I'm just gonna leave this here:


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The last week or so of NaNo has been an endless game of Fall Behind, Catch Up.

I'm caught up again after writing nearly 7k today. I am REALLY happy with Azazel's scene/chapter. I REALLY like how he turned out.


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Made it past the halfway point today. Caught up now.

Gonna go pass out before I turn Andy's snark back on. Can't snark like this. Can't type anymore. I have typo-ed every word in the previous sentence and this one at least once. Too much backspacing.

Yeah. Bed now.

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You know things are going to go well for the evening's writing session when you start off chapter eight with the following sentence:

There were a few certainties in Joseph’s world these days, but one of the things he was very sure of was that Phil scared the hell out of him.
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So I go and pound out the last 300 words to get myself totally caught up to 15k before I head to bed. I plug the grand total into the NaNo site, all "Woot! Go me!" and then I made the mistake of looking at the stats.

LOL 2DAY IZ WEDNESDAY U SHUD B @ 16.6k!!!!!!!

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Avoiding writing and brightening one's day, this rant about writing sex scenes still makes me ROFL years after first stumbling upon it.

It's definitely worth a read. Again.

When you said "Kill your darlings," I know what you meant. The question I pose now is:

What if you have no darlings?

Because right now? I want to go print this whole thing off and light it on fire.

FIRE I SAY!

In case anyone was wondering: My writers block isn't, really. It's more of a quality block. Things are happening and it's going from ( Read more... )

Between getting home from work late, being dead tired from said work, child and husband wanting ATTENTION NAO and/or TV time (which is really distracting, by the way), I somehow managed to get 1800 some words written.

When you think about it, 1667 words per day really isn't that difficult. In fact, it's really easy. It's making those words worth ( Read more... )

This is taking forever to write. See Jen's Problem Solving Skills in Action:

Problem: The characters have no central hub/person they can rely on to get stuff done and as a result, nothing gets done and they have no where to go when they need to Talk Shop!

Solution: Scrap everything and invent Andy.

Problem: Things are too neat and moving ( Read more... )