A note on progress bars and CS vs Themselves:

Well, this is kind of an awesome position to be in for me. With Chapter 28 going up, and 29 in beta, I've finally gotten back to the parts of the story I had already written when I started posting Chuck & Sarah vs the Bunker way back in march.

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Surprise story post!

Link is to be found here.

Sci-fi-Chuck-Western rides again!

Chuck & Sarah vs Themselves 28

The new chapter is up here.

And back to Friday updates, hopefully. Fingers crossed for an Xmas eve update.

Chuck & Sarah vs Themselves 28 Preview

So, I haven't posted anything in about a week, and I feel guilty about it... despite the fact I should have been buckling down to get my thesis finished, and I don't feel guilty about not doing that...

What this means is that for those of you patiently awaiting the next chapter, I have a cliffhanger-resolving early Christmas gift!
Or a late Hanukkah present, depending on your holiday affiliation.

Reba (spoilers... only not really)

 Next time on Chuck & Sarah vs Themselves:

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New chapter is finally up. You can find a link here.

Discus.

I realize that's the wrong spelling. I'm in a punny mood.

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Official NaNoWriMo Capitulation Announcement

Alas, I have been defeated.
After the first three weeks of November, I should have written roughly 35,000 words in order to meet my goal of 50,000 by the end of the month; I wrote ~400. I officially give up. You win this time, National Novel Writing Month, but I'll whip you next time. *shakes fist*
Oh yes... next time, I won't handicap myself with writing three other projects at the same time.

At any rate: currently home for Thanksgiving, and am being used as slave labor as we pack up the house. My parents yell at me when I try to go up to my room and get any writing done. They can probably hear my keyboard clicking through the air-vents and are coming for me right now!

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New chapter is up here.

(insert clever and/or witty remark here)
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Chuck vs the Frontier 16

New chapter is up here.

Longest chapter of Frontier to date, also probably my current favorite.
That is all.

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Chuck & Sarah vs Themselves 25

Chapter 25 is up. Link is here, but something might be weird with the url. (There's a bunch of 'b's in it. I don't remember that happening before.)

25 chapters is something of a milestone, so important events transpire. Something I picked up from comic-books.

Chuck vs the Frontier 15

Chapter 15 is up here.

I'm going to say right now, that knowing you're insane for trying to write 4 projects at once with tight deadlines, it doesn't make it any less awesome when a chapter just comes together like this one did.

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NaNoWriMo Begins! And Preview of CSvsThemselves 25

And I didn't work on my NaNoWriMo in favor of Chuck v. the Frontier.
I may have bitten off more than I could chew. However!
I did write more than my NaNoWriMo goal of 1667 words. Just not on that project.
So, maybe some kind of rotation. Chuck v Frontier, NaNo, Chuck & Sarah v. themselves, NaNo.
I'm going to try to make it work, at least for the first week of November.
(But Towers of Midnight comes out tomorrow, so chances of any actual writing getting done are not great. If you know what that is, you understand. If you don't, I can't help you.)

Until then, sneak peek at Chapter 25 of Chuck & Sarah vs. Themselves to follow:

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Excerpt:

Casey merely rolled his eyes and turned to Sarah. “One of us stays with him at all times on the convention floor. Bartowski, if you flash, you tell one of us. I don't care if it's jaywalking, or unpaid parking tickets. You tell us.”

“Come on, this is ridiculous,” Chuck protested, a pointed gesture taking in the pair of veteran spies. “This is Comic-Con, not a scene from Mission: Impossible. You two are the ones who are going to need looking after, not me. Believe it.”

“I think we can handle ourselves, Chuck,” Sarah said. “I mean it's not like things are... oh my God, Morgan!”

A huge man man in a blue head-to-toe bodysuit with greenish-gold flecks was palming Morgan's head to hold him back, and Morgan was swinging furiously wearing— was that a Superman costume? Chuck laughed heartily. “Relax, he's fine. Probably just mugging for the cameras, see?” There were indeed a handful of people standing in a semicircle snapping pictures with cellphones, and the occasional digital SLR for the photography nerds. “They're reenacting the climactic battle from Superman #244. First appearance of the Galactic Golem.”

Casey's jaw dropped open. “They're what? The who? And how did you just know that off the top of your— oh right. Somehow I forgot you're a gigantic geek. You'd think I'd remember...”

“Nerd!” Chuck corrected automatically. “We've had this discussion. More than once!”

Sarah frowned. “Wait, where did Morgan get the costume? Did he have a bag I didn't see?”

Chuck arched an eyebrow. “Of course not, he was wearing it under his streetclothes. That's part of the costume.”

She winced. “Dare I ask what your costume is?”

Chuck grinned and unbuttoned his shirt to reveal the Batman emblem. Sarah rolled her eyes fondly, and they all went to make sure Morgan was okay.

He waved them over and started introductions. “Hey gang, this is Kenny, my new friend.”

The huge blue-clad man shrugged. “He was the first guy dressed as Superman who realized I was actually a Superman villain.”

“Oh,” Casey grinned. “So even among nerds you two are something special.”

Chuck leaned in to whisper in the Colonel's ear. “You realize he's actually bigger than you?”

“Huh?” Casey said, and looked up. He kept looking up. “Huh. Nice to meet you, uh... Kenny. I'm John.” They shook hands, and Chuck waited to hear bones cracking. But despite his size, Kenny was gentle as a lamb. They didn't really get much further than the introductions when a tinny voice buzzed over the convention center's PA system. Casey and Sarah blinked in confusion, and a hush fell briefly over Comic-Con.

“Uh...” Sarah said eventually. “What's going on? Did anybody understand that?”

“Surprise signing!” Morgan exclaimed and tore off into the crowd. “Come on!”

“Okay, I know seven languages, Chuck. That wasn't any of them.” Sarah put her fists on her hips. “What gives?”

“You didn't recognize it? It was Klingon, remember how Bryce and I...” he took in the glower Casey was sending his direction. “Right. Getting to the point now. The original Star Trek cast is here to promote some new Trek comic or something. I don't know the whole story, 'cause I've been falling behind on my comics,” Chuck explained. “The announcement in Klingon was to keep out the rabble.”

“Ugh,” Casey groaned. “There wouldn't happen to be an open bar around here anywhere, is there, Kenny?”

The giant blue masked supervillain merely shrugged and shook his head congenially. Casey let out a mournful sigh.

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The preceding is 1/13th of the chapter...

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NaNoWriMo!

National Novel Writing Month is almost here! I still haven't finished my stories for my thesis, but screw it, I work better on a deadline anyway.

I'm linking to my nanowrimo.org page because it's easier than trying to figure out how many % I am finished with the thing on the fly, and nanowrimo.org is specifically set up to do just that.

At the end of the first week of November I'll put up an excerpt both here on the blog, and on nanowrimo.org.

I still haven't decided which one of the five (yes, five!) novel length projects that I've been back-burnering to attempt for NaNoWriMo, but I'm leaning toward 'non-euclidean-quantum-tesseract-in-back-of-a-panel-van-buddy-roadtrip-adventure.' (This is not the actual title.)

Chuck & Sarah Vs Themselves

Chapter 24 is up. Link goes here.

Hopefully I can get 25 finished this weekend.

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Gearing up for NaNoWriMo

Given the target numbers I'm going to be required to meet during November, of 1667 words a day, minimum just on 'undisclosed NaNoWriMo project', let alone Frontier and Themselves, I'm taking the next couple weeks to retrain myself. My goal is 1000 words today, then incrementing by 100 words a day... until I'm comfortable doing at least 2000 a day so I can keep up roughly the same schedule for Themselves and pepper in some Frontier and Thesis and outline for NaNoWriMo.
And yes, I know that's insane. But in a good way.
By  December first, I'll probably need to sleep for a week.
Also, apparently Caffeine works the same way on my brain as Ritalin. This would have been good to know a month ago.

Today's goal: 1000/1000

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Story Posting

The next chapter of Chuck & Sarah vs Themselves is up on ff.net here, I know that site has been screwy lately for a lot of people, myself included. I'm still getting the feel for how blogspot works right now, so I don't really know how to work any possible alternate locations to post chapters. Let me know if its an issue I need to devote more time to.

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Thesis news

Meeting with my thesis advisor went well. Learned my plan for 8 stories is above and beyond the call of duty. I only need to write 5 stories. Although I'll need one more semester because the deadline was in October, not November like I thought, that means I might have time to bring Chuck v. the Frontier out of its Hiatus early.

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