PicoWriMo

I've written the rough draft of another Christmas gift-fic today. It's a very short vignette — a character study, basically — and it definitely needs more work, but at least another one is down. Or the basics of it anyway.

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Whoot! Go you!

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Sounds like excellent work!

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A very rough draft, I'm afraid.

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Yay!!

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akane42me.livejournal.com

Day 7: I transcribed from my notebook's 3 page of notes and ideas. 700 words, some of it looks like it could grow into something more.
Then I spent 2 hours working on a post of story recs, and for some reason the formatter would not cooperate. I wound up coding the html but it still didn't align correctly. so I retyped it, and it is still not aligned correctly. Now I am grouchy and no longer care if it aligns correctly. There was so much more I wanted to accomplish with my story today but now it is time to watch the Green Bay Packers football game and then binge watch Halt and Catch Fire later on.

Curse you, LJ.

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It'll come together. I just know it will!

*HUGS*

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Argh, I know how that goes sometimes. Sorry you didn't get as much time to work on your story, hopefully today will be more gracious for you! <3

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It is annoying when your time is wasted because of circumstances. *hugs*
But 700 words? That's awesome!

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When computers don't wanna work... :(

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I was going to give myself a break from chopping and changing today and just do 200 words in the book, but instead I spent too long having a small adventure to Queensferry, too long messing about, and eventually did 115 on the book and 205 on something else. I'll settle to the book tomorrow. Honest.

I particularly like the linguistic contrast between the Scots statement of 1687 - 'Repaired be both sheires 1687' - and the identical-but-English inscription of 1761 - 'Repaired by both shires 1761'.

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Hey, adventures can lead to Words. So it is allll research, right? *Beams*

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Still, good word counts on both! And a small adventure does sound nice. :)

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At least it's something!

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The old family recipe names scribbling I was doing yesterday has kept me going (I do love names!) and I wrote another 500-odd rather general words about recipe names per se, and am now going to do some research (I've just got to work out where) for 'real' ones and the stories behind them if possible, because I think if I work in some ideas about nostalgia and heritage, I may be able to use it, either in my studies or as a personal essay :) I was encouraged to explore the possibility of creative nonfiction by one of my tutors last session (I never thought I could, given how quiet-to-the-point-of-torpid my life has been and no I'm not complaining when I see unquiet lives in other places) so along with the short fiction, I'm going to practice a bit of simply talking about what interests me and seeing if I can make it interesting for others... a long-term project.

Well, that's my excuse for doing all this about what is really pure self-indulgence.

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Whatever makes you happy and makes those words flow!

*Twirls you*

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It does :)

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Self-indulgence often makes for great works imo! I say keep at it!

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I probably will :)

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As long as you enjoy it — besides, it is interesting, isn't it? I am always amused when reading Grandma's old recipes; the changes in spelling, the use of words, all of it is so wonderfully outdated...

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Yep, it's part of the fascination :)

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