NaNo: Day 01
Nov. 1st, 2011 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukinofaeriiToday I began my annual 30 day homage to self-inflicted pain. (A.K.A., NaNoWriMo.)
Um. Usually I babble about it for a while before, but it snuck up on me. And now there's new people. D: People. Subscribing to my journal. (flails) No one new has really commented though, so IDK how many are actually paying attention? (hands)
For NaNoWriMo I usually do a daily post, or try to. I babble a bit about my day and the writing process, give my word count total and the daily count, and then I post some of what I did that day. That's about all there is. I mostly do it to selfshame motivate. When there are people reading me, it forces me to sit down and do at least a daily word count rather than have to type something like "I did 15 words because I spent all day playing Destruct-o-Match on Neopets". Surprising how well that works.
Anyway, this is NaNo, so if you have questions, comments, concrit, ideas, or just want to babble at me, please feel free. Because my work's decided that Dreamwidth is a file sharing site (srsly work, WTF) I can't comment easily during the day, and my hours at night are restricted by time, so I might be slow responding.
And now, the daily. The NaNo Widgets are down, so I'll have the one on my DW updated as soon as they're available. The fic I'm doing is the next one in line for my girl!Steve Ultimates AU. I've been meaning to follow through on that, and I might as well since Vampire Tony AU needs superedits (the beta has been run through, but I need to actually edit the monster) and I'm just too busy ATM. So, girl!Steve got the call. I'm either going to call it Brothers at Arms or Brothers in Arms, which will be hilarious to me alone, I suspect.
The major difficulty I had was just getting stated. I was so sleepy. D: I ended up picking up at scene 2 and then going back for the tricky writing at the opening once I'd gotten into the flow. Write or Die and Scrivener are my new best writing buddies. Scriv is keeping my writing organized and Write or Die forces me too keep going. Work was slow (I suspect most people were too hungover to call for technical support), so I was able to get a good start going.
Today's word count, and the monthly, are 4,034 words. That's just a bit over two dailies of 1,667, so huzzah! Two excerpts today. I'd hoped to write more tonight, but my Mom's visiting and I'm sleepy.
Um. Usually I babble about it for a while before, but it snuck up on me. And now there's new people. D: People. Subscribing to my journal. (flails) No one new has really commented though, so IDK how many are actually paying attention? (hands)
For NaNoWriMo I usually do a daily post, or try to. I babble a bit about my day and the writing process, give my word count total and the daily count, and then I post some of what I did that day. That's about all there is. I mostly do it to self
Anyway, this is NaNo, so if you have questions, comments, concrit, ideas, or just want to babble at me, please feel free. Because my work's decided that Dreamwidth is a file sharing site (srsly work, WTF) I can't comment easily during the day, and my hours at night are restricted by time, so I might be slow responding.
And now, the daily. The NaNo Widgets are down, so I'll have the one on my DW updated as soon as they're available. The fic I'm doing is the next one in line for my girl!Steve Ultimates AU. I've been meaning to follow through on that, and I might as well since Vampire Tony AU needs superedits (the beta has been run through, but I need to actually edit the monster) and I'm just too busy ATM. So, girl!Steve got the call. I'm either going to call it Brothers at Arms or Brothers in Arms, which will be hilarious to me alone, I suspect.
The major difficulty I had was just getting stated. I was so sleepy. D: I ended up picking up at scene 2 and then going back for the tricky writing at the opening once I'd gotten into the flow. Write or Die and Scrivener are my new best writing buddies. Scriv is keeping my writing organized and Write or Die forces me too keep going. Work was slow (I suspect most people were too hungover to call for technical support), so I was able to get a good start going.
Today's word count, and the monthly, are 4,034 words. That's just a bit over two dailies of 1,667, so huzzah! Two excerpts today. I'd hoped to write more tonight, but my Mom's visiting and I'm sleepy.
What do you think we should do, just put you in a SHIELD uniform, stick a flag on your head, and call it a day?" Jan hopped up on the edge of the desk. Even at her normal size, she was tiny, and the desk didn't move at all. Her feet landed on either side of Stevie's hips, bracketing her. "There's a reason we need Captain America on the team. You're a symbol."
Snorting, Stevie matched Jan by propping her feet up against the desk between Jan's thighs. Her boots made a heavy thunk that bounced the furniture under Jan's rear. "Can I be a symbol without being a a pinup? I didn't have these problems in the war."
Stevie did a couple quick calculations, going by Stark's slowly glazing expression and the way he was starting to sprawl back against the bench. "So your brother is visiting, and your response is to blow off your responsibilities and get completely trashed?"
He considered this, then nodded amiably. "That sounds right, yeah."
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Date: 2011-11-02 02:17 pm (UTC)I'm kind of in the same boat; I've had an idea for ages, since I stumbled across an old snippet of something, but have completely failed to do any planning at all. As it's a completely original story, that's... Not Good. At least I have a snippet to start with, right?
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Date: 2011-11-03 04:37 am (UTC)Sometimes snippets can be magic. And Editing is what December's for, Right? :D
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Date: 2011-11-03 12:31 am (UTC)Still, good luck with your NaNo! Sounds like you're off to a good start, despite how it snuck up on you!
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Date: 2011-11-03 04:40 am (UTC)I might drop back into KH now and then. I know I have a fic floating around somewhere that needs an edit and posting at least. I do recommend the Iron Man, Captain America and Thor movies, even for non-comic fans. They're great fun.
And maybe they'll hook you and I'll be able to lure you in, mwahaha.<./strike>
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