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Well peeps, as promised, here is The Making of Chapter 24! Since that chapter took forever and three weeks to get out, I thought you all might be innerested in what exactly goes on while I write a chapter of Never Let You Go. So without further ado, I present to you....*drumroll* The Making of Chapter 24!
Thursday, November 23
Come home. Try to write beginning of chapter 24. Unsuccessful. I get an idea and I start typing like mad. It is the nekkid chicks part. tee hee.
I suddenly get the idea to cast Jenn and Shawna as the nekkid chicks. Immediately email Jenn and IM Shawna, making it seem as if the situation is more dire than it really is. Shawna seems to be away from the comp cuz she is ignoring me (hmph. lol). I wait patiently for email from Jenn.
Email comes. I tell her about being a nekkid chick. She emails back, and agrees and says she will talk to Shawna.
Friday, November 24
For the next week, I debate whether to study or work on the chapter. I end up doing neither.
First death threat arrives from Linda. I get scared. I promise Linda I will get it up by Thursday or Friday. More work on the chapter is finally completed.
On Thursay and Friday, I do a little bit here and there on the chapter. More death threats in the form of emails and guestbook entries begin to show up from various sources that will remain anonymous *cough*gochecktheguestbook*cough*
Finals come and go.
Thursday, November 30
Friday, December 1
In the evening, I go shopping. Buy two new pairs of shoes. Flirt with the shoe guy. He was yummy. *growl* Make a mental note to myself to come back and buy boots from this foine piece o man later.
I come home and get on the comp to write some more. Bang out a few more paragraphs. I get a hankering to try on my new shoes. I am in my pajamas by now. My mind must think I am trying on new pants instead because for reasons unknown, I take off my pajama bottoms. I am now standing in the middle of my room in my t-shirt and knickers, wondering why I just took off my pants.
I put my pants back on and try on the shoes. Admire how the black Steve Maddens make my ankles look so thin.
I put the shoes back in their box and force myself to write some more. Finally give up at four in the morning. Write apology to Linda for not having the chapter up.
Get another guestbook entry from Linda. Her patience has run out. Informs me that I must get chapter up by 7 am eastern, on Monday, December 11.
Sunday, December 10
It is 6 pm. Eleven more hours to get it up. The mail came earlier that day and my UK Westlife cd that I got from ebay has finally arrived. So has my Christmas card from Meg!!!! I get very excited!!! It is the first one!! I am reminded that I must write and send my Christmas cards as well. Also reminded that I must go back to Hallmark and bitch at them because they scanned two cards twice so I had to pay for two cards that I do not even have. Incompetent bastards.
My baby cousins come for a visit. I take them to the McDonald's because I am planning on going to Long John Silvers with my brother and getting some fish. My brother comes with me and gives me bad directions. End up driving for fifteen minutes in the opposite direction from Long John Silvers.
I turn the car around and head for home. The cousins are getting antsy. On the way back, I pass by the Long John Silvers. I make a U turn and order. Once finished, I head again for home. Driving out of the parking lot, I hear a horn honk and then a big crash. Since I am crap at driving, I automatically assume I have just got into a car accident even though no car is within a hundred feet of me. I panic until I realize that I have not hit anyone or been hit by anyone either. Continue on home, stopping at McD's to get fries and burgers for my cousins.
Arrive at home. Eat my fish and chips and chicken. Puzzle over the little Hushpuppies that came with the meal. I take a bite. They are disgusting. Spend a while watching tv and doing some general procrastinating downstairs before finally heading upstairs to work on the chapter. It is 8 pm.
I pull up the Word Document for Never Let you Go and write a few paragraphs, then end up surfing around on the web randomly. This goes on for a few hours. During this time, I decide to im Kimber. The chapter is almost finished. I complain about how I can't find a way to end the chapter. We talk for a few minutes before she makes me go and work on the chapter again. I tell her that I will, but I don't. (she's gonna kill me when she reads this).
I find Pissed Nick, a humor website that I loved and then lost the link to like, a year ago. Extreme excitementensues. I go through random sections of the site before deciding that I need to link it in my links section. It is done. I press alt+tab to go back to Never Let You Go. I type out a few sentences here and there and correct any typos (a first!).
I get a Christmas Card email from Jillene. It has Christina Aguilera's version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas on it. Even though I agree with the lads that Christina is a cow with ugly knees, I decide to go download it off Napster.
I am in the middle of downloading it when my computer freezes up. I curse the existence of technological mishaps and restart the computer.
I pull up Never Let You Go and sign on again. I write some more of the chapter.
I go visit myguestbook and read the entries, chuckling heartily over the freaky peeps that sign my guestbook.
For reasons unexplained, I get a hankering to go to Westlife America. I pull up my favorites list and click on Westlife America. I go to the fan pics section and explore at leisure. Find a pic of Nicky wearing questionable attire. I decide that the WFU_America list must be aware of the existence of this pic and go about writing a treatise on the phenomenon of boys wearing women's clothing. I send it out to the WFU_America list. It is 12:14 a.m.
Now I have the hankering to go to westlifeweb.com. I go. I notice that in the updates section, they have updated their "Link To Us" with some kewl new banners. Decide that I cannot function unless I post the new banner in the links section on my site ASAP. I post banner. I press alt+tab to go back to Word. Type a few more sentences, then back to AOL.
I decide that I should have a redirection url for the chapters index page. I go to http://dial.to and make up a nifty url redirection entitled http://happy.as/westlifearedorks. I have a little chuckle over that.
Decide to take a lil trip over to Bluemountain.com and make Maddi a lubley lil Happy Birthday card. Major procrastination going on while I select perfect birthday card.
I get distracted by the masterpiece fic that is If You Love Something and decide that I must read it again. Stop in the middle of it because I realize I must finish the next chapter or else.
I press alt+tab key. Back to Word. I stare blankly at the monitor for several minutes.
I go downstairs. I make some pink lemonade. I puzzle over the existence of pink lemonade. The damn stuff tastes the same as regular lemonade. What is the purpose of the pink? It is 2:17 in the morning.
I go back upstairs and get back on the computer. I look at the clock. Start to sweat because it is now 2:29. It is 5:29 on the East Coast. Only one hour and twenty nine minutes before Linda wakes up, which means one hour and twenty nine minutes to get the chapter up before Linda goes berserk. And I still can't figure out a good ending.
It is 3:32. Panic begins to hit and gives me the motivation to finally finish the chapter. I breathe a sigh of relief. But it is not over because now I have to look for an intro.
4:12 a.m. I give up on finding an intro, and decide that I will do it tomorrow. I mean, today. Go about putting in all the html tags. Begin to get very nervous because the chapter is now 12 minutes overdue.
I finish putting in all the html tags and upload the chapter. It is 4:44 a.m.
Kimber comes back online, it is almost 8 in the morning Eastern Standard time. Informs me that I am nearly an hour behind schedule. I give her the link, and she calms down.
Pull up chapters index on Geocities File Manager and put in the link for the new chapter. Now it is time for the update/thank you/random crap email. It is 5:31 am. Two bedrooms down, I can hear my parents getting up to start the day. I finally finish the email at 5:47. I go to the bathroom and do random bathroom bidness.
I finally collapse onto my bed at 5:59. I fall asleep immediately. Since it is the first day of Christmas vacation, I fully expect to be able to sleep as long as I want.
7:30 a.m. My mom comes into my room. She is feeling under the weather and asks me to take my lil bro to school. Cursing the world in my head, I comply.
I drive my brother to school. I have not bothered to put my contacts back in and am driving blindly around, thereby making myself a road hazard.
I drop my brother off at school. Drive home blindly.
Finally get back into my bed and sleep until three in the afternoon.
I wake up, do my waking up bidness and then turn on the computer and check my mail.
I read all the lovely feedback from the kick ass peeps that make this all worthwhile :)
Wednesday, November 22
I finish chapter 23. It is posted. I go to sleep.
Get up, do my morning bidness. Check my email. Go to school.
Jenn gives me go ahead and I begin to work on the chapter again. For ten minutes. Then I stop because I realize that finals are in a week and I should study.
Get even more dire threats from both Maddi and Mary. They say they will not send any more chapters of their fics until I send out chapter 24. I panic. More work completed on the chapter.
More neglection of the chapter ensues in the daytime.
It is D Day. Chapter must be up in 24 hours or else all hell will break loose. Since it is Sunday, I work on the chapter sporadically throughout the day.