Round 11 Hour 2

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

I was sitting there thinking that nobody was replying and this was gonna start slow, and then an hour later, eight or something different people had already joined in. Cool.

This will be my last hour running things today, as someone or other is taking over from hour 3 on.

Comments

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

I'm, um, still outlining that scene. It's a long scene. Every other thing I do requires me to scroll to a random point in my outline and insert/edit a detail. Argh. (I'm not just procrastinating, either. The wordcount on my document has gone up by about 400.) I may need a "research" break later to review how the clerics worked in Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone, as they've apparently decided to arrest River now. Wouldn't hurt to refresh my River voice a bit, too.

I just have no direction here. Loads of dramatic stuff happens in this scene: River gets arrested, the Doctor attempts to save millions of lives from a plot that happens entirely in this one scene, and the Doctor is murdered. Yet somehow, I think it's going to come out boring anyway.

I am very :( right now.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

River gets arrested, the Doctor attempts to save millions of lives from a plot that happens entirely in this one scene, and the Doctor is murdered.

WHAT??? OMG, I really want to read this now.

Do you need to be so detailed with the outline? Perhaps you do; sounds like a complicated plot. But I'm wondering if it would help to just start writing some of it now. It might be full of holes still, but you can go back and fix those, and words on a page can be great for moving you in a direction.

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know that thing where River keeps obliquely implying that she killed the Doctor, which is what she was locked up for? It's about that. And some other things. It's going to be epic. :D

What's happening is, I've already got a big but basic outline of everything. Now I'm going through it in chunks, expanding and then actually writing each bit of outline. I've already got nearly 3k of actual fic. It's actually working pretty well and making the words easier once I write them, it's just that I've reached That Difficult Scene.

[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

I've almost finished one lesson plan but I keep getting side tracked by the notifications in my inbox, for some reason reading fanfiction is more interesting then writing a spelling lesson.

Oh well, back to work now : )

Thanks for being around for a couple of hours : )

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Np.

Fic is the answer to all unwanted workloads. :P

[juliet316]

*blinks blinks*

*checks to see if she's seeing the username right*

Where have you been? We've been worried about you!

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

I was over in the corner, playing videogames.

There was a big post a couple of weeks ago about how great I am and the fact that I'm back and what I should do for my NaNoWriMo, but you missed it.

Anyway, hi.

[juliet316]

Must have been playing over at Dreamwidth that day.

Hello! :-D

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Pffft, Dreamwidth. Fakey Livejournal. :P

okay guys help me

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm ready to stop procrastinating and start writing except for one thing.

My character is locked into a windowless office (an impromptu detective's office) from the outside. It can use any kind of lock. She has nothing useful on her and starts sifting through room contents, especially piles of paper on a desk, to find something to get the lock open with. What is there that would be useful for getting out with and could plausibly hiding under a pile of papers in an office? (I'd have it be a paperclip (on a mechanical lock), but she wouldn't need to spend enough time finding one of those.)

Re: okay guys help me

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I always liked the part where you poke the key out if they're idiotic enough to leave a key, and drag it under the door on a piece of paper... that's way too over-used but something with two steps would mean she has to do more looking around for objects.

Re: okay guys help me

[clocketpatch]

Heh, I used a paper clip to unlock a door yesterday. Some can be jiggled open with a credit card. Or, maybe she'd looking for an actual key card? Or for a scrap of paper with the lock's code on it?

Re: okay guys help me

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Paperclips really work?

Re: okay guys help me

[clocketpatch]

Depends on the lock. My door's one of those safety locks with a little hole on one side inside of a key. You just push a paper clip in and the lock releases. I'm relatively sure you can do it with key locks as well but it takes far more fiddling and actually knowing what you're doing.

Re: okay guys help me

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Oh so that's how normal people open those. We always used thin nails, or drill bits. The paperclips are just for opening optical drives on shut down computers.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I opened some files, boggled at how much I hate my writing when I'm in a bad mood, and realized that I need to read over a bunch of notes for one of them, which isn't happening until I stop being slumped in front of tv with man-thing.

Looks like hour 3 will be my big kick-off.

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Aw. :(

I'd share my glowsticks with you if I could.

See you in hour three, then.

[clocketpatch]

Hi there people! I'm writing/editing my story for the eleven_romana ficathon.

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

There's a ficathon for that!?

[clocketpatch]

Yes there is! (and we're still taking sign-ups if you want to join in)

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

When do signups close? I need some time to figure out if I'm going to be able to do both that an NaNoWriMo.

[clocketpatch]

Sign-ups end on Oct. 23 (next Saturday). I keep pimping everywhere. It's a little embarrassing really (especially since I totally have an ulterior motive and just want to read all of the fic that gets made)

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

I find that to be entirely legitimate.