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They breed plot bunnies. This one is all

cbpotts' fault. (Well, one of the commenters, who talked about doing a co-op arts program, and now I have a character who is a wandering artist and ARGH! Well, maybe I can do a short story and sell it to someone.)

But yeah, no more ~~plotbunny breeding~~ reading blogs.

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Current Location: work
Current Music: none

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I'm now involved in three word challenges: a race against

irishninja for 12,00 words by January 22nd; one against

mimerki for 20,000+ by February 10th; and, of course, I'm involved in

novel_in_90. So I'll still be posting darlings and things like that, but I'll also be posting word counters for each of them.

Today, my to-do list looks like this:
- write up my bid for Yule 2007 (yes, I want to get this done today so I can have

dorio look at it before I submit it and forget something important)
- write at least 1k on Dreams at 1500 and still going
- write up Donovan's character sheet for Wings
- give up and start writing plot notes for the yet unnamed Sleeping Beauty plot bunny that refuses to die
~~- go to Eragon with the hubby and Donna (and Chinese food first! Yum!)~~
- design a Stonemarche bookmark for hubby for Birka
- crit the latest stuff I got from adr_forte

Here are my current word counters:

Race the Ninja! (due date Jan. 22)

8,142 / 12,000
(67.8%)

Race

mimerki! (we need a snappy title for this one too) (due by Feb. 10th)

0 / 20,000
(0.0%)

novel_in_90 (due April 6th)

10,596 / 67,500
(15.7%)

Dude, I'd better get busy!!!

ETA #1: Well, Eragon was pretty, and several of my fav actors (Rachel Weisz and Jeremy Irons) were in it, so I liked it. It was too fast, though. I have to read the book now. And back to writing!

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Current Location: writing!
Current Music: something weird

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Because it's still tonight until I go to bed, dammit! :p

Belladonna Dreams

36,461 / 100,000
(36.5%)

Word Goal for the day: 750 - made 872

Starting line: Something wasn’t right.

Ending line: And she vanished.

Darling: Icy fingers suddenly wrapped around my throat, and Ellen dragged me back up, anger blazing in her eyes. “Don’t tell me what to do in my house, Daywalker” she hissed, and phantom spittle hit my face, burning like freezing acid rain.

Deaths: Nope.

Good Things: Well, now we know where Lyris is, supposedly.

Bad Things: Where Lyris is. And Sapph got choked.

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I also finished Ajax's character for Wings. All I need to do is finish Donovan's, and then I should be able to finish the outline for the first episode. This comic is hard! I didn't realize how hard scriptwriting is. :p

Well, off to bed now. No Sleeping Beauty research - might do that tomorrow night, if work is dead.

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Current Location: wandering into dreams
Current Music: SSSudio - Phil Collins

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I need to start doing this again, to keep myself on track. I'm starting to loll along, and that's not good.

That does not get books written.

So tonight, I need to do the following:

- 1k on Dreams
- Finish Ajax's sheet for Wings

If I have time, I'll be doing some research on the story of Sleeping Beauty. Um, because. *looks away shamefully*

ETA: Well, I got 850 on the first, and finished the second. Go me!

Current Mood: artistic
Current Location: work, still
Current Music: nope

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A lot.

However, now that I'm doing feeling sorry for myself, it's time to do some work.

To Do Tonight:

- balance checkbook
- pay bills
- tweak budget for the two bills that just came up
- character sheet for Wings
- 1k on Seasons

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So, I had another idea attack me the other day, and the more I think about it, the more I really want to write it. It's "Pretty Woman" meets "Amityville Horror," with bits of "Dark Angel" and "Buffy" thrown in.

Doesn't that sound cool?

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Got my first eBay purchase in the mail! It's "The DC Guide to Writing Comics" by Danny O'Neill. It's AMAZING - and full of comics. :D I'm getting very excited by this. Really. But Danny has a bunch of cautions about rushing the comic, and I know myself enough to know that if I short myself on the character/story development, I'll end up doing a MAJOR rewrite. So, despite the fact that my artist is CHOMPING at the bit to get moving, I'm going to keep doing the prewriting work I know needs to be done.

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Also need to start working on two more outlines: Descent into Darkness and Last Rites. I do not want myself written into a corner.

Current Mood: sick and tired
Current Location: trying to write
Current Music: Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys

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It's VERY rough, and

mooseythehut has already helped me see the big flaws in it, so I'm going to be rewriting it. It's a good start, though, and for someone who usually thinks in NOVEL and WORLD as opposed to story, it was an interesting exercise. I think I might have to do some more of these.

I also have a new plotbunny. *rolls eyes* Courtesy of my good friend Donna, who was nice enough to give it to me. It's a paranormal, and involves vampires, werewolves, mages and a nasty drug to sterilize all the "Blips" - those with no magical ability at all. Heroine is a Blip, and hero is a nonmagical person back here on Earth who runs into her, her best friend the vampire, and her other best friend the werewolf, when they end up here on Earth. I'm very excited about it. Terrible plotbunny!

More words on the yearly meter!