Considering dusting this journal off to use as a writing journal instead of my main one. We'll see!

How's everyone's writing going?

I am totally just copying this from last year's letter because it still stands:

Dear Yuletide Santa,

Hi! I hope you're excited by my requests and aren't trying to figure out how to write such lame things. And I hope that for whatever fandom you want to write for me, I haven't asked for something that you completely hate. Basically, please have fun, okay? That would make me happiest.

So here, have a handy list of things that I love:

• Bickering
• Banter
• Totally awesome ladies
• Flirting
• People being mean in a loving way
• Happy endings
• Hurt/Comfort
• Angst that has a wicked happy ending
• Stories that are all angsty and the ending is then something like "and then they done kissed and lived happily ever after THE END


• Anything involving someone making their own family out of a mishmash of friends

And things I am not so fond of:

• Sex scenes. I know, I am a freak. I'm sorry. :(
• Character-bashing

And things I hate with all my heart and will never ever ever ever ever forgive you for writing:

• Character death
• Endings where someone is not happy.

So there's that. And now, for specifics about the fandoms I requested! ARE YOU EXCITED? I SURE AM.

( Oh jeez, what *did* I request? )

So, I love you, mystery fic writer Santa person. I love you so much because I know already that you are amazing and are going to write something perfect for me.

LOVE,
sock_me_amadeus
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

So, it turns out that when you're trying to hit 50,000 words in nine days you don't, uh, actually have time for things like posting exerpts to your livejournal or hanging out at nanomeme or anything.

Oops.

SO on the one hand, I have hit the Week Two slump. On the other hand, I have hit 50,000 words! Which, I think, is largely the cause of the two week slump because my god, I've hit 50,000 words, do I really need to write any more? Do I really want to go to 150? Do I really care all that much?

My pride commands it so, you know, onward!

I'll probably check in again at the 100,000 mark. :D?

Instead of, you know, working on my nano today I decided to write first!kiss!fic for Gadget Girl on the request of a nanomemer. Because lord knows, if I have to choose between writing about people dying in hilarious ways or cheesy romance, I'm going to choose the cheesy romance. :D:

This is set in the future, sometime, at Christmas.

( Gadget Girl and the First Kiss )

SO I GUESS that, like, trying to do nano when you're off your meds is really fucking hard dear god. But I'm pushing the hell on through by god.

For now, the Nolanverse fic has been dropped. I'm not comfortable with the characters anymore, I'm not comfortable with the style I started it in, I'm not comfortable with the story, and while it desperately needs to be written, this is all perhaps something that should happen outside of nano.

Just maybe.

So it's been kicked back to the end of the queue, after all the 3_ships and yuletide fics that I have to write. Goodbye, Nolanverse fic, I kind of hate you.

The F/F/F urban fantasy, likewise, has been kicked back. I'm not feeling the characters, the relationship, or the plot. I need some time to separate it from what everyone else wants it to be and what I want it to be.

That puts... Gadget Girl up at the front. The one whose planning I've done the least of, the one I'm the least clear of the plot, the one no one really wants to talk about because the other two were more interesting.

But I fucking love the characters, and I love the theme, and I love what I have of plot. So here's to powerin' on through. I'm sure I can hit 12K by the end of today.

150,000, here I come!

Grimsby, in the great (New) England tradition of Woburn (WOO-burn), Billerica (bill-RICK-uh), and Leicester (LESS-ter), is pronounced GRIME-bee. It's located halfway between Worcester (WOO-stah) and the Five Colleges area. It's a bigger city than Lowestoft, closer to a Springfield or a Worcester. Unlike Lowestoft, whose second-largest minority is Portuguese (I believe; I need to check my notes and they are out in my car), the second-largest minority in Grimsby is Vietnamese.

( A bit of Grimsby history. )

I had a brilliant start to this entry in my head and then I went and finished the work I had to do today before writing it down and now I've forgotten it.

Story of my life.

( Really, I just want to talk about the world I'm writing in. )

So, this year I've decided to challenge myself. And by "challenge myself" I mean, "I don't feel like choosing between the three plots I have, so I'm just going to try to write them all!" Plus, SK jokingly suggested I do that, and then told me I couldn't do it, and we all know how stubborn I am. And, really, all I have to do to write 150K in November is write 6K a day! I can do that! Sure I can!

SO!

First plot (50K): Nolanverse fic
What if Nolan made a third movie? What if Nolan didn't hate women? Those are the questions I want to answer with this ridiculously long fic that brings redemption to Gotham. It features a cast that ranges from Batman to Harley and Ivy to Barbara Gordon.

If all goes according to plan, I should finish this one on November 9. I'll probably finish sooner because, in retrospect, no way is it going to be 50K.

Second plot (100K): F/F/F urban fantasy
Abby's a PI who does bodyguard work to pay the bills. Red's a mercenary, and Abby's best friend. Sam's an heiress who needs a bodyguard, but doesn't want one. What happens when you throw the three of them together and mix in one part death threats, one part secrets, and two parts assassins?

I'm not sure if I want this one to be more urban fantasy or more paranormal romance, because while I'm delighted with the three of them, I don't think I can squish the entire romantic plot enough to match the length of the action plot.

Regardless, this one should end up finished around the 25th. Again, probably sooner, because really? I pulled that 100K out of my ass. I have no idea how long that is.

Third plot (150K): Gadget Girl and the Dullahan Dilemma
Look, I am too fucking in love with Carrie and Ray and Stacey to just trash the characters because the zombie apocalypse didn't work out. I MEAN HONESTLY. THEY ARE SO LOVELY AND WONDERFUL AND *________*

Anyway. People are dying Final Destination-style in Carrie's city. Turns out, there's a dullahan hanging around, waiting for it to be time for a specific person to die. A specific person who's very dear to Carrie.

To be honest, this one's probably going to end up closer to 100K and the urban fantasy's going to be closer to 75K. But I'm still projecting it to be finished sometime near Christmas. Which is just in time for me to be ready to go back and start editing the fic!

THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY THIS WILL END IN TEARS.

Title: April Fool's
Author: i_dionysus
Rating: G
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters: Dan, Rorschach
Summary: Dan plays an April Fool's prank on Rorschach.
Author's Notes: Unbeta'd.

( Dan stood behind the closed kitchen door... )

This is the writing journal of the_wanlorn. Mostly flocked, move along.

tl__dr clued me into this, so I spent the day (and by "the day" I mean "five or ten minutes") writing one sentence porn.

And then I spent the actual day writing Pepper/Tony porn.

In any case, have Rorschach/Comedian, Hooded Justice/Captain Metropolis, Rorschach/Dan, Booth/Bones/Sweets, Mulder/Scully, and Pepper/Tony.

If I write any more I'll update this post.

Have you seen Iron Man? Because if you have, I have a fic snippet from a WIP, JUST FOR YOU.

So, I had hit a bit of a block on Gadget Girl. It came time for the emotional climax in the rough draft and, well. It wasn't working. First, the angry fight turned into an angry fistfight. Then they needed to have a Serious Talk*.

The problem is, I can't write Serious Talks. I don't have them, I don't read about them, I don't think I've ever eavesdropped on one. And, you know. Carrie and Ray? Not so much the type of people to ever have serious talks. Well, let me take that back. Ray would happily force the issue and sit down and have a Serious Talk.

Carrie, would get all angry and flustered and pissed off and end up punching the fuck out of Ray.

The solution? (Which soleta was kind enough to point out to me) Have them do it by email. That will provide both srs bzns and lulz, as Carrie sends the first email and then Ray calls her all "We can't have this conversation by email" and she hangs up on him and forces him to and stuff.

:D



*Something had to change in their relationship, otherwise they were going to explode and beat each other's brains out and things. And neither of them are bright enough to figure out what needs changing on their own. So: Serious Talk.

Looking to add more people to my editing team for Gadget Girl and the Zombie Apocalypse.

It's a heartwarming tale about two superheroes trying to stop the Ebola-based zombie apocalypse. Give her five minutes, and Carrie can whip you up any mechanical device you need out of spare parts from her pockets. Ray's a distant relative of Samson, in that he's only as strong as he is dirty. TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME!

You'd be getting the first, idk, five-ish chapters.

They are long chapters.

I am very bad at dividing things up into chapters.

I'm looking for any type of editing you think you can do, even if it's just "Hey moron, you need a comma here. DUH."

If you want in, send a letter to gadget.girl.atza@gmail.com. If you're already in for the first two chapters, don't worry, you're still in for these. If you want out, send an email.

:D? :D?

Which filters do you want to be put on? Comment with whichever ones you want:

WIP/fic snippets
Planning
Ideas

Or all of them, I suppose.

I just uploaded my Yuletide fic. :D:

I'm so sick of writing the frigging book I could kill someone, so I've decided to go back to the beginning and start editing.

So I have an editing wall.

( I also have pictures of this editing wall )

You guys, I had to tape the post-its to the wall because they wouldn't stick :( WHY ARE FAIL!POST-ITS???

PRETTY

FUCK YEAH BITCH JUST HIT 50000 WORDS, VALIDATED AND EVERYTHING. WOOOOOOOOOOO.

According to the NaNo site it's 50,057. According to GoogleDocs it's 50,117. I THINK I WILL GO WITH GOOGLEDOCS TYVM.

Now... if only the actual story was done...

50,117 / 50,000 (100.2%)

I hate my novel and I want to delete the entire thing. I have for days. WTF self WTF.

48,479 / 50,000 (97.0%)

I'm so fucking close to the end, and I don't even care because it's shit and I hate it. :(