Story stuff

Well I'm almost to 5000 words in 3 days for Nanomo which means I'm already off target. Sigh. That's what happens when you have to retype 2000 words.

However won lots of awards but I only have the plaque for one of them so I'll share that one. It's for Two Hearts, One Soul (B/A, and open for nominations). I won for Memory of a Lost Paradise, yeah, that story you know it. Buffy's raising Connor and Dawn's daughter after one dies and one goes nuts. Here's my pretty award.

 

Oh and I do have chapter 2 of Numb (the dumbass title of my nanomo novel) done. Anyone wanting to see it, let me know oh and please know that I AM keeping a folder of your comments for later on since I'm trying to ignore my inner editor so I can get this thing done but I DO want your honest opinions of what's working and what's not (You can ignore the fact I don't know where comma's go. I'll catch that when I let my inner editor loose. DO tell me if I have a correctly spelled but totally wrong word somewhere)

Last Update for the day I swear

( Dana's Trip Back )

More writing stuff

Random Nanomo thoughts (get accustomed to these). Well I'm 13% done. whoppie. Got three chapters so I guess that's something. Things i've learned: Tully will try to take over any story he's in. Makai couldn't act right if his life depended on it. Carantoc is all hearts and flowers and that's BAD in a war lord. And explain to me how my story is suddenly about ultra conservatives out to kill those promoting women's  and homosexuals rights and OUR HEROS have to stop them? This was supposed to be a coming of age story...

It's the last day to sign up for Kristi's Post Not Fade Away Ficathon. You'll be writing your own story with some fun add ins from her so go sign up if you haven't. There are a ton of promising plot bunnies already ponied up there.

And check out Masq's virtual Connor series at orlon_window She has seven great episodes up. You gets some Faith to go with that Connor and Rona and even a  little Willow.

And if you like B/A head over to Leni's IWRY B/A Marathon (and if you find my B/A muse hiding there shoot it my way. Thank you)

Giving my Brain a break

taken from Tinpan Alley and BAshipforever

What is your One True Pairing? I don't really have one but if I had to chose it would be Spike/Dru for canon ships because they were just so much damn evil fun together and for non-canon it would be Connor/Faith (which I guess is close to canon given how Connor reacted to her). I think they have way too much in common (especially the bad) and I think they're hot together.

What is your "guilty pleasure" pairing? Spike/Dawn. I always liked the fact that even without a soul Spike cared about her and would have died to protect her.

What is one pairing you absolutely refuse to ship? Angel/Cordelia. (and quite frankly anything involving Andrew)

What is one pairing you're interested in, but don't ship? Gee I write just about every ship I'm actually interested in and I'm still more interested in action stories over shippy ones. I guess Willow/Tara. I want to write it but have no good ideas for them.

What is one pairing you used to ship, but don't any more? None, though I took a long hiatus from Spike thanks to how B/S was handled on the show and the whole rape thing

What is one pairing you could be convinced to ship if it was done properly? Angel and Kate. I'm probably one of the few people who actually liked her but I did.

wasn't going to update again

But the anxiety is starting to well up. I have to meet with the lawyer tomorrow. For years I've been hoping someone will take my case. It may even be too late (unless I want to go for all the psychologic damage which has yet to be documented). I don't know. I still can't believe my hand can be ruined. That workman's comp paid out and yet be told that because a hand isn't worth much I don't need retraining leaving me with nearly 200,000$ worth of medical school loans and 60,000$ in retraining loans and nothing left of my life, my career or my identity. Now that I'm up here I'm hoping to find a lawyer who's hungrier than those in the big city, someone willing to work for the that measly 10% that the law says I might be entitled to for getting my hand crippled.

To top it all off I have my brother sending constant Pro-Republican emails wanting to know why I don't like Republicans (maybe because they constantly harrass me with emails and pick fights every time I come home.) My thought was you already have some Republicans lining up to block Bush's picks for the Supreme Court (i.e. Arlen Spectre. I can't believe I'm rooting for Arlen Spectre. When I was in politics I used to have to meet with this guy because we were both from PA and I always walked away from him feeling oily and dirty. Now I'm rooting for him to stop Bush from packing the court with Ultra conservative Christian Anti-Abortionists.

Then got into a fight with mom over the fact that I'm happy CA allowed for stem cell (not sure how they're going to get that past the national ban mind you). She's an otherwise bright women but she actually believes Republican party line about scientists shoving spikes into new born babies skulls and sucking out cells, killing the babies (no that is NOT how it's done. Neurotissue is highly evolved tissue). I explained to her that without stem cell research for diabetes that I could be dead long before I ever get to her age. ANd even if I do live I'm likely to be blind and limbless and I for one would like to see that research continue. She doesn't believe me.