October Writing Goals
Oct. 14th, 2009 04:32 pmThere are two things I would like to either finish or make significant progress on in October.
The first one is the Gabe/Victoria babyfic. It's now about 17,000 words, and she's still only seven months pregnant, which means there's probably a good 17,000 words or more to go. The posting dates for the challenge I'm writing this for (
bandomrarepair) are at the end of November. I would really like to be close to the end of it by the beginning of November so I can have some time to edit, fill in the missing pieces, and get someone to beta before it has to be posted. I might make a soundtrack for it too. I've been pulling random songs into a playlist as they play with iTunes on shuffle. For some reason I do not have Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach," which is a key song for this hypothetical soundtrack. Excerpt:
anon_lovefest thing I could post, I'm sure I'll end up writing bits either for
anon_lovefest or other things (like this and this), and
lakeeffectgirl and I are still working on our Joe/Nick control fic.
The first one is the Gabe/Victoria babyfic. It's now about 17,000 words, and she's still only seven months pregnant, which means there's probably a good 17,000 words or more to go. The posting dates for the challenge I'm writing this for (
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
They have a band meeting between soundcheck and the show. Alex makes half a dozen things for them to snack on and Gabe locks the door to the bus.The second one is a Mike Carden/Kevin Jonas story for this prompt. It starts on Halloween, and I think it would be cool to post it on Halloween. The biggest problem with this is that it's almost 6,000 words already and I have no idea where it's going or what I'm doing with it. Anyone who wants to read and brainstorm with me should let me know. Excerpt:
When they're all settled around the table, Gabe bangs his fist on the table. "Cobras, come to order."
Ryland promptly says, "Steak, rare, with the baked potato."
Gabe flips him off. "Any other wiseasses?" He waits for a moment, and then shakes his head. "I don't know if I should be glad you're taking this seriously or disappointed only one of you could come up with an appropriate joke." He doesn't wait for anyone to come up with another one before he says, "Victoria?"
She's sitting next to Gabe, and she reaches for his hand. He hums a few bars of "Papa Don't Preach," and Victoria stifles a burst of giggles.
"I'm keeping it." She's a lot less ambivalent about it now, and a smile takes over her face. "You're all going to be uncles."
Nate lets out a whoop. Alex grins and pushes one of the snack trays at her.
Ryland says, "Delicious," but his smile is too open to be Guy Ripley.
It's almost too much, and Victoria grips Gabe's hand to have some kind of outlet for it. He squeezes back and lets everyone spend another couple of minutes making excited exclamations. Victoria swallows the lump in her throat and tries not to let it make her cry.
Kevin doesn't really know how these things happen to him. It's possible he was a disobedient lemur in a past life and this is how the universe is letting him make amends. Or maybe there's like, some kind of quota for number of crazy things a person has to do in his life, and fate's just helping him along. But probably, probably it's just Joe's fault.Those are pretty much my only set writing goals for this month. In addition to those, I do have at least one more
It was Joe's idea to go out for pizza in the middle of the night on Halloween, and it was Joe who wouldn't let him be a zebra and made them be the T-Birds instead. Even Nick's quiet observation that "At least it wasn't the Pink Ladies" didn't make him much happier about it. He really wanted to be a zebra. Or, like, a cheetah. Something with a pattern.
So it's Joe's fault he's in a crowded pizza parlor on what is technically the day after Halloween when a girl in a really, really, really short skirt knocks into him and he reaches out to grab her so she doesn't fall and gets a handful of her waist where it's bare between her shirt and her skirt.
"Are you okay?" Kevin asks, or starts to ask, because he looks at her halfway through the question and she's beautiful and he kind of forgets how to speak.
"Let go of me," she says, or Kevin thinks she does. Now that he's noticing her, he can tell she's pretty drunk, and her words kind of slur together into one surprisingly deep tangle of syllables. She pushes at him, but when he lets go she starts to sway, and Kevin grabs at her again.
A guy dressed liked a tree - probably a willow, by the way his arms are all long and drapey, although maybe that's just the way his arms are - turns around from where he's talking to a guy dressed as a crocodile, or maybe an alligator - the difference is something about their teeth, and this guy just has regular old human teeth - and looks all the way down at Kevin and the girl.
"How kind of you," the tree says, "to take care of Mike in such a state of inebriation."
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)