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Words for the day:

Words for the official NaNo count:

Words for the official novel goal:

Things just got too busy in RL for a new post every day, but I've still been writing every day. I had two days that I missed the NaNo goal of 1,667 words, but that's honestly okay, because my average is still nearly 2,700 words per day, and in 8 days, I've surpassed what I did, word-wise, for the other time I attempted NaNo, which was back in 2007.

Even better, the lovely mrsdrjackson seems to think, after reading the first three chapters, that the darned thing is worth reading, so YAY!

Writing is fun, y'all. :D

Words for the day:

Words for the official NaNo count:

Words for the official novel goal:

Better than day 2, worse than day 1, but either way, still way over the daily goal and the only reason I stopped writing last night was because I had to sleep.

OMG so tired! D:

ETA: I just realized that I need to add my numbers to the NaNo site before midnite. They have my daily average words listed as 1,990 because I put them in this morning (day 4), but my total is really only for 3 days, which means my average is 2,654. Oops. :P

Words for the day:

Words for the official NaNo count:

Words for the official novel goal:

Not bad for the first day. And I have my draft for chapter one complete and ready for beta, although I may leave that until the whole thing is done, I just don't know.

Okay, enough stalling already. It’s time for my Vividcon con report and vid recs. \o/

This was my first Vividcon and I hope it’s not the last. (The only reason it might be is that it seems to coincide with all sorts of annual family type stuff at home.) I had a great time, met lots of people, made some new friends, watched some incredible and amazing videos, drank way too much, and learned some more about vids and vidding along the way.

I met so many people in passing that I’m not going to mention them here, but I got to spend at least a little time with rhoboat and cherryice and wiliqueen and dualbunny and kuwdora (who had a kickass X-Men: First Glass (Sobriety Was Never an Option) party!) and revolutionaryjo and keerawa and mresundance and cee_m and deejay and medalline and hellpenguin and par_avion and anoel and millylicious and bradcpu and morgandawn and xlorp and redhillbones and settiai… I’m probably forgetting some people and there were at least a couple of people I spoke to whose names I never caught (although one of them was also a Karen). And of course there were my awesome roommates grammarwoman (\o/) and Adele (I can’t remember your LJ name!), and the three of us went with the equally awesome havocthecat to dinner Friday night, which was also a great time. Great enough that we missed the first hour of Club Vivid, which makes me sad, even though I’m not at all sad because it was time spent with Havoc.

Speaking of Club Vivid…. OMG! So many awesome vids! And costumes! And settiai’s gorgeous green dress which was just perfect for her and her artwork. I danced for hours and that’s just crazy because I generally don’t dance. Club Vivid was pretty much the one place that I felt perfectly comfortable dancing. Who knew? :D

All in all, I had a fabulous time and really want to go again next year. And I am totally making a vid for Club Vivid, even if I don’t get the chance to attend.

And now for some recs (in the order in which they came up in the vidshows over the whole weekend):

( Vividcon recs )

For farscape_land:

( Ride the Lightning )

It’s been long time since a book (or in this case a trilogy) has pulled me in so far that I don’t want to come back out, but Paullina Simons’ books about Tatiana and Alexander have done it. Their story starts in Leningrad in the Soviet Union on the day the USSR goes to war with Germany and then, not long after, the siege of Leningrad. Tatiana is truly an innocent while Alexander, an officer in the Red Army, is, well, decidedly not. The story is a love story, but that’s not primarily what it is, rather it’s a story about how these two people come together and grow up and become stronger – especially Tania – than either of them knew they could be.

There are so many layers to this story… I started reading the books a couple of weeks after dangermousie recommended the first one (The Bronze Horseman and I did not want to put them down. And having finished the third one a couple of days ago, I’ve started reading them again and it’s amazing the difference it makes, knowing what I know now about these characters. Layers, baby. I love layers.

They’re not perfect, and some people will be put off by the author’s writing style, which can at times be too detailed or too over the top with emotion, but once I got used to it, I wouldn’t have it any other way. My little brain wants to write fic, but I don’t know where to start. :P I did, however, find a couple of fanvids on YouTube, which surprised the heck out of me. I mean, where in the world did these people find appropriate footage? And in case you’re interested, I’ve embedded a couple that I found to be fairly well-made and appropriate to the story. I also discovered that there may be a movie coming out in 2012, but there aren’t any real details on the imdb entry, so I’m not going to hold my breath. If they do make it, though, I am so there.






(Edited in an attempt to crosspost...)

I think I’ve mentioned it here before, but never with a link where you could actually buy it, but one of my favorite written science fiction series, the Exordium by Sherwood Smith (aka sartorias and Dave Trowbridge is being re-released in e-book format and the first book is available now from Book View Café. For a meager $3.99, you, too, can download The Phoenix in Flight, the opening salvo in a rollicking good space opera that’s equal parts (for certain definitions of equal, anyway) Farscape and Dune, with maybe a smidgen of Star Wars and The Three Stooges. I loved this series so much out of high school that I had two full sets, one to keep and one to lend (I did the same thing with the Dragonriders of Pern).

Here’s the blurb from the web site:

“Smith and Trowbridge describe the flavor of their five-book space opera Exordium as a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons with a touch of the Three Stooges. With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy and the deep places of the human heart, The Phoenix in Flight launches the reader into a complex, multi-layered universe as Brandon nyr-Arkad, dissolute youngest son of the ruler of the Thousand Suns, abandons the life of Service planned for him and flees into the lawless Rift. Only slowly does he discover that the world he rejected now lies in smoking ruins as the ritual vengeance of Jerrode Eusabian against Brandon’s father, twenty years in preparation, culminates in an explosion of interstellar violence. With both his brothers dead and his father the Panarch imprisoned, Brandon becomes the Panarchy’s last hope.”

(Heh. I didn’t actually read that before I described it above. Just so’s you know. :P)

Has anyone heard from kazbaby/kazbaby since last night, when she posted about staying with her dogs while everyone else evacuated? I'm hoping it's a case of no internet access...

I'm offering up to five classic drabbles (100 words) in the following fandoms, bids starting at $1. Bidding is open until Sunday, Feb. 27. Bid early, bid often. It's for a good cause.

-Battlestar Galactica (original or RDM)
-Being Human (UK or North American)
-Burn Notice
-Castle
-Chuck
-Doctor Who (Eleven era)
-Farscape
-Glee
-Leverage
-Sons of Anarchy
-Supernatural
-Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
-Veronica Mars
-White Collar
-ask about any other fandoms

My bidding thread is here.

C'mon, guys! I really want to write some drabbles! ;)

Vid Title: Be Yourself Chuck
Song: Be Yourself
Artist: Audioslave
Betas: sache8, somedaybitch, bets_cyn
Summary: Chuck Bartowski is just an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation. If he wants to make it through this new life in one piece, there's only one way to do it...
Spoilers: the entire show
Vidder's Notes: This is actually the first Chuck vid I made, but I couldn't post it until after Vividcon (and by the way, one clip toward the end is different from the version submitted to the con - I wasn't happy with it and didn't figure out how to fix it until after it was too late for VVC). I just love this show to pieces. You guys should all watch it and then go make me vids. Maybe even write me fic. *nods vigorously*
Download links: 41 mb wmv or 173 mb HQ avi

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