A mind full of worlds

I’ve not really been around that much online recently due to health issues. Let’s say that Strep infection and Uterus should not go together. Hospital thought it was my appendix or gallbladder that had gone bad initially.

So I spent a week in hospital with some nice IV antibiotics, got have a CT scan, a CT guided aspiration (giant comedy size needle to drain a sac of pus), was given 2 units of blood, and was told I have a fibroid the size of a grapefruit that will probably need surgery. Had biopsy of said fibroid (results pending until mid August)

I also apparently have a high pain threshold and am too stubborn to let being very anaemic slow me down. (They took the reading and decided it was so low they’d give me blood - I’d been hiking only a few days before.)

Well anyway I’m back at work now, making sure stuff gets done.I’m trying to be sensible about actually listening to my body when it says I’m tired or something hurts, but generally I suck at it.
Not much writing getting done, NaNoWriMo didn’t end up happening. But I’m working on a sequel to an old fic I wrote about 5 years back about the 9th Doctor and Ianto (Torchwood), where the 9th Doctor didn’t regenerate into 10 and Ianto is the companion.

So Camp NNoWriMo ends in about an hour and a quarters time here in the UK, but I've just validated my word count and I have 50152 words - which means I win :) Okay I win an icon, a certificate I have to fill in myself, and a discount for a writing program than I'm not sure I'll buy, but I won. And I have writing the single longest story that I've written, and at just over 50k it's not actually finished - it probably needs another 10k of descriptions and in some parts scenes that are partially or in some cases entirely missing.

So here's the banner certificate thing. I just gave the story the name of the main character, I didn't want to call it 'untitled military adventure proto-steampunk thing'


( cert under cut )


If anybody is interested in the rather disjointed and all over the place files that make up the 50152 words they can be found here (because this is my 4th back up place so I don't lose it)
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0By1ipi-pyHy5c0VZR2g1alhkSjg/edit

And despite it not being finished at 50k, a lot of the characters who'd very much decided to do their own thing (particularly Cade, Lady Ansela and General Medon) and the viking-esque Sergeant Draken Krell with his many blue tattoo, the obnoxious Sir Organzo Vayas and the unpleasant but mysterious even to me (because even I'm not sure what his real goal is) Dr Aubin Metrian who all just appeared as they weren't even in the original plot outline, I've ended up with ideas for a sequel or two (Because I couldn't get an undercover spying plot line, the theft of an airship and industrial espionage in to this story as it was already full of explosions, mysterious deaths, dashing bandits (who also decided they wanted to be very complicated political revolutionaries as well), semaphore towers, coded messages, surprise airships and daring night raids to blow up bridges.)

So yes, that's camp nano done. Sort of. Although I'll still keep working on it. And now I need to start sorting out the Primeval bigbang that's due for November, a Christmas exchange fic, my horror bingo card and seeing if there is any interest in holding a second round of the classic Torchwood big bang.

I've now crossed the half way point - word count now stands at 25,839 - so I've hit the target for the day and it's not even half eight in the morning yet.
That said I really still need to write another 1 to 2k today as I won't get much chance after tonight (I might be able to get half an hour in before I need to get the train tomorrow morning, but I'm not counting on it) for writing until Sunday night. So I'd like to be at least 2k ahead of where I need to be today, so that I've not go so much to make up later - I really dislike having to play catch up.

( obligatory by now excerpt from story )

Thirteen days into campnanowrimo and I've just hit the 20k word count. Going to aim for 21500 by then end of today as I'm trying to build up a bit extra as I won't have much time to write this weekend as I'm off to a family wedding. So from about 9am Friday to Sunday afternoon/evening is going to be computer access free. So I'm going to try to get about 2.5k ahead of where I need to be by Friday, so all so I'll only have to write on Sunday is 1.5 to stay on track.

( And here's yet another random excerpt - although this is for much later in the story than were I'm currently writing - the scene demanded to be written now. )

Yes, I'm still going, and still on target, actually I've about 200 words over for today's goal (which isn't actually enough as I'm not going to get any writing time next weekend because of the inlaws wedding)

Anyway, word count is now 16,352.

( not sure if anybody is even reading this, but this is a bit that I wrote today. )

Still working away on Camp NaNoWriMo, and have just passed the 8000 word mark - next stop 10k :)

( most resent 200 or so words written )

Okay, so I've been fairly quiet lately, mostly because I was working on the collab fest with Harkpad02, but that's done and posted now.

So my next writing project is actually going to be original fic. Yes, really.

I'm going to be taking part in campnanowrimo - which is basically Nanowrimo but is happening in August rather than November. I posted about it here http://the-silver-sun.livejournal.com/187331.html and mentioned the two ideas that I've got for stories.

I've decided that I'm going with the low to no magic fantasy setting with Regency England level of tech, but in the early stages of developing steampunk type tech. The story itself is a military type adventure, with a secondary m/m romance plot. There's more about the setting in the previous post I linked to above.

I'm all signed up over at www.campnanowrimo.org as silversun and have already got a cabin (supposed to like a group of writing buddies, I think)  I've been put in with three 13 year olds from Mexico, and somebody in their 30's in the US who so far hasn't said anything on the message board.

So anybody else on my flist taking part? or has taken part in a nano or campnano before?

I'm planning everything out in advance - overview, and then a scene by scene break down. Basically my reasoning is that way if I get stuck on a particular bit, rather than getting slowed down trying to make it work I can skip ahead or back and get the word count up by writing a different bit.