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Thirty. Thousand. Words. I did it. I have never written that much in a month, ever. Longest story I've written was just over 30,000 words - and that one took me about six months. Not that that was necessarily the only thing I wrote on during that time, but yeah. So happy! :D

Heheh, I actually came surprisingly close to not making it at the last minute, though. Today and yesterday I was pretty much fighting every step of the way, with absolutely no motivation, and grinding out those words was painful. Although, surprisingly, I actually do really like what I got done. And I got through several really tough spots in the story, too! (Heh, which, yes, could have a leetle something to do with my lack of eagerness to get at it. :P) If it hadn't been for the knowledge that falling less than 2,500 words short of the goal at that point in the game would be well and truly pathetic...

I am just really pleased with the overall progress I managed, though.

- Over half of what I did was on my original story. Unlikely I'll actually be able to use any of it without major re-writing, to say the least, but for the sheer amount of ideas generated and pages of notes I got down? Oh yes, jumping in blindly proved far more worthwhile than I'd expected.

- Got some progress in on the story for

cirtholien. Not as much as I'd have liked, really, but it's moving along. :3

- LOTR stuff! :D The post-ROTK one is fuuun. I suspect I'm gonna have to ruthlessly cut a whole lot from the beginning, though, lest potential readers die of boredom. Dialogue tends to give me stage fright, and so I procrastinate by writing Much Introspection. XP Now the Aragorn-with-the-Rangers one? That's coming more slowly, but I'm really liking what's there so far. At any rate, it's the kind of story I'd really like to read, so that tends to be a good sign? Here's hoping it continues to go smoothly!

- The Temeraire-NCIS story. Remember way back when I posted about that dream I had? Well, believe it or not I've been working on the story off and on since then, though it kept getting set aside in favor of other projects. This last week I managed to get past a bunch of difficult spots that I've been hung up on for a while. I think I'm actually nearly at the point where I've done all the necessary development and just need to decide what else I feel like playing around with to wrap up the story properly. Yay!

Also got a bit of arty stuff done recently, so I think I'll post a handful of pics while I'm here. ^.^

Although the majority of my most recent writing progress has been on fanficcy stuff, I have done a few more sketches of some of the various creatures from my original stuff.

Did some more doodles of various bat-dragons. One on the left's rather meh overall, but I do like the expression. And I really like the way the baby came out. :3

Possible appearance for a less-than-friendly lizardy type. Kinda a super-chameleon.

A fisher cat. Somewhat similar to actual fishing cats, but closer to servals in appearance. (Yes, apparently I like animals with long legs and long tails. XD)

And lookit! I finally drew a snarly face that doesn't look completely warped! *bounces* Actual ability to tell what species it's supposed to be's more iffy (it was gonna be one of the nasty types I did earlier), but hey, I'm still happy.