turps: (Governess Mikey ( turlough))
[personal profile] turps
I submitted my BBB in the early hours of this morning. It's got three placeholder scenes and the worst ending ever. Seriously, if it gets picked for a mix I feel like I should be apologising to that person because they're going to get to the end and go, the fuck? But after churning out over 5k yesterday I hit a spot where I was done. I didn't want to look at it, think about it, anything. So slapped on a last line and said, that's it.

Thankfully for any readers there's time to actually expand that ending, because how it stands now I wouldn't want anyone to see it.

While I was writing the first pictures from Comic Con started to show up, and I was delighted to see that Mikey was wearing his Governess!Mikey hat of ugly awesomeness.

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Then this one turned up this morning.

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Corey's painting his bedroom today. He's having it white with a black feature wall so is up there banging around. I keep going up and helping move furniture when needed but mostly he's going solo. How James hasn't woke up I don't know, what with the shifting things around and the chaos of trying to herd cats out of the room.

While he's doing that I intend to chill by myself, and hopefully catch up online. Which so far has meant me watching the last three episodes of Leverage. A good use of my time I'd say.

Date: 2011-07-23 01:20 pm (UTC)
eledhwenlin: (Default)
From: [personal profile] eledhwenlin
Yay you for submitting your bbb! I'm sure you'll be able to iron out all the kinks during beta. <3

Date: 2011-07-23 02:57 pm (UTC)
ephemera: celtic knotwork style sitting fox (Default)
From: [personal profile] ephemera
Yay you for scraping in under the deadline, so you can do the editing/expansion in the next round - that sounds like an epic push to the line!

Date: 2011-07-23 03:27 pm (UTC)
sperrywink: (Mikey OMG by turloughishere)
From: [personal profile] sperrywink
Mikey's governess hat is the best! ♥

Everyone looks so good and happy! I approve of these Comic Con shenanigans.

5k!!! You rock. Under that kind of stress, I would be lucky to get 5 words.

Date: 2011-07-23 08:06 pm (UTC)
turlough: castle on mountain top in winter, Burg Hohenzollern ((mcr) gerard way is adorkable)
From: [personal profile] turlough
YOU DID IT!!! \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ And now you've got a whole month to make it presentable!

Ack!! Mikey and the Ugly Hat is back. The HORROR!!

I hope Corey's painting went well and that no cats got too paint spattered ;-)

Date: 2011-07-23 10:14 pm (UTC)
turlough: castle on mountain top in winter, Burg Hohenzollern ((other) i love cats!)
From: [personal profile] turlough
A whiter shade of tail ;-P

Date: 2011-07-27 03:27 am (UTC)
glitteryv: (Mikeyway in Black&White)
From: [personal profile] glitteryv
Wooo for turning in your bbb! \Terri!/

I remember doing a triple take when I saw the Governess!Mikeyway photo. *g* I'm not ashamed to say that I squeed as if I'd been the recipient of a cup of good Chai that had poofed from the thin air. Hee!

Date: 2011-07-23 01:13 pm (UTC)
ext_12155: (Default)
From: [identity profile] schneestern.livejournal.com
OMG I know the feeling re:BBB. I almost attached an apology along the lines of SORRY THE FIRST HALF OF THIS FIC IS TOTALLY READABLE AND THE LATTER HALF IS SUCH UTTER SHIT. Seriously. I hope my mixer/artist person won't cry and be all WHY DID I CLAIM THIS OH WHY?

Date: 2011-07-23 01:41 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (bite me)
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
YES! That's it exactly. Mine is pretty solid then you get toward the end and it goes downhill fast. I know it's only a first draft and will be fixed, but my poor mixer D:

Date: 2011-07-23 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annemaris.livejournal.com
Wow, 5k in a day? I think I got about 3K yesterday, maybe. Something like that. Submitted at 5AM, woooot. And then woke up at 10AM for some reason, wtf.

Anyway, I'm both excited and scared about the mixer/artist claiming, and also worried that I totally forgot to map out some important details or something, since I looked it over at... 5AM. Also, I don't have an ACTUAL ending scene, like the very end, and instead wrote smth like "ending scenes are hard!" there. Like, the plot was already done with, but man. /o\ Thing is, sometimes I write a scene and then realise that I've actually written the last scene and THEN my brain thinks that I am DONE with the story, even though I have tons of other scenes to write. ... Whoa, rambling.

Date: 2011-07-23 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squashbee.livejournal.com
Your draft should be fine; at any rate, you can spend the rest of the time until the final submission date to spiffy up parts that need expanding. :)

I really like Gerard's red hair with the black roots coming out. Also, helloooooo sideburns!

Room painting sounds like a lot of fun but also a lot of work. Doesn't it get paint-fumy?

Leverage is really cool, so definitely a good use of time!

Date: 2011-07-23 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowgirl13.livejournal.com
Ahahahaha....oh god, Terri. That's pretty much where I'm at with my BBB too. I did say in my email that mixer/art peeps can contact me if they have questions - I figure I'll offer my profuse apologies then. ;P How much time do we have to fix the drafts?

COMIC CON!
Man, I really want to go one of these years. Thanks for posting the pics. Lyn-Z is a hot ass, as per usual and DAMN MIKEYWAY. The governess hat cannot disguise your blazing hot buff self. [Seriously - when did he get *that* buff? I mean, yes, he's been spreading the hotassery around for some time, but the shoulder/chest/arms sitch in those pictures is a little unreal.]

Date: 2011-07-23 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perspexsea.livejournal.com
Maybe that bonnet is mikeyway's version of the baseball cap-and-sunglasses combo used by famous people all around to disguise themselves? NO ONE WILL RECOGNIZE ME IF I PUT ON THIS HORRID BONNET, IT IS A GENIUS MASTER PLAN

Date: 2011-07-23 08:09 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (Governess Mikey ( turloughishere ))
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
I think you're onto something there! Disguising his hotness with the bonnet of ugly.

Date: 2011-07-23 08:10 pm (UTC)
turlough: castle on mountain top in winter, Burg Hohenzollern (yeah!)
From: [personal profile] turlough
YOU FINISHED A BBB, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I thought one of the summaries sounded suspiciously familiar but since I didn't know you were writing for this wave I thought it was just a coincidence.

Date: 2011-07-23 08:14 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (Governess Mikey ( turloughishere ))
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
I should have added something like that. Because, ouch. The end is *really* bad.

I think we have about three weeks. Which I could do with three months.

Comic con looks amazing, and not just for the bandom element. He's obviously been working out getting ready for his second wrestling career *g*

Date: 2011-07-23 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowgirl13.livejournal.com
I DID!!! THANK YOU!
And we can actually thank the new job for this too, because I was talking about writing with my carpool pal Friday morning and she talked me into finishing the story.

Ahaha... I can understand how you might think that was a concidence, considering that this is the VERY FIRST time I've finished a challenge story. But no, that's definitely me. :D

Date: 2011-07-23 08:24 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (leverage (hermitsoul))
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
I hope so. I keep imagining my poor mixer reading something that's okay at the beginning and the dips at the end.

Both Ways seem to have out of control sideburns, it's insane.

It does get paint fumey, but it's done now and the house is airing out. Hopefully the smell will be gone by tomorrow.

I love Leverage, especially the threesome of awesome.

Date: 2011-07-23 08:26 pm (UTC)
turlough: castle on mountain top in winter, Burg Hohenzollern (yay!)
From: [personal profile] turlough
You totally rock!! I'm so proud of you! Now I'm looking forward to posting time even more!

Date: 2011-07-23 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowgirl13.livejournal.com
That seems like the best way to approach such things. I'm trying to not apologize outright.

*hugs tight*
I understand so, so much. If it helps, my end is currently an outline. :D? And I suspect that yours is much, much better than you think.

Three weeks! I can do three weeks. If it was much longer, I think my brain would explode.

The bandom element is only a small part of why I want to go too.
Ahahahaha... yeah, that must be what's going on there.

Date: 2011-07-23 08:28 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (Ryan 2)
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
It was 5k of desperation! Split over a full day so it wasn't that impressive.

Thing is, sometimes I write a scene and then realise that I've actually written the last scene and THEN my brain thinks that I am DONE with the story, even though I have tons of other scenes to write. ..

I hear you! I do that often, my brain going, it's finished. Then my beta says, oh no it's not!

And I see you've been claimed. Congrats!

Date: 2011-07-23 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annemaris.livejournal.com
Still seems impressive to me. :DD

Yes! \o/ And you too, wohoo! Now I'm reading the summaries and refreshing the artists' post, lol.

Date: 2011-07-23 08:40 pm (UTC)
themoononastick: refract ([leverage] elliot - dandy!)
From: [personal profile] themoononastick
Mikey! In his bonnet of awesome! Comic con is so good to us \o/

Leverage has been especially awesome so far this season. Last week's episose was just gorgeous, and the one with the murder mystery type deal kept making me crack up because Elliot looked like he'd stepped straight out of the Sixteen Candles 'verse.

I'm keeping quiet about your BBB and its ending *g* But still, CONGRATULATIONS on "finishing" on time, bb!

Date: 2011-07-23 08:45 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (Governess Mikey ( turloughishere ))
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
I love Mikey's bonnet so much. He had to have gone out and purposely picked the ugliest version possible, and then made it work.

He did! His bow tie and hat and now I'll always picture him going off to fight with vampires. He'd kick their ass I'm sure.

I just read T's comment before yours, about how the ending probably isn't as bad as I think, and I was trying to think of ways to say, yeah, it really, really is *g*

Date: 2011-07-23 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowgirl13.livejournal.com
EEEE!
*tacklehugs*

You rule.

Date: 2011-07-23 09:16 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (Ways! ( turlough))
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
OMG. Look at this!

Image (http://s640.photobucket.com/albums/uu128/mikeyway_daily/?action=view&current=5967466961_c5bb59fe4f_b.jpg)

It gives me heart eyes, and want to write all the fic about the Ways. All of it! I may have to work Gerard into a scene more somehow.

Date: 2011-07-23 10:01 pm (UTC)
themoononastick: refract ([bandom] ways - walk the beat)
From: [personal profile] themoononastick
&WAYS; *______*

I am on board with you writing all the fic about the Ways, very on board. And, um, in my head there is totally a subplot to your BBB involving the Ways and brotherly advice.

Date: 2011-07-23 10:08 pm (UTC)
ext_1650: (Gerard/Mikey (green))
From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
And, um, in my head there is totally a subplot to your BBB involving the Ways and brotherly advice.

*____*

There's so much I want to say right now but it would reveal what I actually wrote. Still, I can imagine those conversations so well.

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