I am not technically doing NaNo this year, but I am attempting to use the challenge framework as a source of outside motivation to work on the story I am writing for the upcoming Narnia Big Bang... which is, of course, the sequel to "Out of Season" that I rather spectacularly failed to write last year. This year, though, I have already written the ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I was fairly good (for a kid) at a number of things: music, sports, art, math, writing, etc. But there are only so many hours in the day, and some activities are always going to strike any given person as more interesting and desirable than others. As I got older, I focused mostly on writing and music. Those were not ( Read more... )

My Narnia Big Bang story is up!!! (Now in more than one place! AO3 version and ff.net version)

To Every Thing There Is a Season: Ilgamuth Tarkaan was fourteen when he first rode to war. He was likewise fourteen when he pledged his life and his name to Prince Rabadash, a decision that would shape the rest of his life. Prequel to "Out of Season." ( Read more... )

1. The Hinata prompt!fic for hungrytiger11 is now 4,000 words, WTF. All I promised was a minimum of 100. This is forty times that length and it's still not finished ( Read more... )

The Hinata prompt!fic for hungrytiger11 is at 1,700 words. Bleh. I don't even know where it's going, really -- it started out as politics and then veered into a random lunch gathering of the Leaf Shadow summer camp women's survivor club. Attendees include Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Karin. I am not sure why Karin is there, as I am quite certain she did ( Read more... )

Okay, that is the last time I sign up to do art for anything. Period. I can write under ridiculous time pressure. I can edit under ridiculous time pressure. But I am NOT a fast artist, and also? I do not have art programs on my computer, which means I just spent a couple hours fighting to A) scan things with reasonable visual fidelity, B) crop ( Read more... )

After my second editing pass-through, my NBB is now 21,200 words, give or take. I fixed several egregious problems that occurred to me with the grace of a day's perspective, and also tidied the beginning so it matches the middle. That had become nearly as much of a problem as the end matching the middle, since the middle is where I refined my ( Read more... )

At 20,283 words in beta draft. *headdesk* And I always add more words when I go back to edit, because I am of the, "Whoops, I completely forgot to mention this very important bit of connective logic, and also that entire scene is happening in front of a blank white sheet of paper, better fix that," school of drafts, rather than the, "Throw ( Read more... )

NBB = 17,800 words now. That means I just wrote approximately 1,700 words of aftermath, since I have not even begun the politics and related stuff. And those scenes are kind of complicated and thus cannot be skimped or skimmed ( Read more... )

I called in sick to work on Monday. PM was pissed off, but I figure that if all I was able to manage was about four hours of being awake, then a four hour nap, then two and a half hours being awake, then falling asleep for the night -- and most of those waking hours were spent sitting down -- it's probably good I wasn't at work. (Aside from the ( Read more... )