actually wrote some words today
Apr. 27th, 2012 10:39 pmProject: Age of Sail Has The Best Clothing Romance Novel
Deadline: haven't got one
New words written: ~1K, it's a little hard for me to tell where in the scene the new words started today
Present total word count: 29884 (and I seriously considered trying to push forward just a little to break 30K)
Reason for stopping: brains are pudding, and the scene's at a pause-point, with a conversation needing to cut to narrative again for the next bit of travel
Mean things: coffee deprivation
Fun things: the lieutenant does a nice deadpan snark; also, hair-combing
Stimulants: way too much tumblr
Definitely closing in on the lieutenant's Ma. I got them out of bed, dressed, breakfasted, and on the road, relented and let them find coffee at the first stop to change horses, and further indulged them with currant buns to fortify the lieutenant and give him the courage to ask the viscount to meet HIS mother, as he's met the viscount's. Ah, class anxieties, you drive the internal conflict SO WELL.
I now have a laptop, thanks to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fadethecat, so I don't have to compete with my teenager for computer use any more. Kid can have the desktop for homework/tumblr, and I can have the laptop for writing/tumblr. Bonus, I get to sit on the sofa, and I can bring this upstairs to bed!
Also had a nice conversation withmswyrr who helped me tease out just why the lieutenant was having a harder time admitting to himself just HOW strong an affection he and the viscount have developed for each other in just a few days (albeit with several weeks of speculative buildup). The viscount is aware of it and comfortable with it, although he doesn't say much about it; the lieutenant is a lot more ambivalent. Not that he doesn't feel the same; he's just so wary of it. mswyrr helped me get at the factors behind that more explicitly than I could alone. it helps.
The lieutenant's ma is next. I wish I could find a media source for rural accents where they weren't freaking COMIC RELIEF.
Deadline: haven't got one
New words written: ~1K, it's a little hard for me to tell where in the scene the new words started today
Present total word count: 29884 (and I seriously considered trying to push forward just a little to break 30K)
Reason for stopping: brains are pudding, and the scene's at a pause-point, with a conversation needing to cut to narrative again for the next bit of travel
Mean things: coffee deprivation
Fun things: the lieutenant does a nice deadpan snark; also, hair-combing
Stimulants: way too much tumblr
Definitely closing in on the lieutenant's Ma. I got them out of bed, dressed, breakfasted, and on the road, relented and let them find coffee at the first stop to change horses, and further indulged them with currant buns to fortify the lieutenant and give him the courage to ask the viscount to meet HIS mother, as he's met the viscount's. Ah, class anxieties, you drive the internal conflict SO WELL.
I now have a laptop, thanks to
fadethecat, so I don't have to compete with my teenager for computer use any more. Kid can have the desktop for homework/tumblr, and I can have the laptop for writing/tumblr. Bonus, I get to sit on the sofa, and I can bring this upstairs to bed!Also had a nice conversation with
mswyrr who helped me tease out just why the lieutenant was having a harder time admitting to himself just HOW strong an affection he and the viscount have developed for each other in just a few days (albeit with several weeks of speculative buildup). The viscount is aware of it and comfortable with it, although he doesn't say much about it; the lieutenant is a lot more ambivalent. Not that he doesn't feel the same; he's just so wary of it. mswyrr helped me get at the factors behind that more explicitly than I could alone. it helps.The lieutenant's ma is next. I wish I could find a media source for rural accents where they weren't freaking COMIC RELIEF.
