slight love affair with commas

what I'm reading wednesday

2013-06-13T04:55:57Z

LOOK IT'S ACTUALLY WEDNESDAY!

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Also, I'm actually using DW again since the LJ 'post' thing is HORRIBLE.

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2012-01-20T07:25:36Z

I told myself I was going to go bed early tonight to try and get myself on a schedule that's more conducive to getting shit done, but.

But I bought a new writing journal today and a new pack of multi-colored InkJoy pens and I just spent the last three hours plotting the second book (!!!) of my Thor fic and while I'm mostly working on world-building and motivations and cause/effect type stuff, I'm actually really excited about it again!!!

Except not so much excited about the last three and a half chapters I have to write in book one (and all the editing I know I have to do in parts two through five/six-ish). I think plotting is my favorite part about writing.

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2012-01-08T20:43:45Z

Writing has not been happening this week; I mostly blame work - it's been demanding - but I am editing, which is. It's going slowly, but it's going, so there's that. I've also figured out a few things for the none-written chapters, which even though there's still a lot of work to be done, I feel a lot better about it than I did a few days ago.

I'm not watching a lot of TV, except Leverage (fantastic as always), Grey's Anatomy (ALL THE FEELINGS) and Revenge (lol this show) so.

I also watched Outlander WHICH I LOVE. I started it to just have something going on in the background while I slogged through the beginning of Thor fic editing, and I totally expected something ridonk and cheesy and bad - I barely remember Pathfinder, but I remember being pretty meh about it and that's kind of what I expected - AND IT WAS SO WONDERFUL. I LOVE THE CHARACTERS AND I LOVE THEIR INTERACTIONS AND I LOVE THE BACKSTORY OF KAINAN AND THE MORROWEN (and lol, give me a slow reveal and it will get me every single time) and gah, my tastes are totally showing but it was glorious.

It probably helps that Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles and Jack Huston are all painfully good looking.

And of course, there's like, zero fandom (I did find a fanvid of Freya and then one of Wulfric/Kainan but no fic as of yet) so I'm just gonna be a fandom of one over here.

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2012-01-02T03:37:44Z

Year in review 2011

This is Real Life: Glee, Puck/Finn.

Love and Brains: Glee, Full cast. Tina/Mike.

all in (cause we're both going to win): Suits, Harvey/Mike porn.

the other side (is always greener): TSN, Mark/Eduardo

All Our Errors on Repeat: TSN, Mark/Eduardo

Clutch: V (2009,) Lisa/Joshua.

There’s a short suits kinkmeme fill somewhere but I don’t have the link. Oops? It probably doesn’t count, b/c they’re not finished and most of them are forever WIP but the stuff on my ‘I hope to one day finish this/write this/work on this but I am currently lacking ideas’ amnesty post which was originally something that was supposed to be a daily writing warm-up but that didn’t pan out that well.

And I really want to talk about Thor fic/Inception fic, so those will probably pop up even though they won’t be posted until sometime next year. ~~if at all. INCEPTION FIC WHY YOU SO HARD TO WRITE~~

Total Fics: 6
Total Word Count: ~150,200 (if you include both what my current counts are for nano (aka Thor fic) and inception fic, then it’s closer to ~250,000. Holy crap. Though you probably have to subtract some from This is Real Life because I wrote a good portion of it in 2010 so idk.)
Fandoms: Four written and posted in; six written/attempted total.
Challenges/fests: 3 (3 of 4 finished; I’m still hoping for inception fic even if nano fic has taken over my brain.) Though, NaNoWriMo is a challenge and I won that! yay hooray!

( and because, in usual fashion, I used far too many words, the rest of it is behind the cut )

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2011-12-29T16:51:07Z

I PASSED MY BOARDS!!!!

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2011-12-26T23:58:38Z

I seriously need to find the motivation for Thor fic. I can't keep pushing it off or it will never get done. I've put too much work into it to abandon it now. And I still love it, so I don't want to abandon it now, either.

I currently don't have my own computer right now so I can't even edit (I'd probably push that off too), but I've been sort of using googledocs lately - THEY HAVE A COMMENT FUNCTION NOW IT'S TRUE LOVE ~~we met on internet~~ - and I have the outline of part six there, and also my writing journal I carry in my purse, which has six through nine-ish, so it's not the lack of information. I just have no motivation for writing it. It's severely irritating. Especially since I'm at least half done, and I've figured out a good deal of what's going to happen next. Not the ending, of course, that's going to take a lot more thinking, but at least the next thirty to forty thousand words (why is this fic so long???). And the thing is, I'm excited about it. Jane's so awesome, and there's a turning point in several of Loki's relationships, including with Sif, and Sif and Loki are finally sharing screentime, so to speak, instead of briefly meeting and then separating for another ten thousand words. AND LOKI AND THOR!!! AND LOKI AND THE FROST GIANTS!!!

Ugh, why can't I write this? It'd be different if I couldn't write at all, but my current favorite original WIP is trucking along. Slowly, of course, but it's being written. I think NaNo might have burned me out on it, and I can't keep up the pace I'd set for that challenge. Plus, I'm at the point when I start to look at the WIP and question my decisions, both plot-wise and character-wise.

I've been reading some articles about motivation and just powering through it, and maybe that's what I have to do. Maybe I just need to restart at a slower pace. Do the 200-500 words a day thing on it and if I write more, then I write more, but I always have to write at least 200-500 words a day. I need to be held accountable for this at a wider spectrum than my own goals, so I'm also signing up for the inkingitout challenge. I figure with both Thor fic and this original fic and Inception fic, should it ever get off the ground again, I can easily reach 80,000 words written in 2012. Anyone want to do it with me?

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2011-12-26T05:28:32Z

The day is mostly over, but Merry Christmas to all! I hope it was wonderful for all of you!

So LJ's new look is giving me headaches - and I've finally figured out why I don't like ff.net. It's because the layout/colors/font irritate my eyes - and therefore I've opened a dreamwidth account. fuzzy_paint The name's the same because a. I'm creative like that, and b. I still like my username, so. Am currently importing all the entries.

I'm hoping that either LJ or I will figure out a way to work around it when I have more time, but there's also little harm in just using both journals. IDK how often I'll actually post at DW that I don't cross-post to LJ, except I'll probably blather more about the ~technical aspects of writing on DW to spare the flisters the spam that I tend to use. Anything that isn't crossposted to LJ will use the dreamwidth only tag (if I remember to use it!)

Anyone that wants to friend me there/follow me there (must figure out DW terminology) is welcome to do so, but like I said, probably mostly just me blathering about writing and not much different than here. I fully intend to crosspost all fannish things and probably most entries anyway, so it's probably completely unnecessary to do so.

( blathering )

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2011-12-25T19:47:08Z

Semi-moving here from LJ because the recent changes in default style are giving me headaches. I don't know how much I'll use this journal, except maybe to spare my lj flist the brunt of my blatherings about writing.

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