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Happy birthday to

_ducks! Abi, I hope you have a fantastic day, full of happiness and good thing. I'd send love from Kevin but it's your birthday, so I won't mention him today ;)

My kidlet has just told me I have eyes the size of the moon. I suspect this is a sign of many playings of Pretty. Odd.

James has decided to take our fence down this morning. The gate has been off for weeks now, and planks had fallen out leaving gaps, but at least it was up. Yesterday he bumped into one of our neighbours who said he knew someone who could fix it. They came and the guy said all the boards were rotten and would all need fixing. Which yeah, the chances of us being able to afford to do that are zero. So James phoned my brother, who got his friend ( our next door neighbour) to have a look, and he said the planks and posts were fine. Just needed re nailing, setting in new concrete etc.

This morning James has been out and pulled down all the planks, and while doing so another neighbour stopped and said he used to be a fence person, and would come and do the grunt work tomorrow for the price of a few drinks, which is an offer we're not about to refuse. Still, until then we have no fence at all, and it's weird looking out at the window and not having that barrier between our garden and the path.

In more fannish news. In the last 7 days I've written nearly 12,000 words and I strongly suspect this may jump by a few thousand more by the time I finish the story sometime today. This is insane. I only write this fast when I have a deadline approaching fast, not for a story I'm writing just because.

Still, it's good because next week I'm moving onto the choey wakes up gay on a pirate ship story \o/

ETA: Also, I've been reading at adult ffnet lately. In one story the author obviously got sick of writing it, so suddenly killed Mikey with a heart attack. So there you go, if you too are writing a story and are stuck, death is always an option.

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Fences are such a pain in the butt! I need to replace the fence at the back of my yard. Eh. *ignores it for another year*

Wow, you have been writing like a fiend! That's wonderful!

Fences do suck! I wouldn't mind so much but the dog likes to lie in the garden, but obviously can't with missing planks. Also, if one more person looks into my garden I may start flipping them off.

I have been writing like a fiend. It's very scary. Especially as I keep having to stop and laugh at myself for what I'm actually writing about *g*

Thank you! And thank you for not mentioning Kevin, very restrained of you. WAIT A MINUTE.

*lambslambslambslambslambslambslambs*

the choey wakes up gay on a pirate ship story \o/

\o/ indeed! I suppose I should start mine, because at the speed I write, I'm lucky if I have 100 words by the next Camp Sparkle. It's GSF + backstage + undercover (or underage, as I always read it) rentboys. *headdesk* The GSF alone would have been enough of a challenge!

Sometimes I think that it would be really nice to have my own little house. And then I hear about things like FENCES and OVERGROWN LAWNS and DRAINS and HEATING and I'm so happy and content with my apartment again :-)

Yay!!! for getting so much writing done!!! The brothers Way are very inspiring :-)

My kidlet has just told me I have eyes the size of the moon. I suspect this is a sign of many playings of Pretty. Odd.

Bwhee! I dunno though - that song is a readymade earworm [like U2's 'Beautiful Day']; mention any lyric, and it starts looping through your brain.

Congrat on all the writing! *twirls you* That has to feel so GOOD.

So..adult ffnet. Are you trolling the questionable quality fanfic again? And what's up with killing off Mikeyway? He seems to be the most popular sacrifical band member.

So there you go, if you too are writing a story and are stuck, death is always an option.
Death or the sudden appearance of ninjas.

Dude, I'll have to remember that death thing next time I get stuck. Oh, wait, with Sam and Dean, that's canon. Oops, have to think of something else then.

It's great fun to just write, isn't it?

go team you on that wordcount!

and hurray for helpful neigbours

Joey wakes up gay on a pirated ship! Really?
LOL! :p

And I'll definitely need to kill one of my characters like this at least once! :p

Why must people always spot my dastardly plots?!

Hope it's been a good one *mwah*

It's very much of the \o/

A fun story is just what I need. And yes! Yes you should start yours! Though I have to admit, yours is more of a challenge.

I have to admit, I look back at renting fondly at times. Especially when I look outside and have no fence :(

The brothers Way own me at the moment. No word of a lie.

I dunno though - that song is a readymade earworm [like U2's 'Beautiful Day']; mention any lyric, and it starts looping through your brain.

It really is. The amount of time I keep thinking of 'It's nine in the afternoon and your eyes are the size of the moon' is insane! Of course that now has a mega mix of Beautiful Day now too.

The writing feels awesome! The story is sent to beta now, and I think if I even looked at it right now I'd want to hit something. But tomorrow, tomorrow I shall edit and polish. And actually read the flist. The stupid story has taken up so much of my online time lately.

Are you trolling the questionable quality fanfic again?

I am! I can't help it! It's just, so bad and there's Waycest but it's mega angsty and Mikey keeps having anorexia and dying. It's quite concerning. I suspect he gets killed because he's so skinny, he has willowy wrists don't you know? Plus, it gives added Gerard angst, and that's always a plus.

Oh. Ninjas. We could have death and ninjas. That would be so cool!

Yeah, sadly Sam and Dean gives problems to the whole kill someone to end a story thing. It's quite inconsiderate of them.

It's great fun to just write, isn't it?

It's the best! I have no idea if anyone will even read what I post, but I don't give a damn. This last week has been fun, and having those words flow and not be pulled out one by one. Well, that's awesome.

Thank you!

I have to admit, I've enjoyed writing the story. Whether I still say that later when I need to edit the damn thing I don't know *g*

I love my neighbours right now. I'll love them even more when my fence is back up. I really don't like it not being there.

Yep!

When I was at Camp Sparkle we played a game called crude-o, which is basically Clue with a sparkly twist. Whoever won had to write the story that won for them, and mine was Choey waking up gay on a pirate ship *g*

Yes, you should kill a character! Just have them drop down dead. It's really quite an effective way to end things.

Thassa lotta words! Kudos to you!

It is a lot of words. I'm pretty boggled at myself.

I'm posting it today, this may be giving me anxiety.

I, on the other hand, cannot wait. :)