Desiderius Price

And… chasing this rabbit hole, it’s likely going to change into a successful killing (one of the party, because, you know….).

Yeah, the “attempt” bit has left the plot bunny.

They do allow fan fiction, and anything you submit is encrypted and scrambled. They just want word count, and not manuscripts per se, so the verification process doesn’t even save the encrypted file.

But do your own unofficial NaNa if you like, and get those 70k words out by November 30!

Let’s go with posted, start of the month is 126.8k, and I’m effectively trying to get it to 200k.  (It’s on AO3 as I was more confident posting it there, and luckily, they’ve got word counts.)  And boy, is the word count ballooning with this revision. 

So, I can measure the word count to a very specific plot point that’s shared among the drafts, pretty early into the story.  The old-old draft came to 60k to that point, the old-draft (now being replaced) came to 23.6k; the “clean” new version marked 50k; while the “adult” version clocked 115k to reach that same plot point.  A little arithmetic on the word counts to those old drafts, and I won’t be surprised if I’m talking millions of words before the story is truly finished.

Thus, that 70k goal might move me 5% of the way through the story, maybe….

What will help this month is every weekend is either 3 or 4 days due to my work schedule.

Because every deer is at least a 5^th level thief, if the ones that get into my sister’s garden are any indication.

I did find a dent repair service, which, according to the google reviews, seems good.  I’ll have to give them a call.

And just to push it to the other side of the credit card bill… it’ll be next week before I can get the dents out.

Obviously because you're planning your funeral and anticipate some less-than-happy relatives paying their respects. 

Need more BBQ sauce.   

And marshmallows.  

Chocolate for the Smor’s (dessert)

“You can’t spell comet without come!”

 Childhood = ruined 

The joke there is that I had a childhood! Ha! Nah…    You want christmas pornstar names, google Christmas elves. http://www.elfcrazy.com/traditional-names-of-the-first-christmas-elves/ 

Oh good, now I don’t have to feel guilty for thinking claus was hot

or that demonic nun.

And the same to you!

Happy New Year, Des… hope this is a much better one for you (with no boiler breakdowns!)

@pippychick  Should be … at least it’d be covered by the warranty if it does …

Happy new year 

It also means it’s nearly time for the Halloween round robin

Well, yes, there is that! I wonder what evil I can conjure for this year…

I had one idea I sketched out, but it kinda belongs in the story proper.   But I did come up with a second idea, both have their Halloween element in them

I do believe we are. I’m going to work on something in any event.

The first one I worked on several months ago, might go into the story proper, so it likely won’t be round robin material.  I do have a second idea that I’m working on, a mini prequel to SR: Alaska.

I hope so. Like BW, I’ve got a story in the works in any case.

Tuesday *does* mean Monday’s over with.

Please, lets not involve poor Bob in this, he’s innocent   

That’s why I’ve stopped associating lawyers with sharks, cause I don’t want to defame the sharks.

Good going!

I’m kinda starting to get the itch to go back and finish the story …. may feel a bit rushed, just started writing it in 2003.

Better late than never.

The game’s been distracting, so haven’t been sinking quite as much time as I’d like into the story, it was otherwise a semi-reasonable goal.  This is also where having a daily morning writing habit helps, because I hadn’t really abandoned that (simply because it’s too unsafe to delve into the game before work), means I’m still plodding along at hundreds if not a 1K per work day.

Good to know. Apparently you have to restart your browser after installing it. So I will have to wait to do it until later.

It’s definitely a different format and burnout is a killer fr. On the other hand, I kind of enjoy having a weekly turnover. It’s neat, like running a TV show. 

I did an experiment with the Repair Guy, cutting the chapter lengths down and not fussing so much over perfect prose, as a result, I was pushing out updates every day or two.  I deliberately wanted to keep that fast to write because it was a backstory that, while needed, I didn’t want to dwell on.

YES, trying to strike that balance between expediency and quality, because in my other novel-length stuff, I tend to agonize over drafts for YEARS. I used to do 10k+ chapters, but I’ve cut it down to the 5k – 7k range.