wherein Liz demonstrates yet again that she is TERRIBLE at time management

[edenfalling]

I figure, since my NFE fic is so impossibly non-anonymous, it won't matter too much if I talk about wordcounts. (I mean, I probably could have done something that doesn't lean so heavily on my previous world-building, or written something using different world-building entirely, but where is the fun in that? Besides, over the years I have gotten stodgy; I don't like to reinvent the wheel, so once I get a plausible explanation for something, I stick with it and don't world-build the same thing anew for each story.)

So. 4,000 words and I am only getting started (which is to say, I have laid all the groundwork but haven't begun to play out the complications and consequences) on both my intertwined plots. God help me.

Oh well, I get off work at 5:30pm on Friday, I have all day Saturday to write like one possessed and don't need to worry about getting up Sunday morning, and I know exactly where I am going and who my cast of characters are, so whatever. I am used to killing myself with deadlines.

It will all work out somehow, I am sure.

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Let's see if this crossposts...

Comments

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

The prospect of 4,000 plus words from you in a single shot has me drooling in anticipation.

[edenfalling]

6,000 words now, and still only in the early middle of the story. *headdesk* Is it permissible to ask for a one-day extension? I am absolutely sure I can finish this story by Sunday afternoon, but given heat restrictions on the use of my computer, I am not sure I can finish by midnight on Saturday.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

The answer is yes according to the post Snacky just made. You've had serious heat/computer woes, so definitely go for it and you are reliable and I know a bunch of us are thrilled that you are participating!!!! EEEEEEE!!!! Email her and tell her, http://narniaexchange.livejournal.com/44838.html

[edenfalling]

I have requested an extension. Now, since I am in the Uris Library computer lab and thus can write, I had better get back to the story. 7,500 words and counting... *eyes outline suspiciously* I swear this thing is expanding on me. I've already given speaking roles to at least three people I had not planned to have in the story at all.

[lady_songsmith]

I'm thinking about keeping a light on in the NFFR chat for all of us racing like maniacs to the finish line, even if the conversation is likely to consist solely of random screams of frustration.

[edenfalling]

Aaaargh! There, that is the first scream. :-)

Now I must get back to writing...