that they were more interested in trying to get back through the window glass to outside than stinging me so I could Raid them good and proper. (by the way: yes, I understand, there are more humane solutions. I cannot use them without possibly subjecting myself to serious bodily harm. Sorry, but fuck humane in that circumstance. I'd kind of like to continue to live.)

I called the management office to let them know about the hornets, and they sent the engineer up (an hour later LOL) with a can of Raid. I explained to him that I'd already killed it, but that I would really like to know how they are getting in here so I could, you know, stop them. He fiddled and poked at the window, then shrugged and said he didn't know, but that I could call back if another one got in. WTF. Thanks. ass.

I think I am going to have Mike examine all things related to the window and find all places that might be allowing anything in, and work his engineering magic to fix them. I refuse to live without being able to open my windows (especially since my A/C is on the fritz and the heat here is always set high), and I would like to be able to open them SAFELY.

In happier news, I went out to dinner tonight with my friend Stephanie from $hell_job. I hadn't seen her since I left, and it was really nice to chat and catch up. I've missed seeing her, and she's such a lovely and wonderful person.

Alright, sleeping times now so I can get up and be ready to kick butt tomorrow.

Tags: apartment, things that might kill me, your shipment of fail has arrived
Feeling: sleepy

Hey, cosplay or other-wig-using types!

I have a wig. It is a very, very long wig. (It's the 48" blonde wig I wore for Valvalicia.) I would kind of like to use it for my DCP character.

Problem: It is hella tangled.

Suggestions? It doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be good enough for me to make a braid.

Tags: cosplay
Feeling: frustrated

Ganon: *meows for food*
Me: *notices both bowls are empty, goes to closet to get the food*
Zelda: *sits up and takes note*
Me: *pours food into the first bowl, which Ganon is sitting next to, and fills the other bowl*
Zelda: *nonchalantly approaches and starts eating out of Ganon's bowl before he gets a chance to*
Ganon: *sits quiet and resigned*

Zelda is the princess here, for certain.

Tags: cats!
Feeling: amused