Round 70, Hour 39

[agirlnamedtruth.livejournal.com]

Hilariously, the post saying how we got on the top 25 is now on the top 25! I think we've done it. Galactic domination. To the people of the future possibly reading this, we salute you. With glow sticks. It's our thing.

Side note: Hour 38 made top 3. We're nearly as exciting as Star Wars and Psy, guys!

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[burning-night.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to write an essay, due in later tonight. The first question I tried to research was basically un-researchable, though the second is proving more promising. I have two hours until I go to a tea party at which I must spend an unspecified length of time. This essay is due at 11:30pm.

In other words, I'm sort of freaking out. (And it's all my fault because why didn't I write this earlier aarrggghhh CHRISTMAS THAT'S WHY)

[agirlnamedtruth.livejournal.com]

Can you use said essay to check out of the party early? If not, I've sort of done things like this with fic before and it's rough but it's better than no access before. I use the time I have to make a plan, bullet point each section in as much detail as I can, email myself that, receive the email on my phone and copy and paste it into something else (I do this enough that I have a writing app but a notepad sort of app works or a new email to yourself. Flesh out the paragraphs as best I can in every moment I have - pretend to need the loo, say you need some air, pretend you're bidding on a high stress auction on eBay that's about to end. Even if it's only a sentence in every quarter of an hour, it's a sentence less to worry about and fifteen minutes not wasted. Then when I'm back at my computer, I send myself whatever I managed to get done on the go and then use the rest of the time to tidy it up, filling in the blanks as I go.

That's my go to solution, I don't know if it'll help you but I somehow wrote a 20k big bang like that when I had to be afk babysitting my nephew for a week, exactly a week before the deadline. It was basically a paragraph between songs on guitar hero. I'm not sure how I didn't lose the plot.

[burning-night.livejournal.com]

If only I could! We're going as a family, so I'll have to stay as long as Dad wants to.

Wow, a 20k big bang using that method sounds incredibly stressful! I might try it - I can get a few wiki pages up on safari as reference, too. If only I knew enough about this subject to blag it! Thank you so much for the suggestion though - let's see if it works for me!

[agirlnamedtruth.livejournal.com]

That's a shame, I can't drive so I know that feeling all too well.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's my best fic ever and it needed one hell of an edit afterwards but in a pinch, it saved me from having to drop out. Though I had to retrain myself to type using a proper sized keyboard afterwards ;)

Good luck!

[naemi.livejournal.com]

We'd be even more exciting had we penguins around this time!

[agirlnamedtruth.livejournal.com]

I think all the penguins are out convincing the LJ goat that we're top 25 material at the moment. Poor Frank.

[naemi.livejournal.com]

Poor Frank indeed!