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[kittydesade]

You use the て-form of a verb to describe the things you have done that you want to apologize for.

きたない言葉をつかって、すみませんでした。
I am sorry for using foul language. (Not fowl, Jag.)

デートのやくそくをわすれて、ごめん。
Sorry that I stood you up.

(Note the sumimasen vs gomen difference.)

When you want to apologize for something you have failed to do, you use the なくて、 the short, negative　て-form of a verb. (To derive the form, first turn the verb into the short, negative　~ないand then replace the last　い　with くて.)

宿題を持ってこなくて、すみませんでした。
I am sorry for not bringing in the homework.

もっと早く言わなくて、ごめん。
Sorry that I did not tell you earlier.


Okay, that was better. That was much easier and better, albeit interrupted a little of the way through to do some thrashing of spreadsheets. But tomorrow it'll be easier still (I hope) and I'll get more written. I actually wrote, according to my word counter, about twice as much today in Long Road as I did yesterday. I definitely wrote twice as much in general. Two Once Upon A Time fics, one for the cuddle meme and one that I drabbled because I still ship Emma/Stranger-as-adult-Bae.

This does sort of help. Both flossing my brain with short fanfic and setting down my thoughts on writing before bed, except that today my thoughts are "damn, that was way easier" and that's about it. But, Nameless came easier today. Yes, I may have phrased that on purpose.

So tomorrow there will be Triumvirate outline expanding and some more written on Long Road and hey, I got my publishing schedule laid out through the end of February! Up to and including building up my website, which I'd started to neglect. Which is all very well when you have actual content there but when it amounts to a holder page with a few broken graphics, not so much. What I really should start doing is I should start transporting the Arcana stuff over, because that's the stuff everyone links to and talks about. Even after they're years past talking to me like a person or at all, which actually kind of amuses the shit outta me. Apparently I have good ideas. Who knew.

And of course some fanfic mental floss tomorrow. Probably the Sherlock Mrs. Hudson fic that I have yet to finish, fix up, and toss out there. Juke Joint Jezebel can wait for the next section till Friday night or Saturday day, I don't anticipate doing anything this weekend. Other than chewing on my desk because of Old Hotness.

To sum up tomorrow's tasks:
1. Triumvirate outline expand and add
2. Long Road
3. Sherlock Mrs. Hudson fic