Sorry I've been so out of touch. I have been writing in fits and starts but not as much as I want to. Work has been absorbing pretty well everything at the moment as I am about to change jobs; so I have to finish up some projects and get others to a stage of handover. I'm afraid working lots of 12 hour days tends to dry up the creativity.
I am making progress on my Yuletide story, though - 1374 words at the moment; my guess is I have another 1000 to go. I can't say much about it though, or post any excerpts as it is supposed to be a secret. Suffice it to say I bounced for joy when I got my assignment, had a wonderful time re-reading an old favourite to find my inspiration (which came to me half way through the book), and it is progressing well (when I am not too tired to write). No luck writing anything else though, so I don't think I'm going to reach my target for picowrimo this year (which was to finish one story - done; write another in that series - not likely; and write my Yuletide offering - probably will manage that).
Those are hard conditions in which to write. That's very good going though to get one story done and to make such good progress on Yuletide. And yay for that; it makes it easier to have a great assignment.
Ugh, 12 hour days! I couldn't write anything at all under those conditions. I'm so pleased you got a really good prompt on Yuletide and are making such inspired progress (given how much you've got written so far, I don't suppose the next 1,000 words will cause you any trouble, even with the 12 hour days).
And I don't think of Pico targets in terms of what people didn't manage to do, but in terms of what they helped them to achieve. Finishing the one story and probably your Yuletide fic as well are great achievements!
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I am making progress on my Yuletide story, though - 1374 words at the moment; my guess is I have another 1000 to go. I can't say much about it though, or post any excerpts as it is supposed to be a secret. Suffice it to say I bounced for joy when I got my assignment, had a wonderful time re-reading an old favourite to find my inspiration (which came to me half way through the book), and it is progressing well (when I am not too tired to write). No luck writing anything else though, so I don't think I'm going to reach my target for picowrimo this year (which was to finish one story - done; write another in that series - not likely; and write my Yuletide offering - probably will manage that).
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I'm so pleased you got a really good prompt on Yuletide and are making such inspired progress (given how much you've got written so far, I don't suppose the next 1,000 words will cause you any trouble, even with the 12 hour days).
And I don't think of Pico targets in terms of what people didn't manage to do, but in terms of what they helped them to achieve. Finishing the one story and probably your Yuletide fic as well are great achievements!
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