...::: Anyssia :::...

Note to self:

DON'T WRITE FANFICS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE INTERNET AND SO, NO AUTOMATIC BACKUP VIA DROPBOX!
(Also, keep your laptop plugged, damn it, Anyssia, you know the battery doesn't keep anymore -_- )

I wrote about 1'000 words for my Nanowrimo this afternoon (painstakingly as well, it was a particularly hard to write passage), and my computer crashed while I was writing.

My battery is slowly dying, and instead of putting itself in standby when there isn't any battery left, my laptop just shuts down abruptly, now.

So, there I was, minding my own business and writing in peace when, BAM!, lights out! I wasn't too worried, thinking that it would only lose the last lines I had written, since Scrivener as a feature that automatically saves my work every second or so, but when I started it back up, that page was blank (actually, the software didn't even want to open that folder anymore (compatibility problems or something) but I wasn't too worried about since I could still access the individual files from window's explorer).

I tried several things, but I can't seem to be able to find a more complete version of that page saved anywhere, and since I couldn't connect to Dropbox, I don't have those automatic backups either >_<

Anyway, I'm going to try and rewrite it now, then ^^;;
Just needed to rant a second (though it's my fault anyway, since I knew that the battery was dying).


10:00 pm EDIT: well, I'm pretty proud of myself: I managed to re-write it all and I think I even did it better this time ^^ so, no hard feelings, Scrivener.

Last year, I said I wouldn't be doing Nanowrimo again.

So, of course, guess what I'm doing again this year? ^^;;

Alright, to be honest, I don't think I'll write those 50'000 words in November. I'm mostly going to use the occasion to make new friends and hear about old ones :) Also, I'll be at my parent's for two weeks, so I doubt that I'll write a lot during that time. Anyway, if I do write, I'll try to write about Guide.

I discovered, while re-arranging my notes/chapters/files in progress, that I have currently written 38'500 words for Guide, 17'400 of which have been published in chapter 1 to 6 ^^ Which means people that I have already written the equivalent of another 4 or 5 chapters. But I still need to read, re-read, re-re-read them and then get in the usual back-and-forth ballet with lucime, my beta-reader, to get it publishable ;p So, it won't be for a while yet.


On another note, I fell in love with Scrivener all over again. When I write fanfictions, I always get worried that I have all my facts/canon right, so I have lots of bookmarks and web pages saved all over the computer with timelines, datas about characters, synopsis of episodes, ... and notebooks also. Lots of notebooks. I had also some information on various softwares.
You can imagine how easy it was to gather those infos ^^;;

Scrivener helps me with all that. It has something like three main folders: the draft one, in which you write your story/scenes/chapters and that you can organize in folders howerver you want, the research part, in which you can organize PDFs, images, sounds, web pages, ... and the trash bin ;p
I've been re-organizing all my files/notes for Guide and I can't tell you how much it helps to have everything I need in one window, instead of all over the place.


Still, I use about 4 softwares when I write:

1st - PageFour
Scrivener is great for organizing lengths of texts and such, but for one liner plot bunnies, I prefer PageFour. It has folders too, aka one FFVII folder, one for BtVS, one for HP, ... and in those I write down every plot bunny that bugs me.

2nd - Q10
This one is for the writing process itself. It's a full-screen, portable application (meaning, I can use the program from my USB key on every computers). You can tweak the colors of the background, the width/height of the writing space (meaning, if I want to see about 2 inches of text on three lines, I can customize it the way I want) and a few other things. Basically, you get a blank page with or without word count and clock and that's it. Then, you write. (without distractions, which is great ;p )

3rd - Scrivener
In which I copy/paste the text I wrote in Q10 and organize it and edit it. I can see the whole text in one long page, or just the chapters, or the cockboard, with card which helps me see where I'm going in the story. It has a full-screen feature too, but I prefer Q10 because I can take it everywhere with me.

4th and final - Microsoft Word
Because my beta-reader has the software, so we can go back and forth with *.docx files and liberally use highlighters and red font. Also useful to prettify your final version.

Last week-end, the Swiss ML challenged us: we had to write 10, 20 or 30k and we would get rewards (namely, a postcard and/or a sticker and/or a ficlet). ^_^

The idea really thrilled me! I so wanted that postcard and sticker, to stick them somewhere obvious, so that I could show off my Nanowrimo writing skills, and I DID IT!!!!

I managed to churn out 20'000 words between Friday and Monday O_o I impressed myself there!

So, what should have been a 2'000 HP fanfic just grew without my knowing it to a 26k monster, and it's still not done ^^;;; Also, I had decided to work on Guide for this Nanowrimo and so far I only wrote 5'000 words -_- I'm so far from the end of this story, it's not even funny ^^;;;

Anyway, somehow I didn't fell like writing this week, so I just didn't. Seeing as I have all the words needed up till Sunday 21th (35k), it wasn't so important, even if I missed a few days :p So I spent my week re-reading The Sentinel and Stargate Atlantis fanfics XD Gaia, I love those so much!

As a side note, I have 1'349 fics bookmarked on Delicious O_O I began bookmarking every fic I read in December 2008 and I know for a fact that the fic I read from February to April this year haven't been bookmarked, but still 1'300 fics! Holy S***!!!
Also, I save a backup of every fic I read, as well as bookmarking them. I save them in 'html only', no images or anything that could weight down the text file. I have now 829 Mo of text files... Again, Holy S***! O_O

So, first day nanowrimo-ing: 2421 words!

Not a bad start, I guess ^^ (especially knowing that last year I didn't begin before the 4th XDDD).

Went to a write-in/kick off in Lausanne this afternoon. Would probably have been more interesting if we had been more people, but still, it was good. Helped stay motivated (and I did write 1'500 words there, so not too bad).

We're gonna try and organize other meetings at Geneva, but for that, we need the forum and for that, we need the website. Gaia, I'd forgotten how slow it was the first days >_< I barely managed to add my day wordcount before the clock jumped to the 2nd of november ;p

as of April 15, 2012, I'm currently writing these fics/in these fandoms:

# Harry Potter #

• An "independent Harry". Currently at 6'700 words 13'000 words, as of 04/25/2012. (I really, really like that one. But it has the potential to be huge monster of a fic, so I won't be publishing it before a long time, just to be on the safe side of WIP VS Finished ;p )


# BBC Sherlock #

• A "5 times" fanfic. Currently at 4'600 words.


# The Social Network #

• 2 ficlets that will probably go in the scraps/unused folder.


# Final Fantasy VII #

• Guide WIP
"Nibelheim's reactor is due for a check-up and sixteen years old Cloud is hired to take the coming soldiers up the mountain."
--> Chapter 6: published
--> Chapter 7: in beta process
--> Chapter 8: to be beta'ed


• A Nanaki/Cloud PWP
For the ffvii_kink_meme prompt: May. 4th, 2009 11:18 am (UTC), Nanaki(Red XIII)/Cloud, Bestiality.
I'm maybe a thousand words from finishing it, then it needs to be reviewed intensively before being sent to my beta-reader.


# Buffy the Vampire Slayer #

• A Nanowrimo novel
Sort of rewriting of Shades of Grey, a previous one-shot of mine in which Xander discovered that one didn't need to be a demon to be evil and is now dealing with the fall-out of coming back from Oxnard.