*hee*

[donutsweeper]

I opened up my bigbang to start working on it for the day and decided to check the word count. 

12345 words.  :) 

Almost makes me not want to write more because that is just SUCH a cool word count.  Nah....

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[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I plead the fifth.

You should see some of the started and abandoned story snippets I have, or actually... maybe not

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Heh...you should see some of the plot bunnies hopping around in the corners of my mind, waiting to be unleashed. Talk about mutant...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

speaking as the woman who wrote a drabble between Janet the Weevil and Diefenbaker the deaf wolf... or the implied slash between Ducky and Jack (DUCKY!!!) believe me when I say i am familiar with the mutant plotbunny

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

LOL...I forgot about the Janet and Dief fic. I'm ignoring the Jack/Ducky.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

probably for the best.

crap. I'm was trying to get my bigbang to 14k before going to bed tonight. I still have almost 500 words to go

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Yes, well...we spent a lot of time throwing fish back and forth at one another, so to speak.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ah, the fun of flying fish. oh well. I have until March 15 till the rough draft (of 20k) is due

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. I see an icon in the near future.

That is a lot of words.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

20k is terribly scary. Although the 6k I have left is not so bad. Now if I could just figure out where the heck the story was GOING.

My premise when I started was 'haunted lake is really inhabited by aliens. Jack investigates" (Haunted lake being a lake I grew up near- lots of scientific oddities and myths around it)

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Bah. Who really needs to know where a story's going? They usually lead you in the right direction eventually.

That sounds awesome.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It took me FOREVER to actually start to think about WHAT the alien was, etc.

To help with length (think *pad the story*) It's half in flashbacks about when he was there the first time. The story also has an OC I introduced in another fic which'll help add word count

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

All I could think was Loch Ness Monster, which is entirely my roommate's fault.

Ooo...I like Jack's flashbacks.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I didn't want it to be TOO trite or commonplace. I haven't worked out all the details yet. It would be easier if I wrote that way but.. oh well, one can only do what the muse tells us to do

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Exactly. The muse demands we listen.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

stupid bloody muse. Well, I'm giving up at only 13,559. screw it, I'll try again tommorrow

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Well, good luck with that tomorrow, then.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thanks

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I know from experience that, sometimes, writing requires all the luck one can get.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

absolutely.

My muse is stubborn. Sometimes 200 words in a day is a fight, other times I can manage 1000 easy or even 2000. *shrug* If I could get a clearer picture of where the plot was going I'd be better off.

I'll get there- eventually

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you will. I can't wait to read it.