Status Report: Weekly Thirty-Three

[nekokoban]

SUCCESS!

Word Count: 6008 words (!)
Subjects: au_bigbang and imaginarybeasts

Excerpt: "She likes it when we go driving," he writes to Gabrielle, "and I think she likes it better than when we go to her house or mine, even when Mom's at work."

"You're very charming," she writes back, a month later, after he has kissed two other girls and has settled for the time being with a third. "You always have been. Don't break her heart too much."

"You like it when I'm charming," he writes back; it is all he allows himself, and after that he changes the subject to music, asking after her trumpet, telling her about his violin. He buys his girlfriend--because he supposes that is what she is, at this point--lily-of-the-valley perfume, which she first wears too strongly, and then stops using altogether. When Gabrielle's next letter comes, he is single again, and he tells her as much: "I may be charming, but not for very long. You and Mom are the only two women who stick around."

Thoughts: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so I realized on Friday night that imaginarybeasts was due Monday and I really didn't want to default because kyaa kyaa I loved the theme. ("Heaven and Hell.") I'm not sure if I really pulled it off the way I wanted to (if I could submit something previously written, I probably would've submitted the sheol story, sob.) Yesterday was Grocery Adventure Day, and today was Clothes Shopping Adventure Day (conclusion: groceries were about 500000x more successful than clothes), so while I was actually out of my apartment more than I was in it, I managed to get this written ... mostly in a day! Hooray!

I'm still kind of failing at the "write a little bit every day" thing, and I suspect I will continue to fail with this next week, especially with a Work Thing (which means basically I have to go in at 7:30 and can leave at 4, but cry that means being in the office before my alarm normally goes off; it will be an interesting flipflopping sleep schedule this week!) on Wednesday. I really do want to, because man, I'd like to actually write fic I can post again, even if it's just singing robot stuff. :|a On the other hand, I think I have two VICTORIAN DETECTIVES! things I wrote for the kink meme that I haven't posted yet; maybe I will do that this week! Wouldn't that be nice! Let's see if I remember.

I also need to start actually posting in general again, not just fic. And maybe starting to crosspost to my dreamwidth. Hm!

In other news, this is the sort of face I make constantly while writing, only I can't ever write things longhand (and boy do I wish I could), so really I just have the pen to chew on.