Fly me twelve times 'round the castle

[mortalcity]

Small PSA for anyone who has AIM and wants to talk to me: I changed my screenname to magpietellme. You are welcome to poke me even if we haven't talked before, even if you're just lonely and bored. If I don't respond immediately, it's probably just because I wandered away or didn't notice the window flashing, not because I hate you.

thebonesofferalletters loaned me a computer, so I am not totally laptopless while mine is out. Their keyboard is so much nicer than mine. Still going to try to do some of the prompts people gave me (MAT, YOU STILL OWE ME), but I can also keep working on Faeries Stole My Girlfriend. I really need to finish the first draft this month. Seriously, it's not optional.

Feeling the compulsion to completely rewrite the first half of this fucking story. I'm not going to do it until I finish it, and at least I have an idea of where I want to go on the next draft, but ugh. This could not wait until I'm done, so I don't have to continue while everything that's wrong stares me in the face? I hate writing why do I do this.

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[rootsofthestories]

You remind me that I have been meaning to change my AIM for aaaaages now. I...Might do that in a second.

[raze]

Ungh, nothing is worse than when a project decides a significant portion of it needs to be *totally different.* Even if the final product is better for it, it's such a pain in the arse, especially for how much effort goes in to writing.

[mortalcity]

Yeeeaaah, I'm already going through it with my biggest project, On a Saturday. About a year ago I had to completely restructure a lot of the worldbuilding, and I have to replot the first series, because what I thought was the first book is actually the third. It's such a headache and I just want to get back to writing again, I'm so annoyed with everything.

This story is less obnoxious - even if it does end up totally different than what's happening now, it's going to be 20k words at most. (I hope less...) So it's at least much less of a headache than the one I'm already dealing with...

[balsamandash]

/adds -- For the record I'm linesoflearning. I don't generally IM out of the blue, but at least now you know who it is if I do.

Yaaay, computers! Not so yay, stories being weird, but. Good luck. I'm sorry if this is borderline incoherent, I just woke up.

[shipwreck_light]

You can do it! I believe in you!

Don't start throwing things out until you have a draft.

Or they bite.

I hope they are not biting.

[mortalcity]

I have been waiting to respond to this until I was logged into AIM, so I wouldn't forget to add you. ♥

[mortalcity]

So far no biting, no. XD

And yeah, definitely finishing the draft before I do anything else. It's annoying knowing things are wrong, but it's a lot easier having a complete story to work from. And man, I need to finish something soon, because it has been a while and it's getting to me.

[balsamandash]

Eeeexcellent. <3 My actual existence on it varies (partly because people are scary, partly because Svetka likes to die when I try to open it sometimes) but feel free to poke whenever.