And that's another 10,286 words added. Which makes for 22,805 words down, 17,195 to go. Which should not be a problem. (KNOCK ON WOOOOOOOD!) Even more excitingly, I think I'm at the halfway point! :D There's two, maybe three, more parts to go and I'm done! And I feel like I've really tightened up the pacing, so I'm pleased overall ( Read more... )

Which is good as I'm working under a deadline now. *points to super-cool icon* ;P That's 12,519 words down, 27,481 to go... um, I'm not nervous? Because this was (I think) the hardest, or more work intensive at least, section. I'd pretty much handwaved the beginning bits in the original draft, so there was a lot I had to go back and include. ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of entering? o.O My draft is over 50,000 and the beginning part is definitely longer now. I'm pretty sure I'll be ready by July 10th... maybe a deadline would be a good thing?

It would mean more exposure to potential readers. Which is good thing. Right?

AM I CRAZY?!?! (talk me out of it...or in...I do not know)

ETA: Aaaand, I'm ( Read more... )

I read a serious book (Evening in the Palace of Reason) about two serious men (J.S. Bach and Frederick the Great) and two serious philosophies (Baroque and Enlightenment) and wrote a serious(-ish?) review on my goodreads page ( Read more... )

\o/ Ironically, the hardest part was the background stuff that I doubt will figure much in the story itself. But I needed to know! (I don't see Hans Christian Andersen having this problem. "But why did the Troll entrance the princess?" "Because that's what Trolls do ( Read more... )

I've been plugging away on a Stargate:Atlantis fanfic and I've finally finished the first draft! I'm pleased and excited and petrified. Pleased that I actually completed the rough draft, excited to tighten and polish the thing into something resembling readability, petrified that as I dive into it I'll get bored or discouraged and give up. Which ( Read more... )

Heh. I'm a tiny bit over-proud of my subject title, but... check it out! It rhymes!! :D ( Read more... )

I've been away from the computer visiting with family (which was so, so awesome! it's been so long since I've seen so much of my family with such consistency), so this post is probably not quite as au courant as I'd have liked. But it's been lingering in my "post" file for a while, so I'm doing it. :) (Plus, this is the internet. Conversations ( Read more... )

This was supposed to be written in 38 minutes (get it? just like the name of the episode! *g*), but I'm utterly incapable of that sort of speed. Dangerously though, I'd gotten an idea and I didn't want to let it go. So here it is. :)

Title: Plays Well With Others
Author: Horridporrid
Fandom: Stargate:Atlantis
Episode Tag: Thirty Eight Minutes ( ( Read more... )

The packing has begun in earnest! We've gotten a storage area, got a call in for someone to move the piano, and bought (and filled) our first set of boxes. Yay, us ( Read more... )