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Finished nano 05.
Dec. 1st, 2005 01:13 amDone for another year. 50,001 words at 11:59:59 and 99/100ths of a second. Also validated. According to mum, my fingers were a blur over the keyboard for the last two minutes and she's never seen someone type so fast.
Most of a box of celebrations was consumed int eh last two days, including the snickers (I haven't eaten a snickers bar out of choice for several years) though not the Bountys. Never the Bountys. Computer crashed six times in the last three hours.
This one? Has a coherent plot, a beginning, middle and end and even has an exact end, which I wrote in the last thirty seconds. It ended where I meant it to end. It has *chapters*. Okay, so they were originally supposed to end up as leaders at the halfway point, but ending up leaders at the end of the novel makes a bit more coherent plot sense.
There's no filler sex or fight scenes. There's a food fight and a mission that you could probably lift out, but that's it, and they're more to set the tone than anything - the mission because I realised that I refer to the fucking things all the way through and never showed one.
There's no sex or fight scenes at all. I feel ashamed. This story? Practically a PG. Possibly a 12, since there are shower scenes and plentiful swearing. Though all that happens in them is that people get clean and joke around.
Based on a story idea I'd been writing bits of for a few years, which was originally a bunny started with vague Simon R Green's Deathstalker series premise of a very large rebellion underground that had been going for fucking years. The characters had stayed the same all the way through when i'd been writing notes on it. Of course, they completely changed their day-to day personalities and how they interacted with each other when I was writing the fucking novel....
Snippets : very unhealthy codependent relationship where they spent most of their time screaming at each other in all professional matters and loved each other deeply, though not necessarily in a romantic or sexual way.
Novel : good mates, got on very well professionally, and cared for each other a lot as mates. could probably see them slipping into a very normal relationship which started as best mates.
:headdesk: damn characters, give them an inch. they take a mile.
But if you want to know the plot, it's that two people, one scientist and one copper, see too much corruption, there's a breakign point int he prologue, they run off to the underground, they get taken into the rebellion - her on the military side, him on intel (though sex of characters is pretty much not an issue whatsoever, you could change it easily) and then due to people dying, moving around the bases, and by virtue of their own talent and influence on policy, rise quickly through the ranks to become second in commands and then leaders when the leaders die. (always two leaders - one runs intel, one runs military) There are plot developments and so on in between that, and they hate their jobs, but that's about it. Possibly the simplest plot I've ever had, since 'werewolves on a roadtrip' had no plot.
now? Now I can finish the other stories that've been languishing on my hard drive for a month and finally watch the two weeks' tv that's been sitting on there for the last two weeks.
Most of a box of celebrations was consumed int eh last two days, including the snickers (I haven't eaten a snickers bar out of choice for several years) though not the Bountys. Never the Bountys. Computer crashed six times in the last three hours.
This one? Has a coherent plot, a beginning, middle and end and even has an exact end, which I wrote in the last thirty seconds. It ended where I meant it to end. It has *chapters*. Okay, so they were originally supposed to end up as leaders at the halfway point, but ending up leaders at the end of the novel makes a bit more coherent plot sense.
There's no filler sex or fight scenes. There's a food fight and a mission that you could probably lift out, but that's it, and they're more to set the tone than anything - the mission because I realised that I refer to the fucking things all the way through and never showed one.
There's no sex or fight scenes at all. I feel ashamed. This story? Practically a PG. Possibly a 12, since there are shower scenes and plentiful swearing. Though all that happens in them is that people get clean and joke around.
Based on a story idea I'd been writing bits of for a few years, which was originally a bunny started with vague Simon R Green's Deathstalker series premise of a very large rebellion underground that had been going for fucking years. The characters had stayed the same all the way through when i'd been writing notes on it. Of course, they completely changed their day-to day personalities and how they interacted with each other when I was writing the fucking novel....
Snippets : very unhealthy codependent relationship where they spent most of their time screaming at each other in all professional matters and loved each other deeply, though not necessarily in a romantic or sexual way.
Novel : good mates, got on very well professionally, and cared for each other a lot as mates. could probably see them slipping into a very normal relationship which started as best mates.
:headdesk: damn characters, give them an inch. they take a mile.
But if you want to know the plot, it's that two people, one scientist and one copper, see too much corruption, there's a breakign point int he prologue, they run off to the underground, they get taken into the rebellion - her on the military side, him on intel (though sex of characters is pretty much not an issue whatsoever, you could change it easily) and then due to people dying, moving around the bases, and by virtue of their own talent and influence on policy, rise quickly through the ranks to become second in commands and then leaders when the leaders die. (always two leaders - one runs intel, one runs military) There are plot developments and so on in between that, and they hate their jobs, but that's about it. Possibly the simplest plot I've ever had, since 'werewolves on a roadtrip' had no plot.
now? Now I can finish the other stories that've been languishing on my hard drive for a month and finally watch the two weeks' tv that's been sitting on there for the last two weeks.
