Category: The Colonel Says…

Okay, what’s wrong with me…

On By Kim KnoxIn fanfic, Sweat with Sven, The Colonel Says..., Writing2 Comments

…because I had another good day of writing. 1211 on Satin Spar and 319 on Fracture (which I shouldn’t have jumped into yet… but the temptation was there so I took it.)

It seems to be a combination of things:

1. The end of the story for Satin Spar. I always write fast as I come to the end of a story as I finally have a good idea about the plot and the characters by this point. 😉

2. Sweating with Sven. There’s something encouraging about knowing 300 people are doing exactly the same thing and are sharing it on their blogs and on loops. It’s more personal than NaNo.

3. The Colonel. I have a reward icon that I’m not allowing myself to post until I finish Satin Spar. Sad, but there it is. It is a very nice icon though *grin*

So, hopefully I’ll get my minimum word count out this morning as this afternoon I have to go to Frodo’s school to watch the infants perform a dance. The invite says Salsa. My mind is boggling, LOL

Spiders… *shudder*

On By Kim KnoxIn spiders, Sweat with Sven, The Colonel Says..., Writing3 Comments

It’s been wet here all summer and that according to some sources The Ent found that means that it’s been a great time for spiders.

This definitely seems to be the case in our house. They are bloody everywhere. And not just little cute money spiders, but the ones that are all legs and teeny tiny bodies. I came down one morning to find the first makings of a web from my front windows to the couch!

So to this morning. Samwise wanted to draw. He has a large gift bag that he got from a recent wedding and it’s full of paper and pens and crayons. He sticks his little hand in it… and shrieks. There’s a spider in the bag. And not a little one. This one is four inches across and its legs are long and its body is big. It looks like an Arachnophobia spider. Eeep.

I am not the best shoo-er away of spiders in the world and this one creeped me out big time. So, we left the mega-beast in the bag and I took Samwise to pre-school, with the promise that I would shake the spider out into the garden.

I’ve just done that, and I still have goosebumps. *shudder*

To Sven news. I got 1300 written yesterday so my first 3 day total was 2869 which is fab, LOL I also made myself a new Colonel icon which I’ll post when I finish Satin Spar. Yay.

Checking in

On By Kim KnoxIn Sweat with Sven, The Colonel Says..., Writing3 Comments

So… I met the daily minimum word count for Sweat70. Yesterday’s words I tried to hack out before Stargate Atlantis came on at 8pm. Almost made it… and then had to watch as those bad, bad SGA writers killed my ship *waaahh*

Not that there was much emotion. Elizabeth Weir is always too stoic and well, Joe Flanigan aka John Sheppard, while nice to look at, isn’t all there in the acting department *sigh*

That over and the few extra words clawed out, I also plotted halfway through Fracture which should be an interesting and complicated one to write. Complicated? Which story of mine doesn’t have more twists and turns than a twisty-turny-thing on its holiday at Twisty-Turny-World…?