Nano Day 7 - November 7, 2015

Day 7
November 7, 2015
Today's theme song: Divergence by MEJIBRAY
Got this done finally. Just enjoy. I'm to tired to deal with a long blog post. *dies*



Nano Day 6 - November 6, 2015
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Nano Day 6 - November 6, 2015

Day 6
November 6, 2015
Today's theme: "The Bund" by The Shanghai Restoration Project

Hello all! I am here to share what I have been up to today. Which was quite a lot but some of it is extremely personal so I'm not going to get into that today.

What I am going to get into is where my writing stands as of now. Quick widget:

This is pretty much telling me that in 6 days I have made 21 percent of my 50K word count goal. And that's really rather good for me. :D I'm proud of myself. :D

Especially since Wednesday was just such a flop. That's where getting in some sexual bits come in handy since I tend to write them rather long.

I went shopping and got home around 3:30. Put things away and sat down, staring at my computer for a good hour and a half after I got home. Again, part of those personal bits, but still.

I decided to work on a fanfiction since my mind is rather on the mean side. I now have plans on stringing a guy up by his bits and then having one of my characters preserving them. Yes, it's not a good day to day, thus the warning at the top.

But I did want to share that I am getting words done (hurrah!) and I'm getting things done. So hopefully I will have that lovely little video done and up for you guys. Since I have to rerecord it. But that'll happen tomorrow.

For now, I'm just going to tell you guys that I am getting my words down. And for all those writers out there, that I hope your words are coming to you to. Hugs all.


NaNo Day 5 - November 5, 2015
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NaNo Day 5 - November 5, 2015

Day: 5
November 5, 2015
Today's Theme Song: Wings of a Butterfly by HIM

Today was just not a good start for me, again. I got up at a semi-decent hour, around 12:30PM this afternoon but I was still out of it. I hate healing from over doing it. On top of that, today was just not a happy day all around with my jaw.

I still have some jaw issues going on but I'm doing better which is nice.

Tomorrow though shall not be fun. I'm going to be shopping tomorrow when I'm not writing. Whenever my aunt gets over here really which will probably be around noon as usual. Fun times.

But today, I got the first part of a story for a friend done! Yay! I started it yesterday but yesterday was just not happening. No matter how much I wanted it to happen. But I did get in some good words which makes me insanely happy with myself.

It is currently 8:45 PM here and I'm about to turn back to writing chapter 4 of my NaNo WIP, hoping to either finish before I go to bed or before my aunt gets here. Which ever happens.

I'm still doing much better then anticipated. And tomorrow, sometime, I'm going to be doing a "Get to Know Me" video that I will share once I have it done and up.

For now, today's story bits come from Chapter 3!

Perched in bed, computer opened before him on his laptop stand, Markus nibbled at his bottom lip as he thought about what he was going to post while his other computer ran a facial search for him. Alexander had drawn out a picture of the sweet boy that Sara had been reborn as earlier while Markus has napped off their long night. Currently his lover was working on another picture, this one of who they thought might be Adrian, five other pictures in the rough sketch phase spread over his work desk as he worked in the study.

Markus on the other hand was writing on a blog that many thought was an ARG blog with the occasional vlog that was done between him and Alexander based on their own urban legend. It amused him to the extreme but it also allowed him to get out the words that he kept deep within his very soul.

Placing his hands on the keyboards, he started to write, nibbling at his bottom lip in thought.

Ahh, but what could our dear Markus be thinking about? We'll you'll just have to wait for the story to finish now won't you?

I can tell you this, this chapter was a pain to write. So is chapter 4 to be truthful. But I shall persevere!

And that's all you can do. Power through those difficult chapters. Read some stories. Watch a movie. Listen to music. Talk with friends. Stab a stuffed animal when you get frustrated. Keep the stabbing to stuffed, non-alive animals or things please. No need to take it out on the living creatures. 

But keep going. Don't stop. Don't let anything stop you. You are the writing. You have the control. So keep it and keep writing.

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Nano Day 4 - November 4, 2015
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NaNo Day 4 - November 4, 2015

Day 4
November 4, 2015
Today's Theme Song: Naughty H by FaderHead

So let's get down to what has happened in my day.

1:30 PM: Opened outline and discovered 3 scenes got mixed into two scenes. That's fine. I can deal with it. Just means I'm having to reorganize my current scenes plotted out. Maybe figure out what I'm going to do with it.

2 PM: Put on Naughty H and started my writing while doing my usual tweets with #wordcountprodding as my hashtag. Here's hoping I get a couple chapters done today.

6:20 PM: Ended up reading because of sudden wall. Listening to Naughty H, I got a spark of a muse for a long oneshot. Time to write it baby.

9:30 PM: Finally took a pain killer for my jaw. It hurts because I ended up clenching my jaw.

Today's word count is pretty much non-existent. Which isn't surprising actually. During this year, I have had many physical, emotional and mental earthquakes, so to speak. It has been a long year and I am not all that stable at the best of times.

Actually I'll eventually sit down and talk about what goes on in my mind. But that's a vlog and blog entry for a later time.

For now, I just want to say that I am writing but I am quite drugged from my doctor approved and given pain killer. Remember guys: Drugs aren't always the answer but with a lot of things, they come in handy with the proper care and doing of things. Such as Physical therapy if it's part of your body, and talking with a therapist for mental problems.

For now though, I'm going to go try and gather more questions for my vlog and to get a few more words written out. Hopefully I'll be in bed by midnight. Here's hoping yes?

Today's story bits aren't happening though. I'll have a story bits for you tomorrow, promise.

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Nano Day 3 - November 3, 2015

Nano Day 5 - November 5, 2015

Nano Day 3 - November 3, 2015

Day 3
November 3, 2015
Today's Theme Song: Cannon in D by Music That Will Make You Cry

So today was a rather late, late start. I didn't get to bed until nearly 3 in the morning so I wasn't really up and out of bed until about 2 in the afternoon. I then spent a few hours, until about 4 or so, trying to wake up due to the sudden shift in the weather. It got rather cool for lower Arizona, down into the 70's for most of the day. It's right now hovering around 61 Fahrenheit, about 16 degrees Celsius.

Or so my Google converter is telling me. I don't know.

Anyways, I gathered some questions for a video that I'm planning on doing or my Youtube channel. That'll be a lot of fun since it's about me getting to be better known by those who follow me and who want to get to know me.

I'll be recording that later on in the week, so if you have some time and want to know anything, feel free to ask. :D

But I did finally get words out and down with a stop for an adult beverage and some dinner (after 5, closer to 6 mind you). I have finally introduced the main plot line of the story and the rest of the main characters. Such as they are.

I don't have much to say beyond I am going slowly insane right now and hope that all of you are doing good!

Okay, so now, time for the peek.
Last time I shared a peek from chapter 1. Chapter 2 is today's.

Alexander had always known how to kiss, how to make him gasp and cling to him, press up against his body and moan softly in pleasured delight. Even when they had met so long ago, when their parents had joined together as husband and wife, he had known. Slow and deep, tongue tasting and stroking over his tongue, teeth and roof of his mouth. Teasing out sounds of bliss as they tasted and teased.

And once more I do have to tell you guys this:

A reminder: Any and all peeks into the story are unedited and are not rewritten at the time of this posting. The final product may be vastly different than what you see here. This is the first draft of this novel after all. Please be patient in regards to typos, grammar mistakes, and the over usage of some words.

Thank you.

National Novel Writing Month 2015 Novel: When Mine Eyes Close

Nano Day 2 - November 2, 2015

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Nano Day 2 - November 2, 2015

Day 2
November 2, 2015
Today's theme song: Erquan Yingyue by Jia Peng Fang

So far today this is what I have done.

8:20 AM: Woke up and turned on computer before shifting pile of clothes over to bed. I really need to go through those and I shall when I have a little more energy and I'm not about to fall over dead.

8:30 AM: Ate food (cinnamon raisin toast made with Sara Lee Cinnamon Raisin bread) while I loaded up my GDoc for When Mine Eyes Open. Started to reread over yesterday's writing.

8:40 AM: Sent message to friend to make sure she was up and ready for day. She was waiting for clothes to be delivered. Wrote a few words.

9 AM: Discovered ride was taking another friend home to teach her how to use her new-used washer machine.

9:30 AM: Ride decided to do some more clothes for friend. She desperately needs them and she's getting them done but she had nothing so I decided to nom on a pancake covered sausage cause I was actually hungry and had to take a minor pain killer with it.

9:45 AM: Contemplated my blog post for the day and made some notes on it.

10:20 AM: Ride finally comes, picks up friend and then me. We head to Aarons so ride could pay bill on way to Sam's club. Picked up a USB wall charger (neon/lime green) and pens at the dollar store right next to it. Left for Sam's.

10:30 AM: Arrived at Sam's. Spent the next 10 minutes getting various things. Butter, Sugar, Powdered sugar, ect for upcoming holidays. I go through a LOT of sugar, butter and flour. 25 lb's (about 11 kg) of sugar, 4 lb's (about 1 kg) of butter and powdered sugar each, and I still have to go back for MORE butter next month. Along with chocolate chips (72 ozs or 4 kg per bag), shortening, and maybe some specialty butters that they have.

11 AM: Leave Sam's and head to Albertson's with a quick pit stop to drop off cold stuff at friend's place. My butter and a few other things are with her. Will get them sometime next week.

11:30 AM: Arrive at Albertsons with ice cream cones from Burger King in hand. Enjoy for 10 minutes, waiting for a scooter to get back from whereever it is being used/left. Decide to say "screw it" around 11:45.

12:50 PM: Finally get out of the store and head home with meat, ice creams, crusts, easy to make dinners, eggnog (I need it to cut some adult eggnog. They put blended whiskey along with rum and brandy into it, and not enough dairy, cinnamon or nutmeg, so I need to cut it to drink it. Remember! Don't drink or drive, and when drinking, drink safe.), creamer (peppermint mocha and pumpkin spice), and a few other odds and ends.

12:55 PM: Yes, my apartments are right across from Albertson's. I can walk over there if I need to. Unloaded, put things away, sat down and died.

1:20 PM: Got food to take a pain killer (something that you should always do so that the pain killer doesn't hit quite so hard but still does its job properly), took the pain killer, and continued to read what I had written.

2 PM: With pain gone, mostly, I started to work on this blog post and my next chapter of my story.

4 PM: Cousin and uncle swing by for recycling and the such before leaving.

5:29 PM: Started to tweet my Word Count progress with the hashtag #wordcountprodding. My twitter can be found here.

5:30 PM to 10:30 PM: Worked on writing the chapter, talked to some people on Forward Motions chat room. Read a few tweets. Watched some Youtube. Cursed the youtube when it futzed out on me. Got it working after a few while helping friend with her own stuff. Talked with another friend. Wrote some more.

FINALLY got my chapter done while thinking of what the second chapter was going to have to say in the long run. That's going to be fun since I have to tweak my outline. This is why I don't outline past 10 chapters. I never quite stick to the original.

Whoops.

Anyways!

I have to say as I wrote Chapter 2 of When Mine Eyes Close, I found myself writing in an experimental way for when it comes to scenes with sex or anything sexual. I'm usually very detailed with my sex/sexual scenes, sometimes boarding on Explicit. But that's with the fanfiction that I use to practice my trade with.

But this is one of few times that I have written original characters in such a sexual scene that isn't a part of my Butterfly series. A Butterfly's Life series is just chock full of sex though, even though it originally started out as a YA series.

I'll talk about that in another post at another date.

I'm here to talk about the here and now with When Mine Eyes Close. I'm trying to be a bit more...elegant I suppose would be the word. I suppose the music of Jia Peng Fang is to be blamed for this with the elegance of the music filling my head as I write. Just such a beautiful sound that even violin's have a hard time reaching.

I sit here though and wonder. What makes a sexual scene 'erotic'? Or 'beautiful'? Or even just 'arousing'? What does it really mean?

Then I remind myself that it's all up to the person who reads it to find the scene what they want it to be. For some my sexual scenes are arousing, hot. For others, they're sweet and loving. And for yet others, they're unwanted bits that they tend to skip over for whatever reason.

It is up to me though to write the story that is coming from my mind the best way that I can. And that as writers, we can not truly control what a reader takes away from our stories or scenes. All we can do is write it.

Put it out there.

And watch it take flight on wings of imagination before we move onto the next tale that spins in our heads.

Now for the part that you are probably waiting for. A peek into the story.

The first one was from the first paragraph of the Prologue (link to that peek down below).

This second one is from Chapter 1.

“Markus?”

Jerking out of his memories, one hand rubbing at the scar of his curse on his hip, Markus turned around and stared at his lover and mate. “Sorry, did you say something?” he asked, his voice sounding small, making Alexander frown.

Walking over, the slightly taller man ran a hand through soft black hair that spilled down Markus’ back, green eyes staring up at him, unfocused.

“Oh, love, were you thinking of that night?” Alexander asked softly, pulling his lover close, hand tugging his night shirt up to get at soft skin. Spreading his hand over the other’s back, he took in the scent of blackberries and toffee, smiling as Markus pressed against his body.

“Yes,” Markus admitted after a few minutes, resting his head on Alexander’s shoulder, sighing happily as he relaxed. “I thought I had left you nude in our bed,” he said, fingers stroking gently over his lover’s back.

This time, obviously, it's a little bit of a longer peek due to the very nature of the dialogue and the set up. 

They are old. The full story will come out in later chapters, but the story itself is kind of sad. And you'll get more peeks as I go along this month.

A reminder: Any and all peeks into the story are unedited and are not rewritten at the time of this posting. The final product may be vastly different than what you see here. This is the first draft of this novel after all. Please be patient in regards to typos, grammar mistakes, and the over usage of some words. 

Thank you.

S.L. Lewis

National Novel Writing Month 2015 Novel: When Mine Eyes Close

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Nano Day 1 - November 1, 2015, 6:47 PM - Arizona Time

Hello one and all! I'm so glad to see you here this lovely day. It is the first day of Nano and as you can see by my nice little ticking clock to the side there, I have 29 days to get to 50K.

I have written the prologue of "When Mine Eyes Close" and I'm working on chapter one. Hurrah!

Okay, so I'm just here to update you guys and post the widgets here now.

First the current percentage of my Nano done:

And the Word Count:

And finally my Calendar: 

Now that I have that all done, I have a bit of the story as I did promise to share just a bit of every chapter. :D Just a tiny bit though.

It started when they were canning goods for the winter, meat in the smoker along with some that was drying for later months. Markus was humming softly as he used the canning hook to draw out the jars that had just finished, putting them onto a towel to dry for the moment. Alexander was sealing, slowly and painstakingly, away the flour that they would use over the long months.

Please do remember that this is UNEDITED. It will change when I start the rewriting/editing/rewriting/editing process. But this is just a little something.

I hope that you all enjoy. :D

National Novel Writing Month 2015 Novel: When Mine Eyes Close 

Nano Day 2 - November 2, 2015