[work in progress]

Yes, I am still writing.
Who wants an excerpt? 8D
This one's special cause it has the first glimpse of Asher's oh-so-mysterious past. It's long, but otherwise I'd be cutting off in the middle of a conversation, and nobody likes that.

( wherein louie is diplomatic )

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Yeah, I settled on that name, at least for now. It makes me think of Heart of Gold, which among other things is a Firefly episode, so that's keen.

I actually have been continuing to write, but much much more slowly than NaNo required. One delightful side effect of the month being over is that I have time for my first love: drawing.

Y'know Louie and Harvey? The intrepid folks you've been reading about in the past few excerpts?
This would be them.
Big picture. Abandon all hope, ye slow connections.


( partners in crime )


Harvey calls Louie a giant devil woman. Louie calls Harvey a leprechaun. They are absolutely best friends, and that is how they roll.

FUUUUUUUCK YEEEEEEEEEAH
11:56, Nov. 30, 50,076 words

AND LO, I AM THUSLY AWESOME
what a long strange trip it's been. novel is soooo not finished. But there is NaNoFiMo, yes? I would really like to get this one done.

anyway HUZZAH

november 29th ARE YOU SERIOUS
goddamn.

i am back in the roc, and I've got WRITAN to do.
i'm at about 48.2k. Definitely going to finish in time. Still haven't hit Mal and Jon's chapters, though, which means the story isn't nearly over. They deserve some spotlight time too.


Wish me luck on the final stretch!
Now: onward! To the end of the Harvey chapter!

( It was a long time before he was ready to come back down. )

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Harvey's a sweetheart when it comes to Louie.

ALSO!
I need a good pirate ship name, for the very illustrious Captain Drake, who is my beloved's brainchild. By said beloved's reckoning, the boat is called the "Golden Hind", which I think may have some basis in history, but I am way too immature to use that without giggling. SRY.
The Golden [something] would be good, but fuck me if I can think of the proper noun. There's wiggle room, though. I just know it's gonna be The [something] [something]. Big, powerful pirate ship. Suggestions. Go.

Been up since 3 am.
The bright side: Much writing was accomplished. Huzzah!

( Meanwhile, in New Haven... )

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whoosh
time to go pass out now

Story continues!
Also: aforementioned medical business is finished. I am holding up awfully well, and doing more writing than I thought I'd be able to.
Tomorrow is going to involve many, many hours in airports and the like, and last time that happened, I slammed those words away. I'm hoping for a repeat performance.
And now!

( excerpt time! )

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New Haven really is a nice place. I can vouch for this.
Also: I keep getting really friendly, encouraging messages via Nanomail. And I have my writing ninja (small plastic totem of sorts) close at hand. I am absolutely going to win this.

I am in Baltimore, or somewhere sort of near it.
The pirates, on the other hand, are still in transit. And they are not having nearly as smooth a flight as I did. Which, considering I had to stop in Newark, is really saying something.



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oh that mysterious asher.

also, tesla's fire may be the coolest bit of steam psuedo-science i have ever created. i am a dork.

happy note: I am actually ahead of schedule on my wordcount. Due to the aforementioned airports, and much time spent sitting around in them with naught to do but write.

posting may or may not get a little spotty over the next week. Tomorrow, I fly out of state for medical business. I return Thanksgiving. Hopefully, I will spend most of this time lucid enough to write, or I'm gonna be real ticked when the end of November creeps up and I have to scramble to get my words in.

Tomorrow, at least, should be very productive. Time on planes and between planes and such.

But you're not here to read about me! You want to know what the heck's gonna happen to Harvey and whether Seamus can fix the boat, right? Right! Onward!

fact: I've never actually been to Boston, but I live fairly close.

Their next stop is across the pond, but that's not for a while yet.

Long excerpt today!


( 'It's a borin' town, Cap'n.' )
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d'aw.
also: I'm home! For now. I will be elsewhere very soon.

yes.
life has been fiercely stressful and will probably continue to be for at least the next few weeks. big things coming up. i only hope i can keep writing throughout them.

anyway!

HARVEY TIME.
this is also the first chapter with ~*naughty words*~. these two facts are definitely correlated.



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like that's not what *you* do when you get bored.

My plans to do a great deal of writing yesterday got sabotaged by my Italian class. Final presentation is today. It's going to be a nightmare. So let's not think about that!
Mercifully, as of tomorrow night, this quarter of school is DONE. Two more of these and I bid final farewell to this cold little town. My plan is to migrate south to cohabitate with my sweetheart.

In the meanwhile, I am drinking mango juice and listening to a lot of Cake to get through it all, and...



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Next up: ~*The Harvey Chapter*~ woohooo

Got real damn tired last night (and sucked into watching Dune...) and the long and short of it is I didn't hit 25k. but now i have a whole day with nothing to do but homework. And by "nothing to do", I mean WRITE, YOU LOUSY MOTHERFUCKER.

in the meantime, have an excerpt. It's short, because I liked those last few lines too much to let them get lost in the middle.

( we seem to have misplaced our captain )
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next excerpt: malcolm shows up. doesn't say much, but that'll round out the osprey crew.

edit: i'd hate to let that gratuitous profanity tag go to waste, so here's some of flashback!harvey's first lines:

"An' you!" he yelled to the tavern, "Are a bunch o' spineless mud-chewin' backbirths! Ruddy cunts," he added, grumbling.

son of edit: i'm currently writing harvey being...well, harvey. barfights, swearing, etc. and i have just realized that at this point in the story, he's gotta be about 18. somehow, that makes this even funnier. note to self: draw rambunctious teenager harvey at some point.

I am having almost excessive amounts of fun making reference to things the characters have presumably done, things with no particular impact on the story, that happened beforehand or offscreen or whatever. Mostly referred to just by where they happened.
Anyone else do this?

So far, we've got:

• "My point is that there's really nowhere off-limits, as far as I'm concerned. Except Singapore."
  "Why Singapore?"
  "It's a long story."
• "I was in Crete not that long ago, for instance. Lovely place. Very noisy people there, you know, but honest to a fault."
• "I know you and Captain Harris were close. That is what this is about, isn't it?"
• "...which was a gift from a sheik, in fact." (and then they made me their chief.)
• "Perhaps this time you'll be the ones bailing them out of jail."
  "Y'know, that only happened once."
  "Twice."
• "I'm near sure of it. Don't y'recall, Harv? It was in, um...in Sicily, I think. Cap'n was telling us about all the places he'd seen. I'd swear on anything he said he was sailin' under Cap'n Drake."
  "You remember Sicily?"

Those pirates, man. They get around.
fun fact: any other mysterious bits that have shown up thus far and are not listed - that means they will not be mysterious forever. OHO.
edit: now that i think about it, singapore may not always remain a mystery either, but we'll see.

of EFF I'M TOO TIRED FOR THIS
that is how nano is going so far. mostly i've been real fuckin' busy, but I am - as usual - almost caught up. i am fiercely determined to make 25k by day's end. right now i'm clocking in just over 22.2k. wish me luck.

excerpt!
introducing almost the entire crew of the osprey! huzzah!

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( now leaving flashback-mode )

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yaaay pirates
every now and then i feel a little bad for making harvey a redheaded irishman who drinks, because LOL STEREOTYPES. but then i remember that louie drinks just as much, and she's a girl from connecticut, and then i feel better.

boy i wish i didn't have to go to work today 8|

i am alllllmost caught up. i could catch up right now. but by gosh, i'm tired. so that'll have to wait.

for now: who wants another excerpt?

This one's long. Brings us to the end of the "Jensen" chapter, it does. 8D





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after this the viewpoint does a little hop-skip forwards, then backwards again. i'm hoping it'll all make sense. if not, well, it's nano and thus i have an excuse.

1) write 700 words
2) post a proper excerpt

so basically i'm 0 for 2 and today kind of sucks already.

anyway, that excerpt i promised:


( 'I will not help you evade capture. You brought this upon yourself.' )
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DUN DUN DUN

coming soon: harvey. yessss.

that's right. Today I have been writing LIKE A BOSS, and it has gained me some neat things.

Neat thing the first: 19,300. Which means I am officially caught up. 700 more to get before I go to sleep? AIN'T NO THING.
Neat thing the second: I have officially arrived at ~*the Harvey chapter*~. In theory, if it keeps going at this rate, November will finish right in the middle of Louie. But I have a feeling the remaining chapters are going to be a little shorter. Depends how much of everyone's past I manage to work in. We shall see. Point is, THEY'RE IN IRELAND AND THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT YOU GUYS

Humorous dialogue bit of the day:

"They may be more lenient at trial if you go cooperatively," he noted, but his hand remained on the controls. Asher just grinned.
"More lenient? With a pirate? Lovely. Perhaps they'll hang me with a silk rope instead of one of those dreadful scratchy ones."

Proper excerpt will be posted tonight.

i am now at 17.3k or so, which means if i don't dick around too much today, i may just be able to catch up. we'll see. excerpt time!

( wherein 'liberate' is used rather creatively )

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oh no you guys it's THE NAVY LOOK OUT
now i am either going to study italian or play red alert 2. definitely one of those two.

got through two days on three hours of sleep and thought i could take a nice little nap to recharge. set multiple alarms.

woke up eight hours later.
fml. i have so much to do. D: NO TIME FOR SLEEP

edit: have discovered that i managed to turn off the speakers in my sleep. again. every time i think i've outwitted my need to sleep, it pulls shit like this. touche, biological imperatives. touche.

on the slightly brighter side, i'm at 16k, which means i'm only 2000 words behind instead of 3000. this is hardly an accomplishment.

Well, okay, I may be a day or two behind. But I'm almost at finally past 15k. I'm really hoping that once final projects and shit are behind me, I can devote more time to just *writing*.

My excerpts must be a lot longer this year or something. They've almost caught up to where I am at present.


( troubles on the good ship osprey )

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THE PLOT
SHE THICKENS
LIKE YOUR MOM LOLOL

15.6k and climbing! at this rate i may yet be on track within the next few days. 8) huzzah.
now i am facing the question of whether I want to sleep tonight or not.