more writing blather

Nano-ing my brains out today, trying to not only catch up but hopefully to finish this blasted thing so that I can start up on the editing that it so very desperately needs.

Unfortunately, that requires pushing through about 7,000 words (which is totally do-able!) and (significantly less seemingly-do-able) finding 7,000 words' worth of scenes that I haven't actually written yet, not just things that I need to rewrite and edit and change slightly and so on, because, thanks to working in a gigantic document in a program that doesn't like gigantic documents, I've apparently hit a point where I have to write things in other documents to keep things from disappearing. Or something. I really haven't had time to look into exactly what's going wrong with my word-processing program (anybody else who uses Rough Draft run into anything like that at about 40,000 words?). Aaaaanyway, long story short, I'm kind of hitting walls all over the place, but I think it's working, and I'm going to be very happy when this thing is done. And, you know, ready for ungodly amounts of editing.

And thank god for BPAL (perfume of the moment is "Her Voice" - Hyacinth, beeswax, wild roses, vanilla amber, lily of the valley, tiger lily, honeysuckle, carnation, and heliotrope), Sarah Brightman (yes, really - a little light pop-opera mix that's mostly in a language I can't understand was apparently exactly what I needed in terms of music), and white rose tea. Which I'm going to go make some of just as soon as I hit a decent stopping point. Wheeeeeee.

i still need an arthur icon...

Merlin!

( In which Arthur falls in love... again... and again... )

See Morgana in my icon? She's bored. Please let her do something fun and interesting next week, instead of just wandering around like some kind of zombie.

the last nano post of the year

Heeeeee. I've done it before, but I've never managed it this early before.

...And now, I have a whole lot of editing to look forward to. :D

(Note: Ignore the *actual* number on my profile page on NaNo, btw - once I knew by my own accounting that I was past 50,000, I had to pop the whole of the document that I've been working in into the validator. I've been working in so many weird little documents to get this thing done, due to my lovely word-processor hiccup, that if I'd tried to upload only the exact words I'm counting for my word count it would have gotten really confusing. I'm not really at 60,000 this month - that's just the total that I've written on this fic in the main doc, with the addition of one other doc I've been working out of to bring it up. And if that doesn't confuse you... then can I borrow your brain? :P Seriously, though - I've been keeping careful track, and I'm quite sure that I'm over 50,000 this month. So it's all good. :D)