This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
#51 | Back to Top11-12-2010 08:47:20 PM
Re: NaNoWriMo 2010
Doublepost for great justice -- I HAVE FIFTY K WHEEEEEEEE.
...so now I guess I have to bite the bullet and go for one hundred thousand words after all.
It takes forty-seven New Zealanders eight months to make just one batch of 42 Below Vodka. ...luckily, that leaves one of us free to be Prime Minister.
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#52 | Back to Top11-12-2010 09:00:09 PM
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2010
I was hoping I'd manage to sneak in past you, but that whole 17 hour time difference prevented it. :p Ah well, I should get the rest of my 50k tomorrow. And then I will stop and clean, because 2 people doing NaNo in 1 house means that it's become a pit, and we have a house guest coming Monday night.
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#53 | Back to Top11-13-2010 06:14:26 PM
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Just hit my 50k. ^_^ Still have plenty to write (although not another 50k!), but am so glad to meet the requirements before next week when I'm busy and have a houseguest all week that I'll feel obligated to entertain. (She's a coworker in town for a conference, but her campus wouldn't pay for a hotel so I volunteered the spare bedroom.)
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#54 | Back to Top11-13-2010 09:09:33 PM
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I'm glad to hear you made it! I've been writing today as well, though not with the ease that I had yesterday. However, I did manage to get through the infamous roller derby sequence in the end, so now I'm going to go poke at the séance with a big stick and see what comes of that.
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#55 | Back to Top11-14-2010 07:13:00 AM
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Congratulations to both our winners so far! 
I managed to fight my way through a nasty sinus headache to 28k. Not going to do as well this weekend as last, but I'm still on track to finish late next week or early Thanksgiving week.
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#56 | Back to Top11-14-2010 06:10:31 PM
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There's so much editing to be done, but I just wrote the ending of my story. Now if only I could quit crying over it. Can't wait to see what Paradox thinks of it, even in the awful, unedited version that I hashed out this afternoon.
I'm a little surprised by some of the bits of detail that popped up as I wrote. It came out of nowhere, and yet somehow turned into what is making sob over the ending. Go fig.
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#57 | Back to Top11-16-2010 07:58:00 PM
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16 days - 36,625 words, over 70% done
I'm in the last of the 3 parts, starting on the home stretch in this thing. I'm hoping to cross the 50k finish line by the end of the week, maybe even finish the whole story.
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#58 | Back to Top11-21-2010 12:34:07 AM
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I can see you are very close, Paradox! And congrats, Mylene, on getting to the end -- even if it DID make you cry! I'm still gunning for 100k, which is pretty much going to happen as I'm at 88k tonight. And there's at least one more weekend between me and the finish line. However, I am going to use the discipline of NaNo to push as close to the end of the whole novel as I can get by the end of November. It would be beyond amazing if I could finish the damn thing, but I doubt that will happen. So, I think I'll just have to settle for having most of it, and then maybe I can pick at it over December. Certainly I have four days off at Christmas and four days off at New Year, so I suspect they'll be prime days for chasing the big numbers again.
I love NaNo. Does it show, much? 
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#59 | Back to Top11-21-2010 08:59:45 AM
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I haven't even looked at mine since last Sunday, although I had a houseguest, conference to attend, and have also been sick since. Unfortunately, I gave Paradox my cold as well. Fortunately, he only has a couple thousand words to go to finish, so I haven't destroyed his chances with my illness. Stupid big groups of librarians harboring all sorts of disease.
I'm hoping to start editing sometime soon, starting with the original NaNo story, but I'll need to determine which is the most recent version of it, the one on the netbook (which Paradox has been using) or on my desktop.
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#60 | Back to Top11-21-2010 05:21:38 PM
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Victory!
21 days, 50,032 words and I'll probably add some more before the night is done. I'm still committed to finishing the entire story by the end of the month (maybe another 5 thousand words max, unless my muse is feeling sadistic)
I'm glad I did it, I'm ecstatic that I succeeded, I'm going to be really, really happy to be able to close the file on this one and move on to something else. This sort of all-consuming focus on one thing just goes against my nature.
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#61 | Back to Top11-22-2010 08:04:41 PM
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Doublepost for a few fun NaNo facts:
To date, Mylene and I combine to account for over 1 percent of all the words written in Indianapolis this year.
To date, of the 21000+ authors in the South Otogi region of New Zealand, our dear Clarice is responsible for over EIGHT percent of the total word count. (yes, I did the math ) Truly incredible.
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