Distracted By Something Shiny

I haven't really been posting my word counts this year, mostly because they have been so dismal and also because I keep track of that stuff on my desktop and I swear, I barely turn that thing on anymore, especially now that I have my fancy new IPad keyboard. But I have been keeping track, so I figured now is a good time to post the first 6 months of word counts.

Here we go! ( January - June, under the cut. )

It's only about a quarter of my yearly goal - which is 100k - so not that great, but maybe I can make up for it in the second half of the year, now that I am getting used to juggling my new spoon-level better. That whole 'write everyday, even if it's just 100 words' thing I tried in May didn't really work. Maybe I should try again.

I had the craziest dream last night. It started with someone in my home, attacking me and I was all, "Do you know who I am friends with? Bo Dennis. The succubus." And then some of my 'friends' showed up to help me fight - like the strangest multi-fandom crossover ever. Teen Wolf, Lost Girl, Avengers, Hunger Games, Sesame Street (Big Bird was there), Strawberry Shortcake, Law & Order SVU, Lorne from Angel, Hellboy, etc. When I noticed Hellboy, I shouted, "OMG, Hellboy is on my team!" There were over a hundred different people and we were fighting bad guys and going on adventures and I was so happy and everything was awesome. But then I heard my brother's voice calling my name and I snapped back into my body (still in the dream tho) and realized I was actually in a coma and my brother was there begging me to wake up. I was like floating over my own body in the hospital room and I realized I had been in a coma for months. All the time I was on the adventures with my team of awesome friends, I was actually in a coma.

( More under the cut. )

Then I fell back to sleep and this time I dreamed about Stiles and Derek and they were both in Derek's kitchen with their shirts off and Stiles was making toast and they were standing really close to each other, not speaking, but like Derek was just staring at Stiles and it was enormously tension filled and I was like, "Wow, this is a lot of sexual tension for a scene about making toast."

This is my brain, folks.

Let's talk about a crazy dream I had a few nights ago. It's been awhile since I wrote one of these up - I suspect it will seem even stranger on 'paper'.

It started with my family returning from vacation and my mom wanting me to go to dinner with everyone and I was like, "I just spent 3 weeks in the car with you people, I don't need to go to dinner with you too." I went in my room and there were suddenly these bats - (but they also looked kind of like owls, idek) - outside my window, pecking against the glass. I was freaked, cuz bats freak me, but I thought, "They can't get in, it's okay." But then they chewed through the screen, bursting through the glass. I screamed and ran out. When my dad went to check, the room was completely full of bats. They weren't scared of people, so they would perch right on you and you had to hold really still, because if they got startled, they'd bite and you'd get rabies and die.

( This dream also involves scientists, Harry Potter, my friend K, Teen Wolf and graphic TV sex. )

I rewound one more time. And then I woke up.

Yep. IDEK. The next night I had a dream that entailed myself, some kids I went to junior high with, the Leverage crew, the Friends, a smattering of X-Men, an evil military and some candy bars.

That post I put up last week, that was a call to arms shout out by wendy to get some action going on LJ again, had me thinking. I have certainly been better about posting the last month or so, since I've started feeling better. But sometimes I still miss entire weeks where I don't post at all. So I have decided, in an effort to get myself on LJ more, to make one day a week my official Must Post Day. That'll hopefully get me back in the habit and if not, well at least I'll have one day a week of posting. I've picked Tuesday, partially because it's a day I don't have PT and partially because I thought up a cool name for the challenge related to Tuesday.

Pig 'N A Post Day! From now on, every Tuesday on my LJ, it will be Pig 'N A Post Day. Where I will make a LJ post. Join me if you want! And now in honor of Pig 'N A Post Day #1, I will make a SPN-related post. A story in which I met a fangirl at therapy and the ensuing conversation.

( Under the cut! )

And that is how my therapist learned a lesson about not putting people in boxes. Boxes are for cats, not people!

In September I wrote the Faith/Teen Wolf fic that I was so scared to write, but ended up really loving. Also, more Leverage fic - (I was in a mood, Hardison needed a little PTSD - it happens). Also, I started my X-Files Halloween fic, but with how I’ve been feeling here in October, I’m not sure I’ll get it finished in time. I’m debating dropping it and turning out something much shorter for Halloween, but I need to decide soon.

Here is my approximate word count for the month of September.

September, 2013
Week One: 600 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.
1,100 words of Faith fic.
Week Two: 5,850 words of Faith fic.
Week Three: 250 words of Faith fic. Completed. (already posted!)
850 words of Leverage fic. Completed.
Week Four: 1,550 words of X-Files Halloween fic.

10,200 words written in September!

( Fics posted in September, 2012. )

Last one! Again, sorry for the spam. Having these up here is so much easier for keeping track of my weekly/monthly/yearly word counts and all that.

Ugh. I haven’t put any of these up in months. I have a document where I keep track of them all, but for some reason, I haven’t actually posted any in a long while. Apologies up front for the spam to follow.



Here is my approximate word count for the month of July.

July, 2013
Week One: 1,400 words of Lost Girl fic.
Week Two: 1,350 words of Dean & Cas fic. Completed. (already posted!)
4,150 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.
1,150 words of Avengers Fic-For-Kids.
Week Three: 1,700 words of Avengers Fic-For-Kids. Completed. (already posted!)
2,150 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.
Week Three: 1,050 words of Melissa McCall fic. Completed.
Week Four: 1,050 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.

14,000 words written in July!

( Fics posted in July, 2012. )

Huh, this looks like the month I started my very first Lost Girl fic ever. I think this is the first new fandom I’ve written in this year.

So I have been re-watching Undeclared, which I watched when it originally aired, and it was extra fun this time because now I know so many of the guest stars; Mary Kay Place, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler (playing himself and surrounded by his actual entourage), Ben Stiller, Busy Philipps, Jason Segel, David Krumholtz, Kyle Glass (which is extra funny because one of the boys has a Tenacious D poster on his wall), Samm Levine, Martin Starr, Felicia Day & Jenna Fischer. Plus, the leads, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and Charlie Hunnam.

Then my mind suddenly demanded a Teen Wolf College AU where Derek Hale is the grumpy dorm floor R.A. and Scott, Stiles, Jackson, Danny, Ethan, Aidan, Boyd, Isaac, Lydia, Allison, Erica & Cora all live on the floor - (and Greenberg lives in the janitor closet like Perry did on Undeclared). And Scott's mom and Stiles' dad meet at Parents' Weekend and have a flirtation. And I want a whole episode where Lydia realizes that Danny likes Ethan and tries to help him catch Ethan's attention with a cute friendship bonding moment between them. And I want Stiles and Cora to have a sweet friendship but whenever they are in Stiles' room with the door shut, Derek busts the door open and yells "No closed doors in this dorm!" like a protective big brother and then storms out, and also, in general, I need lots of Derek dragging Stiles around by the scruff of his shirt. I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE, YOU GUYS.

( This one goes under a cut for NSFW thoughts. )

Also, the other day my sister and I caught a bit of Unstoppable - (aka Chris Pine On A Runaway Train) - and we had this conversation regarding Unstoppable vs Speed:
Sis: I like the premise of this being more man-made disaster rather than a terrorist plot.
Me: Though to be fair, if you have to get a crazy terrorist for your movie, you can't do much better than Dennis Hopper.
Sis: Unless you get Gary Oldman.
Me: John Malkovich.
Sis: Snape. I mean, Alan Rickman.
Me: Yeah, any of those guys.
What do you all think - who else plays a good 'crazy plot to blow things up' kind of guy?

In final news, yesterday my sister had such a bad day. Like, the garage door opener broke, the shower knob came completely off, her work laptop and phone broke, we found out the second garage needs new siding and there wasn't enough charcoal to grill the chicken. She finally gave up and just went to pick up our dinner and just wanted this day to be over and that's when C called to say that the kittens they had found in their yard the day before weren't doing well - (2 of them had passed away) - and she needed help. I told her to send us a picture so we could guess how old they were and then could advise her on what to pick up at the pet store. When I called my sister to tell her all this, she said, "I'm right down the street from the pet store. Tell her I'll just come down there and help her pick out what she needs." Here my sister was having the worst day and she drops everything to help a friend of mine take care of some stray kittens. My sister is awesome, is all I'm saying.

That is all.

The month of June’s word count - wherein half my words were dedicated to Teen Wolf! Also, I finished two WIPs - one of which has been sitting on my computer for like two years now! It was a very productive month, mostly I think because I decided to try this trial run thing of doing one writing-related activity everyday; be it writing or posting or editing. Even if it was only ten minutes, it was something, every day. It also helped me clear out my ‘written but not edited’ folder, so I have a line of things now that are ready to post. I think next month I should focus more on posting than anything else, just to get that folder cleared out!

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

June, 2013
Day One: 1,300 words of Avengers/OUaT fic. Completed. (already posted!)
Week One: 1,400 words of Christian/Jensen PWP. Completed.
1,200 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.
Week Two: 2,000 words of Danny/Stiles fic. Completed. (already posted!)
Week Three: 4,200 words of Teen Wolf Danny fic.
Week Four: 750 words of Teen Wolf Danny fic. Completed.
1,250 words of J2 Clothes fic. Completed.

12,100 words written in June!

( Fics posted in June, 2012. )

You guys! I know it is jinxing things or whatever to add up my word count thus far, but I did it anyways and…I am at 50,000 words for the year! That’s counting January thru June - literally exactly 50,000 words in six months! When my yearly goal is 100k, so I am perfectly on track so far! Awesome.

The Fosters has tackled some really tough issues lately. ( Spoilers from the last two episodes, involving interesting social commentary. ) This show really treats their audience with respect when dealing with these complex issues. Plus, I am stupidly into the teen romances!

Teen Wolf has done several things that pissed me off this season, but recently they may have made up for all that bullshit. ( Spoilers for the entirety of S3 thus far, some boo and some yay. ) The season needs to do more eps like this one, thank you very much.

So the visit with The Canadians went very well! They are better and better houseguests each time they stay. I have very few gripes and the main one was that I didn’t get to see enough of them! Also, they didn’t say what their plans were going to be, when just knowing when it was they intended to be at the house was all I needed, as it helps enormously with anxiety to know my schedule ahead of time. And they wanted to go out to eat with us, but they didn’t ask until Tuesday when I had therapy and then Wednesday we had to take The Nephew to his ballgame, so I felt bad about that.

But I did get to spend a nice evening on Monday playing the Wii with my brother and his wife. We turned it on for the kids but they lost interest quickly, so we ended up playing for like an hour and that was actually really fun. But hoyboy are those two competitive with each other! Also, my s-i-l said to me when they were leaving, “But we did not get to watch any of your teen shows this time!” - (in the past it has been The OC and One Tree Hill) - and I said, “Oh, I have an episode of Teen Wolf we could have watched,” and my brother said, “Uh, we have Teen Wolf in Canada,” all disgusted like and his wife yelled at him, “But it is not the same! I like when she tells me who everyone is and sleeping with and stuff! It is funnier that way!” That made me smile.

( My Niece and Nephew are dorks! )

So, that was our week, more or less, and I am glad to have my house and my schedule back, but I miss the kids already!