For a 100-word-or-so fic. Wide open, except it must be in an extant verse of mine.
Anything. I just need to refresh my brain.
Filled!
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of yesterday & Wordcount
First Line:
“Uh.” Ted swallowed again. “Okay, hold on before you do anything else. I need to go get the bigger gun.”
Last Line:
[Ted] had already learned to count down with his hands for Finder. His fingers tagged one, two, and on three they lifted the lid.
Up to 22235 words – I wrote 1834 words yesterday (goal 21,818).
Yay!
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of yesterday & Wordcount
First Line of Yesterday:
It was doing its best to look dignified. It was, of course, entirely failing. Nobody could look dignified on their butt in the mutt. mud.
Last line of yesterday:
Holly repeated the last signs – huge tiger. [Mentor] was glad that Ted was swallowing down obvious nerves – it distracted from his own probably-visible nerves.
I wrote 1,847 words yesterday, bringing my total to 20,401 words!
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of Friday & Wordcount
I wrote absolutely nothing this weekend.
That’s okay, that’s built into the plan. I went shopping with my mother (all the blue shirts!), went to LARP in another city, went shopping with my husband (I sat on almost every couch for sale in Ithaca), and then went out to dinner with said husband.
So, Friday’s first words:
“We started digging for the foundation right here.”
And Friday’s last words:
When a werewolf was stuck mid-way, or a shapeshifted cat, it looked dangerous and threatening. Sadly for their guest, a shapeshifting bird – budgie – just looked ridiculous.
Anyone know the style guide for shapeshifting/ed/er?
up to 17255 words total, 2460 Friday (par: 16363). Whee!
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of yesterday & Wordcount
First Line Of Yesterday:
[Sônia] laughed. “You’re not as old as you are, either. I’ll see you in the morning, sir.”
Last Line of Yesterday:
“Women are naturally built to maneuver while carrying large loads.”
“That’s a load, all right.” [Ted] dumped the bags on the bed. “Come on, ladies, get your stuff before I end up wearing it all.”
I wrote 2046 words yesterday, bringing my total to 14,795 (goal: 14545). Whee!
(I’m finally at the point where, counting today as 0 words, the camp Nano approximater still says:
At This Rate You Will Finish On
April 30, 2014)
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of yesterday & Wordcount
First Line of Yesterday:
“Are you always this pushy?” He slipped into the back of the van while Holly jammed the lid shut on the garbage can.
Last Line of Yesterday:
“Yes please, Sônia.” {Mentor} checked the clock. “I should get at least an hour or two of sleep. I’m not as young as I used to be.”
I wrote 2301 words yesterday, bringing the total to 12,749 (par: 12727, back over par!)
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On Chives
I started chive seeds last night!
Chives are one of my favorite plants, because they start coming up and are green and edible when the rest of the world is full of snow. Plus, they’re super low-maintenance.
I already have chives growing in my Invasive Plants garden (two sorts), but I want to fill in some of the bleaker and weedier parts of the hedgerow with chives, which will take, ah, quite a bit of chives.
I started one “flat” (in this case, two stacked take-out containers with holes poked in the top one for drainage), one of chives-chives (Allium schoenoprasum – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chives) and one of garlic chives (Allium tuberosum – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_chives) I’m not sure about the second chives – they are listed either as the same thing as gau choy/Chinese chives or a completely different thing, so we shall see).
Each flat has 6 rows of 4 seeds each, which will get me a good start, but I want to do two flats each eventually and find other varieties of chive, as well as something that I bought from a nursery last year – society garlic (which is grown for its leaves, culinarily, and for its pretty flowers). Our hedgerow is going to smell beautiful. Well, depending on your tastes, but we’re downwind from a dairy farm, sooo…
This might be a good article for me to bookmark – http://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/bulbs/alliums-for-your-garden/
And more info on chives – http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Chives
Know any good varieties I can grow from seed?
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of Monday-Tuesday & Wordcount
First Line of Monday:
Sonia hung up the phone. “Good. We’ve got the world’s most grudging invitation, but nobody said they have to like us. They just have to let us in. Ted?”
Last line of Last Night:
“They’re hitting the hill. Get invisible, you’re not supposed to be here.”
I wrote 1700 words Monday and 1331 words yesterday, bringing my total to 10,448 (par: 10908).
Yesterday was a don’t-wanna-write yesterday, but @daHob got me through with bribes and goals and cheering (thanks!) I’m a few words behind, but nothing I can’t fix on the weekend! (well, Sunday. Saturday is full-booked).
Now… now I need to outline an episode, because they’re supposed to be 10K words each, and at 10,500 I’m 2/3 of the way done with episode one…
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of Friday/Weekend & Wordcount
First Line of Friday:
Holly looked at Ted. Ted was nodding. She looked at Sonia. Sonia was ashen, hands tight on the table.
Last line of Sunday:
“Ah, sir, I’m sorry to hear that. We’ll see you there, then? In, say, fifteen minutes?”
I wrote 1,850 words on Friday and 909 words on Sunday, bringing me to 7,417 words (goal for the day was 7272) and caught up from the 2nd’s “um, no words at all” moment.
Having FUN with this!
The Head of the Team, the Finder/Entry specialist, and the Team itself still need names – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/701205.html
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Camp Nano April 2014 – First and Last Words of yesterday & Wordcount
First Line of Yesterday:
“I think I’m too young to know about your underwear.”
Last Line of Yesterday:
She coughed, folding her hands tightly together on the table. Even an idiot – even Ted – could tell something was wrong. “No, Sir. Apologies.”
I wrote: 931 words of Episodes yesterday, bringing my total to 2958.
My target for yesterday was 3636; I am aiming for 40,000 over the 22 weekdays of the month; I modified my weekend of no-words to include 900 words to balance ;-).
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