lilairen, posts by tag: thud - LiveJournal

Just hit 'send' on submitting a short story in response to an SFWA-qualifying anthology CFS.

I hope they like it.

For, um. The values of the word "like" that are appropriate for that story, which is... not about things one likes.

I didn't journal about it because brains, what are they? But the official wordcount is now at 50037 on the manuscript, which is named "Cracked Pots" and which I am expecting will come in around 110Kwords when actually finished.

(I also wrote several poems, my monthly article for Patheos, miscellaneous bloggery, and so on.)

Cracked Pots is named off an E. B. White quote: "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." It is a steampunk fantasy which turned out to be rather more politically relevant than I intended when I started it, and also at about 30K in I figured out what was going on.

I need to get my calendars for next year up on the shop, but I will work on the other 60 or so estimated kilowords as well.

I wrote 3399 words today.

I don't know how the next chapter starts though. :} Sleep on it. Do the last 633 I need tomorrow.

So I got a bunny for a story on 30 October, and I have no idea what's going on, which is why I'm doing Nano.

Yes, I'm quite mad.

I'm also ahead of the curve. Official wordcount is currently 6051, and I'd need 5K to be on pace....

I think that fanfic would probably have been better had I finished it closer to July 2009ish, which is when I started writing it.

On the other hand, it's the first bit of writing I've managed to actually do in a dog's age, and it is in first-draft form now. Perhaps I will watch the movie again before we send it back to Netflix, to do tweaking and see if I missed anything that needs in there.

But still. Five pages of new!Trek fanfic, about three and a half of those pages written today, I think. First fanfic I've written in like fifteen years, even.

Perhaps this will prime the pump so I can do other things.

49,306.

Second draft done.

POV character to telepathic dog, who is looking upset about something: "What's the matter?"
Telepathic dog, to POV character: "Is Timmy in the well?"


1252 words is Part 4, Chapter 13.

1241 words is 4.9 in its entirety, despite me having a toweringly cranky kind of day.

I also fail at going to bed on time despite saying on #rasfc that i was going to.


Meanwhile, fun with first reader:

Brooks pages: So just how long have you been saving this pleasant parallelism
between her walking between the worlds of her Spanish-speaking home and the
English-speaking outer world, and her walking between the mundane and fairy
worlds, waiting for me to notice? :)
From afar, Brooks, having a sudden realization.
You paged Brooks with 'You seem to have barked your shin on one of the major
themes of the book.'.
From afar, Brooks grins.

949 words finishes 4.8, traumatises one character severely and another one moderately, and scatters a few clues around.

Moderately entertained by the usefulness of experience with 24/7 d/s in writing the interactions between a mystical dog and his girl.

Assisted zeborahnz with something, too, so a useful day all around, even if I am up this far past bedtime.

Three months (to the day, though it's past midnight now) since my last thud post. It's amazing what not being buried in soulcrushing stress does to the productivity! Also, I blame #rasfc. 921 words finishes 4.7. 306 words starts 4.8, so no blank page problem. 1227 for today.