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[cornerofmadness]

Yeah, actually thinking of going to urgent care tomorrow since I know I can't get into the doctor's at least until tuesday and the whole side of my face is swollen. I'll take it as a bad sign that my glands are big enough that you don't have to palpate them to know they're inflamed.

Didn't get much of nano written because I did finish the very rough draft of a project story. Maybe tomorrow... I need to increase the tension big time. i think someone needs to die at the football game. I just know who yet. I also need to figure out if the cops can question a 16 year old with OUT his guardian present. I know they can if the kid's 18 but I was under the impression they're lowering that age group.

Also need to find out what they do with 16 year olds when their guardians are declared unfit. Basically have a scene where the kid admits he's being abused and doesnt' want to go back to them but I have no idea where he would go outside of CPS. I was wondering at his age, if he couldn't just say I want to stay with XYZ and the state would work to make it happen. But then again I know there's all this testing they in theory do for foster parents. Might just have the kid run away and hide with friends or something.

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[carlyinrome.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually thinking of going to urgent care tomorrow since I know I can't get into the doctor's at least until tuesday and the whole side of my face is swollen. I'll take it as a bad sign that my glands are big enough that you don't have to palpate them to know they're inflamed.

Yeah, please do. Take care of yourself, hon . . . I hope you feel better. *hugs*

I also need to figure out if the cops can question a 16 year old with his guardian present. I know they can if the kid's 18 but I was under the impression they're lowering that age group.

You mean without? Um, I think it varies by state, but I do know if that in some cases if the kid doesn't have a guardian, or if they have the parent's consent over the phone, or . . . in some other cases, I'm not completely sure, the police assign someone from the station to step in as the child's representative; they're present during the interview, and they're meant to act like the child's parent would. Am I making sense? It's kind of late . . . sorry I'm not of more help, this isn't really my area of expertise . . .

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

Get thee to the emergency room. Glands are nothing to fool around with.

Sorry, I'm not able to answer any of the questions other than that I am sure it varies by state.

Even if you don't get the answer though, at least you can rough something out and do the research later. That's one of the things I'm doing with my story, is figuring out exactly what it is that I do need to research.

Get thee to the emergency room!

[carlyinrome.livejournal.com]

I'm not completely sure, the police assign someone from the station to step in as the child's representative; they're present during the interview, and they're meant to act like the child's parent would.

They're advocates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocate). I totally blanked on that word, even though it's . . . kind of in common terminology. Sorry. Late, I told you. Good luck with your research, and -- again -- I hope you feel better!

[stephanierb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you probably should go to urgent care and have it checked out. It might be nothing, but it will be better to get confirmation from a doctor. Feel better.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. Well I am a doctor. I pretty much know what's wrong but I just can't write scripts any more.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Nah, not going to the ER. Don't like wasting their time. I'll be fine until monday when I can get the RX for a Z pack. It's getting better. My blood sugar on the other hand...

Oh Yeah I'll still write the scene even if I don't know, like I did with the opening scene of this novel. I knew that it was wrong. it would have happened 20 years ago when I was in h.s. but not now, Luckily one of the recent grads here helped out

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. I'm pretty sure it varies to state to state too. In watching the First 48, I've seen them questioning teens alone, older teens so I was just wondering. Now that I think about it, they did use an advocate in one case but not always.

Also thinking that they could appoint a guardian ad liteum for the kid so he wouldn't have to go home either but wouldn't have to spend the night at CPS

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the sickies. Been there.

And, I'm not help with your story, but I really want to read it!

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the NaNo forums, there is one where you can post technical questions like yours and supposed experts will answer. Have you tried that? You would have to verify anything you got but you might luck out and get the right one.

Take care of yourself, meanwhile.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. actually yes i did and the answer was one I already knew. call the police department there. I was hoping to save up on questions and then present myself professionally (see my arrogance at work)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough I'm feeling better, like the infection opened and drained last night (i'm kind of hoping that explains the huge jump in my blood sugar)

I'm glad to hear it. After nano is over, I'm planning on sharing it via email to interested parties.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Cool.

How much of the story do you think you'll reasonably have done by the end of the month? Just asking, 'cause it might be like a WIP we'll have to read in installments.

Not that *I* would inflict such a thing on my friends, ever, ever.

; )

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I unfortunately will only have about the first 5 chapters done because a lot of my word count is coming from later scenes. This stupid thing refuses to write itself linearly. and since it's a mystery as well as fantasy, I can't shop those chapters out of sequence even if I'm writing them that way.

Stupid characters.

I'm trying to make them behave honest

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I never write a large story linearly. It's totally impossible. Back in February, I got this nifty idea for how the Darla arc in TD would end, and so I wrote it, and I do that all the time. TD has the illusion of being linear because that's how I'm forced to post it.

Non-linear doesn't mean I actually outline the whole story, though; it just means I write bits and pieces out of order, later scenes pop in my head sort of out of context and I think, "that will be nifty, if I can get to there from here."

So I write and I write and sometimes I get to include those future scenes in the end product, and sometimes I don't. But I write all over the map.

Is this what you're talking about? Because I can't imagine writing any other way.

And don't try to make your characters behave. If you have to scrap a whole bunch of writing because the character insists on taking it somewhere else, that's what you have to do. That's why I think nano "word counts" are a bit misleading. "I wrote 2000 words today!" 2000 words you later have to consign to the cob-webbed outback of your hard drive because it no longer fits in the story.

All words, whether they end up in the final version or not are important because they help you try out alternatives, but story-writing is not a straight-forward process of tacking one word on after the next in a straightforward, growing pile.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's exactly what I'm talking about. Actually I can and have more often than not driven a story linearly from the beginning to the ending with no diversions (like the Nano win last year) but this story wont' do that. Which makes it a bit of a pain.

And you're right about the Nano count. A lot of it's artifical because of what will eventually be cut once you stop worrying about word count. Then again I haven't written a word of original fic all year and now I've written over 20,000 much of which I will keep. So, I'm happy enough.

But as you were saying, as I'm finding out in this story, these out of sequence scenes won't leave me alone so I'm finding writing them and excising them from my mind is helpful. Even if I don't use them. I'm sure actually that I will use them or at least hte germ of them because part of it is Killian learning that Ben and Taz are werewolves and them learning he's being abused and telling Taz's police officer dad. That's pretty central to the story

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Oh, you HAVE TO write the out of sequence scenes while they're fresh in your mind and there's energy behind them, then save them someplace they won't get lost or eaten so you can come back to them.

One thing I recommend is not letting a lot of people read this while it's still a WIP--that gives you the freedom to go back and change the beginning to match the later stuff once your characters finally settle down and stop trying to change the story all the time.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there is that danger in a wip to be sure. I think we're going to form a little critique group post nano me and my friends so we'd all be trading wip's and helping to form them so it won't be so bad...I hope. I'm pretty used to it. Most of my writers groups are based on the reading and helping with WIP's

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that your glands are misbehaving. Feel better.

And 20,000 words? I am so impressed.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. I'm disappointed that number isn't higher. I have such expectations of myself don't I?

and I feel a little better today