Arrant Nonsense

And I love them all.

HUZZAH.

The Revelator is finished and off to the Salt City Steam Salty Dog Contest.

De-Wolfed Ben has garnered a bit of crit from the Hubby, but really nothing major. He liked that one a lot, and thought the end was good and didn't fizzle or come too abruptly.

I should be getting crit on Chambliss's Story from my Writing Buddy soon.

George and the Meerkats is just a fun little story. It's my fifth entry in my spaceship crew saga. I sent that one to my Writing Buddy this week.

The only one I have yet to look at is Cat-Hoarding Dragon, and I did sneak a peek at the ending just now. Eheehee. I am amused.

That one, however, is going to take a lot of work to beat into shape. It started in first person, and then I realized a few thousand words in that it wouldn't work in first and switched to third. It's got three POV characters and is already banging on 9000 words. Which means I've got a bare thousand words to play with if I want to send it to Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Considering the fact that I rarely write secondary-world fantasy, I really do want to send it to them.

Fortunately, the other three I have left won't actually take much to complete, I don't think. They're pretty solid as they sit, and I am well-pleased with the results of this NaNo round.

At the bottom of Chambliss's story. It came to a little over 9300 words. I had one of those moments, earlier in the day, when I realized that the line I had just written needed to be the last line of the story, not the last line of that scene--but hey, I had a last line, so I was actually happy.

I'm at slightly over 23,000 words on the month, with three stories in the can.

Now I get to pick the next one. *eyes list* I kind of like the AI one with my spaceship crew. It has meerkats. Because everything I do has friggin' animals.

That moment when you realize that what you thought was Pinch 1 was actually still part of Plot Turn 1.

I'm having all kinds of problems with my last two outlines. I finally figured out who the "villain" is in the Superhero Christmas story, so that's at least progress. I haven't even looked at the Chambliss one for a few days.

Hopefully, MisCon (specifically, the bar) will give me the last push I need to put these to bed. I tend to get actual work done at conventions, and Friday is thin for panels, so I guess we'll see. I'll be incognito most of the day tomorrow as I drive to Missoula; I hope to get an early start and be in town by no later than eight.

Wheeeeeee.