The humble beginnings
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amrunielBy pure chance I have stumbled upon a little gem of a picture...
Three years ago today, a very happy girl got bitten by a plot bunny. The first in about a decade, and the first in a new fandom.
Coincidence would have it that said girl had to spend the evening/night dog-sitting while Himself and his parents went off to see some opera. With a lot of spare time on her hands, she decided to open up a new Word document and see where the idea would take her.
Three months later, the girl embarked on her first NaNoWriMo adventure, working on the plot-bunny that had been constantly gnawing at her for the past months despite her never opening the doc up again after that first night in August.
Three years later, the self-same fic has grown to a whopping 270.872 words, and is nowhere near finished!
And here is the snapshot I found in my enormous pile of pictures rescued from my old phone, taken sometime during the evening of August 2nd, 2015 and sent to Himself to show him I had a good time without him around (or because of it ;) ):
(Emoticon to save you from spoilers ;) )
(And please note my choice of soundtrack - you just can't go wrong with Elton John and George Michael belting out "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" while starting out on what turned out to be an epic V/O fic!)
Three years ago today, a very happy girl got bitten by a plot bunny. The first in about a decade, and the first in a new fandom.
Coincidence would have it that said girl had to spend the evening/night dog-sitting while Himself and his parents went off to see some opera. With a lot of spare time on her hands, she decided to open up a new Word document and see where the idea would take her.
Three months later, the girl embarked on her first NaNoWriMo adventure, working on the plot-bunny that had been constantly gnawing at her for the past months despite her never opening the doc up again after that first night in August.
Three years later, the self-same fic has grown to a whopping 270.872 words, and is nowhere near finished!
And here is the snapshot I found in my enormous pile of pictures rescued from my old phone, taken sometime during the evening of August 2nd, 2015 and sent to Himself to show him I had a good time without him around (or because of it ;) ):
(Emoticon to save you from spoilers ;) )
(And please note my choice of soundtrack - you just can't go wrong with Elton John and George Michael belting out "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" while starting out on what turned out to be an epic V/O fic!)
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Date: 2018-08-02 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-02 09:56 pm (UTC)They most certainly are!
I still remember the moment the idea popping up from nowhere that afternoon – I had made a detour to visit with Himself who was climbing with his then climbing-buddy after getting out of the office. For various reasons I had never actually seen Himself climb after he picked up the sport two months earlier, and since I was in the vicinity, I figured I could do my duty as interested SO and drop by to admire his prowess. Little did I know that seeing him doing a partner check before sending his co-worker up the wall would spark the idea that ultimately grew into a full-blown plot bunny over the course of the hour or so I spent watching the boys scramble up and down that wall.
A very happy coincidence – and funnily enough the fic in turn proved to be the reason why I picked up climbing a couple weeks later (despite me telling Himself that I would NEVER do it, and please do find another idiot who wants to learn it with you! not four months earlier LOL).
Art imitating life, turned to life imitating art ;)
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Date: 2018-08-06 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-06 07:16 pm (UTC)WAY over 200k. As of last night I'm at a bit over 273k ! O.o
I actually managed to go over the maximum length of a single Google docs file last week.... It is a MONSTER!!!