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The eternal question. Do I do Nano this year?

Pros: fun, gives me self-confidence, have a story I love and want to write.

Cons: I have no time this semester, my PC is in for service and all I have is a shitty borrowed one for an unknown amount of time, I have NO time this semester, I have a story but it’s not half as well planned as it should be, all my notes are on the computer that’s in for service, I have a JOB now dammit I can’t do this oh god why am I doing this stop me pls...

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Rules: Tag 10 followers who you wanna know better.

Name: ThisCat

Nickname: Cat, Kitty (if I’ve said you can), apple aunt (if I’ve adopted you), brosis (if you’re literally my sister)

Gender: Demidame (Slightly fluid, female within one standard deviation)

Star Sign: Cancer

Height: 167cm

Sexual Orientation: Androsexual who-the-fuck-knows-romantic

Hogwarts House: I keep getting Gryffindor but I feel more like a Ravenclaw and honestly does it matter the whole thing is kinda dumb. Just be friends with everyone.

Favorite Animal: So you’re making me choose. I see. Wasps.

Average Hours of Sleep: I think it’s actually getting close to seven and it’s great.

Cat or Dog: I love both but could never take care of a dog, so cats.

Favorite Fictional Character: Whichever one I’m writing about at the time tbh, with certain exceptions.

Number of blankets: One, but it’s not a blanket as such, because up here in the north you need a proper duvet.

Dream Trip: Dream trip? Antarctica, some ten million years ago or so. Maybe Jupiter.

Dream Job: Just let me program, man.

When was this blog created: Two-three years ago?

Current number of followers: 314 atm. Not on this blog though. I don’t post stuff like this on my main.

What made you decide to make a Tumblr: Needed a place to put my art and fic.

Tagged by: @morningisnotalright

Tagging: No one, because I don’t care.

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Oh my gosh! Congrats on finishing!!! I can't wait to read it once it's ready for that :O I'm really impressed, I could never do an actual novel in a month

I didn’t think I could do it either, but here we are. Way more than I ever thought I’d be able to do.

I guess the ridiculous amounts of fanfic I’ve been writing over the last couple years paid off.

Also, reading? This? That’s still way, way, way into the future. Possibly never. We’ll see.

Thanks, though :)

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November

is over.

I didn’t update yesterday because I forgot and I was tired. Either way, I finished.

The whole damn book. The last ten thousand words or so are a giant fucking mess, but they exist. And maybe I wrote the last few hundred words past midnight, but I did hit 80k before that, so I’mma say it’s fine.

You’re getting a snippet today, but it’s not random and it’s not good. It’s just the last line, because it feels so damned good to finally have written it.

I’m done. It’s all done. I can rest now.

All was well.

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November update

We are getting perilously close to the end of November here. At a little past 2k words today (and a good, long session scheduled for tomorrow) I am right on track for 80k. Will this get me to the end of the novel? I don’t know. Will it be more than I’ve written on a single thing before in my life? By almost three times, and that’s counting the ones I haven’t finished. Counting only those I have, the number is closer to five.

Huh.

...anyways.

Here’s today’s snip!

“Okay,” she said. “They told me vaguely where I should be able to find them. Let’s go.”

Only thing I have to say about today’s snip is that ‘they’ refers to a single person with non-binary pronouns, not a group of people. Not that this person is particularly good representation, seeing as they’re a demon, and so their non-binaryness has nothing at all to do with genderqueerness, but it’s still a thing.

This entire freaking part is a crappy mess. Hopefully I can save it in editing. Wish me luck. I’ll need it for this next part.

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November update.

3k today. We’re really closing in on the end here. I broke 70k today and I’m not slowing down. Not now. This is the last thing that needs to happen, but my outline of it is also a mess. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what had to happen when and how I should have it all hang together, so I’ll just work with what I have and hope.

Also, at least one of you said you liked the snippets, so you’re still getting those. Lucky you.

Here you go:

Because it was shaped like a circle, the village. When the tide of the veil was at its peak, they pulled the whole marketplace through in one solid piece, taking up all the space it could and crushing anything in its way. The buildings of the village had been built around it, even when the marketplace itself was elsewhere. Most of the demons would be inside, though at night, some of them would venture outdoors, protected from the environment however they could, to show their wares.

Well. You’re actually getting something this time.

Not surprising. My writing was very rambly today. Lots of big paragraphs.

This whole thing is probably a spoiler, honestly. But hey, you wouldn’t be reading this if you were worried about spoilers of this book. I hope.

God, what if I somehow got it published. That’d be something.

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November update

Today was not a great writing day. We’ll see about tomorrow.

Have a snip:

Mav twitched beside him. Of course she did, with the friends she kept, but Eris forgave her. Needs must. That was all there was.

Not even trying to explain this one.

Actually, does anyone even care about these snips, or could I just stop posting them without anyone minding?

Not that I will, just curious.

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November update

Almost 3k words today. Also, I’ve calculated it. If I continue at this pace, I’ll hit 80k by the 30th. Hopefully that’ll be enough tofinish this thing. Seriously.

This scene is one of those I’ve been looking forward to writing, and it’s just been dragging on and on.

Have a snippet:

If she spoke, the darkness would hear her, and there was no warmth in her to help. 

...For context, this is from the middle of a nightmare. Not a pretty one either. I’m kind of proud of it.

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November update

I have a problem with procrastination. This was a hard scene, but that’s just an excuse. On the positive side, my outline has three parts left. Unless part 19 ends up ridiculously long (which is entirely possible), I have a good chance at finishing this damn thing within November. That’d be neat.

Have a snip:

“Fraud.” Parsi really was growling now, talking through his teeth and looking kind of like he wanted to bite someone.

Parsi doesn’t like fraud~

He’s also very angry in this part, but he has a lot of good reasons for that, so I’ll forgive him.

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November update

Just over 2k today. I could do more, easily. Still an hour to midnight and this is y most productive time of day, but I have a job interview tomorrow (!!!) and want to go to bed early if I can.

I’m getting so close to the end of this thing, honestly. Just a few more things left before I can really get into the climax, and there’s a week left of the month.

Here’s a snippet:

“No. He’s not quite coherent at the moment.”

Talking about the bandit tied to a chair in a ruined building. I’ll get to write the interrogation scene tomorrow. That’ll be fun.

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November update

I broke through 60k!

Also today, I wrote 2k+ words of a single, drawn out, mass murder and its immediate consequences. Also the original single murder that the mass murder was a consequence of. It was fun.

I described the air as tasting like glass in this. I’m rather proud of that one.

Here’s a random snip:

“They.” Mav stood up now, looking rather stressed herself.

Hmm, you managed to get the single uninformative line squashed between a major spoiler and a joke. Oh well. Tough luck.

Also, pronoun fun! Yeeey!

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November update

2.4k words. Not the worst I’ve done, definitely. I also almost finished the battle scene. I have no idea how battle scenes work, so that’s good. Just the big dramatic thing left now before we can head towards the climax.

Here, have a random snippet:

“This…” Mav was wheezing too much to string together a coherent sentence. “…looks more… like a glorified… birdhouse.”

Funny how jogging three miles on half a soul can wind you.

Not sure that sentence makes sense out of context. Ah well.

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November update!

3k today. Seems like a nice number. If only I could keep this pace out november, but we’re really getting into the action now. As in, tomorrow I’ll have to write an actual battle. I’ve never done that before. It’ll be interesting.

Have a random snippet:

She answered without turning. “Tell me something I don’t know.”

Oh Mav. Always so ready to blow people off when they’re gleefully predicting your death.

That’s, uh, happened twice this far. It’s probably a sign of something.

And that’s just the gleeful ones, mind.

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November update

Wrote the bare minimum of words today. If I want to finish the book in November, this has to be the last time I do that.

Snippet:

Parsi stared resolutely at the rock between them and the pair of playful dragons. “Yeah,” he said. “Don’t fight dragons.”

For once you get a snip with actual information in it. Not a lot of it, but some. I just love throwing obstacles at my characters, and this scene is one of the first I had ideas for. It’s fun :)

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Reblogging this because tumblr has done some shit but this takes the cake and eats it too.

This is against everything I joined tumblr for. Sign this damn petition, please. It takes literally a couple seconds and we need it.

There’s a petition out to get rid of the Best Stuff First option on Tumblr in order to defend the artists out there who have dropped in notes/exposure.

Guys.

Sign it.

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November update!

So, uh, guess who wrote over three thousand words today and just passed 50k?

I did.

Huh.

I’m not even remotely done with the book yet, though. The outline says I just finished part 14 of 20, but again, some of the last ones are probably a lot larger than the ones I’ve done until now. All I want is to finish this thing before the end of November. I don’t think I’ll feel like a real winner until then.

Anyways, this is cause for celebration, so today you get two daily snippets!

She thought.

... fuck that, you get three. This isn’t a snippet, it’s half a sentence masquerading as a paragraph.

And then they found the path heading up.

At least this is kind of a sentence. The path heading up what? Their doom, probably. They don’t even know how accurate that is and they’re already in mortal danger.

(Why’s it even called that? ‘Mortal’ doesn’t mean ‘lethal’. You can’t kill danger, usually. It’s the ones who are in danger that’re about to get killed. It doesn’t make sense.)

She took care at every step, making sure she would not slip before she even thought about continuing.

Ah, yes. The only logical way to scale a cliff side.

In case you’re wondering, this part is about climbing things.

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November update.

Just a couple thousand words today, which considering how much I wrote past midnight last night isn’t that much. I’ll try to do better tomorrow.

On the upside, if I can write one of the parts I’ve set up in the outline every two days from now on, I’ll be on track to actually finish this darn thing.

Possibly. The outline only gets vaguer from here on.

Have a snippet:

She quickly looked away from that.

You know, the majority of paragraphs are just... really, really short.

“That” is a dead body shoved in a snowbank, in case you’re wondering. The night before was wild.