January follow up

Oh wow it's already more than a month I wrote a blog post. Well I did spend lot's of time in January writing - end effect four stories in one series - a new one together around 2,5K and a stand alone story inspired by a necklace in internets. Hmm five stories in four weeks, that's a nice result.

I took a challenge on H/C LJ community to write a WC wee!kids fanfic by 13th March :) Yes, 13th is my favorite date. So I need to get an idea, I actually have two so it might be I will write both.

The story from my other series is bad, so it's waiting for re-write, but I have another idea in that series to write. My mind is working in interesting way, but I don't mind. It allowed me to also read my NaNo story and be completely blown away... well maybe not completely but I was surprised it's not so bad. It will be better, with time and edits and fixed plot and timeline, but overall it wasn't so very bad. It's salvageable, most of it and with few good ideas for plot continuum it will be even better than I think right now.

The bad thing is I love Scrivener and right now I need to wait a little while longer, only few days more to buy finally the full copy with 50% NaNo discount. Phew and then I can easily come back to writing.

So the writing plans are as follow:
1. H/C challenge story
2. 5th story in the Shades of Gray series
3. 4th story in Neal by any other name series
4. NaNo edits

Oh and I published my crossover story with SG-1/WC not bad, not bad at all. It will be one shot but maybe I should think about more crossovers or some kind of continuation. And I did that thanks to encouragement of my new Beta, I like having two betas - it gives me view from other side.

Well then writing plans done, it's time for PLOTTING!

The lost message

I was sure I wrote a post about finishing NaNo...

I was sure the template I use will work without problems...

Seems me being sure wasn't enough - I think I lost the WriMo post... and I have no idea when the template just got loose... I'll fix that, promise as soon as I figure out why it's not working anymore and how to fix it, eventually I will find an updated template.

About NaNo.. I did finish it with over 50K on 27th November, and let me tell you it was a very elevating experience. Of course now I have absolutely no push or pull to write, which is bad as I just published first chapter of my new fanfic... it was in the works before November, and as usual over few writing blocks, but now it's out in the open. It's  not my best work, but I think it's decent. Well see as I have only part one from three parts done, and some of part two is ready too...

Till later!

Writing challange

This year is writing year, since February when my attention was stolen by "White Collar" I wrote six fanfics going from 340 words to little over 20000... all in English, yeah that's strange. Then I discovered the 750words.com site on which you write every single day your 750 words... I started in July, struggled in August and took up on a challenge in September - writing every single day, yay! And of course I flunked October just right in the beginning. Most probably cos I got huge writers block and half of September spent on rants instead of writing the fiction. Well that happens and just sometimes you should take a break from writing, so I did, and I'm back at least partially - not to writing itself but my muse starts to push some ideas in my direction.

Also in August I decided to try my hand at NaNoWriMo in November - it's National (International already) Novel Writing Month - you got one month to write a 50,000 words novel. No matter the genre, original or fanfiction, plot or no plot just sit and write.. oh and correct mistakes later. That was one of the reasons I started  writing every day to get the feeling if I can do it. To meet the goal of 50,000 words it's approximately 1667 words to be written daily, totally doable - it take's me around two hours to do it when I write in my "think about story speed" which is currently somewhere between 20-26 words per minute (yes, yes I'm numbers maniac). So not so bad as I also fix the most important things at the same time, I figure that I should be able to write the daily goal of 1600-1800 and hit some more at the weekends.

The only obstacle in my path is as usually the idea, I got something. Since I saw my brothers photo I knew I should write a story to it and decided it should be for NaNo. I allowed the idea to brew a little and came to conclusion it has to be a fanfic... well yes it's an easy way out but I do know that writing original story will be to challenging for that one. So I got that, few days ago I came up with the title "Whiskey Barrel" and now I have to go on with the plot, that is still in the works. To get 50,000 the plot has to be complicated and at least had two-three additional plots to run the story - there is something I learned from writing "The Hot Cold Case" there has to be something more. Of course jumping between plots, relate them and so one is difficult but hey no one says writing itself is easy.

Plus the additional characters, oh my I totally forgot about them, ech yes and writing a short script of what should happen and when, it helped with THCC and should help here, no matter that in the end it was somehow different. The point was to have a frame of the story and that was helpful - for short fics I don't need one, for the long ones it's very very good to have it.

So the title is there, the cover is there, the main idea is starting to raise it's head... now to work on some details and I should be ready to start writing on 1st November. Which me luck!

Daily craziness

Yesterday evening I had fantastic occasion to talk to a professional jewelry maker - not your girl friend playing with some ready stones and clips, but real professional working in silver and gems etc. Friends of my parents came for dinner and John was very kind to answer all of my crazy questions - especially as I asked about forging gems, creating artificial ones and forging jewelry :) I made million notes and it will be extremely helpful for future fanfics, plus I have his email and can ask whatever I need more.

I’ve also got this lovely tin of Catbury chocolate fingers - I love tins! And first through was... “Neal is of course stealing the chocolate fingers...”

And today was finally - Move day! Hurray... till I packed all my things in a neat package - cabinet filled with all precious office necessary stuff... computer on top and I’m ready to go. Small struggle by the entrance as the mud mat is great for mud, bad for the cabinets wheels, it’s always stuck. And then waiting for the elevator, only one as the other was broken for the past week (yeap that’s our fantastic office building). And waiting, and waiting, and.... when the door finally opened I had a unique opportunity to view the top of elevator with all the equipment and two guys working on it. Resigned I come back to my place and moved the computer to work a little, five minutes later the facility guy come back and complained I didn’t move yet... and that the elevators are working, d’oh!

New office is very nice! It has big windows, gives lots of light and the boss agreed to let us use his terrace as “break terrace”.

And with the all movement, excitement and additional work I forgot about a call I was hosting, thank programmers for Outlook reminder option!