{"id":3132,"date":"2015-11-14T01:37:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2015-11-14T01:37:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T06:37:31","slug":"its-almost-the-halfway-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2015\/11\/14\/its-almost-the-halfway-point\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s almost the halfway point!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far, I’m keeping just above the daily word count goal. The story has developed a romantic turn, to an extent, and when this is through, I’m going to have a helluva lot of research to do! Right now, I’m just pantsing along as usual. We’ll see if it actually turns into something I want to publish, here or elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I did meet someone at our library write-in who is publishing his story to fictionpress as he writes it. Since he’s rated it as “M” (think a movie rating of “R”) it’s not getting the traffic he would like. Hopefully, when he’s finished, he’ll be able to reconsider the rating. One of his plot twists is hilarious: he made one of his characters a lycanthrope but a specific type of dog lycanthrope instead of the traditional wolf. So the character has dog traits. You can imagine what some of those are!<\/p>\n

Thursday was also ML Appreciation Day. Some of my Wrimos chimed in to tell my co-ML and me how much they appreciated us. The staff always sings our praises in e-mails and on the ML’s private forum. But I actually got a gift from my daughter, the artist. She had been working on a series of avatars for me to use online, basically a picture of me (looking much better than I in real life!) enjoying some of my favorite fandoms.<\/p>\n

Here’s the base picture:<\/p>\n

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Here’s me as the Fourth Doctor, he being my Doctor (and having a scarf like his, too).<\/p>\n

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Here’s me in four different Thunderbirds<\/em> uniforms: the original series, the 2004 movie, the new Thunderbirds Are Go!<\/em> show, and as Dr. Dianne Tracy, my RP character from International Rescue: The Next Phase<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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But what kept me chortling from the moment I saw it was my ML one!<\/p>\n

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I shared it with all the other MLs in the chatnano ML room, and for the first time in 11 years, I changed my avatar on my NaNoWriMo profile! The Girl told me today that the shirt–which you can’t see very well here–is an amalgam of my navy ML signal shirt and a sketched skyline of Greenville, including the Liberty Bridge<\/a>. So much fun! \u00a0There’s a Girl Genius<\/em> one yet to come, but she says that will take some time to figure out because she has to change just about everything, including the glasses.<\/p>\n

So, that’s the scoop as I wrap up week two. Write-ins tomorrow at M. Judson, Booksellers<\/a> and the Augusta Road branch of our county library system. After that, I should be on the downhill slope to 50K!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So far, I’m keeping just above the daily word count goal. The story has developed a romantic turn, to an extent, and when this is through, I’m going to have a helluva lot of research to do! Right now, I’m just pantsing along as usual. We’ll see if it actually turns into something I want to publish, here or elsewhere. I did meet someone at our library write-in who is publishing his story to fictionpress as he writes it. Since…<\/p>\n

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