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Nov. 28th, 2005 08:58 amHappy Birthday,
quietspaces!
NaNoSlashMo:
Words added to: Time Comes Stealing On. Yes, I *know*. I'm a shameless fic starter. but this one is nearly almost finished. It's funny how these things morph away from me - I was trying to write the ultra-smut, and I ended up with some truly hilarious moments and some mushy stuff instead. I'll try to redeem my Queen of Smut! reputation by the finish.
I've also decided that Harry/Draco is my OTP. (hangs head)
ETA: Finished! and I updated the wordmeter to reflect that. once again, if HPSlash is your thing and you want to read it, just let me know and I'll send.
page by page rewrite-o-meter:
In the traditions of all rewrites, this puppy is swelling. I'm a page ahead in my revision version than I am in the original.
( Oh and I said I was going to talk about stew. )
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44,540 / 25,000 (178.2%) |
Words added to: Time Comes Stealing On. Yes, I *know*. I'm a shameless fic starter. but this one is nearly almost finished. It's funny how these things morph away from me - I was trying to write the ultra-smut, and I ended up with some truly hilarious moments and some mushy stuff instead. I'll try to redeem my Queen of Smut! reputation by the finish.
I've also decided that Harry/Draco is my OTP. (hangs head)
ETA: Finished! and I updated the wordmeter to reflect that. once again, if HPSlash is your thing and you want to read it, just let me know and I'll send.
page by page rewrite-o-meter:
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7 / 30 (23.3%) |
In the traditions of all rewrites, this puppy is swelling. I'm a page ahead in my revision version than I am in the original.
( Oh and I said I was going to talk about stew. )
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Nov. 26th, 2005 05:08 am
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New Words added to: A Thousand, and a Hundred More
I really should be doing a rewrite of a short story, but I'm still goofing off.
Besides, rewrites don't contribute to my NaNoSlashMo word count. s'there!
anyway, I have to rewrite a story from 1st person to 3rd person. It's been recommended to me that I open two word windows side by side and white papre rewrite the story.
I already tried going into the story and changing the POV, but on man that is SO not working. the problem is that 1st gives you nearly seamless internalizations, and --believe it or not, I didn't realize this - just changing the pronouns mean that you end up with this WEIRD omniscient, yet distant effect.
( check it out: )
I am a productive little pixie these days
Nov. 24th, 2005 11:40 amI had a thawed pork shoulder and a broken oven.
So i got out a bowl and made a spice rub. I didn't measure anything. I just dumped in a whomp of garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, mantreal steak spice, paprika, sage, and terragon for kicks.
then I browned and seared the houlder in a frying pan on all sides. I used a slightly higher than medium heat to do this.
I dumped the leftover rub in a dutch oven and splashed in some worchestershire, apple juice, apple cider vinegar, a splash of sauterne cooking wine, some crushed garlic, and a bit of water to stretch it out. I might have an inch of liquid in the pan, probably.
I put the roast in fat-side down, covered, and simmered for an hour before testing with a meat thermometer. I think it took three hours.
and it turned out great.
oh yes, and
NaNoSlashMo
Words added to: Idiot Prayer, A Thousand, and a Hundred More
check THAT out. I said I was considering adding another 10,000 words to my goal for the month, and I kicked the crap out of THAT wordcount goal too.
This might possibly be my most prolific month of writing ever. let's see how far I get.
So i got out a bowl and made a spice rub. I didn't measure anything. I just dumped in a whomp of garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, mantreal steak spice, paprika, sage, and terragon for kicks.
then I browned and seared the houlder in a frying pan on all sides. I used a slightly higher than medium heat to do this.
I dumped the leftover rub in a dutch oven and splashed in some worchestershire, apple juice, apple cider vinegar, a splash of sauterne cooking wine, some crushed garlic, and a bit of water to stretch it out. I might have an inch of liquid in the pan, probably.
I put the roast in fat-side down, covered, and simmered for an hour before testing with a meat thermometer. I think it took three hours.
and it turned out great.
oh yes, and
NaNoSlashMo
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35,590 / 25,000 (142.4%) |
Words added to: Idiot Prayer, A Thousand, and a Hundred More
check THAT out. I said I was considering adding another 10,000 words to my goal for the month, and I kicked the crap out of THAT wordcount goal too.
This might possibly be my most prolific month of writing ever. let's see how far I get.
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Nov. 14th, 2005 08:23 pm
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23,920 / 25,000 (95.7%) |
I've actually written boatloads today, but I did a whole-count and somewhere in there I must have counted the same section twice. since my last metric I've produced 2500 words, and gone from smut to angst and right back into the smut! once this smut is over, I've got to wrap this up with some angst, rewrite the beginning, and my novella length and half of it is sex Harry/Draco slash will be finished.
I learned today that Wolf doesn't understand writers. He knew that I was slashing Harry/Draco, and in a vote of support went out and bought the first three movies on DVD for "research." Wonderful! But he wanted me to watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone now right now, and I was just getting ready to put words on the page.
I had to turn him down with, "But I'm in the middle of a blowjob!"
He went, but insisted that I catch up on movie one and watch movie two with him tonight. he wants to be prepped in time for Opening Night - I do the same thing when the next book of a series/trilogy comes out by going back and reading all the books that came before.
I wish I had a Ravenclaw scarf. (snif)
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Nov. 14th, 2005 02:52 pmI don't have a metric right now, but I have a spare moment and I'm stealing it to do a quick post.
I've always scorned NaNoWriMo. I've loudly proclaimed that I wasn't going to do it, oh for the last four years now.
This November had seen me at a period where I hadn't written anything for months. months, I swear. I'd tried to pick up on the novel i'd been sulking at for years - and I got some words in that I hated and so I quit and went back to not-writing.
so me and the sekrit cabal ended up observing NaNoDruWriNi on the last friday of october (because they were going to WFC), and I pounded out a few words on a "useless" fanfiction project.
It was fun. and so I drunkenly declared NaNoSlashMo, decided to go for a lesser word count goal, and got hit with a plot bunny that's gotten me nearly completed my 25,000 words by the middle of November.
And it is fun. and I'm learning so much from combining the highly scorned literary practices of writing fanfiction and writing porn.
( Mostly, it's an exercise in character. )
I've always scorned NaNoWriMo. I've loudly proclaimed that I wasn't going to do it, oh for the last four years now.
This November had seen me at a period where I hadn't written anything for months. months, I swear. I'd tried to pick up on the novel i'd been sulking at for years - and I got some words in that I hated and so I quit and went back to not-writing.
so me and the sekrit cabal ended up observing NaNoDruWriNi on the last friday of october (because they were going to WFC), and I pounded out a few words on a "useless" fanfiction project.
It was fun. and so I drunkenly declared NaNoSlashMo, decided to go for a lesser word count goal, and got hit with a plot bunny that's gotten me nearly completed my 25,000 words by the middle of November.
And it is fun. and I'm learning so much from combining the highly scorned literary practices of writing fanfiction and writing porn.
( Mostly, it's an exercise in character. )
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Nov. 9th, 2005 12:43 amMore progress for NaNoSlashMo:
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cpolk: woobie
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matociquala: weeble
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cpolk: I'm writing harry/draco slash.
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cpolk: harry/draco.
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cpolk: gads.
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cpolk: I've dressed them up like my own set of Ken dolls and sent them to a goth bar and got them hammered on Snakebites.
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matociquala: You need a new hobby
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matociquala: *g*
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cpolk: and I think that's what a lot of fanfic *is*
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cpolk: grown women playing barbies.
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matociquala: Ken dolls?
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matociquala: Heh
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cpolk:
ktempest had it right.
SnakeBite
In a shot glass, pour
1/2 Jack Daniels
1/2 tequila
3 drops tabasco sauce
drink while swirling. feel free to swear.
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In a shot glass, pour
1/2 Jack Daniels
1/2 tequila
3 drops tabasco sauce
drink while swirling. feel free to swear.