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Oct. 7th, 2012 02:34 amProject: Unnamed Christmas story
Market: Storm Moon Press, "22 Days of Yule" open anthology call
Deadline: October 15, 2012
Required length:15-20K
Previous wordcount: 3157
Present total wordcount: 7918
Mean things: Cook won't let Rockingham have a mince pie
Fun things: This content may not be suitable for minors
Stimulants: Filking! And a two-hour drive with Led Zeppelin for company
Reason for stopping: Over 2K words today
I'm behind on wordcount and I know it. Well, maybe not. But I do feel that deadline. I was chunking away at it the past few days, doggedly advancing from morning room to great hall, and getting distracted by the continued delay in retrieving my car from the shop. First there was another part they had to order, then they lost a very particular bolt, then it was all ready but they couldn't get me a driver to pick me up until the next morning. Upshot was, the car that was promised for Monday? I got it back Thursday.
Then I went to [Bad username or site: kingsgrave 's for a filk party, and stayed overnight. I brought my laptop. I arrived before the party got going, and managed to do some edits, but I didn't really make a lot of new words. Then the party was wonderful, and I got to sing Banshee, and I got to try out my Raggle Taggle Hush mashup, and it worked really well, with her friend Matt playing bodhran, and Karen with a maraca. Eventually the party broke up, and I was one of the overnight guests, and had an air mattress in the study, along with [livejournal.com profile] slipjig @ livejournal.com] on a different air mattress.
He did warn me he snored.
I did sleep. But between the light and the snoring I was awake before 7AM.
So I grabbed the laptop and started making words.
I did about 600 words before breakfast. Then I got two cups of coffee in me and wrote some more while Catt and Adam rehearsed some songs and hit just under 1K before I left. Then, on the way home, I didn't get any more PLOT words while I was driving, but hoo BOY did I get me some sex scenes.
Individual pairs-sequential rather than threesome this time. And, a thing I like, showing off sex that doesn't center penetration. Because there is more to sex than just that! And a lot of emotional context, and with recaps of the beginnings of each relationship built in. And, survey says, hot.
Yeah, I've got a few friends besides
mswyrr who like to read the sex scenes. I figure why not. And they were all HIGHLY complimentary about this set.
So now my job is to move along with the financial plot and the fun set pieces like the snowball fight and some mistletoe kisses. And wrap it up nicely with the legal agreement and a happy New Year.
In under eight days.
Here I go!
Market: Storm Moon Press, "22 Days of Yule" open anthology call
Deadline: October 15, 2012
Required length:15-20K
Previous wordcount: 3157
Present total wordcount: 7918
Mean things: Cook won't let Rockingham have a mince pie
Fun things: This content may not be suitable for minors
Stimulants: Filking! And a two-hour drive with Led Zeppelin for company
Reason for stopping: Over 2K words today
I'm behind on wordcount and I know it. Well, maybe not. But I do feel that deadline. I was chunking away at it the past few days, doggedly advancing from morning room to great hall, and getting distracted by the continued delay in retrieving my car from the shop. First there was another part they had to order, then they lost a very particular bolt, then it was all ready but they couldn't get me a driver to pick me up until the next morning. Upshot was, the car that was promised for Monday? I got it back Thursday.
Then I went to [Bad username or site: kingsgrave 's for a filk party, and stayed overnight. I brought my laptop. I arrived before the party got going, and managed to do some edits, but I didn't really make a lot of new words. Then the party was wonderful, and I got to sing Banshee, and I got to try out my Raggle Taggle Hush mashup, and it worked really well, with her friend Matt playing bodhran, and Karen with a maraca. Eventually the party broke up, and I was one of the overnight guests, and had an air mattress in the study, along with [livejournal.com profile] slipjig @ livejournal.com] on a different air mattress.
He did warn me he snored.
I did sleep. But between the light and the snoring I was awake before 7AM.
So I grabbed the laptop and started making words.
I did about 600 words before breakfast. Then I got two cups of coffee in me and wrote some more while Catt and Adam rehearsed some songs and hit just under 1K before I left. Then, on the way home, I didn't get any more PLOT words while I was driving, but hoo BOY did I get me some sex scenes.
Individual pairs-sequential rather than threesome this time. And, a thing I like, showing off sex that doesn't center penetration. Because there is more to sex than just that! And a lot of emotional context, and with recaps of the beginnings of each relationship built in. And, survey says, hot.
Yeah, I've got a few friends besides
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So now my job is to move along with the financial plot and the fun set pieces like the snowball fight and some mistletoe kisses. And wrap it up nicely with the legal agreement and a happy New Year.
In under eight days.
Here I go!