Writing Goal for the Day?

Loads of errands today, so who knows how much I'll get done. I've arrived at the sex portion of the holiday story, so I hope to get a draft of that done this weekend.

Congrats on the cards, sr. I'm impressed.

And best of luck to everyone with their goals.

PennLady said:

Hard to write when visiting the parents.

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QFT. My parents arrive in another week, so I have to do lots of writing before then!

Okay, bumping this back up.

I got started with NaNoWriMo and submitted the prologue of a story I'm working on, hope that gives me incentive to keep going. At a bit of a standstill on the hockey story, which is kind of disappointing, but I think I have an idea. And ... and ... still hope to do a Christmas story and revise Make a Wish ... this may all be too much.

I hope to finish a draft of the last chapter of a romance story today.

I think I'm going to do a "half-NaNoWriMo" (not through the official website, obviously) with the goal of 25K words in the second half of the month. Too much else to do in the first half of the month to do the full thing.

I shoot for a thousand words a day.

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All done!

Trying... I am trying... really. Just kind of stuck. Sigh.

PennLady said:

Trying... I am trying... really. Just kind of stuck. Sigh.

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Me, too. My last hour has been nothing but an endless cycle of writing and deleting on both stories I'm working on.

On the plus side, I saved the extra dough from a pie crust last weekend, and just made these nifty little apple pie turnover things. Quite tasty.

LettersFromTatyana said:

Me, too. My last hour has been nothing but an endless cycle of writing and deleting on both stories I'm working on.

On the plus side, I saved the extra dough from a pie crust last weekend, and just made these nifty little apple pie turnover things. Quite tasty.

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I made pumpkin pie bread earlier (bread machine) and then these pumpkin bars that are sort of like cakes and MAN were they good.

We're watching "Prince of Persia" and it's really ... ridiculous. but I don't think I could focus on writing anyway so it's not like it cost me anything.

Finished the first part of a mainstream mystery (making it two parts) today and have all edits (including one for a Lit. story) out the door, so maybe more concentration on writing tomorrow.

Have barely gotten any writing done since August. This semester is killing me. KILLING me.

I always say I'm "way behind on things." And, in a sense, it's always true. That's the game, really. But this is easily the worst semester of my career, for various reasons.

Have managed to do a little revising of stuff I wrote at the tail end of summer, but not much. And I probably won't actually write anything new until the spring semester ends. :\

Surprisingly enough I got 1,000 words written to a mainstream mystery today. Didn't think I'd get that done. A writer's conference tomorrow and I'm presenting, so preparing for that took a big chomp out of my day.

Down to writing the final sex scene in a mother/son story. Then I'm going to turn to the rough outline of what I hope will be my winter contest entry.

I'll be curious to see how it goes. It is nothing like the other stuff I have on here. There is no incest or BDSM.

It will go into the mature category and if I pull it off right will actually be kind of....sweet? Ugh.

jdnunyer said:

Have barely gotten any writing done since August. This semester is killing me. KILLING me.

I always say I'm "way behind on things." And, in a sense, it's always true. That's the game, really. But this is easily the worst semester of my career, for various reasons.

Have managed to do a little revising of stuff I wrote at the tail end of summer, but not much. And I probably won't actually write anything new until the spring semester ends. :\

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JD! Good to see you at least posting again! Yeah those damn day jobs can be killers. WE should all ditch them and hang out here for the day.

lovecraft68 said:

It will go into the mature category and if I pull it off right will actually be kind of....sweet? Ugh.

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*steeples fingers like Mr. Burns*

Ehhhxcellent. I see us romance people are rubbing off on you.

Making notes for the new tale about a serial killer in mythical Fubar County.

Times are bad in Fubar County. No money to do shit with. So the sheriff conscripts a few of her school crossing guards to help out the detectives as they focus on the serial killer. One of the crossing guards is an old duffer I call Elwood Curl.

Elwood looks like Colonel Harlan Sanders with a pith helmet, orange sam brown belt, cheap tin badge, and black high top sneakers. The sheriff gives Elwood a stack of penny ante, nuisance cases to close.

Like the naked boy in the red cape who rides around on his bike at night scaring old women working the drive thru at Arbys. Or the perv who crawls under the racks at Wal Mart and licks the shoes of female shoppers.

lovecraft68 said:

It will go into the mature category and if I pull it off right will actually be kind of....sweet? Ugh.

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I fully expect some sort of twist in the story. Like Cthulu in a Santa suit.

PennLady said:

I fully expect some sort of twist in the story. Like Cthulu in a Santa suit.

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Actually this one centers around Thanksgiving. So maybe at the end the female lead ends up being the thanksgiving turkey for a bunch of Cthulhu's sex crazed Acolytes!

Shit, I just handed the EH Non/HUman guys a plot bunny!

All kidding aside, I've stated that I keep my vices separate, no horror in my porn. Although in the spirit of Halloween I featured a back story about a ritual disembowelment in my incest series. They never saw that one coming.

JAMESBJOHNSON said:

Making notes for the new tale about a serial killer in mythical Fubar County.

Times are bad in Fubar County. No money to do shit with. So the sheriff conscripts a few of her school crossing guards to help out the detectives as they focus on the serial killer. One of the crossing guards is an old duffer I call Elwood Curl.

Elwood looks like Colonel Harlan Sanders with a pith helmet, orange sam brown belt, cheap tin badge, and black high top sneakers. The sheriff gives Elwood a stack of penny ante, nuisance cases to close.

Like the naked boy in the red cape who rides around on his bike at night scaring old women working the drive thru at Arbys. Or the perv who crawls under the racks at Wal Mart and licks the shoes of female shoppers.

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So is that county Fucked up beyond all recognition?

lovecraft68 said:

So is that county Fucked up beyond all recognition?

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Of course not. Its like the word 'moron.' In Spanish MORON means brown.

FUBAR is swahili for CIA PILOT.

JAMESBJOHNSON said:

Of course not. Its like the word 'moron.' In Spanish MORON means brown.

FUBAR is swahili for CIA PILOT.

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Now that's a good one!

lovecraft68 said:

Now that's a good one!

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I'm an authority on the history of words.

LettersFromTatyana said:

*steeples fingers like Mr. Burns*

Ehhhxcellent. I see us romance people are rubbing off on you.

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Sigh. Not quite the way I would envision you and PL rubbing off on me, but I guess I'll take it.

lovecraft68 said:

Sigh. Not quite the way I would envision you and PL rubbing off on me, but I guess I'll take it.

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You have the oddest little fantasies, don't you?

PennLady said:

You have the oddest little fantasies, don't you?

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I don;t see anything odd about wanting to be sandwiched between two women who write erotica, but hey if you think so...

Honestly, that could be a hell of a plot bunny!

lovecraft68 said:

I don;t see anything odd about wanting to be sandwiched between two women who write erotica, but hey if you think so...

Honestly, that could be a hell of a plot bunny!

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LOL Somehow I bet that particular plot bunny has been used (well, so to speak).

As for wanting to be sandwiched between to women who write erotica -- as a straight woman, yeah, that might be odd for me. haha

PennLady said:

LOL Somehow I bet that particular plot bunny has been used (well, so to speak).

As for wanting to be sandwiched between to women who write erotica -- as a straight woman, yeah, that might be odd for me. haha

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Okay, seeing your straight then you can be between me and another male author of your choice, would that work better?

I usually "work" alone, but for you will make an exception, just cause your you.