magic number!
Jun. 24th, 2012 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julian_griffithProject: Like Jane Austen, Only Slashy
Deadline: Labor Day-ish
New words written: since my last update? 1635
Present total word count: 51235
Mean things: OMG MY FAMILY IS EMBARRASSING ME
Fun things: OMG MY FAMILY IS EMBARRASSING ME, especially pesky little brother
Stimulants: 800mg ibuprofen
I got distracted from the linear progression by wanting to write the angsty Lancelot/Guinevere first kiss, but I only got it down in rough outline form.
Then the heat wave melted my brain.
It doesn't help that, when it's hot, I don't want to eat, and then my blood sugar gets low, and then my brain goes into shutdown mode.
Today, with the temperature only in the 80s instead of the 90s, I added a timer widget to my home page, and wrote in 30-minute stretches, with 10-minute breaks, and cranked out about 1300 words, transforming the outline of Arthur Meets Guinevere's Parents into an actual scene with dialogue. There are cluttery bits all over it like [composer, composition] for what the younger sister is playing at the pianoforte, and other things that could have eaten a whole 30-minute block just in research to get two words, but it's a decent first draft of the scene, anyway. My beta liked it. She also noticed the father reminding her of Mr. Bennett, which... yeah, busted. He doesn't have quite the adorable dry snark of Mr. Bennett, but the combination of concern and abstraction is there, and the calm contrast to his fairly bossy wife, who is not the shrieking harpy Mrs. Bennett is, though! No fits of nerves, no ditzy comments about how she used to love a red coat... she's very sensible and practical and she is VERY sure she is Right About Everything, which makes her annoying even when she IS right.
Tomorrow I may really, truly, actually get to the Sidesaddle Scene.
Deadline: Labor Day-ish
New words written: since my last update? 1635
Present total word count: 51235
Mean things: OMG MY FAMILY IS EMBARRASSING ME
Fun things: OMG MY FAMILY IS EMBARRASSING ME, especially pesky little brother
Stimulants: 800mg ibuprofen
I got distracted from the linear progression by wanting to write the angsty Lancelot/Guinevere first kiss, but I only got it down in rough outline form.
Then the heat wave melted my brain.
It doesn't help that, when it's hot, I don't want to eat, and then my blood sugar gets low, and then my brain goes into shutdown mode.
Today, with the temperature only in the 80s instead of the 90s, I added a timer widget to my home page, and wrote in 30-minute stretches, with 10-minute breaks, and cranked out about 1300 words, transforming the outline of Arthur Meets Guinevere's Parents into an actual scene with dialogue. There are cluttery bits all over it like [composer, composition] for what the younger sister is playing at the pianoforte, and other things that could have eaten a whole 30-minute block just in research to get two words, but it's a decent first draft of the scene, anyway. My beta liked it. She also noticed the father reminding her of Mr. Bennett, which... yeah, busted. He doesn't have quite the adorable dry snark of Mr. Bennett, but the combination of concern and abstraction is there, and the calm contrast to his fairly bossy wife, who is not the shrieking harpy Mrs. Bennett is, though! No fits of nerves, no ditzy comments about how she used to love a red coat... she's very sensible and practical and she is VERY sure she is Right About Everything, which makes her annoying even when she IS right.
Tomorrow I may really, truly, actually get to the Sidesaddle Scene.
