I wasn't quite ready to work on my NaNo today (apparently, describing somebody's first bite ever of an orange took a lot out of me), so instead I took a friendly visit over to morphthing.com and -- after uploading a picture of Stana Katic -- did a blend of her and Nathan Fillion. I might have to find different pictures for both of them, because I'm ( Read more... )

Brace yourself, Castle fans: I've just killed off Javier Esposito. Granted, it's a 20+ years in the future/post Judgment Day Esposito, and the one we all know and (sometimes) love is still very much alive and trying to avert said Judgment Day, but dead is still dead. His lat words ( Read more... )

With a draft of the October fic done, I spent my dinner break writing (and adding to) a couple random scenes for the dead!Ryan idea. Finding him, and then talking to a hysterical, angry Jenny. Wrote about 800 of 1,800 words at McDonald's (and then promptly lost 200, since it was just in a private LJ post and I accidentally closed the window ( Read more... )

Well, one fic smells the dust at least. With an additional 7,565 words, I've got a first draft of the story I meant to finish in October done. It'll definitely get shorter between now and when I post it, because I know I wrote some scenes that were just bad and probably unnecessary, but I had to write them to get my brain into the next scene. As ( Read more... )

So, I've determined over the last handful of years, that I don't hate rap/hip-hop as much as I thought I did in the 90s. I mean, there's still a lot I don't like, but Fight with Tools, the first Flobots album, is one of my favorite (of all genres) ever -- and I was really disappointed that the Iron Man vid to Handlebars that first introduced them ( Read more... )

All that build up, and I can't start. Five concepts -- six if you count last year's unfinished Terminator fusion -- and I'm not happy or excited about any of them now that it's time to be writing. I was just going to come home and do the whole "write random scenes for any of them and see what happens" thing, but meh.

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I'm still chugging away at the one fic I want to get finished before November. It would help if I wrote more than a couple paragraphs a day. Also, if I didn't keep dreaming up new scenes (that actually give the whole story a theme instead of just a plot, so yay for that). That second one is actually a very good problem to have when it comes ( Read more... )

Last summer, when the display on my macbook was going all wonky, I started going through my bookmarks and indexing them so I didn't lose them when I switched computers. Yeah, I probably could have just imported them, but this gives me a chance to filter out things I don't remember why I bookmarked and don't seem to care about now. Plus, I get to ( Read more... )

First off, I recently bought some things from Amazon, and they're here! I'm now the proud owner of the Dream A Little Dream soundtrack (again) and 1988 B movie "Ghost Chase"! I don't feel bad about re-buying DaLD, because the last time I bought it, my main method of listening to music was a generic portable CD player that was really only easily ( Read more... )

I've made a little progress on choosing a story, and I'm probably going to write way more about it than I intended underneath this cut, but I really want this post to be about planning the rest of my October for an easier November.

( But first let's see how long I yammer on about story ideas )