shouldn't you be off standing on your head and trying to drink a glass of water or something?

[cimorene]

so i've stayed up all night writing.  usually when i said something like that i'd have written a lot--the two days/90 K of it's called the world spring to mind--but this story and its action-ish plot are still kicking my ass, so what that actually means is that in twelve hours or so i've produced between 1500 and 1600 words, with a lot of angsting and procrastinating in between. 

now i'm at the final big plot point, right, but i've remembered i know nothing about meteors and had to send away for actual scientific expertise from my dad.  now i'm having a minor freakout.  maybe i don't want to use meteors after all!  augh!  aie!  meteors are haaard!  sometimes i really feel the attraction of write what you know.  sadly it won't really work here ("sheppard and mckay walk into a tourist shop in japan..." "...go camping in arkansas..." "...take a road trip through tennessee..." whoops--done that already¹).  but i'm so close to the end!  i want to finish this story! 

ps. i've been awake more than 24 hours at this point.  oops.

1. although not with sheppard and mckay

Comments

[perhael.livejournal.com]

go. to. sleep!

[http://users.livejournal.com/stellaluna_/]

I just had to express my awe for the 90,000 words in two days. I think the most I've ever managed is ~7,000 words in one day, and that just about broke my brain for good.

I also sympathize with the angsting and procrastinating. I've been doing nothing *but*, it feels like, for the last two weeks, and my urge to throw all the characters out of the window is at war with my urge to *finish* it. (And I don't even have scientific plot points to contend with.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh, nonono! not 90,000 words. *grin* more like 20,000, i think. it was 39 pages, anyway (i don't have the un-html version of it anymore). i meant 90 KB as the file size of the html page, which is something people stick in archives or on their webpages sometimes as a measurement of size.

a novellette in two days was plenty mind-boggling enough for me. an actual NOVEL is, i think, beyond even pot-boilers like ... who's a really boily potboiler? i mean even anne mccaffrey's got to take at least a month or so.

but also? i find that i write fps much slower than rps. the characters are much more original characters in rps. so i'm not constantly sitting there trying to force my brain to picture a scene that could have come from the show--more often it just kind of comes. (although usually NOTHING like that fast, still!)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

15,000 words.