The Imaginarium

Yeah. More than two thousand words last night, after midnight. More than five thousand words today.

I am awesome.

( Doom forgotten. An awful damn lot of words under this cut. )

Theo calls Ashwater "Ashy" in this section, twice. Both times, I meant to have Ashwater notice. I think she will eventually notice. Important Theo to Ashwater moments seem to get glossed over, though.

I did not actually want to kill Deidra very much. She may be saved in a rewrite. But I do think it helps set Ashwater and her crazy "not having people die" thing up.

I am really kinda proud of myself.

We are between halfway and two thirds of the way done with this story. Shanna and Artie are both going to come back. Madness is going to happen. And hopefully, the bit where Theo and Ash are on the road for ages will be kinda shorter this time.

Also, has anyone else noticed that, exempting my main characters, and I'm not sure about Theo, every single person has turned traitor? I am such a bitch to my babes.

Ee!

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Total: Enough.

Well, let's see how far we get on the last day, hm?

( Yay words. )

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I vaguely feel like the only thing for it at this point is a forced all nighter, where I Just Fucking Write. We'll see if I'm actually that efficiant. And what bribes I can come up with for myself, for what word-counts.

( Yesterday's few words return to Ash )

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I am so doomed. So so so so doomed. And kinda depressed about that, really. Sigh.

Also, it should be noted that these words go in place of the previous "missing reel" --or in other words, before Theo and Deidra get it on.

( This day's output. Nine thousand words to go. )

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ARG ONLY LIKE THREE DAYS LEFT SHIT SHIT I AM SO DOOMED

( DOOMED I TELL YOU! )

Oh how scandalous!

Also, more dancing. I really really *really* like dancing, ayep.

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Huh. Apparently did not actually get around to posting for the 24th. So today you get a DOUBLE DOSE!!!

Or something like that.

( yay )

Deidre is a blind musician. The reel missing is short, and I mostly know what I want to have happen in it, I just need to write it. Her and Theo will probably have sex, yeah.

YAY WORDS!

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Blargaleargaleargle.

In other news, I have *officially* earned the procrastination writers merit badge. That's two separate gaps of three days without writing. Seriously, if I can pull off the novel with a total of eight whole days where I didn't write a word, I get to declare myself a genius at writing.

( So, words )

Oh my goodness. Dun dun DUUUUUNNNNNNNN!!!!

Yeah, yay story. Let's kick some more ass with this, hm?

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And I do love today, I do I do I DO!

Because I wrote six thousand words. Can I just say "Holy fucking shit!" to that? Because damn, that's a lot of words.

( You can read them if you wish )

OHMAN, DRAMA!

Also, apparently Theo's a lesbian now. Cool.

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Hurf to the Durf and equal somesuch.

Have some more words. :|

Let's see if I can reach my halfway point today, aiee!

( Blarg! )

I did not get as much as I wanted written today, but it's still staggeringly more than I've done the last four days. So woo that!

( WOO THAT! )

So! I feel like I should be writing about this, but considering that I actually wrote like...the last sentence and a half post midnight (and therefore on the fifteenth) I really just wanna get back to the writing. WOO!

No, Theo doesn't *know* they're being followed by Del yet. But she kinda suspects it.

WOO!

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It's the very start of the 14th. I didn't write a word on the 12th or 13th --after I've slept, when it's really today, I'm gonna go to Diesel and chill for a couple hours and write.

( And I'm gonna combine these days, as there's so little )

Yeah. Yeeeah. It's time to take a deep breath, roll up my sleeves, and kick the ass of this fucking story. Sleep and babysitting first, and then I will own it.

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I feel like it's been forever since I worked on this, since I did it all before dance, and Due South, and sleep, and class today. Soyeah. It kinda has --greater than 12 hours, easy.

Also, whee, finally getting back up to what I consider a "good" amount of writing.

Oh, also, trigger warning: Del beats one of his minions to death in this bit. Brutally, though I've no idea how well I wrote that. So, you know, kinda textually NSFW.

( Onto the story! )

By the way, in case this isn't completely clear, Del is a homosexual. He likes boys. That girl he mentioned, Shayrn something? She is a lesbian. They figured that using each other as a beard might be helpful --so while the story he told the guard wasn't actually true, if the guard talks to Shayrn, she'll back 'em up.

The chair leg is, in fact, the chair leg of truth.

YAY BEATING PEOPLE TO DEATH YAY!

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Man, it was so frigging nice outside on the eighth, *and* I had a date promised with B.Dan. Which I maintain makes it all the more impressive that I got more than two thousand words down --not a lot more, but it's a start, and a damn sight better than the last three days.

( here we go! )

You may notice that it doesn't *quite* line up with the previous segment. I did some smoothing and pulling together --Ash and Theo have officially decided to go to the old city. Theo was forced to admit she doesn't know everything!

Theo's brother may have just been because I wanted to make a terribly obscure joke regarding my favourite president.

Yes, he's gay. Yes, his boys are various stages of "concubine". Yes, yes, they're all of an age, jeeze. No, I'm not quite sure what the scandal was between him and his parents, but that might've been it.

Last names are totally arbitrary. I feel there's a sort of vague sense that females get named for their mother and males for their father, but every once in a while, something bucks that trend --note that Ashwater is named for her grandfather (and her mother).

YAY STORY!

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Another day that was kinda a wash, especially considering that I didn't even get started on writing until about ten thirty PM. I got some words down, and more importantly, I'm starting to be in a groove --I can get more done before I eventually fall asleep.

( FINALLY I end the scene I've been stuck in for like three days now. And go on to other scenes, in the same bloody cave )

If that ending sounds familiar, it's because I'm about to work in something I wrote a bit earlier. And then Theo and Ash can start their excellent adventure!

Mmm, fish.

NO I DID NOT STEAL EVERYTHING EVER FROM MERCEDES LACKEY SHUT UP.

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Grah.

If yesterday was hard, today was torture. I just Did Not Want To Write. I spent the afternoon being idly distracted (okay, gyrik_22 is at least partially to blame for that) and the evening at a play. I wound up in mikaverleth's room, to try and be a #LOFNOTC with her, and got a little bit of writing done, but another housemate joined us, and there was gossip for hours.

I'm unimpressed with myself, but you know what?

I still got something down.

( That something! )

Löfellmann is a close friend's last name. Mikaverlath is Corey's elljay handle. Kyress is one of my last names --Sor Kyress-- and Lofnotc (Pronounced loff-not-kuh) is a twitter cult started by Amanda Palmer. Sometimes I just want references, and sometimes those are very silly.

Yes, they're in the same scene as yesterday. This cave is lasting for fucking ever.

Shockingly, they're gonna go be travelling adventures. THIS STORY IS A BUDDY COMEDY, GODDAMNIT!

Hopefully more words for you tomorrow.

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In the middle of writing today, I began to hyperfocus on the word count, and stop caring about the words. This was a bad, and I needed to take a moment to break the habit of recounting the words every ten minutes.

So I stepped back, and added a few paragraphs to Loose Ends

( Here you go! )

Scintillating, I know. But hey, it's writing, and it's writing I haven't done before. I'm proud.

This is the first day where it was really really hard.

If I was doing exactly the minimum, as of this morning, I'd be a day ahead. I didn't need to write. I didn't want to write. And I knew that if I didn't write, that if I stopped now, it'd all be over.

Fuck that noise. Not when I started the day less than 1500 words from the First Big Milestone --10k.

( Let's Do This Thing )

3592 words. And I fought like hell for every single one of them.

Is it gonna get better? No, I'm pretty sure that tomorrow's gonna be a whole hell of a lot worse. I'm gonna want to stop. To slack. To not have it open in a corner of my desktop. To play video games, fuck off, hey, it's the weekend!

But I was too stubborn to give into that today. Let's see if I can keep that streak going tomorrow. And the next day. And the next.

Fifty thousand words? Yeah, and each and every one of them is going to be my bitch.

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I feel like today was really light, despite topping 2000 words. Butyeah, here you go. Is two different parts of the story again, since as I was walking to class, I determined I wanted to force Theo to admit that she didn't know something, and break her brain a bit. It takes her down considerably more than a notch, and yes, I will rewrite it to be better at some point.

Soyeah, ( story )

Some Author's Notes!

No, I did not spell "Racheline" incorrectly. I spelled "Rachalin" right.

Constructs are made of body parts or clockworks or whatever. They make pretty good servants, if you can control 'em.

Yes, I was careful to make sure that that *was* the first time we hear Artie call her by her name, and not just "girly".

Look, it's a scienceocracy. Of course everyone wears labcoats all the time.

If you've been paying attention, you'll note that six years ago was when Dr. Forrester Green died.

Halfway through writing the second bit, I realized that the old city was what I had called the place where the dance was held. So I arbitrarily changed that to the underbelly in the middle of a paragraph. Look, this is what editing is for, okay?

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Wrote a couple thou words, most during class and the space between getting dinner and going to Diesel. Stuff happens! Plot continues to be a thing used by other people.

( WOO! )

I intend to write a little bit more at the start up here, giving an establishing shot of Theo's house. And the fact that she has hobos living outside her house. Making the hobo *slightly* less random. SHUT UP, IT'S WRIMO. I AM ALLOWED TO USE PLOT DEVICES!

Um, wherever the fuck this is set, it is kindof a scientocracy. No, that's not a real word. Butyeah. Scientists are the ruling class, or at least, the Institute is thus

It...gets weird, somewhere in the middle here. Whatever.

Underworld dancing is to the fancy ones dancing as Scottish Country is to English Country, or something like that. The Underworld has steps, and more flirting. The fancy ones are ALL ABOUT the mathematical patterns, and lookin' purty.

THE STORY IS GETTING SOMEWHERE, IE, I WANTED IT TO BE A BUDDY COMEDY IN THE FIRST PLACE! SWEET!

Also, I will probably eventually replace time travel with something else, but it makes a good be all end all for science.

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I wrote a LOT more yesterday than I did the day before. I also, if you don't read my twitter, did not have anything even resembling a plot, and bitched about that endlessly. I will probably continue to bitch about that endlessly. Until I find a plot, and rewrite the entire thing, at least.

( Here we go! )

"Reel Missing" is a term I picked up from artemisfowl2nd. It means that, eventually, I will write that bit, as I know what I want it to do, but I can't figure it out just now.

Yes, the dance Artie is inviting Theo to is just an excuse to write in some quadrilles. Yes, Artie is much older than Theo --The's about 19 or 20, Artie's in his late thirties. Ash is 26. Shanna is 28 or 29 or early thirties.

Shanna is awesome and hard to explain --she's a hivemind, essentially. The two bodies she controls move primarily in tandem, over the past half dozen years, she's started to actively work at separating what she does with which half of herself. Her eventual goal (though she's not ever told anyone this) is to get herself separated enough that she can actually start to develop separate personalities for the separate bodies. She's not really hopeful that this will work, though.

Ash is ultimately an optimist, and kinda spoiled, though she at least realizes this. Theo is deeply a cynic, and thinks that's just because she's smarter than everyone else. Artie is scruffy but trustworthy. Shanna is completely fucked up with regards to social interactions, and knows it, and tries to sort it, but has very up and very down days.

And for visual reference, Shanna is black, Theo is essentially Indian (black hair, blue-green eyes, dusky-copper skin), Ash is completely Aryan (the blonde hair/green eyes didn't cue you?) Artie is Italian --dark hair, a lot of five o clock shadow, swarthy skin. I don't quite know who besides Theo and Ashwater are going to be important characters yet.

And of course, "Indian" and "Italian" don't do jackshit, as I don't have a setting yet. I'm pretty sure I'm not writing towards Earth, and I think it's tilted a few hundred years back (note the lack of internet). I don't *think* there's going to be magic magic, just technology that is essentially magic. Ash may still have some sort of telepathy, we'll see.

YAY STORY!

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