1/10/2016, Weekly Words II

I HAVE RISEN.

No, seriously, my unit was dragged down thirty miles from our base to cover our busiest base's lack of trucks as the only Advanced Life Support crew on duty (aside from a medic on a fly car.) The problem with going all the way down there and staging at the hospital . . . camp I guess is the right word for it, is that it's not really a base like the one a few more miles down south, but we had to post in Portland in case there was an emergency. We were supposed to be the only crew in town for the night, but we did have another crew with us for the first two hours that we were there. In that tiny one-room base. I didn't sleep all night. That's why I slept all day until about an hour ago!

Yay me.

Welcome to Emergency Medicine, muddafuckas.

Anyway, time for Weekly Words!

I managed to find time, whilst dodging the raindrops from the ceiling over my bed and dying from double-workouts at the gym, to get my Christmas special almost done. I even managed to throw some words at another project: the TwiDash 3000 Member Group Collab!

As you can see, I've added another column to the chart because the inevitable finally happened and made me very sad: I missed my goal. It wasn't for lack of trying, however, we were just slammed with calls all night on the truck and I didn't have much of an opportunity to write. I did write an extra 500 last night to make up for it, though. Also, I couldn't sleep because that base was ratty as hell. Those aren't my blankets sitting next to me, and that's how I found the bed; I wasn't about to sleep in those and get scabies or some shit.

Gold Tinted Lenses is nearing completion. As you can see, it's clearly surpassed even my wildest imaginings of how long it would be. I had figured anywhere from 6-8k words, but it is now over 19.5k and I'm only about halfway through the final chapter. That's right, this one-shot is now a full-blown multi-chapter novella. Jesus, talk about a comeback. Also, I've already got the new fic shivers, so expect that at some point this coming week—depending on editing time, of course.

The TwiDash Group 3000 Member Group Collab is a collection of segments taken from a single premise and made into one fic. The idea is to improv the whole story, knowing only what the authors before you have written. You can go in any direction you want, as long as you're not totally ignoring what's happened before. The theme for this collab is a Daring Do convention, though it's been carried out in a somewhat unexpected way already. . .

Well, that's all I have for now. Next week, I'll discuss my next effort: the yet-to-be-named story that's actually the reason I decided to come back to writing pony!