The Girl With The Eyes

In an effort to continue my procrastination from writing, I thought I'd do the WIP meme again because it's one of my favorites. Though I clearly I have issue with this single sentence rule - sue me.

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

001. "Thank you for that astute observation Mr. Turpin." Eames didn't let himself look the Captain in the eye, didn't dare too as the idea of just what could be done to him now started to fill his mind. "However, the question was meant for the boy."

002. He is in so far over his head at this point that Alex doesn't know what he is going to do, it's all gonna come to a breaking point eventually and he's not sure they'll survive the fall out. Scott's a pretty understanding sort of guy, but lines like you're like my own personal brand of heroin weren't exactly something you just let go, unless you were some doe eyed teenager, and even then only the weird ones were okay with that.


003. So the thing is, when you're a man if you dress a certain way people start to get ideas about you. If you take pride in your appearance, if you wear suits that fit you to a T, if you happen to wear a fedora most days of the week and a waist coat, suddenly the whole world thinks you suck dick.


004. It isn't just his brother who has died, it's Arthur's fucking twin. Eames is wholly unprepared for this, for the pictures around the house, seeing the man who could have been Arthur, though he smiles far more than Arthur ever lets himself. At least as far as Eames has ever seen.

005. He's all the way on the other side of the bar, too far for Jensen to really stare the way he wants to, but he sees details - the line of his throat, the curl of his lips against the rim of glass raised briefly for a drink, and those eyes - he's really not close enough to see them properly, but god does he want to.

So it was my sister's birthday today, and so she got to pick where we went to dinner - and she chose Italian, which I was dreading because I have a warped view of Italian thanks to my family's attempts at creating it at home.

Have to say though, when it's not made by my family it's pretty great.

I made a terrible cake for my sister which we ended up having to throw out, I think the recipe book we've used recently is just bad. I used it to make a different cake for my mom's birthday last week and that turned out pretty poorly as well.

But then again, maybe I just suck at baking.

There is so much I want to write right now, but I am just lacking in the motivation department. I'm working on some paintings for my family as christmas gifts and between the 6 canvases and the fics I'm supposed to be working on right now I just have zero motivation to do any of it.

And deadlines are fast approaching!

Now to sleep

Things are going well so far this month. The question is whether or not all 50k words will be on one story or if I'll end up splitting the goal up with the big bangs I need to be writing this month.

Ultimately I'd love to be able to do 50k on one story as well as the word counts I need for the big bang fics I have coming up. Not entirely sure I'm capable of that though, it'll end up being somewhere around 70k at the end of the month if I do it all. Which haha kind of scary when you think about it like that.

Soooo yeah, off to do a little bit more writing before I'm off to bed land.

Hmmm... I made a new header for my journal tonight - because I was making icons and I figured might as well since I have photoshop open. I'm on my netbook now though and I can see that the image is much more blue on this computer than it is on my desktop. Not sure how I feel about that, but whatever. It's Peter/Elizabeth/Neal and that's the important part.

I've fallen in love with White Collar.

My rpf_big_bang fic is going to be posted on Thursday, and OMG I AM NOT DONE. Seriously, I fail. I'm hoping I can finish it tomorrow, I do good writing on Wednesdays for some reason, sooooo yeah. This is what I get for rewriting the end like 5 times. And spending all my time exploring the White Collar fandom.

Well my flist is filled with SPN squee/reviews/and such ... I haven't gotten around to watching it yet. We had family night tonight, so we grilled and my brother came over and we did dinner and talked and played the wii fit for each others entertainment - heh. It was fun though, I'll get around to watching spn tomorrow I'm sure.

Umm... I might be participating in NaNoWriMo this year, I went to bed kind of early last night, but had some trouble sleeping, and then an idea kind of formed in my head while I was laying there, and I considered just going to sleep and trying to remember in the morning, but I know me and I would have definitely forgotten, so I flicked on the light and hastily wrote out a few jumbled words so that I would recall my great idea come morning.

I've been doing some world building and character outlines this afternoon, and I'm actually pretty excited. I've gotten my siblings and mother involved in helping me come up with character names and bouncing ideas off of them. My middle sister was surprised I wanted her to read something I'm writing, because she often sees me writing fanfic, but no way in hell am I letting her near that - but I think she liked being included. I'm sure I'll continue bouncing ideas off of them as I plan and outline in the coming weeks up to November.

1,667 words a day for 30 days doesn't sound nearly so daunting this year for some reason, though I've kind of had a hard time doing 300 a day in the past for the mini_nanowrimo that I've participated in. But I think write or die will be very helpful as will a good outline.

Soooo yes, look forward to that possibly happening in the coming months!

Also sign up for kradamreversebb, you do the art first which is then picked by authors for inspiration for stories - it'll be cool. I'm just doing art this round I think. I've got enough writing on my plate at the moment. But you guys should sign up, whether you're an artist or a writer, it'll be fun :)

Well I made the word count for the kradambigbang. Though now that I am on a roll it's getting to be longer than I expected. I'm at right about 12k at the moment, with at least 4k to go. But the deadline is no longer looming quite so menacingly, so yeah. Seriously write or die is my savior, I wrote like 7k yesterday alone.

We're going to see Prince of Persia tonight, and I am pleased. I remember playing that game when I was in elementary school in my friend's parent's bedroom on their computer. It was so awesome.

For jjverse In the end Challenge.

Title: We're Going Home
Fandom: Star Trek
Characters: James T. Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Word count: ~900
Summary: Home is here

( We're going home )

There need to be more hours in my day. It needs to not be 3 am, I really want to watch another episode of BSG right now, but I was up after 5 last night, and I've just been wiped all day, so I think I'll be getting some sleep here in a few minutes. But gods I love this show!

Anyone else doing the nevillebigbang? If so are you as wigged out by this weird time schedule thing that is happening right now? Didn't we already sign up? Why are we now suddenly having "official" sign ups? Is this how Big Bangs normally are? I think chosenfire28 and her amazing mod skills have ruined me for all other Big Bang challenges, maybe I've just been spoiled by having a really good mod who knows what she is doing and this first time run of the Neville Big Bang is still trying to get up on it's feet.... whatever, it's freaking me and my ADD out when the due date keeps changing.

For a long time I thought the due date was the 24th, and then I realized it was the 28th (this was my own fault, though), but now there is this official sign up, and I just don't get it. I mean couldn't we just say the drafts are due now and that's it? Why are we calling it an official sign up?

Sorry people, I've let this bother me more than I should. And I just need to kind of spill my weirdness and get over it. I've already hit the word count mark, which makes me happy I've just got a few more scenes to write up and I'll be done with it.

And tonight we recorded another episode of our podcast (revengeotgleeks), and OMG things seriously all over the place. Getting disconnected, things falling on me, phones ringing, just overall craziness - no less fun than normal of course, just much more in the land of crazy.

In conclusion: RAWR

tonight was a good night, I finally started getting a little glimpse from my muse about how my kradam big bang is going to go. I've only go about 55 words right now, but that's 55 words I didn't have before.

And I also did some writing on the other kradam fic I've got going. Sooo yay for that. I feel like I might actually finish it sometime this century.

I'm really not feeling many of my other fandoms anymore which is kind of disappointing. But Kradam has sort of taken over my brain, Adam specifically. Cause UNF. Also I think RP has been taking up a lot of my desire for writing, because I write a ton with that. I love playing in this game I am in right now, I love my characters and the people I get to play with, but when you're writing in several threads each day, well it sucks up a lot of your word count for the day and it's hard to get other writing done.

But yeah. Watch GaGa it's so much better than listening to me talk about writing or my lack of writing.

Been pretty quiet around here for the last few days. I've been writing, one day I will finish this fic and stop just talking about it... it'll happen.

In the mean time:

( A meme, about writing )