Wordage

Somebody hit me the next time I look as if I might be thinking of agreeing to collaborate in the normal fashion, with taking it in turns to write chapters instead of doing it together on Netmeeting or Skype.

Why yes, it did just take me a week to write some 2500 words for my section of the Yule story lindsey_mullen and I are doing for Loose Id's Festival of Lights. This is in large part because on co-authored things I'm used to discussing the story on a daily basis with predatrix, regardless of which of us is actually setting fingers to keyboard. This didn't happen on this story, for various reasons including lack of phone line at this end, and then lack of voice at the other. So a wodge of story appeared in my in-box, and even though we'd discussed the basic plot and started developing the characters before she started writing the story, I didn't quite know who these people were. It was like getting blood out of a stone to get words down.

Anyway... it's just gone back to her so she can write the last 500 words it needs to give the HEA. After that I will probably get it back to fill and polish in spots, but the skeleton of the story should be there now. So I can go back to the Lord&Master short now, and try to get that finished by the end of next week. It's currently on 10841 and about to get into the second sex scene. However, they're currently having a Meaningful Conversation, which may need to be trimmed.