The Rose's Grove

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)

I 'should' be at: 35,007 words
I am at: 30,706 words

So... 5,301 words to write for tonight, huh?

I... can probably manage... some of that... ish...

The logic of magic, folklore and fairy tales always seems perfectly reasonable and intuitive to me... right up until I need to make something very specific happen in a story, and get flabbergasted realizing that I have no idea how to come up with the details of what I'm imagining. It's not exactly as though there's a good way to Google "a spell to put your enemy into a bottle."

Although trying does get some interesting Vodoun websites. :P

Oh well, on with it - I know I'll just get myself utterly distracted by research if I keep going like this, so I'll just have to settle for whatever pops into my head.

So, obviously my efforts at NaNoWriMo this year have been slightly hampered by the fact that, um, I spent nearly the first week of it in Japan. However, I'm also running into a bit of a problem because this year I've decided to count whatever creative writing I do... and most of that, at the moment, is work on The Fic of Doom (AKA That Hellboy Fic I've Been Working on For a Long Time). At the moment, I have about 23,000 words on it.

So here's the thing - because of the way I write (editing as I go), I don't really know how I can keep track of what's *new* on the fic, as opposed to what I wrote before. So how should I go about counting the work on that doc into the NaNo count?

[Poll #1482640]

I was going to include "Dear god, you're still working on that thing?" as an option, but since I'm genuinely curious what people think and wanted to use radio boxes to prevent more than one option getting tagged, I decided to leave it off. I promise to do something with fun ticky-boxes later in the month. ;)

This is me avoiding NaNo... I'm at about 37,000 words (yes, still woefully behind, but... whatever - a lot less than I was yesterday!), and I've been padding like crazy while simultaneously trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing with this crack-tastic lack-of-plot that I've managed to stick myself with. Right now I have two versions of how the story is going, and I'm sort of... running them both concurrently because I'm honestly not sure which one I like better. And besides, running both gives me more potential for word count.

Back to it. I'd like to hit 40,000 tonight. I even think I can do it, if I can just stop getting so damned distracted by everything in the world.

Watched a bunch of 3rd season Doctor Who with Mom over the holiday, and I was pleased to notice several things that I'd never noticed before. For instance, the quarries in Utopia and Last of the Time Lords. I felt all nostalgic for Fourth-Doctor!Who, after noticing that.

And they were really pressing the whole Lucy thing, weren't they? Wow. Now that I've seen a decent amount of the old stuff, I practically had to eat my hand in order not to start gushing about how hard they were trying to make her look like Romana. (Watch - now that I've said that, it'll turn out that it was sheer accident. But still! So very similar in really random ways!)

Oh, and while I'm at it... I keep saying I need to write this down so that if it happens, I can gloat. So here it is: ( My theory on what's really going to happen with Lucy Saxon, with spoilers for the last arc of Season 3 )

Per the norm, lately, this weekend was mostly a lot of me pounding my head against my NaNo project. I think I'm making progress, though... perhaps most importantly in discovering that this year's project is actually the long-awaited (and mysteriously absent until now) main plot for my last year's project. So, that's a lovely thing, since it means I can start trying to figure out a way to smush the two together and, to my great pleasure, add lots of extra words as I set up this current novel with the background and such of last year's. I'd known from the start that bits of last years were being used in this one (I liked a lot of the characters and some of the concepts), but in mining my old work for ideas the other night I realized the two plots complement each other pretty well. So yay! I suddenly have more characters, a better understanding of my setting, a lot more dialogue potential and such to work with.

Yes, I'm a dork.

Went to the Melting Pot over the weekend with a bunch of the girls and irishninja, and much fun and delicious fondue was had. And I'm still poking along on three Doctor Who fics, in my 'spare time' - one Sarah Jane/Harry set roughly in the SJA era, one Romana/Doctor fic, about which all I can say without spoiling my own idea is that it involves the Time War, and a final idea that I hope will be a very silly but fun Christmas fic focusing on Ten, Martha, and Donna.

Oh, and I actually managed to draw a little last night, and play with my colored pens. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my really nice thin inking pen, so I have to buy a new one before I can continue. Bleh.