Y'all, my house smells AMAZING right now.

[seren_ccd]

I love October - all the birthdays! It's my husband's b-day today and mine was last week. He made me Chicken Fesenjan (chicken with a walnut-pomegranate sauce) and chocolate pecan pie. OMNOMNOM. So, today I'm making him puerco pibil (the slow-roasted pork dish from Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and a blueberry-peach pie. I'm using my slow-cooker and the pork has been cooking away for the last 2 hours. The house smells incredible.

And goodness, it's been a wee while since I updated. Work has been nuts. We're so busy. I'm working 9 hour days and I spend the morning doing tons of admin and data-input work, then after lunch I'm in the lab until it's time to go home. We have so many samples, it's ridiculous. Hopefully, this will settle down, um, in November? Maybe? I'm so tired.

It needs to settle down because I'm actually doing NaNoWriMo this year. Wooo! I'm FINISHING my Nora and The Ghost story. I've been thinking about how to go about doing it and I'm doing the hard thing and starting from the beginning. It's the only way.

I've been working on it piecemeal for a few years now, I know what I want to have happen, but it's not very cohesive. So, I'm starting from the very beginning and going straight through it.

I'm also handwriting it. My thoughts flow better with a pen in my hand. And I can edit it by typing it up later. This way, I can just get the damn thing DONE.

In other, other news, I love our new place. It's quiet, it's by the sea, and it has just enough space that it's fairly easy to stay on top of things. I'm really content. :D

How is everyone? Have a lovely Sunday! ♥

Comments

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

You're so good with the outlining things. I really should probably get better about that LOL

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

I've found that it's sometimes better to think of them in terms of lists. As in:

Ashebones Chapter Five:

There's a storm.
CUDDLE TOGETHER FOR WARMTH.
He asks her about the Americas.
She asks him about the sea.
He wakes up with her in his arms and has a panic moment.
They go to the spring.
Billy falls through the ground.

It just helps keep me somewhat on track. :D

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Oh holy fuck are you SERIOUSLY subjecting me to "cuddle for warmth" my bulletproof trope kink with THESE TWO??? How am I expected to handle that like a mature adult?

Also oh hells that last one looks like a bitchy cliffhanger waiting to happen.... You're totally going to do that to me aren't you?

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA.

And yep, another cliffhanger, but the chapter after this one is totally written in my head and outlined on paper. I'm hoping to get it up before November and then go on a bit of a fic hiatus for NaNo.

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Just cruel & unusually though whoot for hopefully another quicker than usual update prior to NaNo!

(And I am still COMPLETELY serious about getting to beta/CP on the ghost book, btw. I have been so good about waiting LOL)

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's all yours! Once I am DONE. ALL. YOURS.

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

*grabby hands* I. Am. Excite!