Memoirs From Fairyland

We're back to that time again. That time where I have to do a marathon sprint at the end of the week in hopes of catching up to the days when I only had time enough for homework, sleep, and food-- one meal per day, usually, because there wasn't enough time for anything else.

Except this weekend, I have homework too.

An epic 16275/23333, 17100/23333

This is what has to be done:

Change journal layout back to what it was because it's the only one that doesn't drive me nuts
Finish coffee
Get dressed
Take dog out
Read 10 pages of Opium Culture by Peter Lee while eating breakfast
WRITE ARSE OFF
Do dishes at about 12:15
Brief ch17 planning session and drink French Vanilla cocoa
Procrastinate
Go to store
Make giant cookie
WRITE ARSE OFF

These things have been accomplished/not accomplished since my last posting:

• I am still behind on my word count, but by nowhere near as much, and currently am at 14265/16667, 15766/16667.
• I am now on the sixteenth chapter. Boo-ya! Dread and fear my awesome writing prowess. The half-way point's been crossed, the half-way point's been crossed. High-ho-a-dairy-oh, the half-way point's been crossed.
• I have written 71 total pages, non-double-spaced, which means 143 double-spaced, which means that in thirty more pages in non-double-spaced I'll have a real 100 pages, which means chocolate ice cream. Just so you know. That was a lot of meaning packed in one bullet.

In related news, Tanner is driving me nuts, this time with boredom. Dude, just stop scheming, plotting, and stewing and make with the action already. Please/thank you. Also, Cordan, Yeni, and Mal have hijacked my other characters and are now going to be in the novel for the duration, like the greedy jerks that they are. This is annoying on several levels. In other related news, I have many papers and tests coming up and should probably be working on them. Why is it that professors don't realize that NaNo hath come? I need to shift arse, but I don't wanna.

Current Word Count: 11846/15000, 12040/15000, 12418/15000

Favorite Line (So Far) Today: Guy could charm the pants off a boa constrictor.

Hopefully, there are better lines later today, because that one's amusing, but not awesome.

And the one I'm thinking about making Tanner's romantic interest is introduced in chapter fourteen... If I do this, I really don't think they'll last for very long... Will finish the rest of these later-- first one is only one that matters right now.

( Cut for length... )

So, recently I decided that the internet was shiny and pretty and worth more than my Nano. NO MORE! I will catch up TODAY even if my fingers FALL OFF! So this is my vow to you, internet at large, and my game plan for the day. If I don't follow it, feel free to beat me with a mallet.

Game Plan

Finish getting dressed
Take dog out
Bring computer, iPod, and notes down to table
Write: 6815/13333, 7226/13336, 7881/13336

• First steps to writing: open novel .doc, Word 2007 (for word count purposes) , and start up Write or Die.
• Second and following steps: finish first Write or Die session and start again. Repeat until completed or dead.

Break briefly for lunch
Write: 7781/13336, 8617/13336, 9040/13336 (14th chapter begins now-- YES!), 10940/13336 (14th chapter is going to be incredibly long-- oh noes!), 11846/13333 - sleeping now (started about 10:30 AM, ending 11:30PM). Did not prevail, but mostly done. Still, darn.

GOLGOTHA Total Word Count: 41,846, ending for today with needing to begin chapter fifteen next time.

I have officially managed to catch up to the expected word count for today, despite not working on it very much yesterday, and am now weighing in at 6782/6672. This is awesome and I admire me very much.

I also admire me for having written one of the most emotional scenes that I have ever written and for managing to get two people dead and one unconscious in one paragraph. And now there will need to be interrogation, which should be fun. How far can the good guys go when interrogating? Oh wait. There are telepaths. Never mind. This should be fun.

Unfortunately, one of my characters is now incredibly screwed up-- not in an epic fail way, but in an "omg he needs so much therapy" way. This is good for plot, since I kind of needed him to have a slight mental breakdown, but bad for him. Dear Haven: I'm sorry I totally raped your mind, but it will all work out for you in the end. Unless I kill your lover off. Which I hopefully won't do. Definitely won't do. Really. No, really. Too much like is between the two of us.

Today's Word Count (so far): 3375/5000.
Total GOLGOTHA Word Count: 33,375/80000 (roughly).

Favorite Line So Far Today: "Please hold tightly to your belongings and silence your children."

Now will be the true test of my mettle: the school week has started and I have to write another 1500 words for today.

Today's Word Count (so far): 2030/3333 2594/3333 2660/3333 3432/3333

I have also come to realize that not everyone lives in my head with me. This would seem obvious, but unfortunately, it is not. So: the origins of the Android Project.

( Project origins, anyone? )

And let NaNo commence!

I have realized, by the way, that if I plan on continuing my Android Project, I'm going to have to keep a list of the slang, because I can't remember all of what I've used and Tanner insists that his section has to be full of it.
 

( So, cut... )

And then I would like to add in... Daily Word Count (so far): 1900

Note: Layout changed in honor of NaNo and what I'm working on. For as long as I can stand it changed, anyway.

So, character profiles for new Nano (I.E. The Android Project takes over the Nano). Let's start with the newest first. Yeni's might be changed. I'm still trying to figure out how to modify his character to the new story. I should be adding to this a bit, since I don't have all of my resources with me as I'm writing this. For example, I usually check astrological signs before assigning anyone a birthdate. Note - Present day is 631 PCE (Post-Cataclysm Era). Story starts in late spring, about May, and Tanner and Haven meet in mid-June to mid-July-- need to check dates.

( Cut for length... )

I was working on GOLGOTHA in an attempt to get it up to a definite 30,000 words for beginning NaNoWriMo-- yes, to all who do not know, I am working on a pre-started novel for NaNo. It promptly decided to eat three characters from another story that I had abandoned. Which is complicated for one reason: the abandoned story that was eaten is attached to one I'm still poking at. I'm supposed to be dividing up the characters of the one I'm still poking at and passeling them out to their own stories, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up yet. Yet, apparently I am, because Cordan, Yeni, and Mal are definitely appearing as members of the Android Project. I've been thinking about having them be members of the Android Project for a while, now they're definitely in.

Dear all things holy and beautiful, such as chocolate and caffeine:

Please to let me never stop loving the Android Project, because it is just too damn cool at this point. Also, I just can't deal with passeling out characters again. It's very stressful.

Thank you for your help, gods of caffeine and chocolate. I promise to pay homage to you soon.

Love,
me

Now those who know me and have been reading this journal for a while will know that I like to make lists. This one is entirely for me, so feel free to completely ignore it, but some people might find it interesting. This is just a list of the various things that I've got in progress, complete with resource lists of things that I've been using as inspiration/information/etc. This is comprehensive, which means that I'm not actually working on all of it at the same time, but it exists anyway.

( Trust me, this is too long not to cut... )

The Android Project consists of:

Three crossover short stories or drabbles (for random fun bits, to amuse me): Doctor Who, Firefly, and Torchwood
Two drabbles, vaguely connected
Five to six short stories (A Worthy Pursuit, I Heard the Church Bells Toll, Weapon (Landon Veritas), Falling is easy., Lazarus Fate)
Two poems
And of course, the untitled main story

That means 13-14 total parts of the Android Project, one of which is monstrously long (I.E. untitled)

The thing is, it sucks in even things that weren't originally meant to be part of it, like Lazarus Fate, I Heard the Church Bells Toll, and A Worthy Pursuit. And then it promptly takes several different other ideas that have been bopping around my head, steals them, and combines them into the Android Project. It steals from other stories. It is a thief.

I love my Android Project. This revelation/adoration is in preparation of ignoring school work later and writing like mad. It should be fun.

While ignoring the mountains of assignments I have for classes, I have managed to actually work on my main Android Project fic and finish off the tenth chapter, putting me in at 29500 words, 52 pages, 101 double-spaced. It'll probably be 80000-ish words when it's done, but I'm feeling the halfway mark approaching and am veeeeeeery happy.

Unfortunately, still untitled. Less pleased about this fact. Either Reperio Sanctum (Finding Sanctuary) or GOLGOTHA. Cannot decide, but want GOLGOTHA more, except I have an offshoot of the Android Project called the Golgotha Project. Wish to beat head against wall about this.

...I could always change the name of the offshoot...

Jeez, I love maderr. She directed my attention to the fact that there is the most awesome song in the world in existence, "I Kissed a Boy" by Cobra Starship. This song = such total win that I'm busily giggling my head off over here and playing it on repeat. Of course, it's sort of making me want a Flogging Molly CD again for some reason, but I'm okay with that.

In other news, I'm doing pirates. Not in that way, of course. I'm writing them. It's fun. I get nautical terms, supercargoes, and captains. Of course, me being me, I'm having someone infiltrate the ship to assassinate the captain, brewing a revolt, and overthrowing an Evil Ruler. I think I have a thing for revolts. I really need to find another thing to write about, but rebellions are just so freaking neat. I likes the politics and the Bad Governments.

I'm tying it in to the Android Project, as a smaller substory. I'm meanwhile trying to find out why in FutureTime there would still be ships (as in, water, not space), but I'll prevail. I'm thinking the rich kids wanted a toy to play with and it was all because of style, but after they got sick of 'em, there were a bunch laying around cheap and smugglers wanted them to use to get out of ASOW (the government)'s eyes. Now if only I could figure out what contraband they're shipping... Weapons? Food to hostile territories? Would that work on a ship...?

Does anyone happen to know whether land or sea was faster for shipping things? I feel that it was sea, but I'm not sure.