WRITING POST // JANNOWRIMO

[seventhe]

Things!

• Valentine's Day Meme. I've left some prompts; come on, guys, don't leave me lonely! (Other pairings you know I like such as Rydia/Quistis or Ellone/Anyone are totally fair game guyz.)


• ff_exchange could still use your feedback in the poll, if you want to be a part of the SUPER COOL FINAL FANTASY EXCHANGE this summer!


• If I can figure out how to work it, there might be a porn meme in ff_smutathon for Valentine's Day. Requires thinking though. Any interest?

- - -

JanNoWriMo -- Final Summary!

Words Written: 15,867 / 15,500 - win!
Days Written:
    - Total: 22 / 31 (71%)
    - Excepting for Ohayocon: 22 / 28 (78.5%)
Out Of Days I Wrote, Days I Wrote More Than 500 Words: 15 / 22 (68%)

Nerdy Pictoral Representation Of My Progress:


I did alright. I did not do as well as I thought I would, for the following reasons:

• Most of the holes were on weekends; most of the heavy writing was at work. Since one of the goals is to write more at home and LESS at work, that certainly failed! LOSE, Sev.


• About 9,000 words of the above were on one single piece: Nay's Seifer/Irvine AU. UM. I am not sure what this says about me. Not that that's a bad thing -- I am kind of excited to be writing something long, again -- but I had planned to "get to" a lot of work that has been sitting in my periphery for a long time, and I didn't manage to.


• The last couple big days -- including the 2,500 word day -- were me working on the outline for Beacon, which I plan to start in March. Outlining certainly counts as writing, but I can't help but feel that the word count is cheating, because (a) I love Beacon so it's easy to write and (b) the outline has already been composed in our heads/emails; it's not difficult to write the outline.

Anyway. Out of my three goals -- write daily, write 500 words daily, write over 15000 words -- I only hit one. I didn't even hit the "write 500 words every time I write" goal, which is the pseudo-mishmash of goals 1 and 2. At the same time, I got some good work done, and I definitely made progress for getyourwordsout.

As always, I'm amazed at how much time I DON'T have in my schedule. The writing-daily thing is not for me. Instead, I'm going to round it up -- I seem to write in large chunks rather than little bits anyway. So I'm just putting an overall goal on February.


Goals for February:

• Write 15,000 words, total. This is so I get ahead on getyourwordsout in Feb, because in March I'll be drawing.


• Finish Seifer/Irvine AU, 0tp Prompts, and get at least halfway with Beacon outline.


• Write at least one freaking piece of porn.

Anyway! I've seen a few JanNoWriMo Summaries on the F-List, so~! Let me know how you did in the comments if I haven't talked to you yet (or just point me to the entry). :) Go our team, guys! OI!

Comments

[shanaqui]

My January progress was pathetic, but I have good reasons... (Exams, coursework, girlfriend, anaemia...)

You did really well, though.

Mmm, porn memes. I'm for it!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Are you doing GYWO? (I know you write prolifically without any reason; just curious! XD)

Excellent. I'm thinking a prompt-y porn meme. Maybe for all of February. :)

[shanaqui]

I am! Moderate.

Sounds awesome!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I am only doing Basic. I'm hoping to exceed it, but then again knowing my schedule, it will not happen. :)

[darkscarab.livejournal.com]

OMG you just reminded me about VDay...I'd almost forgotten about it!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Cute icon! <3

Yeah... I try to ignore the holiday, but it's a decent enough reason to write porn.

[darkscarab.livejournal.com]

Haha! So true!

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I failed at writing even 10,000 words, but I take care in the fact that I'm still in school and thus not actually at my computer as often as it would seem.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Hey, as long as we're writing, right! No one wants you to fail. unless it's for writing Collicock / Dr Asshat porn.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

I'm going to do it one of these days. I'm going to write RPS about my department. Under lock.

Which reminds me, I sort of prolly should lock my rant. ^^;

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

We could have a "workplace_porn" community.

I mean, NO THAT'S A BAD IDEA.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

...omg that would rock.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...

...

I would totally play.

[churched.livejournal.com]

I got 9K - so, 6K short of my goal, but the general idea was to write regularly, which I am doing!

Now if only I could write something FF-related!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

9K is still awesome! I am pleased with this!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yay, hitting wordcount goals!

I like that so many people are posting public February writing goals for themselves -- it seems a trend has begun. :)

Also, I am confused; is the post you pointed to in ladyfarrell the annual FF Kissing Battle, just hosted in a Rosa-specific community, or is it something else? With the "roses" requirement, it seems more specific. And if not, is anyone doing Kissing Battle this year? *wonders if creating a new community to host Kissing Battle and Trick or Treat is a good idea or just the insanity talking*

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I know -- the "public declaration" thing seems to be working, though. It's like an online support group! :)

The ladyfarrell meme is just a Valentine's Day prompt meme, I believe -- something separate. Nay and I haven't talked about the Kissing Battle at all, yet.

>.> Although don't tempt me with another community. :)

(edited: learn to type, Sev.)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

But coming up with tempting fandom ideas is what I do best! ;)

Actually, though, you mentioned something about a porn meme above; I wonder if you could combine the two concepts and do a porn battle?

Yeah, the online support group aspect of posting about goals is part of the appeal -- it keeps you accountable, and makes it more of a community activity. Also, we get to make Excel graphs, and I never underestimate the power of Excel graphs...

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Re: porn meme: ff_smutathon is rather abandoned, and I thought since the past few years we've done Kiss Memes, this year we could have/include a more filthy actual porn meme (less participation from Sev-at-work, but hey).

A porn battle's not a bad idea, if enough people are interested; it might be a nice twist for this year.

Exactly! I like knowing people are playing with me and cheering me on. Even if I fail at my own project! XD

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the difficulty of participating at work is one downside of a Porn Battle. Also, I wonder if people are pickier about porn than kissfic? Although that might be taken care of with a "tread carefully with kinks" rule. Or maybe you could give people the option of porn vs. kisses, like with Trick or Treat except it's all pairing fic? Hmmmmm.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Actually, that's kind of intriguing -- you can respond with either G-rated or X-rated. Haha. I'm definitely liking that idea.

Porn is kind of "hard", though (no pun intended... okay, yes it was intended) because I think you're right, people can be picky about their porn, and they may interpret certain kinks differently than others.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

The pun was totally intended, that's why we love you. :)

Having the G/X option is also useful because if people are required to put that in the subject line along with the pairing, that will minimize the "surprise, you just opened porn at work!" incidents. Maybe.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I like it. I really do. It also gives those of us who write at work a bit of an "out", y'know?

[lassarina]

I failed at my goals for JanNo, but I got 10K out of the month, so I guess that counts for something.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

10K is a good month! I failed at my specific goals too, but since the general goal is "keep writing", I figure it all counts!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Oh man, now that january is over does that mean the end of charts and graphs time? Boo!!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK. I'll be writing all year, darling.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

But will you be keeping track of your daily progress, my love? Cause that seems a bit anal. :)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I have to keep a total word count because I've pledged to write 200,000 words in 2009. >.>

Pookie.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot of words. Hopefully you can make it because I'm sure there is some dire consequence if you don't, like a kitten being fed to an alligator or something like that?

Snookums.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I'm pretending there is, cherie, because otherwise I won't write that much. :)

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Honey lamb, I'm wondering if collaborations count towards this total. And if so, I can help you reach your goal, cuddlebug.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I'd say collaborations certainly count. Which is why, sweetheart, I'm not too worried. Once we start writing about crime-solving vampires, I won't be able to stop, pumpkin.

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

I still have to total up my January writing. But today was a root canal and I'm pretty much in "fuck life" mode now, LOL

BUT I did add some FUCKING AWESOME prompts that I think you might enjoy ;)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OH GOD BOO. SERIOUSLY FUCK THAT. GO EAT SOME JELLO OR SOMETHING. :(

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

p.s. I might be writing every single one of those. Haha.

[starbeamalpha.livejournal.com]

FUCK YEAH TECHNOLOGY, LET'S SEE A TYPEWRITER GRAPH THAT SHIT! ^_^