Wednesdaily!

[ellenmillion]

I've gotten a little art, a little writing, a little programming, a little exercising, a little shopping, and a little cleaning finished so far today. I've also got a little story up at Torn World - this one is just 100 words, so giving an excerpt of it seems silly when you can go read it in about 3 seconds. It also has a photograph by Elizabeth Barrette illustrating it.

I continue to be pleased by my writing progress. It's not NaNo-speed writing, but I've been putting in 500-1500 words nearly every day, and that adds up. Better yet, I'm closing in on storyline stuff - you know, with actual PLOT. Some of them even have ACTION. It's thrilling. Bai and Ressa's storyline is swimming along steadily, the northerners are poised to meet the explorers (with a great deal of material already written that is downstream of that), the City of Lights stuff is starting to shape together. The next anthology is even starting to draw together, and the cover artwork - while ridiculously ambitious for me (full color! Multiple figures! Action! Big landscapes with dramatic lighting! Architectural PERSPECTIVE! OH GOD!) - is a lot of fun so far and may even succeed. I'm hoping I'm leaving myself enough time to try something else if I fall on my face with this one. If you want to watch my progress, I am posting shots every day in the Torn World forum: http://www.tornworld.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=895 (You have to be a registered contributor to access that forum... which I'm trying to get you guys to be anyway... marvel at my subtlety.)

In factory news, the bubbles have evolved, and feel more like little pops and taps and once even a sort of a *flop*. Not very steady yet, and this following a day I didn't feel anything. I gotta say, this is an exciting experience, and very surreal. There's something wiggling around inside me!

(It humors me that this particular bit of the process is called quickening, which makes me want to raise a sword and shout that there can be only one... but what about women with twins and more?)

Off to make some dinner now!

Comments

[selinafenech.livejournal.com]

How many weeks are you now? I didn't feel anything definite for ages (up till, hrm, 22 or more weeks?). Now baby is wriggling round so much I can SEE it play my ribs like xylophones. Did you find out gender yet? We're still going Shrodinger style with our baby's gender existing in either possible state simultaneously until we find out (but less with the poison and radiation and stuff). ;)
It sure is an exciting and surreal experience. And I'm with you on the highlander thing! A soundtrack by Queen would be a nice pregnancy addition.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I'm 18 weeks and we find out gender in two weeks! I am WAY too impatient to know NOW, no way can I wait another 20 weeks. For one, I want to pick a name, before my husband and sister in law name it Elwood by default.

Now I've got Queen in my head...

[sparksbydesign.livejournal.com]

I started felling movement around 20 weeks, but I have to say the first time you really feel you stomach move of it own accord from a kick has been one of my favorite moments so far (All I can say is it's like your stomach does the wave)I just hit 30 weeks so the end is somewhat in sight!

I managed to put off finding out gender....decided I wanted the surprise, which seems to be driving a number of friends and family all sorts of crazy :)

I didn't realize you were pregnant as well Selina, How far along are you?

And I now have queen warring with the Blues Borthers in my head

[selina fenech (from livejournal.com)]

35 weeks now. And still haven't got a room set up for the baby, lol. (Hopefully moving furniture and painting next week! No early babies here!!!)
Just getting to the stage now where it's getting a little more painful than fun (some kicks really make you gasp!) and I'm starting to get the "I've got a whole other MONTH of this?" feelings.

[sparksbydesign.livejournal.com]

I just painted last week, ended up doing it myself while I still could, as watching my husband try and help paint walls was painful, lol.
I'm sure I'll be feeling the same way in another. I just had what I think was the first round of Braxton Hicks, which I'm sure I'll get used to, but was driving my crazy :) There always seems to be something new going on in there.

[sholio]

It's not NaNo-speed writing, but I've been putting in 500-1500 words nearly every day, and that adds up.

There's something kind of magical about it, the way that you can slowly and steadily plod away and suddenly have a really big chunk of writing to show for it. I keep getting frustrated with myself when I have days that I only manage 500 words on the current novel-in-progress, but then I look at my total word count and there's actually a novel emerging there.

[jenny heidewald (from livejournal.com)]

I misread that name and thought you'd said "Elfwood" at first! "Why would they want to name the baby after Elfwood?" XD

Ellen, you two haven't made a baby name list yet? My mom kept the ones she'd made, and it was interesting to see what we might have been named, especially the opposite gender names. I can't remember what they were though. Bummer. It would be cool to keep it and put it in a baby scrap book. :)
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Ooo, Ellen, you made me queasy with that one sentence... If you'd said "baby" it wouldn't have been so bad, but "somthing" makes me thing of things other than babies! It doesn't help that I have, yet again, encountered the Frog That Carries It's Babies around IN its back until they are ready to come out...Yes, I know, the wonderful world of nature, but ughhhhhh...