Nano Day 2 Updates

[frea_o]

Healing front: I woke up fully able to breathe through my nose, which was a blessed relief because I hate sounding like a mouth-breather and I look silly breathing through my mouth. Also, the glassy-eyed, confounded look I always wear during headcolds is always such a hit around the office, you know. So the fact that I’m mostly dry-nosed and only coughing a little is a relief. I’m knocking back fluids, I promise.

Writing front: switched from Bank Job to Abbey 07, which meant going from flantering to fighting, and that sucks. I always feel like a fraud whilst writing hand-to-hand combat because it’s hard to translate individual motions to the page while keeping the pace furious and frantic. I’ve sent a few snippets to my beta and he says they’re intense, which I’m taking to mean I’m doing something right. It’s just very slow-going when I have seven characters in three high-risk situations/four locations, talking back and forth to each other, plus one character is fighting for her life and another is defusing a bomb and multiple villains are showing up…

It’s a picnic, let me tell you. But I’ve got fans that I know love this story above all, so I’m shoving my feelings about Downton Abbey aside and sticking to my guns, no matter how I feel about this season (read: I don’t like it). I want to do right by these characters and this story.

Tomorrow I have to clear some stuff up at the DMV, so that will be fun in the morning, but the parents are taking the youngest sister and I out to dinner to celebrate our birthdays (hers was Thursday, mine was last month), so I’m looking forward to that. I hope to hit up a write-in on Sunday because it’s at a St. Louis Bread Co and I love their Mac’n’Cheese. Hopefully by then my cold will be completely gone!

Current wordcount: 4717 words
Current project: The Abbey 07
Project on deck: The Abbey 08

Comments

[hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the word count!

[waterstar-las85.livejournal.com]

Woot St. Louis Bread Co AKA Panera is awesome. :)
Glad you're feeling better Frea!
P.S. I need to make new icons...

[frea-o.livejournal.com]

The one we go write at is really nifty because it's a community, co-op bread co, the only one in St. Louis. Basically, you pay what you want to for the food and they always have lots of bread for sale in the bakery area. I always pay full price because it's a neat place that's always well-staffed in an area where a lot of people need jobs. I had the mac'n'cheese today, which was delightful.