Update of updateyness!

[aislynn]

Just a few quick things because I'm making a hard push to try to get back on schedule with my NaNo novel (which I still privately think of as "Nanoo-nanoo -- a NaNo novel" lol! ;) ).

If you're doing NaNo, then I hope you'll consider this. I needed a name for a very upstanding fellow that my main characters are about to meet and so was glad to name him in honor of Jon Stiles. So hopefully you'll find a place for his name in your story as well!

As seriously much as I wanted to go ahead and finish "Balancing Act" off, I just can't swing it at the same time as I'm doing NaNo. :( I've given it my best shot but all I've done is sort split my focus and gotten nothing back in return for it. Besides, I definitely don't want to just bang out the last chapter like I don't care how things turn out! O_O And yes, I said last chapter, singular. Depending on how things look when I tackle it again, I may just make it 7 chapters again instead of 8. It's going to be whichever seems to flow better. ;) My apologies for yoinking the chapter count around so much. *is a shameless chapter yoinker* :D ;) So look for the conclusion somewhere in the first week of December! *fingers crossed*

*gives mistojen a cookie for her not rolling up the last chapter I sent her -- and then took back -- and smacking me with it* o_O LOL! ;)

In other news, I have a headache, owwwwww... :( Though of course, not because Jen smacked me with chapter 7 'cause she's far too awesome to do that. Even though she may have thought about it just a teeny bit. ;) This, however, sucks because I'm really hoping to still make a couple of thousand more words on NaNo tonight. *fingers crossed* At least I have my beloved Word back now after being without it on the other computer. I keep it set to the ol' WordPerfect blue background with white font, which is infinitely easier on my eyes and thus my headache. ;)

Meme snagged from the ever-lovely nschick! ♥!

What has surprised you the most about me (if anything) since joining my flist? Was anything completely unexpected or have I always fit the picture of me you have/had in your head?

When you've answered, post this in your own journal and see how you have surprised people.

There are a couple of memes I want to do but I'm out of time tonight so will catch up on them later! :D And here are some thoughts to live by... ;)



Nighty-night! *hugs you all* ♥♥♥!!!

Comments

[time-converges.livejournal.com]

Good luck with Nano - I'm making a big push to catch up this weekend, too.

*cookies for the muses*

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks, hon! *bakes extra cookies for the muses* Mine are needing all the help they can get! O_O ;) ♥♥♥!!!

[hibernate.livejournal.com]

Take your time with BA! I don't think anyone wants to put any pressure on you about that. NaNo is only once a year, so go have fun with it! Don't worry about us readers, we'll still be here when you have the time to work on BA again. :)

You haven't really surprised me... I generally don't friend people until I have a pretty good feel of what kind of people they are. I had seen you around the D/D comm and thought you seemed like a genuinely warm, funny and approachable person, and I hold by that!

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

So sorry I didn't see your comment here, LJ stopped notifying me for a few days and I didn't realize it! *looks miffed*

Anyway, thanks so much for doing the meme and for the kind words! *squishes you*

I was really hoping to get BA finished now (I feel like I've just ended up dragging it out forever when it should've just been a few weeks at most :S ) but I can see now that I'm not going to have the time to devote to finishing it and making the NaNo deadline, too. :S And I really want to give a 110% to BA after all, so waiting until NaNo is over is going to be my best option, I'd say! ;) Thanks so much for the encouragement and for sticking with it!

*hugs!* ♥!

[mistojen.livejournal.com]

*gives mistojen a cookie for her not rolling up the last chapter I sent her -- and then took back -- and smacking me with it* o_O LOL! ;)

...I'd actually be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit glad *peeks out from under her rock* I've been lazy and listless for the past couple of weeks so if I'd gotten a beta done in a decent amount of time for you...it wouldn't have been my best and most thorough work, so I think we both lucked out on that one, actually ;) No worries.

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Hee, well, then I'm glad it worked out good! I'll definitely make sure I get you a better version before I send it to you again!

Thanks bunches! And sorry I didn't answer you earlier than this, LJ is STILL not sending me email notifications. :S Hopefully that'll get straightened up soon because it's totally making me feel blind here! o_O

Anyway... *sends us both to Ten's room, courtes of the handy-dandy cloning machine* ;) *supa!smishes!* ♥!

[turquoisetumult.livejournal.com]

OH, if only those Life Instructions actually worked! :)

But good luck with the writing! I know you can do it! :D

*hugs*

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

That would seriously be handy if they did work, wouldn't it? ;) Thanks, hon! I'm in the homestretch now and I'm at 36,000 words with a week left to go. *fingers crossed* I'm so close now that I'm really hoping to make it! :D

*hugs* ♥♥♥!!!