HEY HEY Look at me!

Look at me I went running! Ok, walk/jogging, but the point is today is monday and I dragged my tired, still!sore (went riding on Friday for the first time in like a bazillion yrs talk about OUCH this weekend, god I'm out of shape) ass out of the house and hit the road in my running shoes. Clocked 3.2km (or about 2 miles) averaging the epically slow pace of 6km/hr lols. Still I am proud of myself.

Tomorrow I plan to do an easy 30min walk and 15min of weight lifting.

I also bought some fresh fruits and veggies and a couple Odwalla bars to help scale back the amount of frozen burrito meals I've been having. Baby steps are still steps.

I'm tentatively planning to run a 5k in Spokane either end of September (hah! yeah I dont feel too confident about being ready in 7 weeks but we'll see) or middle of October (more likely though harder to find a close enough race). My goal this fall is to get my butt trained up so I can enroll in either a beginner sport class (like Futball) or weight lifting class at the UREC during spring semester and do a series of longer fun races throughtout the winter/spring (tentatively, I'd like to run a City Half Marathon next summer. I think that's feasible, maybe even a full marathon next Fall if I stay focused? We'll see.)

I've got a good idea what I want to get as a tattoo (a Sapphic fragment in the original Greek if I can find scans of the original papyrus or pot shards) but I've told myself I'm not allowed to get it until I run a 1/2 marathon (If I run a full marathon I'm going to get my motorcycle endorsement :D Yes I have to shamelessly motivate myself like that).


In writing news... well there really hasn't been any writing since my last post (what ten days ago? WOOPS). I wrote about 85 words last week. I've been rather discouraged though after talking to Meagan about why I'm discouraged I feel... not necessarily motivated but like I should suck up my insecurities anyways and get back to work.

I've been distracting myself from writing by tentatively working on my first Fanvid for Whedonland over on LJ >.> IDEK It's fun and diverting.

I'll leave you with some Editors

Proof of work

Proof that I worked on Amelia. No words written but more extensive plotting worked out than I had before and put down in a flexible manner so that I can add to it as more comes to me. I primarily focused on how the primary Amelia/Kelly relationship can develop amongst the events of the HD-recovery and Det. Donnelly's investigating the Tong.

I have a couple hours until play rehearsal tonight and I know I should try to write 500-1000 words before that. I keep getting distracted with various social networking sites though. I spent quite a bit of time messing with my phone trying to figure out the most efficient way of uploading the photo you see here to the web without my computer cable. And then another extensive amount of time spent trying to decide whether or not to link this blog directly with my Twitter feed (ultimately chose not to at the moment since my twitter features slightly worse language than this and is only tangentially related to this blog's topic. )

Proof of work

Here's a quick current word count for Amelia after having started work on a later sequence scene this afternoon (attempting to forcibly break thru my writers block by skipping ahead lol)

2599 / 80000 words. 3% done!

May or may not write the sex scene immediately following where i paused just now. It has a definitely nice 'fade to black' but a big part of this story idea revolves around its place in the racier chick lit genre so we'll see.

Woops?

So I ran out of steam. I don't think I've effectively written anything on Amelia in about a week. I read thru the 1800 words I had yesterday and made a few corrections and now I'm sitting here sipping my coffee and thinking Damnit Kellianne, what happens next??

I have the whole general plot written up, that's never been a problem with my writing process. The hard part is figuring out the details. The tiny things that happen in between the big events.

I was hopeful that I would be able to give a good showing for Camp Nanowrimo but that is definitely NOT going to happen now. I only have 2 weeks left and I know there's no way I'll manage to write 48K in that period of time. Perhaps I can give myself a slightly smaller goal, however, say 23K more and finish with 25K give or take? Thats a little under 1/3 of the total length I need for this story but I think it works out to 1.6K a day word count. Hard but if I refuse to let myself be a lazy sod doable right? And that's the whole part of my participation in Camp in the first place, to set myself a goal and get into a habit.

Here's an excerpt from How Amelia etc Retired With all the Money:

Story Ideas

So I was railroaded this afternoon by a story idea just begging to be written. I've only scribbled out the outline and working title thus far but after some nosh, a beer and the new episode of Wilfred tonight I plan to tuck in and do a bit of writing.

For now I'll leave you with the title and brief summary, thoughts welcome:

How Amelia Beasley Victoria Anne Commons Retired with all the Money - the story of how former mobster Amelia Commons discharged her debt to Interpol & MI6, learned to surf, fell a little bit love and retired on Waikiki Beach with Sir Francis Bellmoore's fortune.

3034 / 85000 words. 4% done!

I fell two days behind due to parties, dinners and the holiday (only 500 words written between July 3/4) but I plan on doing a little more writing this evening that will hopefully get today on track and the whole thing moving forward.

Still waiting for inspiration about my 'inciting incident' to round out chapter one. I have most of the rest of it written.

Music rec for today which I think is also fairly applicable to the novel is:

Animal by Miike Snow, the chorus is brilliant, I just want to crank it up and dance around with my eyes closed. The vid's pretty awesome too. I think this song is begging to be remixed well but I have yet to hear a remix of it that improves on the original. total fail.