welcome to my delusions!

God. I can't believe I'm almost there! --cries-- I had a few near misses, since I was ill for a few days and my words count didn't rise. At. All.

My fingers hurt. My wrists hurt. My ears hurt. My brain hurts.

I've had fun, and I've learnt something very important.

...Never try to write a sex scene when under a time limit. Ever. Seriously.

I mean, it might work for you (whoever you might be) but me? No way. It completely destroyed my muse for two days. I was forcing weird words out just to get the story moving on, and I ended up deviating from the plot outline.

Do you know, I'm only on chapter three? It seems like each chapter is roughly thirty pages long. I dread to think how much it'll end up pared down when I finally post it. --laughs-- I've actually got 22 chapters and an epilogue planned out.

Even though it's an OT6 fic, it seems to be a weird set of love triangles at the moment. --cringe--

I also seem to find it easier to write when I focus on Kame or Ueda. --shrug-- So at the moment they are the focus...mostly. It's pretty much even as far as interaction goes, but when the characters are alone, they're the ones I prefer to use to get the story moving again.

So, wish me luck! I'm on the last stretch!

Woohoo!





God, I'd better complete this.

I've decided to take part in NaNoWriMo. Yeah, okay, laugh now. I've been trying to participate for seven years now, but something has always happened to stop me. This year, my computer crashed on me and has stopped working. (Perhaps) Luckily, I'm able to use my other half's laptop, so I'm going to take part!

After writing out a whole bunch of ideas I eventually decided to write a KAT-TUN OT6 pirate-themed fic. --laughs-- Yes, it means that the fic will contain as many variations of member-ai as I can fit in, with an eventual KAT-TUN-ai OT6 pairing. --grins-- Even if Akame is my main joy, I love all the members of KAT-TUN and this pairing just fit the fic idea.

The pirate theme is because I've been watching all of their concerts virtually back-to-back for the past few weeks, and so when it came to ideas, the whole pirate theme just wouldn't leave me alone. Damn you all! You all look too darn hot in those costumes! --wibbles--

I've done 23 pages of research so far, all handwritten in tiny writing, so my hands are knackered right now. --laughs-- I've written out the basic plot summary. The plot outline. The general timeline. The chapter titles. The chapter summaries (up to chapter 4, because I'm stuck there without more information, and I've been researching that info for nearly four hours --sigh--). Drawings of the rooms (layout and so forth) that I'm going to be using so I don't get mixed up when describing things.

Because I'm using a pirate theme, I spent most of yesterday researching pirates, and the ships they used and stuff. I've downloaded pictures and ship specs and designs and whatnot. My brain feels like sludge. --wince--

The story is going to have 22 chapters and an epilogue, so that I can hopefully wrap things up. I want to write at least 3k-5k words per chapter as a goal, so that if I start to fall behind I can push myself to get going again.

Anyway~ Wish me luck, yes? I'm really nervous and worried and panicked that I won't be able to get the research done in time, which will mean that I'm going to be bodging things.

Well, I'm just going to have to try my best, right?

Hugs all,

~Shi-koi~


(Because there's a postal strike on in our area, the new hard-drive we've bought for my PC might not turn up for NaNo, and I really don't want to have to type 50k words on this laptop. Especially since this laptop has sticky keys which don't always work well, so I'm always double and triple-checking what I've typed, which takes time away from writing anything. --groan--)