Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

I FINISHED A CHAPTER AND POSTED IT. It's the first thing I've completed since August (damn it), so that feels really good. I hope you were even more productive (because honestly, a thousand words in a week is relatively productive for me right now, but not objectively very productive at all).

Share a line about love or hatred from your WiP.

“I’m at a hundred and twenty percent,” Sami said, grinning.

“It’s not possible to be at more than a hundred percent.”

“It is with us,” Sami said simply.

Comments

[bradygirl_12]

I'll have to come back about that line. :)

Yay for you! Sounds like you've taken a baby step and will be striding soon. Bet that feels great!

I hope to get something done this weekend. I went around and did errands today and finished my weekly cleaning so I'm free for the weekend. Maybe write something pertaining to Thanksgiving. Not sure yet.

[mithen]

LOL, I was going to ask if you got anything done by Thanksgiving and realized this was TWO THANKSGIVINGS AGO. Hm, those baby steps remain very, very baby!

[me_ya_ri]

Whoo! Go you! That's awesome, especially after the dry stretch. I hope you get many more words in the coming weeks!

I finished the latest Muirin novel (though my critical brain is whispering that I need to re-read it and change everything--gonna ignore that voice because it always messes me up) and started back into a novel that I set down because of that same critical voice. I gotta stop listening to that voice.

It's the novel I started writing in Japan back in March so it's good to get back to it after so long. I'm hoping to finish it for NaNo (hopefully sooner than the end of the month) and maybe get some short stories after that.

Quote from the very end of what I've gotten written on the new Japan novel!

"I'm being an idiot," he announced to the room. "An absolute idiot. Why am I doing this to myself?"

Valid question, as his therapist would say. Why was he doing this to himself?
Because he was so damned afraid. Afraid that Ken would have moved on. Afraid that he'd screw something up and piss Ken off to the point that he didn't want to talk to Sabah anymore. Afraid that he'd piss the others off and damn, that one really made him shake.

Jiro, Miguel and Adam were Ken's anchors. His true family. The people that Ken had built his entire life around. They were the core of his reality, the reason Ken got up in the morning and the last thing he thought about when he went to bed. Ken had said as much, many times, during their texts and emails.

"Yeah, sure," Sabah snapped at the voices yammering in his head that he was a fuck-up who was destined to die in a ditch somewhere. "They matter to Ken. He's also said about a million times that I matter. That he wants me to call when I come back. That he's interested in me. And, dumb-ass, that I should call the instant I get back to Japan so that we can meet up. So seriously, stop being a moron and use the damned phone!"

Sabah's therapist would have frowned for the harsh language but she also would have ordered him to get on the phone right away.

...

And now I need to go write more because yeah, Sabah really needs to call Ken before Ken starts climbing the walls. XD

Good luck with the writing!

[luciferxdamien]

Congrats!!! It's so satisfying to finish and post something after a long while, isn't it?! A thousand words a week is pretty productive, if you ask me! It's certainly a lot more than just one word a week, or even no words at all!!!

I've been writing a lot, a few thousand words a day, but eh. I'm not inspired right now and I'm fighting depression, but I'm attempting to push through it, even if everything I write is absolutely terrible. I can at least edit this mess afterwards right???

Loki was certainly selfish and he was greedy and he was dishonest and yet...

He would have turned away from this most sacred festival, ritual of theirs, willingly giving up his offerings, the praise, and the sacrifices made in his honour, Loki would have allowed himself to become weak, diminished, were it not for one person...

Were it not for Thor, Loki would have let himself fade away into the nothingness.

I made myself write this so I would have something adequate to share lol. For Loki, love and hate are kind of the same thing~

[mithen]

Were it not for Thor, Loki would have let himself fade away into the nothingness.

Hey, I'm so far behind it hardly matters, I'm sure, but it was such a pleasure to come across this! I love your Loki a lot. I do hope you've managed to get more writing done since then! :) I have not, so much, but... maybe someday? I just need to find a way to balance... everything.

[navaan]

Yay, congrats on being productive and finishing something!

WIP line: His treacherous heart gave a painful butterfly wing flutter to see him there, because Tony had half expected him not to be here anymore.

[mithen]

Ooooh, I really like that line! I hope that WiP became reality! (And I assume it did, because I know you have a very good track record of finishing things!)