Round 68, Hour Five

[a-q.livejournal.com]

Hello and good morning Fic Rush, it's usurpation!

How is it going, writing a lot? Thinking about writing a lot? Something in between?

I'm vaguely awake, about to have some coffee to help the morning along.

Let's talk!

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

*yawn* Just checking in for Rush... I fell asleep on the couch earlier and had strange dreams of tentacles. Probably going to sleep properly soon, but an inventory: I have three works in progress at various stages of old and busted, and would like to finish and post at least one this weekend.

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shiny, you have an inventory! :D I have an upcoming NaNo, so I probably won't be doing any actual ficcing this weekend - I'm trying to get ahead on my history homework instead.

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

That sounds like a very good plan!

[a-q.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm doing NaNo too! I even have a plan. Which I probably ignore like last year :P

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Well, without a plan, how would you know what to ignore? XD My plan consists pretty much of "I'm going to try to write fifty thousand words of cuddlefluff and see if it turns into porn at some point", and I haven't even decided what characters I'm going to work with...

[a-q.livejournal.com]

Ah, dear fellow pantser! :D I don't have characters either, nor names for them, which will be a big hurdle because I can't come up with names I like. I type them first twenty times and I start hating the name I've chosen, urgh. Happens every time!

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, names are one of the last things I tend to get settled. I like to start out with placeholder names in brackets -- could be as simple as [A] talking to [B] -- so that I can get my wordcount on their banter without wasting time on the perfect names. Then I can just find-and-replace the names, keeping them in brackets for easier searchability, as I change my mind through the month. ^_^ One year, I wrote this huge extended family where everybody's surnames were just [Lastname], [Lastname2], and so forth. :D

*waves pantser flag, which is just a pair of pants* XD

[a-q.livejournal.com]

I'm keeping the Rush afloat (in air? on the ground?)

Tentacles, that's a good dream - I dreamt that I was designing Ikea kitchen to my friend and her hair was purple. o.O It was very upsetting all in all :D

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Good... something! *waves* XD It's nine at night here, and I'm trying to decide whether to go to bed or watch some TV first as a reward for all that epic homeworkiness I just finished. I've got several more episodes of Agents of SHIELD that I haven't seen yet, or I could wander back to Highlander or Stargate SG-1, or dig out my Sanctuary DVDs, or watch the episodes of The West Wing that feature tiny baby Agent Coulson as an FBI agent. Lots of options here.

(My car's in the shop, so sometime over the weekend I'll probably wind up cleaning my house and doing more homework and possibly also my laundry, but taking breaks is important to productivity. :D)

[a-q.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the homework! :D Rewards are good, but sleep could also be a reward, so I don't know, that's a tough dilemma. I'm completely out of loop with Agents of SHIELD, I watched the first season but never got around watching the next season. Maybe I should marathon it some weekend...

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I watched the first episode waaay back when it aired, never got into the rest of it, and then a few days ago I was like "...you know what, I want to watch something with Agent Coulson in", so I've wound up marathoning most of it this week. I haven't decided whether I want to get into third season yet, though, since it's only just started airing and I don't really handle open canons well. I might at least wait till third season is ended before watching it.

[ashkaztra.livejournal.com]

Good morning! Even if I haven't been to bed yet -_-;;

I have ... Well, I have sorted some stuff and made vague plans. And I opened the actual story file XD I seem to be suffering from an excessive amount of cat at the moment, though, which slows me down a little.

[a-q.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Cat overflow! :D I've heard about that. I once had a puppy problem just like that - I was only dogsitting, but puppy took that as a "you have to play with me nonstop because I say so" -time :D
Good luck!

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Opening the story file is a major achievement! Have a cookie. :D *sends the Cat snorgles*

(*makes excited squeaky noises at seeing your Wraith-noveling plans on NaNo* ^_^ I know it'll be a long time more before it's edited or anything, but eeeee! :D)