donutsweeper | (no subject)

oh no, your art muse too? At least I'm still mucking about with icons. somewhat. a little. *sighs* Who am I kidding, I've been screwing up soup, failing at baking and playing solitaire all day

You fixed your soup! And the baking had cat interference. And change solitaire to hidden object games and I've spent many a day like that.

the soup wound up being *meh* and there's 80 tons of it. well a lot. the 12 pot is mostly full so... 10 quarts of stew? And the brownies didn't come out right, I have no idea why.

Somedays. *sighs*

what are you up to tonight?

*pets you*

Alternately poking at WiPs and photoshop. You?

*perks ears* WIPS?

I made some icons for

findyourwords and stared at an empty word doc. Just not in a good way today

That's an interesting comm. Um, well, I say WiPs, but "progress" may be overstating a bit.

I signed up. with an impossible word count. I am officially crazy.

Sometimes opening WiPs is progress enough. It makes them still active and come alive again in your head, even if its only rereading it

What's your goal?

This is true. *crosses things*

I did 77k last year and was going to sign up for 80 but then went nuts and said 100. INSANE I TELL YOU. INSANE.

*offers carrots to your plotbunnies*

Oh, you can do that! *nods* In what, a year? *does math* 8000-and-a-bit words a month. ...OK, that's kind of a lot. But dude, so is 77,000, so it's very possible. Especially with the potential for a couple of really long fics. (The SPN crossover and tardis_bigbang.)

bunnies *appreciate the carrots*

If I don't manage a big bang I am screwed though. I can knock off ficlets like nobody's business, but 100k is a LOT of ficlets!

I should change it to 80 or 85k

80 or 85 this year and 100 next year, maybe?

maybe. I think there's one more opportunity to change your word count before you're set in for the year. I'll lower it because reaching 80 or even 85 seems doable but 100 seems INSANE.

I don't know what happened to my ability to come up with long stuff. I had Pants!verse and my first miss maggie and all those OldMan stories my first year of writing (well half year- 2007) and then- other than big bang- had very very few things over 3k, let alone 4 or 5. not sure why.

I feel like I've used all my ideas up, sort of. I need new canon or a new fandom or something.

That helps. I've NCIS and now SPN to play in. Heck, I clanked out that 4k Dean as a dog fic in a day and a half right after I started in that fandom.

I poked around recently, looking up prompt/challenge communities and nothing looked helpful.

New canon could help- or old canon you haven't seen before. Is there any DW's you've missed?

I haven't seen much Seven at all, and he's supposed to be devious enough that it might kick my brain into gear again. *ponders*

Yes! Ace FTW!

You HAVE seen Survival, right? With the Master all cateyed and able to teleport or whatever?

Oh, heck, yeah. *eg*

Oh that's right, I remember we discussed if he had the ability to teleport in time back then. Ooh, Leopard!Ainley meeting Jack. Or Five!

Have you seen every Master serial?

I want Cheetah!Master/Nine. *nods*

Um, all but Trial of a Time Lord. Long serial is long. But the Valeyard's in it, too, so I should watch it someday.

Cheetah! Why did I say leopard? Silly donutsweeper.

long serial is long and has Peri which makes it that much longer

Well, y'know, spotted cats. It probably didn't make any difference to the Master.

And Mel, from what I understand. Although I've never seen Mel, so I don't know if she's as bad as people say.

She's worse than Peri? That's unfathomable

Well, I dunno. That's kinda hard to imagine, isn't it?

I certainly have no burning desire to test that theory

*crosses fingers that this will post LJ is eating things again for me*