Mine has just been "helping" me. I guess I have close to 3000 words total right now (between my assignment and a treat fic, uh, guess which one I actually have more done on). Your procrastination is nobler. And cuter.
~500 words on my assignment, ~2200 words on a treat fic thingy. My assignment is going to be and needs to be shorter for reasons of concision, so that isn't as bad as it sounds, buuuut I could definitely have gotten going on this earlier.
Doing okay! It turned into a "five things + one thing" fic, and I've got almost four done and about two thousand words. I'm hoping to bang out the rest tonight and send it off to a friend to beta. And then figure out how to make those fake iphone text conversation images. (I found a couple generators but I need one with emoji. MY LIFE, SUPER HARD.)
Meanwhile I am SUPER behind on my Three Ships assignment, but that's not due till the 29th so I have aaaaages. Ha. Haha. Sure.
Also, on the procrastination front, I went out to do more Giftmas shopping and came home with nothing for other people but a lovely used copy of Possession for myself. WHOOPS.
Yay Possession! As in the Byatt novel? If so, I also got that used at Powell's in Portland the first time I read it; I love the Merlin & Vivien cover. I have very conflicting feelings about that book, but I think you will find it interesting.
I'm about 600 words in (most of them done at work today, ssshhh) and I've been procrastinating by going on midnight baking binges. I'm standing at 28 dozen and the shortbread will be happening tonight.
I technically haven't procrastinated that much cause I've been writing for the past two weeks, but I did have that moment at Panera Bread today where I said out loud to Kol "this fic is so bad that I should die."
(I'm not sure how bad a fic has to be to warrant honorable suicide as a way of getting out of the exchange.)
So I'm not really procrastinating anymore but instead in my ritual state of despair and self-loathing as a writer. yay!
If it makes you feel any better, I highlight blue in Scrivener wherever I have a note in the text as to not accidentally leave it in on my final pass. This is usually stuff like "mention X here" and stuff.
At the moment, highlit in blue, I have, "'[joke here]' ((Character)) said."
I'm actually done with both my assignments. Sorry to be jerk. But if your fic for me last year was any indication, I don't think you have a THING in the world to worry about, dawg ;)
You're too kind :D I wrote that one relatively late in the game too, to tell you the truth, but part of that was because all my Dumas brushing-up took me longer than I'd expected. I am the worst planner.
I recently took a personality test that asked something like "to get you to attend a friend's birthday party, do you need a save-the-date six months in advance or to be told on the day of it?" In short, do not give me a save-the-date six months in advance.
One must not question the mysterious workings of one's Muse. Hahah. See, if I were to procrastinate, I have learned that something would invariably happen to fuck my shit up, and by that I mean some kind of massive body fail, or maybe Mayan Apocalypse (cannot be discounted).
Dumas is... LONG. And dense. And sexy and exciting ;)
You're wiser than I. thank god for AO3's edit function pre-deadline
Dumas is lots of fun! Rereading I was almost surprised by how upbeat and funny he is, but of course he is, he writes swashbuckling adventure. Have you read any of Steven Brust's fantasy pastiches of his work?
The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After; he's a fantasy writer with a world called Dragaera, and those two are Musketeer novel send-ups set in that world, down to a satirical version of the pompous narrator's voice. I haven't read either in forever so I can't wholly vouch for how they stand up in 2012, but I really enjoyed them circa 2005 or so.
Oh it's that! I've at least heard of it. Plus, the titles are kind of hilarious in themselves. Have you read "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez Reverte? That shit is money (she said eloquently).
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Mine has just been "helping" me. I guess I have close to 3000 words total right now (between my assignment and a treat fic, uh, guess which one I actually have more done on). Your procrastination is nobler. And cuter.
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Still in canon review or working on pounding out words? ♥
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Meanwhile I am SUPER behind on my Three Ships assignment, but that's not due till the 29th so I have aaaaages. Ha. Haha. Sure.
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(One more section to write, one section to finish! SO CLOSE.)
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(I'm not sure how bad a fic has to be to warrant honorable suicide as a way of getting out of the exchange.)
So I'm not really procrastinating anymore but instead in my ritual state of despair and self-loathing as a writer. yay!
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At the moment, highlit in blue, I have, "'[joke here]' ((Character)) said."
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Because I do now.
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I recently took a personality test that asked something like "to get you to attend a friend's birthday party, do you need a save-the-date six months in advance or to be told on the day of it?" In short, do not give me a save-the-date six months in advance.
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Dumas is... LONG. And dense. And sexy and exciting ;)
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thank god for AO3's edit function pre-deadlineDumas is lots of fun! Rereading I was almost surprised by how upbeat and funny he is, but of course he is, he writes swashbuckling adventure. Have you read any of Steven Brust's fantasy pastiches of his work?
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What is this Steven Brust and how quickly should I be downloading it onto my Kindle?
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