spam and alien fish

[dbskyler]

This is a mini fic_rush post that will contain spam, mentions of alien fish, and possibly also reports of myself and/or other people making progress on their fics over the weekend. Have at it!

Comments

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I am fed. I should start writing... in 5 minutes. :)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to track both your posts. Huzzah for overflowing inboxes! (The next indispensable feature of fic_rush.)

Ack, now I'm wanting to write one of those "You Know It's Fic_Rush When" things. I have school essays due weeks ago! *scrambles*

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Do it! Doooo it! Schools essays are so unimportant, I mean, it's only your future! ;)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Oh. If it's fic_rush, I should be using my alien fish icon! *changes*

[thisbluespirit]

Yay!

I have to make a proper start on my Yuletide fic, so this seems like a good idea. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I'm confused... Is it fic_rush?

ETA: Just checked the comm and there's no post to say when the next round is... Guess I'm not invited to the party.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

It's fake fic_rush! (Fake_rush?) C'mon, everybody's invited! Probably. ;-)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Now I finally start writing... I hope.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Managed to get organized for work, and now I am hungry. So I'm going to eat lunch first.

Any alien fish sightings yet? Any penguins?

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Well, don't let them fool you, lunch is the most important meal of the day! Especially when it come with a 1.5 hour lunch break of surfing the net...

I have written... 67 words. Pathetic I tell thee, pathetic! Also, changed one instance of Stupify to Expelliarmus, cos when given the choice, the Doctor would Disarm, not Stun.

[thisbluespirit]

Before I had dinner, I wrote 993 words. Granted I didn't know we were having a fake_rush, but that still counst, right?

Am now off to use what is left of my brain on sorting out the next dw_straybunnies random monthly prompt.

:-)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Oh, it definitely counts!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

400 words in the last hour. I'm slowly becoming inspired. Mind, I've just been inspired to do something completely nasty, but it's an inspiration nonetheless!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

400 words in an hour, whoo-hoo!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Arrghh! I just spent over an hour downloading a Windows version of a file when I need the Mac version. Starting over.

This is turning into a very unproductive day.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

:( BLAH! I don't get it why all these services don't use the fact they can tell whether you're on mac or pc and just direct you to the right file! :|

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think The Moody Blues are bad writing music. I'm switching to Kula. Maybe that'll get me WRITING!

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I tried to get a snack out of a vending machine before English class, so as to have some blood sugar with which to deal with my annoying professor... instead, the vending machine ATE MY $5 BILL! *glares* (And I have no idea what to do about it.)

On the other hand, I just turned in one of my papers - now I've just to write/finish three more o_O for this class and one for another class. Gah.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

YAAAAY! It's still ONE DOWN! Always look on the bright side of life etc.

As for the vending machine (eurgh!) - doesn't it have a number on it you can call if it eats your money? All the vending machines I've ever seen had those, you tell them how much money it ate and they give you a refund...

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Hmpf. I kinda feel bad about commenting cos about 60% of the comments in this thread have my microwave in them!

Anyway, overall tonight around 1,100 words. I'm kinda getting tired, I probably should go to sleep and wake up tomorrow with no need to do laundry and battle floodings and have the energy to write...

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Over 1,000 words in night! Well done!

Sleep well, and let's pick up again tomorrow (or possibly late tonight for me). I'll be able to write during the day tomorrow, so at least we can overlap then!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I ended up going out tonight instead of writing. Just got back, and it's almost midnight, so I am now going to bed instead of writing. Hopefully some progress will be made tomorrow!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I'm baaaack! Spamming your journal all alone, I suspect.

Have written 330 words, and then got distracted by the shiny internet. Also, the fuzzy animals survived the fire! Hooray! When I went to sleep last night they were assumed to not have survived.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I haven't written any actual words yet...

BUT! I have wrangled a plot bunny!

In a severe case of tempting Fate/Plot Bunnies, I asked my FList what original fiction character they'd like to see me write (ie not a character from a fandom) - and someone gave me "a scholar researching a mystery, preferably historical". I realised that I didn't have a 'career' lined up for Ms Dora Hilditch of my 'Hilditch & Key' original fic story (paranormal detectives in an Alternate History - how many genres can I mash?!) - although the other four characters all have jobs/careers: Dr Maryam Sabeti is a WW1 VAD turned doctor training to be a psychiatrist; Edward Jesson is a former lawyer turned Detective Inspector; Jimmy Locke is a genius mechanic; and Ms Hilda Key (nee Hildegarde Kerbitz) is a female German equivalent to Alan Turing.

So now Hilditch is an amateur scholar with an interest in Out of Place Artefacts who'll end up investigating several OOP Artefacts turned up during work by the Imperial War Graves Commission to create cemetaries and memorials to the dead of WW1.

So, one plot bunny duly tamed!

Only problem is - this is too much to fit into the current fic, which means I'll be writing a sequel to 'The Mysterious Lodge'. Oh well!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Oooh curious! Well, nothing wrong in writing even more fic! :)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

OMG. This chapter WILL NOT END! I know the exact point it ends... it keeps on getting farther and farther away from me!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

And continuing the pointless, lonely updating/spamming: I HAVE FINISHED THE CHAPTER OF DOOM. Rejoice! And to think that 5000 words ago I thought it's going to be the shortest chapter yet in this story...

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I am awake. I am thinking about writing. I am also thinking about breakfast. And thinking about whether I want to go out and buy sufganyot for breakfast (which I will have to call doughnuts or no one will know what I'm talking about), or whether I will just eat what I have here.

Or perhaps I'll lie in bed with my cats a little longer. They're awfully cute.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Awwwww... lying in bed with cats. I want I want! :)

That does seem to be a very difficult choice... you could stay in bed and postpone it until it's time for lunch! :)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I've just rattled out 207 words of the introduction of a new (scholarly) character to one of my main characters in the Hilditch and Key sequel.

This is SO not what I should be writing (I should be writing the first H&K fic!) - but there you go. Rampageous plot bunny is wilful and obstreperous!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

They can't be fought. I don't even understand why you're trying :)

[thisbluespirit]

I just wrote 920 words of something that's no use to anyone, but then I failed to sleep properly yet again, which is my standard thing for Friday nights these days - v irritating!

Yay for other people writing, though! :-)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

920 words is still writing! And who knows, they might become useful one day... ;)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I have been putting around and not writing. But I am now going to write! It will happen!

Well, attempting to write will happen. Whether any words actually come out remains to be seen . . .

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

And I have achieved positive word count! Not a lot, admittedly, as I am still working with already written stuff, but I redid a paragraph that was bothering me and I like it a lot better, plus there are more words there now.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I'm just back from a Stargate watching date... it's past midnight so I don't expect to get a lot written, but I'm hoping to add a couple more words to this monster!fic.

...Still need to go back and, like, actually write part 1, mind.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Enough. Time to sleep. Overall word count this weekend - around 8,500. I don't even think I'm going to lose much of them in editing, as the vast majority of them seem to work. So far, I'm feeling proud, yeah yeah.

Still need to write part 1 :(

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I think I may have reached a point in the fic that wants to be the end of the chapter. Regardless of whether I end the chapter here or not, I am definitely still mostly in editing mode as opposed to writing mode, so I'm going to stop pushing on creating words and let my muse do what it obviously wants to do, which is continue to work on this chapter (or this section of the chapter) and polish it up until I am fully happy with it. That's important progress, although it will unfortunately not add significantly to my word count.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

But it's writing work - and that's the important bit. It's not not-writing, just because it's more editing than adding new words!

So go db, go db, go db, ra, ra, ra!! \O/ \O/

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Got all my chores done, so I'm going to see if I can do some writing...

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Go, go, go! Although you probably don't need that encouragement, as you always seem to be able to do some writing. :D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well, I just wrote 885 words of Wartime Nursing scenes for my first Hilditch and key fic, so go me!

The gods only know what writing I'll get done in the coming week, given my work schedule (though I plan on taking my notebook and a reference book with me in case I get any quiet half hours - which isn't inconceivable...)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Glad you were able to get some writing done -- you seemed to have a pretty productive weekend, congrats! Hope the week goes well -- or as well as it can -- and hang in there!