Amruniel's Ramblings

Total Words Written: 200.089



WOO-HOO!
With tonight's writing session I've successfully reached my personal "200.000 words until the end of April"-goal!

For Camp NaNo, I still need to write 1.815 words over the course of the next week, but that should be easily doable, despite uni starting up again on Monday.

I can't tell you how happy I am :)
I know, I have said it quite a few times before, but I'll say it again: if you had told me on November 1st, 2016 that I'd have 200.000 words written by the end of April, I'd have told you to kindly let yourself check for un-diagnosed mental illnesses like delusions... And yet, here I am, having typed out more words than I could have ever imagined writing after my muses went on extended vacation a good 10 years ago, and not nearly finished yet.

It has been a thrilling, joyful, sometimes frustrating ride. I've had my ups and downs, and I sure as hell had my share of troubles with keeping my characters halfway in check, hoarding them back in from whatever tangent they decided to go off on, catering to their demands for "more" and "not yet" and "let me have that moment please", but in the end, it's been an incredibly joyful experience and I can't wait to see where the story, the characters and my random ideas of what I could add to make things a bit more entertaining for my future readers will take me over the course of the next... well, hopefully not 200.000 words, but I'm sure there's still quite a bit to come :)

And, as always, my endless gratitude goes to the incredible silvan_lady! Without her encouragement (and inspiration!) I would have never really entertained the idea of trying my hand at creative writing again and particularly not writing a V/O AU.
And most of all - kudos to her for volunteering to beta this monster if I ever manage to finish it! What a brave woman! *hugs*

And to you, who are actually reading my daily rambling updates and are still not bored to death or completely pissed off with me for clogging up your friends/reading page: thank you all for bearing with me :) I just hope you'll be able to one day actually read what I'm constantly babbling about!

And with that I'm wishing you all a lovely Sunday with a lot of sunshine and relaxation!
I'll see you all on Monday, I guess :)

*hugs*

Total Words Written: 197.854




For once, everything went as planned today, and none of my darling boys decided to go off on a tangent or come up with some surprising twist or turn, leaving me with a successfully finished scene.
What I didn't count on, however, was the (in retrospect very obvious) fact that I don't have even the slightest clue how to actually end that scene, or if that scene actually ends the chapter, and if not, where do I take the chapter from there?
Argh!
Damn it! There goes the success of tonight :/

I do have a couple of "stepping-stones" in mind that I want and need to fit somewhere into the narrative between here and the main action, but truthfully, I completely forgot to think about where to fit them. Some of them might work as additional scenes in this chapter, all of them might work in some as of yet unplanned bridging-chapter(s), but where exactly and how and in which order currently is one big mystery.

Ah, well, at least I'm two days or so ahead in term so my Camp NaNo goals, so at least I can keep calm in face of the end of my Easter break approaching way too quickly, and the resulting consequence of once again not being able to write on Sunday, and possibly having to skip or at least settle for less words written than I usually do on various other days.
:)

To be honest, my motivation to get back into a "uni-studying-getting shit done"-mindset is so unappealing right now. I've finally reached the point in my story where I actually do feel like there's good progress and that it moves forward at a good pace and with direction, leading me to the part I had stuck in my mind for the last... probably 2 years. In other words, now that I feel like the real fun is drawing near, writing once again will have to take a slight backseat, my allotted writing time once again being subjected to the rather unpredictable and unreliable moods and fancies of my professors and my schedule in general. *bah*
I'm NOT amused, let me tell you!

But I've still two full days of writing ahead of me before I have to switch back into uni mode, so I'll do my best to enjoy the hell out of them (and get some serious planning done!) :)

Total Words Written: 196.232



Got a nice amount written today, without too much difficulty and have moved into the next (and probably last) part of the scene, incorporating that bit of fun information that popped into my head a few days ago. I'm looking forward to finding out how Eric reacts to this particular revelation tomorrow :D

(Sometimes it's so nice to *know* the bare, basic idea of what you want to write, while still leaving enough room for your characters to surprise you with their reactions to any given situation! That's all the best of the two worlds of planning/winging it all in one, if you ask me!)

To anyone reading this post over at LJ - in case you haven't noticed so far, I have closed down commenting on the page, and have provided you with a link to the post here at DW down below if you want to leave me a comment :) I'm obviously still using LJ, and will keep on cross-posting for the foreseeable future, but after what #LJ18 tells me is nearly 13 years, the time to move on is drawing near/has (sadly) come. I, as most others, would have wished it to be different, but yeah... Change is good, right?!

Total Words Written: 189.058



After a day of eating everything I could get my hands on, writing was a bit slow today - most of my energy seems to be needed for digesting all that yummy chocolate, leaving very little to make my brain work. (But it was so worth it! *nom*)
But I got some 900 words done, never the less, and managed to set into motion another little thread that will ultimately come into play at some later point of the plot.

I'm hoping to get a bit more done tomorrow, not necessarily in terms of words written, but in terms of getting a little further along in the scene, possibly finally having the chance to incorporate another one of my random stretching-ideas. Let's see how well that will work :D

I hope you've all had a lovely Easter (if you celebrate) or just a lovely weekend in general!

Total Words Written: 192.822



I've successfully crossed the half-way mark for Camp NaNo tonight, despite not writing as much as I originally wanted.
Somehow playing around with Dreamwidth, creating new icons and just generally getting a feel for how things work over (t)here took up a lot of the time I had set aside for writing.
Ah well, never mind :)

I'm very excited about incorporating a (fun?) turn that sprung to mind today while I was doing my stretching routine into the scene/conversation I'm working on at the moment. I hope to reach the point where it might fit in tomorrow... and am very curious to see where this piece of information will lead me. Or if it doesn't work in the story at all and only sounded like a nice twist in my head.

(Or maybe I'll come up with something completely different tomorrow?! You never know where my brain decides to wander while I'm doing my stretches ;D )

Well, we're going to find out, won't we?


PS: Does anyone of you lovelies know if I can change the mood-icons at Dreamwidth and if so, how? *frowns* I don't like those squares, I think...

Total Words Written: 190.870





Woo-hoo! Against all odds (and very much against what it felt like) I've finally made a good headway into the Camp NaNo word-count, propelling me far enough ahead to give me the chance to relax a bit and be okay with it should I not reach my self-imposed daily goal at some point in the future.

For whatever reason, writing seemed to be extremely slow today, but once I counted what I have gotten done I got a nice surprise ;)

And since I always enjoy writing interaction between Eric and Orlando, tomorrow's session should come easier! That's something to look forward to, I'd say ;)

Total Words Written: 189.058



I made it!
I caught up with my Camp NaNo word-count!
WEE-HEE!!!!

*does a happy dance*

I also find myself firmly en route to finally coming closer and closer to the real action of the story... which is great, obviously, but at the same time means that I'll have to squeeze in a bit of research and mapping out possible paths to take leading up to said action, without falling behind on my writing again.

But for the next days I'm still good and armed with a more or less planned-out course, so it should (hopefully!) be smooth sailing for a couple of writing sessions at least.

I'm also diligently making my way through my unread messages, so there's a good chance you'll find a reply or five from me in your inbox soon :D

Total Words Written: 186.484



Well, I didn't write nearly as much as I wanted to today as well, however, as the pic above shows, I'm on the right track... The projected "finishing date" for my Camp NaNo goal went down from May 10th to May 7th, so there's that ;)

I'll try to get at least an hour or so of writing time in tomorrow night as well, and keep myself on track to catching up to where I *should* be in the process. And once the new week starts I'll adapt my schedule as much as possible to free myself enough time to not only write but also to finally have enough breathing room to get back on all your posts!

I hope you're having a great weekend, my dears!

Total Words Written: 184.507



I would have liked to get more written today, but after hours and hours spent walking around the city, and a badly needed but cut-short nap, I'm frankly too beat to have done more than just writing enough to reach today's thankfully small word-goal. I wanted to catch up with Camp NaNo's projected word-goals originally, but ... no. No way. Not today.

But at least I've still not fallen too far behind, and with the Easter break looming in all its glory I'm still pretty optimistic that my muses will kick back in full force once I have caught up on sleep once uni is over and done with. So, up until now I'm not panicking in face of the few hundred words I'm behind at Camp NaNo. Let's hope it stays in this manageable range over course of the next days as well :)


In face of LJ's new Terms & Conditions, and it's prossible/probable ramnifications, I want to take the chance to remind all of you that I can be found over at Dreamwidth as well. I'd love to have you add me to your circles there as well if you want to :)

And with that, I'm wishing you all a good night! :)

Total Words Written: 182.803


Words Written Today: 669

As you can see, there's a new statistics making its appearance :) With Camp NaNo finally kicked off, for the duration of the month I'll also add my progress there to my updates.

As the numbers quite clearly show, today has been a rather low day in terms of what I've got done. I would have wanted to get a good headway on tomorrow's count as well (as I'll once again won't have the time to write), but various things conspired against me and I ended up starting to write way later than I anticipated and therefore didn't get as much done as I probably should have before bone-deep tiredness set in.

I swear, I can't wait for next week to be over and the Easter holidays finally arrive! (And with them way more time to write! And possibly sleep. Woo-hoo!)

Have a wonderful Sunday, my dears! I'll see you all on Monday :)