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I can't believe it y'all. I finished my Sultry in September story today. I forgot to flail here in my journal for your benefit. How could I skip the most important part of the whole process? The pain and suffering? The flagellation, the recriminations, the angst? I mean rly?!

I am really sorry. I did have a bit of trouble figuring it out but the story was not too bad this time once I got down to writing. It coasted in there at a little over 3k words and just finished itself up today. I hope it does not suck but I kind of like it! I am usually wondering over here if the story sucks and I like it. What is going on?!

Maybe it really does suck and I am fooling myself. I am totally delusional. I don't know. Something has to be wrong.

Anyhoo. You will just have to read it in September. That is all I am telling you about this one for now. Zipping it. Anyone else out there writing for the swap? Comment here if you are.

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I have orientation next week at work - that will be busy. I just had my review at work - that went as expected so I will get a raise this year. I am bored at work and coasting - that is not good - I need to dial it up to 11 and get it in gear. I literally am bored. I do have a few new projects but they are not that exciting. My co-workers are fun but some of them are retiring so that makes me sad. My really good friend is retiring next summer and I am going to miss her a lot. So that makes me feel like I should move on to another position. So better get it in gear. I have to motivate. That is about it there.

Anyhoo - I am maintaining my weight loss pretty well - working out - eating right - blah blah. I feel like I have made the permanent shift to the healthier lifestyle. I still do the Weight Watchers thing - it gives me the parameters to follow for healthy living. I also like the community there. So that is awesome.

Anyway. That is what is going on. Hope all is well with you there. Comments are love!

But not enough on my story. It is getting close and I am not done. This is going to be a nail biter! Ahhh! It is my own fault. I have not had that much time to write this time with traveling and all that. Oh well. I will pull it out I hope. Hope all is well with you there!

OMG y'all. I finished this story! I might actually get it done in time. Thanks to the amazing aglarien1 doing my beta at crunch time. She totally rocks.

Here is the triumphant word meter.

7429 / 7429 words. 100% done!

So I have been writing. I don't know exactly what I have been writing. The plot is evading me. There are words in my MS Word file - 2227 words and no discernible plot to speak of. I don't know what this story wants to be. I am typing at any rate. :-/ I guess that is something.

2227 / 5000 words. 45% done!

Hey-D-Ho there - It is time to sign up for Sultry in September - this year's version of Ardor in August - the Tolkien fandon fan fic swap - you write a story and you get a story. It is very fun. Here is the link to the post on the Slashy Santa Community. Calling all fandom writers!

http://slashy-santa.livejournal.com/83681.html

Woot. I signed up just now. If you tried to sign up and the form was not working - try again now - the form has been fixed. So go for it!

It is a good opportunity to get some fun writing done and get an interesting prompt!

Go for it!

The Sultry in September stories were revealed yesterday and I will post the link to the big list of the stories for you. There are some great stories this time and if you are a Tolkien fan or like to read fan fiction, you should check these stories out. A very talented group of writers who really gave it their all this time.

Link to the list of stories:
http://slashy-santa.livejournal.com/74583.html

The story that was written for me was called "Inevitable" by Tehta. It was a time spanning tale of the relationship between Aegnor and Glorfindel. Gorgeous description and realization of First Age time frame while keeping in with canon in an interesting way. I really enjoyed this story and hope you will too.

My story is called "I Hear a Voice on the Wind" and it was written for Zeen. It is the story of Fingon's rescue of Maedhros from Thangorodrim and their love. A bit of tristesse to the tale. I will post it here later but feel free to read it on the site.

So go forth and read these stories. You will enjoy them in all their slashy, Tolkien goodness. Cheers!

And my beta did my first read through and my story does not suck. I totally trust my kind and generous beta to tell me if it is bad so this is a relief. Total honesty is expected. Story not sucking. Woot!

2260 / 2260 words. 100% done!

I am still done but will review beta notes at a later time so there is still that to do to polish the story. So not quite done but I am much relieved that I did not write a totally bad story.

Yay!

Woo hoo! I have finished my story. I wrote the ending yesterday and I have to do some edits to it and tweak it a little bit but I basically have the story done. Angst achieved per my person's request. Yes.

2260 / 2260 words. 100% done!

Woot. I am pretty happy. I am going away in August so needed to have this done. Hope everyone else is doing well. khylea will be my amazing beta. Things are moving along.

Cheers to you!

Here is my word meter. I am not getting anywhere in this story but have made small progress since last time so I can post a word meter. Fooling myself into thinking I am making progress.

623 / 1200 words. 52% done!

Lies, all of this! Well, not all of it. I have that many words but have no idea how long the final story will be.

Anyhoo. That is all.

So had a nice holiday weekend. I had to work on Friday so I had the 4th of July off and then went into the office for a very quiet, easy day of work. It really was not so bad. I got my email totally under control and it was a good day to work. I did not want to use my vacation time for that day off so I worked and had a very nice time. Very few people there and got to do my own thing. I really had a great time. And on to movie reviews.

White House Down - Channing Tatum goodness yeah. I really love him. This was an action packed movie that was about 15 minutes too long. It really could have used some editing and needed to be tighter. I liked it but think that Olympus Has Fallen beat this movie to the punch on the White House invasion scenario plotted movies. Good film to watch at home. Jamie Fox as the President was an inspired choice and he rocked it. See it just for that.

The Lone Ranger - I made the mistake of looking at Rotten Tomatoes before seeing this and was not expecting much as it got critically panned. Well, total surprise of a movie for me. This was a really riveting film, fascinating performance by Johnny Depp and the action was well paced. The movie had a more real portrayal of Native Americans than old Lone Ranger stuff did and that makes for quite a bit of sadness as you view the film. Be prepared for that. This Lone Ranger comes into his heroism and I really enjoyed Armie Hammer in this role - he develops and grows. I disagree with the critics on this one and really enjoyed this film.

Anyways - back to work tomorrow. Next week is Pacific Rim. Very excited about that - a movie about giant robots and alien monsters. Cannot wait for that.

Hope your weekend was good - Happy 4th to US folks - and I am still researching my Sultry work here. Cheers!


by lanbelle