cpolk: yes. Those really are my hands. (hands)
No this is not a music post. breathe. breathe.

I present:

NaNoSlashMo final Count!!!!!

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
45,630 / 25,000
(182.5%)



wooo! that's awesome! and the most words I have ever written in a month.


Project rewrite:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
14 / 30
(46.7%)


Kick my ass if this bar isn't filled by friday, okay?
cpolk: (zen)
Happy Birthday, [livejournal.com profile] quietspaces!

NaNoSlashMo:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
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:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
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. )
cpolk: (Default)
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
39,400 / 25,000
(157.6%)


New words added to: A Thousand, and a Hundred More

oh, and

page by page rewrite-o-meter

Zokutou word meter
0 / 30
(0.0%)


because I should really get on it.

And I'm cooking dinner, too. I'll talk about that later.
cpolk: (ohfuck)
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
37,960 / 25,000
(151.8%)


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: )
cpolk: (Default)
I 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

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
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.
cpolk: (Default)
Eh? Eh? Well looky -

NaNoSlashMo
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
30,900 / 25,000
(123.6%)


Thing is it's all over the place for slashes in progress and stuff like that. heh.

Words added to: Lights Out, Look For the Sky, as yet unnamed fic
cpolk: (Default)
Zokutou word meter
26,200 / 25,000
(104.8%)


that includes some additions and revisions to the Harry/Draco, and getting started on the other fanfic that I must write or else Kat will kill me.

Words added to: Heads you Do, Tails you Don't, Look For The Sky
cpolk: (pretty)
Zokutou word meter
25,440 / 25,000
(101.8%)


that's it, that's the whole fic. I need a better title than "I wanna take you to a goth bar" but I have finished the draft of the story with the longest sex scene EVAR.

any HP shippers want to read it out of curiosity or urge to beta, I can send.
cpolk: (zen)
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
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)
cpolk: (I am not young enough to know everything)
I 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. )
cpolk: (dance)
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
23,540 / 25,000
(94.2%)


through the smut, and into the angst! heh.

I'm going to meet my goal wordcount for the month just finishing this story. I'm toying with tacking on another 10,000 words once I meet the goal....

but first, i must dance like a fool to Rock Lobster.

Down! Down!
cpolk: (Default)
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
21,260 / 25,000
(85.0%)


Lots more today. out of the angst, and straight back into the smut! whoooo!
cpolk: (Default)
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
18,900 / 25,000
(75.6%)


of course the stupid draco/harry barbies wouldn't let me stop...

1690 more words. some of them dirty, but we've gotten into the angst.
cpolk: (Default)
NaNoSlashMo:
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
17,210 / 25,000
(68.8%)


1690 words today, and every single one of them dirty.

ohyeah!
cpolk: (Default)
more NaNoSlashMo:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
12,850 / 25,000
(51.4%)
cpolk: (UmbrellaKiss)
More progress for NaNoSlashMo:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
11,140 / 25,000
(44.6%)


[00:02] [livejournal.com profile] cpolk: woobie
[00:03] [livejournal.com profile] matociquala: weeble
[00:03] [livejournal.com profile] cpolk: I'm writing harry/draco slash.
[00:03] [livejournal.com profile] cpolk: harry/draco.
[00:03] [livejournal.com profile] cpolk: gads.
[00:04] [livejournal.com profile] 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.
[00:05] [livejournal.com profile] matociquala: You need a new hobby
[00:05] [livejournal.com profile] matociquala: *g*
[00:05] [livejournal.com profile] cpolk: and I think that's what a lot of fanfic *is*
[00:05] [livejournal.com profile] cpolk: grown women playing barbies.
[00:05] [livejournal.com profile] matociquala: Ken dolls?
[00:05] [livejournal.com profile] matociquala: Heh
[00:05] [livejournal.com profile] cpolk: [livejournal.com profile] 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.
cpolk: (lovegrrr)
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
8,410 / 25,000
(33.6%)


now I bed, the fanfic writing fool.

Oh yeah

Nov. 7th, 2005 11:01 pm
cpolk: (dance)
NaNoSlashMo:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
7,210 / 25,000
(28.8%)


I'm laughing at my own jokes on the Harry/Draco slash.

That's a bad sign, isn't it?

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