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It's the last day of Camp Nano and I still have 6K to go. Still, there are 9 hours until the deadline -- I can do that. (Even though I do have class this evening.)

I'll relate the full story of my Camp Nano adventure in a couple of days, once I get a chance to catch up on sleep and draw up some handy plot diagrams to illustrate just how far off the tracks this thing went. In the meantime, here's a one-shot I wrote for kicks (and wordcount) yesterday that takes place a couple of years after the actual story ends. It's based off a conversation I had with pencildragon and starbrow the other day in which we made fun of the fact that I tend to cameo ridiculous concepts in multiple stories (In this case, pineapples and red trousers).

Singing Pineapples Wear Red Trousers

Summary: It is Trevor's first time among an alien culture and he is determined not to mess things up. In which the title is essentially the punch line.

 

 

no seriously, I have a problem )

 



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I totally forgot to do a Week 2 check in, didn't I?

Well, I'm in the middle of a Camp Nano mess and I'm out of town on motel internet so I won't go into detail on how things are going. Perhaps it's for the best. After all, I did just have this conversation with Jay that pretty much entirely sums up how things have been with my novel:

Meagan 11:36 PM
Oh shoot, I just remembered Becca's still alive.
I have way too many characters.

Jay 11:37 PM
oops

Meagan 11:38 PM
Ok, well, she's gotta die soon.
Heeeeeeyo death scene
reason number 98234 why my story can no longer be taken seriously

Jay 11:39 PM
at this point it's a matter of pride to finish it, huh?

Meagan 11:39 PM
Absolutely.
This thing is a wreck of the most glorious sort.

Um... okay, it's not quite so bad. Really, I'm just thrown off because one of the antagonists was supposed to join the protags and instead decided to kidnap them. Whoops. (And did I mention this antag was an evil bird?) I'll do a better post in a couple days with some actual excerpts and stuff. Till then!

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Camp Nanowrimo refreshed its site yesterday so it is now possible to update novel info for participation in July. This is very exciting for me, as I have spent the last month and a half actively planning for the origfic I'm going to be working on. So today, I updated both my user and novel pages, which you can check out here if you're so inclined.

I thought of a working title! From now on, or at least until I think of something better, this story's going under the name "Don't Feed the Space Trolls." I'm probably the only one who finds it funny.
In which I talk a lot more about my origfic and probably no one cares but me. )


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I'm probably going to be posting a lot about my adventures in origfic over the next few months. Come July, I'm going to participate in Camp Nanowrimo once again and this time I am actually determined to finish with a decent (and complete) first draft of a story that I have been working on for the past three years. (Not a solid three years, but that's how long it's been since I first had the idea.) I've probably talked about First Contact before, though it was probably under another name. This working title isn't much better, but there you have it.

Anyhows, I downloaded Scapple the other day - an amazing app by the same people who made Scrivener, which I use all the time - and had a lot of fun creating a visual outline of my story yesterday.
Outline! )



It still needs some work but I'm super proud of it so far and look! So pretty!


So I did that yesterday and then today I started working on character development. I've had some of these characters running through my head for three years but others have only recently moved to prominence in the plot when they'd been stuck on the sidelines for so long. Biggest change was cutting a character that had been there right from the beginning. The fact that I wasn't as sad about it as I felt I ought to be was only reassurance that it was the right move to make.

So part of this character development today involved writing a handful of 3 Sentence Fics for everyone. So I thought I'd share some - one for each character.

First Contact 3SFs )

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