Amruniel's Ramblings

Total Words Written: 219.571

Just a quick update today.
With the 24 hour of the day being far too short to get everything I *should* be doing actually done, I had to skip writing again yesterday - this time in favour of torturing myself with X-bar-diagrams, instead of enjoying re-reading my own fic. ;)

I managed to squeeze in a bit more than an hour of writing today, but despite not getting as much done as I had originally planned, I'll call it a day now. I'm dead on my feet and have a couple of things to do still before I'll finally be able to go to bed.

I just hope that I'll be able to get a nap in tomorrow afternoon, thereby catching enough energy to last me through a lengthy writing-session tomorrow, hopefully helping me to make up for all the time I lost this week.

Total Words Written: 217.326

As you might have noticed, I didn't post an update yesterday.
Why?
Because I got completely distracted, truth to be told. I had the laptop fired up, my trusty and much beloved writing program open and was good and ready for a nice writing session, when something I couldn't remember writing caught my eye as I scrolled down my fic.
Well, of course I had to read what I had obviously typed in some kind of trance, right?
So I did.
And got the surprise of my life when Himself came round to tell me that he was going to bed. To my rather confused "Huh? Isn't it a bit early, being before midnight and all that?" he nicely informed me that it was way past two in the morning... oops.

Yeah, well, that's the story about how I got completely caught up with reading my own fic, completely forgetting about time...
(But that's a good sign, right? If it can draw the person who has written it in that much, it can't be that bad, yeah?)


Anyway - I managed to make up for what I didn't get to write yesterday for the most part, so the unplanned day off didn't set me back too much in terms of the number of words I have to write on a daily basis in order to easily reach my temporary word-goal (250.000 at the end of June).

And by doing that I covered about half an hour of plot-time... leaving me with another 30 minutes or so to write to my "inspiration" ;)
(And yes, those will be the real fun 30 minutes - both for the boys and for me *rubs hands in anticipation*)

In other words, I've got my work for Monday cut out for me... and I'm so looking forward to writing that!

I hope you're having a great weekend (and please, please bear with me a little while longer until I manage to catch up with you all! Life is a bitch right now, but I'll try my best to carve out a couple hours to reply to your PMs, posts, and comments over the next few days!)!
*hugs*

Total Words Written: 215.391

As I suspected, this is fun.
I've never written that way, and I rather suspect that I won't be able to do the scene and the accompanying inspiration the justice it deserves, but it is a really interesting challenge I greatly enjoy.

I haven't been able to get far into the scene, having had to do some last-minute research and changes to my original plan because what I managed to find yesterday didn't completely fit to what I needed/what I envisioned after all, but I think I found a very good piece to work with now, and can't wait to see where the inspiration it provides me with will take me once the scene grows and evolves.

The maybe-on-its-way cold seems to have been properly subdued for the time being after I effectively killed the persisting headache with a heavy workout session (I suspect I drowned both the headache as well as any possible cold-viruses in sweat LOL) ... let's hope it stays that way so I can write a bit more (and tease you a bit more) tomorrow :D

Total Words Written: 213.459

Still no sex written *sigh* - but, we're getting there!
Viggo has finally figured out what he wants to do to mark the occasion, and now we're busy setting up the scene ... quite literally in my case, a bit more figuratively in his ;)

But now that I'm in the know of what the good man has planned, I'm very much enthusiastic about the idea. I think this should be fun to write (even more than just "plain" sex *giggles*)!!!
Woo-hoo!


As usual, and very much expected by now, that damn woman hasn't uploaded tomorrow's slides - AGAIN! *grumbles*
I swear to god, this person is turning my hair gray prematurely!!! (I will SO find a way to write her into that fic and get my sweet revenge... even if it kills me! *hrmpf*)


Ah well, then I'll take the time to get some other stuff done in the meantime... it isn't as if my to-do list isn't a monster anyway... *sigh*
(And yes, somehow finding the time to answer your comments and PMs is on there as well! Be patient with me, my dears! *hugs*)

Total Words Written: 211.921

Just a quick update today since I'll have to get up way earlier than I'd like to on a Saturday tomorrow and therefore should get my butt into bed ASAP.

Writing went rather well today, despite me winging it without any real idea of what I wanted to write when I started out. I knew I needed some sort of bridging between where I left off yesterday and what I'm going to write as the (this time really!) last scene of the chapter, but I really had no idea what this bridge could be.

Well, the boys did step up to the challenge admirably and nearly wrote that part themselves, so I'm not complaining about them taking the initiative this time ;)

And with that, and the very lovely outlook on writing sex tomorrow (YES!), I'm going to try to get my brain to shut down and sleep now :)

Total Words Written: 209.856

Guess what? The scene doesn't end where I left off yesterday after all.......
Big surprise... NOT!

;)

I remembered I had to have our boys burn off some excess calories still, and preferably naked. And -me being me- instead of just jumping ahead to the fun, my crazy brain came up with a scheme of what the boys could do between yesterday's last sentence and said calorie-burning, which involves a lot of blowing. Done by Sean. Straight!Sean.

Don't ask, you'll find out soon enough. (hopefully, soon enough) ;)

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New month, old problem....
I'm once again waiting for my damn professor to upload tomorrow's slides (I really have to figure out a way to write her into my story and make her suffer!!!!), but -as per usual- this gave me the time to write a bit and actually manage to hit today's word-goal, so there's that at least.

Otherwise, I'm still working on the scene the boys have maneuvered me, or rather themselves, into and hope to get even somewhat right. Ah well. If called out on it, I'll just call it "creative license" ;)

And now, it's time for me to hit the pillow.... WITHOUT slides! *grumbles* Damn that woman!

Total Words Written: 206.433



Well, well, well...
As I mentioned more than once already, I knew the boys would go off the beaten path now that I'm winging it again... what I didn't expect, though was how often they would manage to surprise me in just two or three days....

Hm. Right.
I'll just roll with it for now, I guess.

Looking at it optimistically, the direction they just went is something I haven't ever written before. And we all know I thrive on a challenge... So yeah, this could be fun!

And with it being May 1st on Monday, and therefore a bank-holiday, I'll be able to get a bit of writing in tomorrow night... I'm really looking forward to finding out how I'll be able to handle that particular scene! :D

I hope you're all having a great weekend!

Total Words Written: 204.251



Let me tell you one thing: I should definitely stop writing while hungry!
Seems like our boys are now having a BBQ...

:D

(And while I certainly suspected the boys doing whatever they wanted to, I didn't see my personal longing for food influence yet another part of this story! It isn't as if the boys haven't had tons of food I wanted to have in that moment, over the course of the past 200.000 words... *sigh* It going to be a small wonder if they don't come out of that story overweight at that rate...
Ah well, I can always have them have sex to burn a few excess calories, right? Right!)

Total Words Written: 202.281



Ladies! Today is a day of celebration!
I've officially reached my word-goal for Camp NaNo!

You want proof? Here it is! ;)



In other words, I've written a good 1.000 words today, though I suspect that a lot of them will ultimately fall prey to the Red Pen of Beta ;)
No, in all seriousness, I don't really know where what I wrote today came from. It certainly wasn't something I had on the radar, and it ultimately doesn't really add to the story, but rather gives a bit of background knowledge about the location or rather the inhabitants of the city/country my story is set in.
It isn't really a necessary part, but for now I'll keep the passage and see if it survives my revision and/or beta later on.

And now I'll celebrate my triumph with a cup of tea and a few ladyfingers ;)