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Swear to God, I'm going to make a FAQ of me, or something. Either that or I'm just going to stop talking on the nanowrimo community. Because everything I say is going to come out as either, "oh, 1667 words, that's not that much" or "so, yeah, I'm doing six novels this year... "and you can imagine how well that goes over. I'm honestly surprised no one has called shenanigans yet. It would probably include some basic questions that I wind up going over every single time; how do I do it, why do I do it, that kind of thing. Maybe just a couple of paragraphs on how I try to write a few thousand words every day for the bulk of the year, and once you start doing that the rest is easier. Something. I don't know.

So, I was watching The Princess Bride the other day, and I had a mini-revelation about my childhood. David Bowie in Labyrinth was the dark, intriguing movie-boyfriend who is so very bad for you and yet you still can't resist. Wesley is the sweet movie-boyfriend you bring home to your mother. Jack is the slightly spacey, possibly on drugs, yet absolutely adorable movie-boyfriend you probably shouldn't have gotten involved with but you did anyway, one summer. Amalthea is the movie-girlfriend you experimented with. I could go on, but you probably get the picture. My movie-dating history echoes my actual dating history. You know how frightening that is?

I'm tired. I don't wanna write, I want to sleep. On the plus side, I have mastered the art of clicking the microphone off before I cough or sneeze or sniffle so that it doesn't interpret my having convulsions as my saying "is" repeatedly. That just looks really weird and screws up my word count. Apparently, though, burps still don't register. Good to know.

[nano] Stained Glass Masquerade

Conversation after conversation. She tried to reach him once, and was rebuffed by arguments she could not refute. What they had done was out of a need to survive, not compassion. He was so desperately unhappy, angry and alone, and she could not say that it would've been any different if they had started out with the truth.

The lies, admittedly, had not helped in the slightest. It was only a small consolation that she did not have to lie to him anymore, and instead she sat on the windowsill where they had talked in between sparring sessions and looked for his presence.

It was, most likely these troubling thoughts, that allowed him access to her mind. The wanting so badly to apologize, to make it better. His words had echoed through her mind in over her skin like a soothing embrace, as though he was pulling her into his arms and telling her he understood, and it was all right. Compassion. Whatever compassion there had been between them, there was not likely to be anymore. And as for open minds, well, hers had been open and ready for the taking.

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I give up. There is no way I can write the Sherlock Holmes novel and do it justice, and write a bajillion other novels in 30 days. 25 days, now. I give up on the Sherlock Holmes novel, I will write it next month, or the month after, for the poor boy who wants it. In its place, I will write fairy porn.

Bria, my love, you have any suggestions for good overall links or books on fairies? In general, not specific Celtic mythology, I don't think I'm going to try to tie this into mythology. I don't think. That may change, but after Nanowrimo.

Every year, there's always one novel that I wind up scrapping five to ten days into the marathon, and substituting something else. Every god damn year I do this when I do six novels at once. Why do I do this myself? Why haven't I learned better? More to the point, what is the overall plot/excuse for porn that I'm going to use this new sixth novel? Inquiring writers want to know.

ETA: Maybe not fairy porn. Maybe made-up-world elf porn. That way I don't have to worry about research in the middle of one of my crazy-Nanos.

Son of ETA: Except now I've gone from fairy porn to elf porn to entirely unrelated space porn that goes back to a mecha world I half-formed a while back. WTF brain.

Bride of ETA: Okay. Apparently I'm writing Elf-Porn in Space with Mecha. Wow. Only during Nanowrimo, I swear.

Heroes

Because I've only known that was coming since three or four episodes ago.