Round 11 Hour 1
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fic_rush_48GUYS IT IS FIC RUSH TIME YAY! :D
In 15 minutes.
In case we have any newbies: hourly posts like this one are for meeting up around the start of an hour and talking about how it's going. You can encourage each other, horribly derail each other's trains of thought, be jealous of each other's word counts, etc.. In your first hour, you might also want to introduce yourself and your fic/goals for the weekend.
In 15 minutes.
In case we have any newbies: hourly posts like this one are for meeting up around the start of an hour and talking about how it's going. You can encourage each other, horribly derail each other's trains of thought, be jealous of each other's word counts, etc.. In your first hour, you might also want to introduce yourself and your fic/goals for the weekend.
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Date: 2010-10-15 11:48 pm (UTC)*fear, terror, frightfulness*
I have a glowstick ready to crack open (it's a new thing I'm trying) and a detailed outline (it's a new thing I'm trying). I think I can finish expanding my outline on the next big scene before fic_rush properly starts in 12 minutes. My wordcount won't be super-reliable this weekend since I'm deleting and adding big chunks of outline to the same document I'm writing in. Right now it's at 6,120 words.
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Date: 2010-10-15 11:58 pm (UTC)This weekend I'll be fic rushing my lesson plans for this week and hopeful do all the things that need to be done for my prac folder. If I still have time after that there are things I need to do for
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:12 am (UTC)I am here for tonight, gone most or all of tomorrow, and back again on Sunday. So, let's see what I can do with that time. As for what I'm working on, the main goal will be to make progress on that same old Doctor Who WIP that I work on for every fic_rush, but is still not finished yet. Other than that, I'd like to try for a ficlet, and perhaps some alien fish to give to
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 12:19 am (UTC)Or something.
How's the WIP been doing?
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:21 am (UTC)The glowstick sounds cool, too. I'm not sure what it's for, but it sounds cool. Do you crack it and write for as long as the glow lasts?
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:27 am (UTC)I actually have more than one thing in progress at the moment. This is very unnerving. I'm in Ponder Mode for my next big project. I might write a little on that, but only if the notions strike me.
To keep myself busy in the meanwhile:
I have a monumentally self-indulgent piece of smut on which I have not been making progress. I have two 'DVD commentary' pieces to write for
'Beth
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:29 am (UTC)I'm hoping that if I only use a glowstick when I am actually writing -- not losing time to research, "research", or excessive planning -- then eventually the association will stick. Then whenever I crack open a glowstick, it will make me write. Plus this is a good fic to be writing in the dark. :)
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:31 am (UTC)What is this "non-fic" writing business? I find the notion intriguing.
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:34 am (UTC)Please?
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:36 am (UTC)It was so much fun the last time around that I've been looking forward to being able to take part again.
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:37 am (UTC)I have a goal for this weekend. The goal is to open a file I should be writing in and write some words. It's a much less ambitious goal than for my first round last time but my brain got eaten by a large, unfriendly work-week and I'm keeping goals small and simple.
Ideally I'd finish the ridiculous cross-over, and also the revisions to chunk two of the novella. Also ideally I would not run screaming naked through the streets. If I can achieve ONE of those two goals (or is it three...?) I'll be happy.
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 12:44 am (UTC)So...finish the crossover, celebrate by running screaming naked through the streets, but be too busy doing that to get your revisions done?
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 12:56 am (UTC)It must love me very, very much, because it wants to stay with me forever.
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:56 am (UTC)(Mine can last around 12 hours. That's a bit anxiety-producing.)
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Date: 2010-10-16 12:58 am (UTC)It happens. There should be support groups.
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Date: 2010-10-16 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-16 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 03:09 am (UTC)I have decided that, since it's quintessentially self-indulgent anyway, who cares if I get sidetracked by the scenery or the alleged plot or whatever? They'll get there eventually, and their clothes presumably won't, so there it is.
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 03:43 am (UTC)Also, rowwwrrr!
Also, goddamnit, writing your boy Mac requires figuring out technical stuff and I am not technical stuff girl and I fear that it will read about as convincing as a sixth grade book report on technical stuff.
I bet smut would make me write faster.
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:49 am (UTC)I'd be happy to help or brainstorm or whatever on technical stuff. If I don't know, I can usually figure out who to ask.
Meanwhile, another shirtless icon.
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:54 am (UTC)Well, I just downloaded some Canadian (not intentionally. I mean, I'm sure they intended for it to be Canadian, but I really didn't care either way) documentation on how the hell ham radio works at all, because I apparently thought I could totally write that based on vague memories of playing with the CB in Dad's car sometime around age 8. Truckers are amazingly cool to kids what with the not swearing a lot or otherwise traumatizing us over the air.
So now I have to bone up real quick on what bit of equipment does what, then figure out what to have rusted out or otherwise broken, then figure out how Mac would fix it with nothing more than a displaced penguin (dude, it's a long way to the South Pole) and a toothpick.
Also I just wrote more creatively speaking in this comment than I have all evening, but at least I have identified the stress points of the next damn bit of the story.
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:59 am (UTC)And a toothpick.
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 04:09 am (UTC)Morse code, does Mac know it? My assumption would be yes. Fraser does. Of course. ;)
Now I just have to break a radio badly enough not to talk through it but not badly enough not to Morse code through it.
Writing is pain. /emo
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:10 am (UTC)You can also figure out what liquids might be available that would help clean the corrision.
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:13 am (UTC)We being me and my arsing characters, of course.
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:14 am (UTC)That sounded way more young-person-crude than I intended.
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:15 am (UTC)If the radio is too damaged for speech -- ruined mike, whatever -- he should be able cut and restore power, or swing the volume wildly, to create bursts of static. That might even be the kind of lateral thinking that he could come up with and Fraser would not.
*wants to tap Mac* *cough*
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:18 am (UTC)The non-tapping-related suggestion is brilliant. Because I really do need to keep that tension rolling... they're both a bit too good at everything for their own good. And this is Young(ish) Fraser so he may learn a trick or two.