beyond the wide world's end

So, NaNo starts in approximately three hours and I am not excited at all. Part of this may come from the fact that I already spend every free hour of the day working on a novel, which I swear is practically a full-time job, or at least another class. Except with porn and awesomeness, although sometimes things overlap beween my work-study job, my classes, and the novel. Sadly, it is usually the rape. Sometimes the lesbians. Usually the rape. *winces*

Also, the NaNovel in theory has some of the same elements of the original: soldier girl, non-soldier girl, women in the military being awesome, except in New Orleans, and also, at the moment, no men. (Which actually doesn't hold true for the original; there are men all over the place in the original.)

I could write part two of Dust. Or a short set in the Original-'verse -- which may actually be the best idea, because I really don't function well having two different 'verses in my head. 's why regular fic production slipped when aella_irene and I started writing the Junior Pevensie 'verse.

(Also options: colonial fantasy, thieves in faux-Florence, not-incest.)

Maybe I won't start at midnight with the suitemates; maybe I'll sleep on it and start in the morning.

Right, about an hour after I posted that I never wanted to think about Peta again, I finished writing the scene I stopped in the middle of. And it's kind of interesting. (Also, I think I may have lied about the emotional plot being "home.")

( in which Caspian is confused, Susan is frazzled, Peta is furious, Edmund is more like himself, and Lucy has more of a speaking part than ever before )

So what do you all get out of that? *curious*

40,146 / 50,000 (80.3%)

And how much of what I've written in the past twenty-four hours was porn and/or violence? All of it. Although I actually really like the last Peta/Caspian scene I wrote; I feel it has heart. (Also, I wasn't accidentally typing "Peter" when I meant "Peta" and "his" when I meant "her." That helps.) (This also means that Water has officially surpassed my last longest Narnia fic -- "In Constellated Wars" topped out at about 38K.)

*grin* Now I'm telling myself that this is no excuse to take another couple days off and put out Dust 6, mostly because I'm debating putting another chapter in between Dust 5 and the Cair Paravel plot. I can't go action-action-action all the time. (On the other hand, nor can I write a Lucy or Jill POV that takes place at the same time as Dust 5, because this isn't that type of story, and I really don't want to go talkyface again. I just have to figure out a good way to work in exposition without going all boardroom the way Dust 3 was, because there are certain relevant plotpoints I need to drop soonish, and at least one character we have to meet. And I suppose y'all would like to know about the Red Company and Alleyne Seaworth, the man who has never seen the sea. Osumare Seaworth would be so ashamed.)

( be like water tease )

I feel that y'all should know I just typed my twenty-five thousandth word.

Amusingly enough, it is "last."

Once more, I fail at...I don't know. Went to Take Back the Night tonight, except I didn't know anybody and everyone else was there in groups, so...not the greatest time ever. But at least I went.

( and this is why Glozelle is awesome )

Glozelle is awesome, and Caspian kind of hero-worshipped him before the whole "I am going to shoot you full of crossbow bolts" thing. That pretty much put a damper on that relationship.

18,210 / 50,000 (36.4%)

I have a nice 15K on "Be Like Water", so today is for homework and Dust. Let us see how much of my characterization I remember (considering the fact that Water told me kindly that in the Petaverse, things are Very Different), and then maybe y'all can judge who's more confused, Caspian or Tirian. Caspian's getting laid more, though. *grin*

Yes, I am probably doing one of these every day, because they are awesome.

( yeah, that's one argument Caspian won't be using again. )

12,037 / 50,000 (24.1%)

Huh. Petaverse Caspian isn't as blatantly paranoid and/or aggressive as canon Caspian, but I'm not sure if that's holdover from writing Tirian (I basically switched from writing Tirian to writing Caspian in the course of two minutes and it messes with my head), the fact that I've never written Caspian at this early point in PC before, or the fact that Caspian is really truly confounded at being confronted with a girl.

( Here, have a taste of Be Like Water )