Fic: Of past rejection and future loyalty
I have written 50 000 words during November and ever since then I have been working on editing the whole story. It is huge and I have never worked this way. Editing is going really really slow I am aware of that but I am still working on this story and I am getting there.
I have actually printed it out in December, well let someone print it out because it is 150 pages. I spaced the lines bigger then usual so that I would be able to add my adjustments to them. And that is what I have been doing since. It is a lot of work! I set up a system with different colors of post-its to add extra notes and/or scenes to the pages.
One day though I will post my big NCIS/Criminal Minds Crossover fic and it will be probably my biggest story yet. I am looking forward to that moment when I post it and especially to the comments/reviews I receive. That would be great because without a doubt this is the fic I poured my heart and soul in.
The headslap montage
Gibbs love to headslap people or as we NCIS fans call it he loves to hand out Gibbs slaps … see this season 3 montage for some funny moments. Very inspiring!Fic: The Butterfly Effect
WINNER!!!! Yes, I did it!
I can’t hardly believe it myself but I made it!!!
It is fucking amazing, this is a great achievement and I am so glad that I tried it. I have been so busy this past month but I also managed to write 50 000 words! And that is a lot of words, my last fic was 42 000 words and I worked on that piece three months at least! Now I did 50 000 in one month. And what is even better I didn’t use any cheats! Not one!!!
Of course I will make changes and adjustments but all in all I will be using everything that I have written in my fic once it is finished. I have written 50 000 words but I am nowhere near the end. I have a lot that I still want to write and there are still quite some scenes and chapters which I have to connect to each other. Cause right now some parts are more like scenes then a real story.
So now they give me the case I needed!
So I was watching Criminal Minds this week and writing a lot too.I have already rewritten two scenes because of the mayor change on the Criminal Minds team. And since my story starts with a joined case both the Criminal Minds team and the NCIS team are working a case from their own angle. Criminal Minds matches their case to an NCIS case and unknown to NCIS at that point came to the same conclusion and they stumble upon one of the suspects and the latest victim at the same time.
Truth be told I suck at writing case files, half way through the story it always gets pushed back and the cases never really get solved. Because the drama and love angle always takes first place in my stories. This time however I have been trying to write a case file and I am still not good at it so I was very annoyed when I just saw this weeks episode in which a army family gets killed.
If that episode had been aired a couple of weeks earlier I could have used that as an angle to start the story. Yes, writing fanfiction can be frustrating at times!!! Gah!
Oh well who knows, I might be able to use some of it to my benefit at least I now know that apparently the BAU works cases involving the army or marines too which is good. I can use that!
Of past rejection and future loyalty
I have no idea were it came from but it was a sentence that came to mind all of the sudden. And it wouldn’t let me go, so I settled on the idea of making this my title. Usually I start out with a working tittle but this one is too perfect to let it go.
The story is getting clearer, I am seeing more and more scenes. I just need to find the time to write them down. And even though this week has turned out to be far more busy then I expected only a week ago and it is far more difficult to get the writing done then I expected but then again it could also be typically me. At the start my writing goes slow the farther I get into a project the better it goes. I just go with the flow and the motions until my story has been told.
Anyway for all you curious people here is the first scene, or well at least the scene that at this point is my first scene. Though it might change overtime;
Ziva David had no idea what happened when she stared down the barrel of the gun that was pointed at her. But what she saw next shocked her to the core of her being, the face behind the gun was so familiar. The familiarity of the face behind the gun rendered her motionless, she seemed unable to think and had forgotten every bit of training that usually came natural to her. But this was different, she never imagined that she would ever look into those dark brown eyes again. That was when she dropped her arm which had been holding her gun pointed at the person in front of her. Her Sig now pointed at the dusty grey floor tiles in a moment of lost concentration. For Ziva, who was usually on top of her game and always in a state of alertness this was un-called for. Ziva knew that hardly any time had passed between Tony kicking the door open and herself advancing inside pointing her gun at the first moving target but at the same time it seemed as if time stood still. And then she heard her own name fall from the lips of the other person; “Ziva.” She spoke hardly above a whisper certainly not something anyone else in the room could have picked up on. But she knew that her reaction was obvious, everyone in the room knew that Ziva and the other woman knew each other.
The start of a novel…
My weekend was literally crazy, on Saturday I went to Utrecht to the NaNoWriMo kick off party! Which was great, I loved it. It is very inspiring to talk to other people about writing. It is really interesting to hear what other people like to do while writing, how they work. If they listen to music or enjoy the silence. If they research while writing or do all their research ahead of time.
I really enjoyed listening to everyone hearing their ideas and especially all of the differences between everyone. I have heard that there where about 60 people at the gathering. I really liked meeting everyone and it really put me into the right mood to write. Only problem at this moment is that my life is so filled with obligations that I can hardly find the time to do anything about my writing. But this year I am going to try and make it.
