It's that time of year again!

Oh, trust me when I say that you do NOT want to bloody know. My brain is a sick and twisted place to live in.

As Tim Minchin sings, "This is my brain, and I live in it, it's made of love and bad song lyrics; it's tucked away behind my eyes, where all my f-cked up thoughts can hide, cause God forbid I hurt somebody. And the weirdest thing about a mind, is that every answer that you find is the basis of a brand new cliche."

 

You're certainly making good time. If you've actually doing 50,000 words of two line paragraphs, though, I'm totally not interested anymore.

 

I surely do. Flying bleeding kittens sound like my kind of thing.

 

There's this process called editing that sometimes comes into this sort of thing...

Nice work so far though, Xiao. And why did you go to work after coming off of your bike?! I used to skip with nothing but a hangover

Bleeding kittens I can relate with, but why are they flying?

 

Power on, Xiao-sama. I like the exerpts you've posted so far, and look forward to more.

 

On the subject of le kitten - It's an Empathic Magical Flying Kitten. It needed to be removed for the good of the genre and the fact that it's a serious narrative and flying kittens do not do seious.

Charonte - It was part of my training course and you pretty much had to be DEAD before they'd let you take time off without being penalised. Fuck 'em.

 

Progress Report for Thursday November 5th
Starting Count: 11,069
Finishing Count: 13,510
Day's Count: 2,441
Location Written: Lounge Room
While Watching: Lewis Black's Root of All Evil (Paris Hilton vs. Dick Cheney. Oh lord, did I laugh. And laugh. And laugh.), NCIS
While Listening To: My 'Random S-it' Playlist
Things For Everyone To Worry About: Jeannie's got a gun!

 

NaNoWriMo is about quantity, not quality. I'm actually impressed Xiao has been doing edits at all.

 

Doing edits requires me to be at least 3,000 words ahead of the curve. That doesn't happen very often.

 

Xiao, when you finished, if you still have my mail, would you be so kind to mail me the story?

I'm looking forward to reading more of your work.

 

Rock on, Sweetie.
Good luck to you and your fingers.

And like last year, I expect a copy.
Still got my email?

 

Ruddy hell, Xiao. I've only written 8,220 words so far. I fail compared to you *bows to the mistress*

 

Jazintha? You're in this too?!
If you're planning to make a full go of this, I'd like a copy of yours also, if your providing copies.
If so, let me know and I'll shoot you my email.

 

Jazintha, if you wanna keep us informed of your progress I would definately like to see how you're going. So feel free to use this thread, I declare it open for progress reports from all NaNo'ers with an account.

Progress Report for Friday November 6th
Starting Count: 13,510
Finishing Count: 15,761
Day's Count: 2,251
Location Written: My room, loungeroom, Josh's loungeroom
While Watching: The second and third Resident Evil movies, this week's Stargate Universe (Mmmm, Doctor Rush)
While Listening To: Tim Minchin (Corrupting my friend into the fandom)
Cool Stuff: The fire man has a real flair for delivering 'messages', if you get my drift (and I dare say that you do)
Sort-Of-Main Characters Introduced: Darian the Storm Mage
The Name Of Our Villain: Duray Rom

 

Do you know how many nasty thoughts popped into my head when I read this? I hope your happy because now poor Rosie is gonna be sore tonight.

 

That sorta makes me a marital aid, doesn't it?

 

Image of papa_dog dildo enters head.

 

Oh, bollocks. Now I'm thinking dirty thoughts and I DO NOT WANT TO WRITE (pre-emptive) PORN.

Progress Report for Saturday November 7th
Starting Count: 15,761
Finishing Count: 18,314
Day's Count: 2,553 (More tha 2,000 of which were written in the last three hours)
Location Written: Josh's Loungeroom
While Watching: Class of the Titans, Frasier, Independance Day, Wallace and Gromit's Curse of the Wererabbit
While Listening To: The sound of my own cursing as my 'n' key starts to die
Insane Things That I'm Doing: I'm writing two novels at once. (Explained below)
Things I Now Loathe With All My Heart and Soul: Ads. Just... hate ads so damn much. They're so stupid and... and... ILLOGICAL! (And yes, I am aware that I'm calling the kettle black.)

So, Here's The Dealio:
Coin's Edge was quite literally a last-minute plot for me. I've spent a very, very long time working on a different plot, only to have Coin's Edge drop in and refuse to smeg off. Only now... it's smegged off alright, a WEEK INTO THE NANO! *hates her brain* So I dug out all the old stuff for Chains, mixed it with a few things from the aborted Twisted Loyalties thing (you remember, it had the infamous sig that people kept trying to claim was porn), and went to town.

This means two things: Coin's Edge is only being worked on when it deigns to rear it's ugly head. And it means that we get to see the life of a certain shy, red-headed Alchemist named after a flower found primarily in Scotland. Some of you may know her from my short stories... So I beg those of you following cliche plot #47 to forgive me, and hope that the adventures of a cute redhead make up for it. *curtseys*

 

Progress Report for Sunday November 8th
Starting Count: 18,314
Finishing Count: 21,045
Day's Count: 2,731
Location Written: My bedroom
While Watching: Star Trek: TNG and Voyager, Cold Case Files, Crime Investigation Australia
While Listening To: 'Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption' (A really hardcore Final Fantasy IV fan soundtrack)
God-Dammit Moments: The realisation that if I take enough Panadol or Panadene to deal with my headache, I won't wake up in time for my final tests tomorrow.
Reasons Why This Place Melts My Brain: I went looking for Castlevania porn, only to discover that Rule 34 is suffering from some serious glitchery. I didn't need to know that.