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[seren_ccd]

Wow, very long time, no post! I'm so sorry about that. Life got very, very busy.

In short, work is stupid busy. I mean, holy cow. I've been to agricultural shows and ram sales and summer is ridiculous for farmers. It's fun? But I cannot wait for November at this point.

We've moved into a new place! Wooo!!! It's a rental, but a proper house. All ours. No one else in the building. I'm so happy to be out of the old place, we hated it. We really, really did. This new place is in a more residential area and near the sea. Seriously, I can see the sea from my window. I've already picked out the spot where my desk is going to go. I'm (finally!) getting a decent desk to write at.

Writing is going pretty well, actually. My brain has been totally hijacked by pirates. I'm obsessed with Black Sails and I can't stop writing Billy Bones/Abigail Ashe fic. I'm writing an epic, y'all. I mean, this fic is going to be long and ridiculous and it's making me so happy. I'm just going with it at this point.

That being said, I think I may try for NaNoWriMo this year, but we'll see.

I don't think I'm going to do Yuletide, though. I'm just not feeling it and I'm not sure. I think I'm off to the states to see family for a few weeks over Xmas, so maybe it's all right.

In movie news - I love Ghostbusters SO MUCH. SO, SO, SO MUCH!!!

Comments

[havocthecat]

I hate when life gets that busy! I'm glad you've got a new place. I'm jealous that you can see the sea from your window.

[tabaqui]

*waves*
Hi! Nice to see you! :)
Yay for a new place! I envy you, being by the sea.
*siiiiiiiighs* :)

GHOSTBUSTERS, homg, it rocked so hard. :)
*twirls you*
Yay, glad you're still around!

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

Hi! *waves back* It's so nice being by the sea! The house is a bit damp, but I think when we get the radiators going, it should dry up a bit. :D

GHOSTBUSTERS WAS SO MUCH FUN! For my birthday, I'm getting a t-shirt that says: Safety Lights are for Dudes. :D

[tabaqui]

I imagine it should, yes. :)
Ha! Perfect shirt. I need to see that movie again, that's for sure.

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Oh man that sounds like it's going to be a ridiculously inspiring place to write! Totally excited for you! Maybe we'll get some of your ghostly sea captain too at some point as well as the pirates (though please gods don't quit the pirates! LOL)

I will definitely be NaNoWriMoing as well - so keep me posted if you want to plan to swap wordcounts, etc.

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

The pirates refuse to be ignored. I've been all over the place this last week with moving and I've still managed to scribble a little bit of Abigail telling Billy to stop ignoring her and grow up. He takes it about as well as you think he would. Then they blush and act like silly puppies in lurve.

I think my plan for NaNoWriMo is to put aside all the fic (including pirates, if I'm not done, which I probably won't be) and devote the entire month to my ghostly sea captain. I'm 25,000 words in to it, I know what I want to happen, I just need to buckle down and GET IT DONE. So, that maybe what I'm doing. I'm still going to aim for 60,000 words in a month, but it will be finishing up that story. Even if it's rough, it will be DONE.

So, yes! We can definitely swap word counts! :D

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Daww yes. I approve of all of this.

And man that would be AWESOME if you could get it done - I still definitely want in on betaing/critique partnering if only so I get to read it sooner LOL And yeah if you hit 50k - that puts you at 75kish total which is a solid length for a romance for sure. And you can always increase/decrease when you do edits later on.

I am currently up in the air as to what I'm going to NaNo. I have 20kish on that YA small town magical realism with cats thing, but I don't know that's what I want to dive into or not. Depending on the decision from the novella anthology call, I may end up powering the next in the series if I get picked up. I'm clueless at this point.

Hell it could end up being something completely different for all I know. I've been so focused on my to-do list, it might not be a bad year to just let my brain play on something completely new.

[aj.livejournal.com]

*happy clapping* YAY, DESK. Also, whoooooo, family visit! Seriously, I'm so glad for you guys re: house move!

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

DESK! I want a bulletin board for all my postcards and oh my god, this place has so many electric sockets, it's awesome. It's a bit damp so we're probably going to need a dehumidifier. Ah well. It's an old house. And everything is everywhere, but it's SO much better than the last place!

I slept on a brand new mattress last night and it was so comfy! (Just the mattress, the bed frame doesn't arrive until next week because of course it doesn't.)

[wendelah1]

Long time indeed. Thanks for posting. I'm glad you got out of that terrible rental. Your new place sounds lovely.

Black Sails? Is that a book or a TV series? I'm unfamiliar with it.

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

The rental was just abysmal. So loud and just plain awful. The new place is much, much better. I mean, we don't have any furniture yet and we're sleeping on just a mattress on the floor, but I can see the sea!

Black Sails is amazing. It's a tv show on Starz and has three season with the fourth and last season on the way. It's about the Golden Age of Piracy and takes place about 20 years prior to Treasure Island. It's very violent and the first season is a bit much, but the second and third seasons are fantastic. It feels likes it's far, far more interesting and well-acted than they planned on? I'm loving it, but it may not be everyone's tastes. There's serious violence and rape, but they stop that kind of thing after the first season. In truth, you could probably start halfway into the first season?

[lullabymoon]

Waves! Hello!

So glad to her your new place is so great!

And yay for writing!