Writing commitments

[sholio]

I like making LISTS (and having all this information in one place).

1. spook_me (A:tLA, due Oct. 26)
Status: Did some research. Wrote a little. Nothing concrete yet.

2. sheppard_hc secret santa (SGA, 3000-wd minimum, due Dec. 21-Jan. 3)
Status: Brainstorming.

3. sga_santa (SGA, 1000-wd minimum, due Dec. 10)
Status: Signups close Oct. 10 & assignments go out by Oct. 17.

4. Yuletide (1000-wd minimum)
Status: Signups not open yet.

ETA: 5. yuletart
Status: Signups close Oct. 10 & assignments go out by Oct. 20.

Other stuff: h/c bingo fics. astridv's Finders AU for help_haiti. Need to decide on festivids (probably not this year). Still waffling on NaNo. Would like to finish some of my A:tLA and SGA WIPs before they evolve sentience and start eating the folder I'm storing them in. Also have about a half-dozen different pieces of meta and book reviews I've been noodling with, but haven't gotten around to writing. Doing another long chaptered fic would be awesome -- I haven't posted something chapter-by-chapter since I got my AO3 account, and I want to give it a try! -- but I'll probably have to save that for next year (maybe!).

Current status of original YA novel, which I want to have done by the end of October:

33000 / 52000 (63.46%)

Only three months left in the year! Where did 2010 go?

Comments

[jalendavi_lady]

How did you get that novel status bar?

[sholio]

I got it from here: http://honorless.net/progressbar.htm. You enter your information and copy-paste the code. There are quite a number of them out there; I just google-searched for word count meter and this was the first one I found. :D

[jalendavi_lady]

Cool.

I just got done with one novel manuscript, and I've got more stuff being plotted out now, so this might just come in handy.

[sholio]

Watching the progress bar advance makes it oddly compelling to add words to a manuscript. *g* I think I used a different one when I did NaNoWriMo a few years ago, but, well, I'm too lazy to find it again.

[jalendavi_lady]

I used yWriter to type up the novel, but now I'm using a freebie copy of Liquid Story Binder from back when it was a giveaway for a day. It has progress bars for chapters AND for whole projects.

The only problem with it, progress bar wise, is that, at least in my version, it's a universal setting for projects, so the short story has to have the same goal count as the novels or the bars don't work for the novels...

(The underlining shortcut method and the use of Ctrl+S for something OTHER than save are driving me crazy, though, but the other features that make it good for series? Are making it worth dealing with.)

[sholio]

I suspect that not having Ctrl+S = Save would lead to all kinds of interesting screw-ups on my part; I'm so used to that one that I occasionally try to use it on real life too. ("Hmm, I haven't saved in awhile, better do that ... OH WAIT, NOT ACTUALLY USING THE COMPUTER." Yes. This happens.)

[leesa_perrie]

Would like to finish some of my A:tLA and SGA WIPs before they evolve sentience and start eating the folder I'm storing them in.

LOL!! Know that feeling well!!!

Hope you get it all done, I'm sure you will! *waves pom poms*

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D Cheerleading is always appreciated!