I just posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW-Europe RP forums. I’m still just doing one update per week but next week I may be able to get two done. It’s going to depend on how much writing I can clear out this weekend what with all the raids I have running on Saturday and Sunday.
Seriously, [WTB] 36 hour day.
Story Updates
*Whew* Fifteen. Pages.
Well, I managed to do it. 15 pages written on Alayne’s Story this week. If I can keep this up for a few more weeks, I’ll have a decent padding back. I’ll post the update for this week tomorrow and then see if I can swing two next week or if it would be wiser to just do one.
This means, of course, that I’ve had no time to work on The Unexiled. 🙁
I’m also going to have to find someone to raid lead next weekend’s PuG raids. I really think I need to spend every other weekend writing if I’m going to keep up the pace here. Not to mention, I’m just getting a little tired of Naxx 25 all the time.
Stormcrows vs Paris (Day 7)
Yesterday, we just hung out at my place. We were a bunch of tired little crows. We had fun just talking about all the places we’d been, laughing, and relaxing. We went out to a nice little restaurant for supper. We spent the evening watching funny Japanese television shows and laughing our asses off.
They’ll be leaving this afternoon. I’ll be taking them up to the train station in a bit. I’m going to miss them when they’re gone. We’ve had so much fun this week. I really hope they can come back next year or my husband and I can get up there so we can do this again. 🙂
Latest Update Posted Yesterday
Forgot to post about it here but yesterday I posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW-Europe RP forums. I’m down to one update per week, posted on Fridays, until I can get some more writing done. I’ve fallen a bit behind on my schedule because of work, raiding, and guests visiting. 🙂 Hopefully I’ll be back to two updates per week within the month of June.
Update Coming Friday
With Grog and Crit being down, I’ve not gotten as much chance to clear up the backlog as I wanted. I’ll be making the next update to Alayne’s Story on Friday and I’ll try to spend more time on it Saturday and Sunday to get caught back up to the point of where two five-page postings a week won’t cause me a problem.
Latest Update Posted
I’ve just posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW-Europe RP forum. I’ve been slacking a bit in my writing lately having to juggle too many projects (poor time management skills on my part, really). I’m only 20 pages ahead of where I’m posting. I’ve got next week off but Grog and Critic are coming down from the Netherlands to visit me so it may be a fair bit of work for me to get back on target. Starting next week, my weekly page count added will be 15 pages instead of 5. I’m a little ahead already this week and am hoping I’ll have the energy to crank out three pages tonight after the Ulduar run.
At any rate, I hope everyone’s enjoying the updates. I had a hard time re-outlining things to take into account events playing out in Wrath of the Lich King that I wasn’t aware of until the latest patch. At least it gives me more material to work with. 🙂 I had been afraid that Part III would wind up being much shorter than it’s currently arced to be.
Work on The Unexiled continues apace. Jesus, I almost wish I could quit my real job and just write all the time. I enjoy it so much but I feel like I have so little time to do it lately. Any rich readers out there who could afford to pay me €30,000 a year just to sit at home and write? 😉 Kidding, but man…a girl can dream, can’t she?
Geralin the Diplomat
It took me a while but I finally finished the rep grinds for The Diplomat title. Since I’m bored with running heroic dungeons and we’re only raiding a few nights a week, I spend my days doing dailies and rep grinds. I’ve managed to get exalted with 29 factions (currently working on Consortium now). I’m debating going after “The Insane” title just because it describes me so well.
And, I’m finished with this week’s updates. 🙂 Yay! That means I can get some extra pages in for next week.
Lastest Update Added
I’ve just posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW-Europe RP forum. Now that the Battle for Undercity is over, it’s time to start looking at the ramifications of the Forsaken’s choice to fight in the battle without calling on their allies. Some of the things that come about as a result of this decision and of the battle itself will play out through the entire rest of the story.
Also, we get to see Callie’s last name for the first time (Morton). 🙂
And now to get cracking on the rest of this week’s work.
Raid Drama Redux
Well, our PuG managed to clear Naxx 25. We one-shotted everything up to Kel’Thuzad, wiped twice on him but managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat on the third attempt. Thanks to everyone who came, was on time, and helped us clear this dungeon.
And, speaking of being on time: if you /w me at 13:59 for a raid that starts at 14:00, don’t bitch when I tell you “the raid is full.” Even if you did come on Saturday, if I looked for you up until 13:45 and you weren’t online, I’m going to assume you couldn’t make it. Especially if you did not tell me you were coming. Now, once I’ve told you “I’m sorry, the raid is full. We looked for you but didn’t see you and you didn’t say anything to us so we went on,” don’t keep /w’ing me QQing about it. I will ignore you for a while but if you keep it up, I’ll add you to my /ignore list and put your name down on my “don’t invite” list. Seriously: if we say “the raid starts at 14:00,” that means you need to be logged on before then.
Meh. Stupid people are stupid. I probably would have been better about the whole thing if that guy hadn’t kept it up and if I hadn’t managed to pull a whole friggin’ shelf down on myself while cleaning my apartment this morning. I managed to bruise myself up pretty good, twist my ankle, bang my head, and create a bigger mess than the one I was trying to clean. Go me. It scared the shit out of my downstairs neighbors, too. He came running up the stairs and started buzzing the doorbell and banging on the door, afraid I was being attacked or something (there’s a “zone sensible” not too far from us). I managed to crawl out of the mess and tell him “no, I’m a klutz.” He stayed and helped me get the shelf back up and offered to take me to the hospital if I needed it. Since nothing was broken or bleeding, I told him I’d be fine, finished cleaning, and then dug my painkillers out of the medicine cabinent and proceeded to go raid lead my Naxx 25 run. Now I’m relaxing on the couch, comfortably buzzed from pain-meds, and am working on the next updates to Alayne’s Story and The Unexiled. If I can keep up the workload, I might actually finish The Unexiled by the end of the fall. I hope I can find an agent to help me get it published. I’m pretty excited about it.
The Battle for Undercity Posted
I posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW-Europe Role-Playing forum. This update covers the last part of the Battle for Undercity quest. This is one of the turning points in both the story and the game. That’s all I’m going to say. 🙂 Check back Monday for another update showing how the battle affected the characters.
In other words, Ulduar is still hard. My guild just spent the entire evening wiping on Kologarn. The RNG was not on our side tonight. Healers kept getting beamed and gripped. I was lagging a good bit and would get two or more stacks of the debuff and couldn’t call out for a taunt so I would keel over. We’ll be doing Naxx 10 tomorrow night to relax, do something easier, and get one of our healers some much-needed upgrades.
Well, off to do some work on Alayne’s Story and The Unexiled.