Today has 21 minutes left, and so far I've written 97 words. Not an auspicious start if I hope to beat last week's word count/days of writing. Though I did at least manage to keep writing.



In other news, elf/elfwreck and I have been playing around with a Doctor Who Major Arcana symbology here.

17 13 minutes left to write at least 403 words. Erm ... best get to it then. After which I can dither about WTF I'm going to wear that works both for a nurses' meeting and to go to NYC to see Dogboy and Justine tomorrow.

I am going to be posting a week of shame on 5_for_five tomorrow. I more or less managed to get some stuff done on my queer_fest prompt, but it's more what I have to say on the subject than what the character does or would. Character is, instead, jabbering away on, to be fair, the same subject (ish), but in the context of The Fic That Wouldn't Stay Dead.

(Yeah, it's still not dead. Can it please turn into a giant head and save New New York soon? Except no. Total ambivalence there.)

Admittedly, said character probably does have a fair amount to say on the subject in that context. I sincerely hope that whatever it is, it's capable of translating into a standalone. I should probably, then, start transcribing some of the jabbering, despite the fact that (for MONTHS now) I have flatly refused to actually write any much of the stuff the characters decide they need to tell me about TFTWSD. Clearly, that policy has failed miserably. It is still neither killed nor contained. It is still more like therapy than actual fic. Anyway, if I actually write what he's got to say in that wordvomitfictherapything, maybe then I can make some progress on the fic I'm actually trying to write.

Maybe.

/babble

ETA: As I have been reminded by sshg316, it was not a week of shame. I may not have met the goal, but I did write and still get a sticker:

I have yet to write a single word of fiction today, and I didn't succeed in my goal of finishing my M & H fic for bowtiesnblasters, but I did meet the 5_for_five goal and got a cool sticker for it:



I think I can tie the fic off with a scene or two, though, and have the rough draft done before Wednesday's art-prompt-claiming frenzy at who_reversebang. Then it'll be editing that one and getting it beta'ed whilst working on the others. It's good to be writing again.

For those of you who write, how has your week been? I've seen a few NaNo tickers floating around and am cheering from the sidelines.

For the first time in months, I managed to write 500 words a day for at least 5 days out of the week. That included finishing off the fic that got posted, making some headway on my wintercompanion fic, and entirely too much puttering around with TFTWSD.



Now if the thing that's actually got a due date looming would just show some sign of where the hell it's trying to go. :-D

Also, I made it through the "watch a gazillion videos" and "be shown a gazillion forms you will never remember" days of orientation and am on the floor tomorrow shadowing. Meep!

I received a couple of fic-related pretties.



Song is the Snupin DH fix-it I wrote for skitty_kat's lovely and inspiring drawing Bribing the Ferryman during the Trading Places Challenge at lupin_snape. I'm tickled to learn it's a featured story this month.

Thank you, mods at TPP!

But wait, there's more!



I'm also on this week's quiz at quiz_sshg. This week's theme is crossovers, and the story there is Who Are You?, a Doctor Who crossover written for aleysiasnape during Zibitcon Envy at hpcon_envy to the prompt "Severus and Hermione meeting the 10th Doctor and making an entirely understandable—and incorrect—assumption about his identity."

Thank you, mods at quiz_sshg! Now, the rest of you, go play, and see if you can figure out which passage (if any) come from "Who Are You?" and the other featured stories!

There's actually a third fic-related thing this week, but no graphic to go with: as of Monday, I've completed a full year of consistently meeting the 5_for_five writing challenge of writing at least 500 words at least five times a week.

Thank you, lady_rhian for coming up with the idea and sshg316 for creating the 5_for_five comm as a motivator to Just Keep Writing!

That'd also make this post today's grats for the Gratitude Project, though I've got quite a lot of catching up to do with that. Oops.

Winners announcemnt here.

Congratulations to all the winners and everyone who played! And don't let PJ hear me say this, but we should totally do that again sometime.

Which reminds me, huge thanks to pyjamapants for organizing and orchestrating this awesome challenge!

Guess I'd best get my self organized for regular 5_for_five business to resume.

Results can be found here.

As you can see at that post, the lot of us wrote upwards of 80K this weekend, so congrats all around to everybody who took up this challenge to get their writing moving! And huge thanks to pyjamapants for inventing this way to get us all motivated. Thanks, too, for having the "Tortoise Cup" option for those who were eliminated in the first round but want motivation to keep writing. Great idea!

I'm not eligible for that one though, because I made it through round one! Whee! In the next round, I'm up against everythursday. This round is a single hour squeezed in somewhere today. Think I'll take the laptop with me when I go to the chiro this morning and then seek out a cafe, as that's probably the only way that's going to work. If nothing else, there's the Starbuck's in Target!

Have (mostly) marked up my brackets. (There are still some overtime rounds pending.) Wow, I suck at this. Like worse than 50% wrong suck at it. No wonder I don't gamble. :-D

In other silliness, I went to the Harp & Dragon last night with the excuse of "well, it's GDL's birthday, so I'll go have a pint." Like I need an excuse, but I digress. Partway there, it occurred to me that this might be a better choice of pub (the only pseudo-pub we've got anymore, but still) than I'd realized as I pondered the "Dragon" part of "Harp & Dragon." It occurred to me that I've seen two different flags raised outside the place in the past, only one of them Irish. Hadn't actually paid attention to the other. Neither was up when I got there, but the logo on the sign had a rather familiar looking rampant red dragon! I'd have head-dashboarded, but y'know, they really only promote the supposed Irishness of the place, what with the $2 pints on the 17th of any month if you wear green and suchlike. So while yes, I may be a bit dense, it's not entirely my fault. This time.

This led me to scrutinize the menu a bit for anything trying to be Welsh amongst the Colcannon and corned beef. I already knew their "chips" were a joke. (Beer battered shoestring fries, seasoned waffle fries, and a blank look at requests for malt vinegar = you don't know what actual chips are meant to be, so far as I can tell. Maybe that's just me being an Anglophile though. Would that be normal in an Irish or Welsh pub? Anybody know?) Thanks to a convo earlier this month with saracen77, I finally twigged that's probably why every other menu item has leek sauce, which is very good but probably doesn't need to be on everything. Subtle. LOL

Have a bit of a sore throat this morning. I'm ordering it not to progress into anything more. We've already got one clinical day to make up, which will be done next Monday. (So I won't be catching my friend's reading in NYC that evening after all. Bummer.) I don't need another make up of my own that'll end up being in May.

Anyway, enough babble. Hope everyone's week is off to a good start! Happy Passover to those celebrating it!

Borrowing from pokeystar's post, as I'm too lame to think something up on my own today. I have signed up to participate though. Anyone up for writing against me either in the wee hours of the morning or from the other side of the globe at much saner hours? LOL

Does your muse need a nudge (or a cattle prod)?

I hereby invite you to sign up for MARCH MADNESS!

http://community.livejournal.com/5_for_five/15416.html

You can write anything: fanfic, o-fic, poetry or (dirty)limericks

Strictly for fun. But, you should know I've offered cookies as a prize.

Let's get writing!

I have actually met the 5_for_five challenge for all four weeks of September. For that matter, if I manage to jot down the dialogue I've been babbling whilst driving around doing errands today, I should be off to a good start for this week. I still have no idea whether this will ever be worth trying to connect all the disjointed scenes and clean up for posting, but it seems to be doing a lovely job as a safety valve for all the school stress, and the 5_for_five challenge gives me the external nudge to actually "do* it rather than let the scenes run around in my head until I'm just tired of them, which is nowhere near as therapeutic as writing them out. And so, I have shiny stickers!

	week 5		week 6		week 7		week 8
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The really amusing thing about this fic-that-would-not-die? Apparently I have no problem writing a canonically uptight character like Snape having all kinds of sex. However, given a character who is probably the most canonically oversexed being of any species in any fandom? The sex scenes all have placeholders. *facepalm*

This is also probably the closest I'll manage to a fic wrap-up for the month, considering I haven't actually posted anything anywhere, as I can't seem to wrestle my Muse out of bloody Cardiff. Hell, my inbox is overloaded with fic notifications, because I can't even seem to read any other fandom right now, which is a bit weird for me.