Recapping november

Recapping november and writing since the end of NaNoWriMo....

Well, I hit 12k for my nano novel. Not great but it's still a pretty significant amount of writing to accomplish (for me). It averages out to like 4k/week but really I think I was doing more like 7k/week for the last two weeks which is not too shabby.

Since then I've been giving myself a tiny brain break by writing a fairly serious take on a crack Inception Kink Meme prompt. It's good. I started it about two weeks ago and have a little over 8k written. Not too shabby at all considering it was the last week of instruction + dead week (ie study for finals week) + FINALS this week. Am going to try to write 1.2k on it today and hit around the 9.5k mark if everything goes according to plan. I'm confident the entire fill should reach 15k possibly 17k. After that I need to write a couple short fills for Angst_Bingo since I REALLY want to write a blackout for that this round and April is the deadline (I think that means 25 fills at a minimum of 500 words/fill but knowing me they'll all be closet to 700-1500/fill)


Am looking at possibly being expelled from school. I'm basically 100% certain I'm going to fail one of my classes and theres a cap on how many classes you can drop in the course of your ENTIRE academic career which I used up last yr. What kind of policy is that? Ugh. So I'm going to get an F and I'm feeling pretty worried that this will lower by gpa too much. In the event of possibly expulsion though my plan is to finish my AA via online classes with SPS and get a job and save up enough money to go to film school.

Handbag meme

crossposted from my livejournal: the handbag meme!


I love this meme and seeing all the things people carry around. My handbag is actually quite sparse just at the moment because I've been switching between it, a backpack and not carrying one at all so many things are not in their correct places...



Vera Bradley crossbody bag my sister got me a few years ago (three or four?) because I am deeply in love with turquoise



(going L to R, top to bottom)

comp book (strictly for stories), Sense & Nonsense in Crime Control Policies for class, day planner I do not use, plot of a story written on notecards, pencil & pen, MacBook (sticker courtesy of a customer at my old coffee job), floss, mini stapler (no staples, I cant find mini size x.x), tic tacs, toothbrush, two random pennies, swiss army knife, valentine from one of my old coworkers and BBFs (has a water tattoo of a scull inside which I always forget to stick on me as a joke), deck of cards, earplugs (courtesy of my father because you never know when you'll be on the shooting range and need some earplugs, no really), last jiffylube statement to remind me to fix things on my car, and my old car registration.

Things that are missing? phone, earplugs, class notebook, spare scantrons, wallet, grocery sack & a bottle opener

Soundtrack post for TV/AM

This is a very rough list of songs inspiring The Victor/Ayn Marriage


1. Marry Me - St Vincent
"We'll do what married people do. We'll do what Mary & Joseph did without the kid."



2. Memory Serves - Interpol
"It would be so nice to take you, I only ever try to make you smile. You won't have to say that you'd love to, but baby please that you want to, someday."



3. Hero - Regina Spektor
"I'm the hero I don't need to be saved."

Only 10,700 word left to catch up with nano. This is me setting a goal to write 2k more tonight

What will I be writing....

So we've got just a couple more days until NaNoWriMo which is pretty exciting. I havent actually got anything of what I MEANT to have finished by now finished (I only wrote about 10k of my planned 85K woops?) and I have two papers to finish for school due within the first week of November AND I have angst_bingo which I have yet to really set started on but this just means I have lots of reasons to give myself a swift kick in the arse.

This year my plan is to write The Victor/Ayn Marriage for nano. This story grew out of a bit of misanthropy, general dislike of the modern hypocrisy concerning marriage & sexuality, and a rather strong dislike of the soupy RomCom genre. The title is meant to be a riff on The Victorian Marriage.

"In a time and a society enthralled by the RomCom, this is the story of how an emotionally absent artist and a self-imposed asexual lawyer navigate a marriage of convenience in the modern world, defying the mainstream hypocrisy 'romance,' and rewrite the stereotypical notions of companionship and commitment."

Angst_Bingo card & ramblings

Round 3 of angst_bingo has started over on LJ. We've got a week until Nanowrimo which means I probably should not have signed up but what can I say? I'm a masochist. I really love bingos and I also think that the challenge will be good for me (even though last time I only finished 3 stories -.-)

My card tended to skew towards physical ailment prompts this round which is NOT my angst preference or strength so completing a blackout will, I think, be somewhat difficult but here it is:

Aging	Voyeurism	Bodyshare	Outsiders	Nausea
Stranded	Telepathy	Holidays	Disabled	Physical imperfections
Post-traumatic stress disorder	Recovery	WILD CARD	Inanimate objects	Assault
Child abuse	Murder (attempted or successful)	Accidents	Getting physical	Pregnancy
Marriage (arranged or otherwise)	Sensory deprivation	Chance encounters	Hypothermia	Dub-con

I've got a few vague ideas to fill 'Aging' and 'Chance Encounters' with Inception, 'Nausea' 'Telepathy' 'Disabled' 'Pregnancy' and 'Sensory Deprivation' with XMFC but that feels like... idk a cop-out? Too easy/too obvious. I'm following so many different fandoms atm it's a bit of a clutter in my head.

Since this coincides with nano, I think I might do a few original fills, particularly 'Marriage' since that fits nicely with the nano story I intend to write.

Knitting Update

So I've been knitting and watching NCIS instead of writing lately (that will of course change when NaNoWriMo goes live in a couple weeks) and I've finally opened a small Etsy store in an attempt to sell some of the stuff I've been making.


Clicky!

More stuff to come as I finish it.