NaNoWriMo 2005

[deannawol]

Right...

It's done. No really. It's done. I am finished with it. 32 chapters. 71475 words. 126 pages. That's it.

I never thought that I would a) Get 50,000 words or b) Get the story finished by the end of November.

I aimed to post a chapter a day and I did... Almost. I lost a day when LJ moved servers and Dominicon interfered.

But ... wow!

I'm happy with it. Sure there are a few chapters that I could redo but ... in general, I'm happy with it. The characters were good, likeable for the most part, I think...

Anyway ... Um ... Here... Have a link: click to see.

*collapses in little ball of non-english in the corner*

This is only the second thing that I wrote that is longer than 2000 words, and only the second thing that I am truly happy with... Wow!

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Comments

[merigold.livejournal.com]

*claps!* Good job~!

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thanks hon! ^_^

[hauntedreality.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[nwhyte]

I put the word file on my PDA and read it last week. Jolly impressive, especially to get it all done in a month. I did wonder whether Nathalia "persuading" the male characters to get it on with each other also represented to a certain extent the female write of male/male slash fiction?

BTW your websites are behaving a bit strangely - the icons on http://www.geocities.com/deannawol/ are invisible, and the links on http://www20.brinkster.com/siobhansplace/ all lead back to the front page...

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

*smile* I never actually thought of it in that way but I suppose a case could be made for it. Interesting observation I must say. *goes off to ponder her subconscious* It wasn't anything that I planned but it can come off that way. But because it isn't just kept to m/m pairings I think that I was going more for the embodiment of desire mixed with the "It's not my fault" attitude that people adopt after casual encounters. The "wouldn't it be nice if it wasn't me who did this but that I was influenced by something that I couldn't control" though more than anything else.

I still find it amusing that a very high percentage of slash fanfiction and fiction in general is written by women as opposed to men and wonder if the phenomenon is comparible to the common male desire for female female pairings. If so, then why is it almost taboo or secret for women to express an opposite gender pairing desire whereas it is not with men?

As for the story can be a little light on plot, *grin*, but I'm relatively proud of it. And still can't believe that I got it written in a month. I fully expected to get about 10,000 words done and either get bored or hit the end of the month.

As for the websites, well, as a webdesigner, I keep meaning to go back and do something with them I just keep forgetting that they exist. Geocities at the moment is just holding the Cyberpunk Stuff and is used for sorta remote file storage. Brinkster was used while I figured out CSS and then quickly forgotten about when my life decided that it had better things for me to do than spend time on webpages so I never got to finish adding content .. Must do that one of these days. *has been struct by ideas for what to do to the website*

[nwhyte]

Certainly I thought you caught the mind-set of the casual encounter pretty well in the very first Emily/Stephen scene.

I don't know if there are lots of men out there writing sapphic stuff? I wonder if assm has ever done a survey breaking contributors down by gender and preferred pairing...

Good luck with the website. It's just tantalising when links don't lead anywhere!

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

Well, I've learned a new word today. I had to look up sapphic and was amused by such an obscure word. Thanks.

I don't think they did, but several of the slash sites that I would read, especially referring to StarGate or StarTrek or other, and some of the larger repositories like Complete Kingdom of Slash (currently down again) would have predominantly (~95%) female writers. It would be interesting to ask various webmasters to see if they could put some tracking into this.

*smile* Thanks. I've already started redoing some of the Cyberpunk Stuff although, I must actually get around to finishing the story as well. *sigh*