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Updated my user info with a selection of links to stories I've posted in the past. I'm going to keep it up-to-date. Also updated my damn memories, to make it easier for both you and me to find the freakin' things.

I should probably do some actual writing sometime, eh?

So, how are y'all? Still with me? Anybody else have any interesting writing projects going on?

It's been a long time.

So, as soon as NaNoWriMo finished up, I was whisked back to the CBC for another interview, during which I read the first page of my novel. This aired the next day, during which time I was in flight to Montreal, bound (eventually) for NYC. After my Broadway-ridden vacation wrapped up, the Holiday season happened. And then I started to get, well, productive. This is a good thing concerning that strange place we like to call "The Real World", but doesn't do much for my writing, now, does it?

Anyway.

I'm back, and I'm bitchy.

Namely, I've finally made a post to a community that myself and dvandva are heading up called neoficbitches. If you know who the ficbitches are, then little further explanation is necessary. If you don't: it basically consists of myself and a handful of others, trolling the internet for very bad (read: riotously funny) fanfiction and posting reviews/summaries of it for the amusement of the general public (read: at this point? Nobody.)

So if any of that silliness interests you, check out the community info, and stick it on your friends list. I promise I'll keep it as interesting as my little black heart will allow.

Next up: stuff involving actual writing.

Wordcount: 43,022

Call me crazy (go on, I dare ya), but I'm going to aim to have this thing finished by the time I lay me weary head down to rest at the end of the night morning.

Time to start with the Cycle of Procrastination.

Wordcount: 36,005 (Yeah, this is what we call "cutting it close". I finished a chapter and had 200 words to go, so I poked around and padded - err, I mean, elaborated on some things from past chapters.)

Percentage of goal: 72%
Percentage of month passed: 83%

Catching up quickly!

I'll be in the clear as long as I write 3,000 words (give or take) every day until the end of the month. And I might get another chunk done tonight, since this is the start of my weekend - just to take the pressure off.

Wordcount: 33,173 (not quite 200 words short of my goal. I'm happy wit dat. My brain must have decided to call it quits once it saw that I'd hit 33,000.)

Percentage done: 66%
Percentage of month passed: 80%

I can get to the goal no problem if I write 3,000 words a day. Definitely do-able.

At the end of the night:

Wordcount: 30,325
Percentage done: 60%
Percentage of month passed: Still 77%

\/\/007!


[Edit:] And for those of you who are waiting in anticipation for (what will be a somewhat botched) Chapter Seven - later tonight. Now? Sleep.

Dear Lotus Notes:

At what point, when I selected a humble file for use as an attachment, did the "cancel" button become the "oh, just go ahead and delete the whole file already!" button?

Do you want to know the answer?

Do you?

The answer is FUCKING NEVER, ASSHOLE!

Thanks to you, 3,000 words of sloppy, badly written, extremely precious prose has been lost, never to be seen again. So you know what, bitch? I'm-a write down a synopsis, as detailed as I can make it, of what I wrote this evening that you stole. Then I'm-a count how many words that takes me, and add it to my overall total, which, by the way, I'm keeping at where it should be if it wasn't suspiciously missing that prose that you stole.

And then I'm never sending an attachment through you again, bitch.

Sincerely,
A vindicated-feeling Cass


(Dear Microsoft Word,

That deal today, with not having any backup files of my novel despite the fact that I've been obsessively saving it throughout the night? Not cool, my friend. Not cool at all.

I'm watching you.

Sincerely,
A further vindicated-feeling Cass)

Got a fair bit of writing done last night, though I didn't quite close out the chapter, like I'd hoped.

Word count: 14,745
Percentage complete: 29.5%
Percentage of month passed:33.3%

Not bad at all, if I do say so myself. Chapter Four will probably wind up closing me out at a cool 16,000 words, if my guess is correct.

Dear World,

I am currently sitting at just over 6,000 words for my NaNovel.

I hereby pledge that I will have no less than 10,000 words by the end of the night.

Should I reach 15,000 before the night is over, I will reward myself by eating not only the Hershey's Kiss that is sitting on my monitor, but also the one that is sitting in my cupboard at home. (Yeah, I'm not holding my breath on this one.)

Time to get a coffee, reluctantly end my conversations with amazing women, and write, write, write.

So, remember that plot idea I was talking about last time? The one I'd abandoned my original novel idea in hopes of writing?

It flopped. Went belly-up.

So what am I writing now? Of all things, a novel I started in grade eight, about school kids and aliens. A youth novel.

I am clearly insane.

It seems to have been a good choice, though. It's coming along. I have twice as much of it as I had of my last attempt.

Word Count: 3,362
Percentage of goal: 6.7%
Percentage of month past: 9%

Not far off the pace. I'll need to catch up tonight / this weekend, though.