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Find herein things geeky in writerly, fannish, and RPG gamer ways.

Prior to 2008, this journal was used only to log my NaNoWriMo experiences. I'm easing into more regular use because lurking just isn't comfortable anymore. I blame fandom.

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Jan. 3rd, 2009 @ 06:55 am Fic: missing u
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Title: missing u
Author: Diurnal Lee
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Genre: Pre-slash, epistolary
Rating: Teen readers
Warnings: Strong language, mature concepts
Word Count: 1950
Spoilers: Angel Season 5
Summary: After Harm's Way, Spike returns to L.A. with a mission--one that unfortunately involves Xander.
Notes: Part of the [info]btvs_santa 2008 gift exchange for [info]whyskeyeyes who wanted Spander with a happy ending. I

Spike checked the window . . .
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Nov. 5th, 2006 @ 11:51 am Day 5: 3691 words
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Warning: Mainlining Buffy episodes between bouts of writing may cause unexpected violence, stong language, and adult content to invade your NaNovel.

A little device to demonstrate the heroine's home life turned into a field trip that culminated in an kick-ass attack. And injuries to both heroine and hero. And while I was desperately trying to derail that train of plot before it went any further down some pathetic hurt/comfort sideline, it suddenly occurred to me that the injuries provide the explanation I needed for the different effect the plague will have on these two characters.

Nice to have that dangling plot thread tied up before it even gets loose.
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Nov. 3rd, 2006 @ 11:51 pm Day 3: 2047 words
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Writing was a struggle tonight. I ended up bribing myself. Fifteen minutes of writing bought me an act of Buffy/Angel episodes. It worked well enough to get me to my target, at the cost of being up late yet again. I need sleep. Argh.

I also need a few signposts or scene ideas for this plot I'm supposedly telling, so that I'll have something to write at the library tomorrow. Maybe if I get up early enough (and feel energetic enough) tomorrow morning, I'll sit down with some colours and media and brainstorm a few little conflicts.
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Nov. 28th, 2004 @ 11:56 pm Day 28: 5287 words
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Ha! I can so do this. I'll finish this bugger and so there! It tried to beat me, but I outwitted it with persistance, and by tossing in the old standby Angel-loses-his-soul-yet-AGAIN gag. Boy, does that guy ever need to get that thing hot glued to his ass. The whole thing gets rather repetetive after a while.

Luckily, I'm writing drivel, where cliché, redundancy, and tired old saws are not only welcome, but desperately needed to fill out that word count, of which I have to make up about 10k in the next two days. I'm riding a bit of a writing high right now, so I'm quite confident that I can make it. Cross you fingers, folks.
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Nov. 24th, 2004 @ 11:47 pm Day 24: 537 words
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I sat with it long enough to realize what's REALLY been slowing me down these last few days; there's no plot. I knew it when I started, but I kind of blindly followed along with what the characters were up to, throwing challenges at them and seeing how they'd work around them. Well, I've run out of challenges, and the fic isn't finished. Nothing is resolved.

To add to the ongoing futility, when I ran a little author-to-character Q&A session with Drusilla, she got bored and ate me. So you see before you a dead author, a ghost of a former NaNo. All further writings will be post-humous.
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Nov. 11th, 2004 @ 11:55 pm Day 11: 2317 words
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Not at all happy with my irregular attention to writing. It seems to be the thing I put off all day, before all the other things I'm putting off.

This morning I was angry about a household situation, and the anger clung to me most of the day, a fine excuse not to write. As it turns out, it was writing that helped me finally shake it off. What better character than Darla to work out one's tendencies toward being a cold bitch?

The resulting smut, however, is rather disturbing, and I'm thinking it won't make it into the next draft.
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Oct. 26th, 2004 @ 03:01 pm Maybe Less with the Slow
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Today, I measured 2140 words in 70 minutes, writing a random new fanfic at the keyboard. That really threw me. I know for sure that my keyboard speed while writing used to be a lot slower than handwriting. I guess somewhere along the way, I learned to do less insta-editing and staring at the walls.

Never say instant messaging contributes nothing to a person's skills.

Well, if I can write fanfic at that rate directly at the computer, I think my notebooks and I won't be seeing much of each other during Nano. I can stick to doing Bots'n Clones fics on the bus, and do all my NaNoWriMo writing at home. And it looks like an hour a day through November will get me to 50k easily.

Whoo hoo!

Now I have to consider that it might have been something in the nature of the test fic that boosted the speed. But as I wrote about half of it in Harmony Kendall's point of view, I'd really rather not dwell on it.

Thus I reiterate: Whoo hoo!
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