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What it says on the package.

I wrote an average of 2k words per day and just wound up at 50k now.

I skipped a scene I was having troubles writing, and this is really only the first half of the book, though I'm sure any reasonable editor would chop ...oh, easily 20% of the words I've written.

And I'll probably never finish the story. But I did write 50k words in a single document on a single story. Go me.

Anyhow, how's everyone's November going?

Where by Everyone, I mostly mean "Hi, Forsyth, how are you?"

Just passed 25k words. So far, not failing!

So, taking my first serious stab at NaNo as an intact story.

2018, I wrote 50k words but they were all over the place, different stories.

2019, I wrote 50k words MOSTLY in the same universe and approximately happening in a time sequence, but they involved two different distinct 'stories' that intersected briefly and I switched which I was writing.

2020... I'm giving this a shot. I can do this. I've proven I can do 50k words in a month. All I really have to do is make them line up together...

Okay, so that's the hard part. I mean, I've been known to type 'potato' eighty times to hit wordcount sometimes while doing 750words.com.

At any rate, Sail/clock-punk alt-Earth w/Greek Gods and the RACE FOR LOST ATLANTIS sound interesting to anyone else?

Potato.

Current word count: 4218

I keep trying to come back and post more, and failing miserably.

Have a cute cat story.

Now, some of you know, our house came with a feral kitty we call 'Momma Cat' because our first spring in the house, she had a litter under the house. The kittens all came inside, Momma Cat got trapped, spayed, and vaccinated before being re-released, and we've fed her since. She's used to us, comes up to the window and yells if we're late with her dinner, and generally acts imperious around here.

So, back a year or so ago, this poor baby started coming around my back yard:



While he was around, I couldn't put enough food out (you can see in the foreground that I'd taken to feeding Momma Cat right by the house so she'd actually get some) and he would bolt as soon as he knew he'd been seen, but he'd give such ...emo looks... while doing so, with big blue eyes.

Well, my mom has an ongoing problem with rodents in her garage/workshop building, so she wanted one of the ferals I was feeding as a 'barn cat'. I wanted to trap this baby because I felt sorry for him. (I also wanted to keep Momma if I was going to keep any; there's also a tux that shows up sometimes, though.)

She brought over a live trap, we set it up, and in a matter of hours, caught the exact cat I wanted; big matted black baby. He went to the vet, where it turned out he had an abscess on his face, terrible earmites, and a general not-doing-so-well diagnosis. Got those things treated plus his basic medical and went home to Mom's garage, where he proceeded to hide from her for three months.

Then, he apparently realized she was in fact feeding him, and started to come out to talk to her. From a distance, mind you.

That didn't last. Soon he was coming up for pets, then climbing on her lap, then she thought she heard mice in her house and took him inside (she has house cats, but part of the house isn't getting used much and she wanted him in there.)

Yeah, that poor bedraggled baby? This is him now:


He's a huge cat, 30 pounds, long haired, with those same big blue eyes, only now they're happy not haunted.

And Mom needs a new cat for the garage...

Not that I've been active on anything lately, but wow, LJ is I guess dead to me.

Seriously, the translation you can read isn't the real legally binding TOS? Agree to the Russian ones? What kind of *BEEEP* is that. If you're going to provide a translation, run it by your lawyers.

The internet, of course, is remarkably unkind to non-english speakers who often are asked to agree to a TOS they can't read, but I would expect any company that provides an official translation to be sure it's accurate.

Regret my lifetime account now, I guess. I'm going to keep crossposting for now, but all comments are pushed to my DW. So if you're reading this on LJ, hop on over to the DW. If you're reading this on LJ and there aren't any recent posts, well, ...most likely I just vanished again, but it's possible I've stopped crossposting. So hop on over.

So, I'm alive, 36, I doubt virtually anyone who used to still reads my journal, but if you do, stop by, tell me what's changed in your life in the past couple years. I'm screening comments.

As for what's up with me?

Not much, but if you really want to know, see the cut...

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So today while browsing around thesaurus.com for inspiration...
I found this nonsensical result.

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So I know some of my friendslist either lives in Austin or has lived in Austin and still may have contacts there.

One of my very best friends in the world recently moved from Philly to Austin for a job. He had a plan to get an apartment with a friend of his working at the same location. For various reasons which I won't get into because I don't know the friend in question and I'm trying not to judge, that plan has now fallen through. He's trying to get an apartment himself, but is short on the ready cash for first, last, and deposit, and has minimal renting history.

This is a guy I've known since I was in college, who stayed up late nights with me when I was at my most depressed and took my suicidal thoughts seriously, someone who hosted my sister at her first con, and has twice visited my home, including attending my wedding -- he came further for that event than any family member did for either of us. In short, I vouch for him, have met him in person, and even trust him with my sibling.

He may (he's not sure since he at least hopes to get an apartment, but gave me permission to check the interwebz for any contacts BEFORE it becomes a crisis) need to rent a room from someone for a few months to save up that first, last, and deposit.

So I'm just throwing this out there to see if anyone more directly linked to the area has any suggestions, or hey, a spare room and a desire for some extra cash. He does have a job. He does have a car. He's a polite guy who is not at all an axe murderer, even if he does look a little like his viking ancestors.

I've been trying to train up a pandora station that plays nothing but strong female-fronted rock. I'm doing this looking for songs that have the potential to be character themesongs for my various Exalted characters, but it's been fairly slim pickings.

Anyone have female-fronted bands they like to listen to? I love Metric, but I'm mostly looking for a harder edge.

Here are my current seeds:

Empire by the Alpines -- one of my current Bennu songs
Unbreakable by Fireflight (CCM, but I don't mind that.) -- Also a Bennu song but really more a Phoenix Maiden song. This band has an -excellent- sound but very few songs that have lyrics that work very well for most my characters.
The Mission by Puscifer -- TOTALLY Ara (Airship captain, dual flamepiece wielding eclipse. And yes, this isn't a female fronted band, but this one song is.)
Halestorm -- Unfortunately their lyrics are either 'standard romance' or more Abyssal or Infernal, but definitely the -sound- I'd like.

Bands that are coming up a lot, though none of them are quite perfect, include:
Paramore (a little to pop-y for my purposes, but not bad.)
Icon For Hire
Evanescence (Not always very hard, but.)
Dirt Poor Robins

It feels like every time I hear an even slightly harder song and thumbs it up, the damn thing goes back to pulling in male vocalists 75% of the time.

Any suggestions to listen to/add as seeds welcome!