dustandroses

Oops. Looks like I missed August's check in, so I'll double up here and do both in one post. August was a good month. Not as good as July (during which I wrote 67,000 words), but not bad, either. During August I wrote 52,000 words, most of which was on my oz_big_bang story. I also wrote the second part of my kink_bingo line - the Gibbs/Tony sequel to Rough Comfort, the NCIS Tony/OMC, Gibbs/Tony preslash story I wrote in July.

However, I was very unhappy with it, and sent it off to blackchaps to see what she thought. She agreed - I need to do some major surgery on it before it's ready for posting, so you won't see that yet. Hopefully, I'll get it shaped up this month, and can post it, but I'm not making any guarantees. It was a tough story to write, and it will take some time and effort to fix. Good thing the official Kink Bingo is over, so I don't have to worry about deadlines. It will get done - I intend to finish the line before the Amnesty period is over.

But Kink Bingo is not my first priority in October. That would be my spook_me story, which has already turned into a monster, and I've only written about 1000 words of it so far! But I like the idea a lot, and I'm pleased with the outline, so I'm looking forward to concentrating on it, as soon as I get my art done for Oz Big Bang (I'm doing a last minute pinch-hit for someone who backed out with very little notice.) And that is turning into a major production. I like the concept and what I've got done already, but finishing it is proving difficult.

So back to the Word Count Check In. September...sucked. Big time. But there are reasons for at least some of that. The Big Bang art for one thing, but the main thing was taking care of my Big Bang story (which is called Scar Tissue, btw.) The story is 83,000 words long, people! OMFG!

It's been betaed (sends major smooches in blackchaps general direction.) It will probably get at least a partial second beta, but that depends on others who are still currently writing their own Big Bang fic, so who knows. I also had to go back in and make some major changes in how I was using names - I was all over the place with that. And I had a Spanish adviser for all Miguel Alvarez' bi-lingualisms... Hey, I invented a new word!

So I basically spent the month of September editing my story. Yikes. But except for a last minute second beta, the story is done. And I am very glad. My main concern is that I haven't really been able to write the few times that I"ve tried, but I've been told that after something this huge, it may take me a while to recover. Hopefully my writing mojo will be back soon. The website goes live Oct. 13th, so I'll be linking you to my story then.

Anyway. Despite my abysmal September word count of 2932 words, I am still 10.000 words over my current getyourwordsout goal, so I'm not complaining. I currently have just over 176,000 words for the year, which means I have three months to write 24,000 more words to reach my 200k goal for 2009.

According to the spreadsheet GetYourWordsOut made for us, if I can write 260 words a day between now and December 31st, I'll hit my goal. If my mojo comes back, I don't see that being a problem. I hope not, because I still have three WIPs that I want to finish before the year is out.

:::crosses fingers:::

Wish me luck, guys...

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