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D’oh! *facepalm*

I just went back to read through the scene in SOTM 17 I was going to use as the jump point for the beginning of 18, and realized that I hadn’t finished the thing yet!

It’s a sex scene, and I’d broken off to write a later scene because conditions at the time weren’t conductive to writing naughty bits.  That’s when I went into one of my slumps, and completely forgot that I’d never finished the thing *laugh*

So, guess I’d better get everyone involved to a nice, hot, sticky climax.  Ch. 17 is going to be pretty long.  It was already a little longer than the three preceding, and finishing the sex scene will crank it up even higher.

Working on a first read on someone’s Earth Day story, so I won’t get much writing done tonight.  I did manage to sneak out of work just a shade earlier, so I took a little nap when I got home.  That might at least let me get down more than the single sentence I’ve written tonight =P

Just waiting on Lynn to get back to me with the first read of Heart, so I know what the damage is.  Once she’s hacked and slashed it, I’ll be concentrating pretty heavily on it to make sure it’s finished in time.  Considering the limited time left in the contest submission period, I’m aiming for a Monday release next week, if all goes well.

Damn, just saw what time it is.  Looks like I may not be getting any more writing done tonight after all.

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Freakin’ power outage

Power went out on me while I was writing on Heart… Grrr…  Fortunately, I only lost a paragraph or two from my previous save, so I didn’t lose much.

It was enough to finally push a building paranoia of mine over the edge, though.  I just signed up for online backup.  No more worrying about my WIP stories, irreplacable pics, music, or anything else vanishing forever.  Despite having several layers of physical backup for a lot of this stuff, there’s always the chance all of that could fail on me.

I’m officially protected, and going back to restore those lost couple of paragraphs.

Edit: 9 PM –  And, Heart is done!

Time to let it simmer and work on something else to clear it out of my head.  Talk about a relief 🙂

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Getting there

Got a good bit of that sex scene in Heart written.  He’s finally starkers, and she’s working on the button of her jeans while she admires him.  Once we get those and her panties off, all systems are go *laugh*

Unfortunately, I’m tired enough that every time I close my eyes to visualize, I’m starting to nod off.  Time to call it a night, I guess.

Just a reminder for anyone who may have missed the posts a few days ago:  I’m not going to post the next chapter of SOTM until after the Lit Earth Day contest submission period is over ( the 12th )

Non-contest submissions just have too much of a chance of posting very late, losing critical time on the New list where most readers pick what they’re going to read.

Off to bed, with hopes that I’ll wake up early enough to knock out another big chunk of that scene in the morning.

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Ending of Heart finished

Finished the ending this morning, coming in right at that 12k word bar where I thought the whole story would fall.  Now, I just need to go back and write the sex *laugh*

Think I have the right transition from the lead-in to that in my head now, so with some luck, that will flow and get finished today as well.

Edit later in the day:

Getting there.  The rewritten transtion works, and I’m back to having them both topless.  The pace seems to be working for me, starting out slowly with lots of build-up, but about to turn into something far more hot and heavy.

That’s the primary reason why I’m pausing right now.  I just can’t write the main heat of something like that with the young one awake ( for the obvious reasons, and because of the noise associated with him being up )

I started writing on the opening of an Earth Day story in my third name, which I think will carry the theme well, unlike the other ideas that I had, which will probably end up as regular, non-contest stories.  Could be quite a few of those coming out soon.

Opened both SOTM and Lowborn, but both of those suffer from the second part of why I can’t write the sex in Heart right now.  Just too noisy to visualize properly, and I need that in everything that I’m set to write in those two.  That’s why I went with the 2nd Earth Day story.  Tales in my third name aren’t as labor/visualization intensive.  They’re more geared toward gratification, so the “storyline” is just a matter of setting up for that.

Anyway, I’m working on that and waiting for the young one to go down for the night.  Considering that he only slept about 6 hours last night, it shouldn’t be long.

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Gonna be longer than I thought

I was estimating that Heart would come out about 12k words, but I’m almost there with the ending still not quite finished, and the sex not even written!

Looking more in the range of 16k words now for the first draft.

So much for getting done by Thursday, huh?  At least the ending is flowing perfectly.  The sex was giving me fits, and this is a nice contrast.

Back to it.

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