and we frolicked about

Title: Given and Taken in Ink
Pairing: Jared/Jensen, Jared/Chad Michael Murray
Rating: R
Words: 30,793, beta'd by smidirini & bobbinrob
Disclaimer: *insert witty line about not owning any of it, plz to not be suing*
Summary: Author Jared Padalecki has created a sheltered existence for himself, believing that he's happy half-living his safe life. He hides behind his pen name so few people know the real Jared, as he protects himself from others finding out his books aren't 100% fiction. His new neighbour, Jensen Ackles, knows there's something different about Jared and pushes until he has no choice but to let Jensen in. When Jared's carefully constructed life collapses around him will Jensen even care who Jared really is or will Jared's worries become reality?

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Author's Note

Given and Taken in Ink
Jared/Jensen, R
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Part 2

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Part 4

Given and Taken in Ink
Jared/Jensen, R
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( Given and Taken in Ink Part 1 )

Part 2

To the people who volunteered to be my betas-- I've sent you what's finished to this point. I have a couple more scenes and some slight corrections here and there to make but it's.... 65%? done? I think?

ANYWAY. I wouldn't say no if someone else or multiple someone's offered to beta. I just need your email address as I work out of Google docs.

I have tomorrow off and I'm SOOOOO EXCITED. I get to go to the rodeo. AFTER I sleep in. I'm more excited to not have to get up at 6:30 more than anything. AND THE RODEO!

Big Bang editing has added 3190 words. I'm now on the cusp of 30,000 words with still another couple scenes to put in for clarification.

Well.

SO time for bed. I only got some of what I wanted to do this weekend done. Lame.

It looks like I'll be Big Banging until tomorrow night. I thought I was going to have it mostly finished up tomorrow but I'm noticing scenes here and there that need to have somewhat of a resolution to them and I still need to wrap up the ending which could be anywhere between 1000-2000 words. But I can do it. I THINK I've found a title but I don't know if I want it to be quite so literal. I'm a rather literal person, though, so unless something better comes along I know what I'm using, I think.

I also have to come up with an effing summary which is the worst thing ever. I'm one of those people that takes the first line from the fic or a passage from the fic to use as a summary. But you can't do this here, really, because people are applying to make art for your fic on the basis of your summary. Can't very well have a random like like--Jared scratched his ass and wondered if Jensen found it hot--or something and expect people to envision art for your fic on that. Well, I guess they could, but in the grand scheme of the other 19,990 words it wouldn't make much sense.

The good thing about the Big Bang right now is that I'm not writing to get word count at this point. I'm writing to wrap up scenes so if they fall short of what I was expecting that's okay. I have my 20,000 (over 22,000 at this point) and it's going to get longer with editing because I think there are a few scenes I'm going to need to lay out the relationships a bit better but for right now it functions fine as it is. IF I CAN FINISH THE MOTHER EFFING ENDING!

I also had coffee for the first time today in something like six years. It tasted like liquidy, burning, bitter ass and I only had a couple mouthfuls before I dumped it out. Sometimes it's like when you haven't had like- apple juice since you were three and you NEED to try it. Except when I did that (seriously, didn't drink apple juice in something like a decade) it was MADE OF WIN. This? Not so much.

( The Rapture )

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Guess who just passed 20,000?

THIS BITCH.

I still have some scenes to edit in, including one that I forgot about last night, but I'm wrapping up the end right now (and I don't know how long that's going to be, honestly) but I'm 20,000! I KNOW how it's going to end, I just have to get there now. Everything else is just filling.

I have a beginning, middle and almost end. I did it. Fuck yes.

This is one of the better ways to end today, after the shitfest that it was. YAY!

Made it to 16,186 on BigBang between yesterday morning (at like 3am) and right now! I'm so jazzed. That's over 4000 words. This means I will very likely be able to finish it by Friday night at 11:59pm, which is very, very exciting to me.

Jared is still... too whiny and weird for me at this point but it could be because I'm SO CLOSE to it. I find I have this problem often with writing. I try to set out a problem plot point for the boys, or any character, and then they get fucking whiny and weird about it. They just drag it out and become girls about it and I want to slap them.

But yeah. After Friday I'll be putting out a call for betas because this thing is going to need MAJOR help to get it together. It needs to be tightened up, it needs to make more sense, it needs consistency editing because I'm sure I've screwed up more than one thing in it.

I have at least one sex scene, the end part (which could end up being three scenes) and at least one more scene near the beginning-ish to do and to loosely tie up the starting scenes that are already there (and depending on how that goes I might not need the other new scene there) and I'll call it good, which is exciting. I imagine the sex scene(s) will be very brief right now since I kind of hate writing them most of the time, and then fleshed out better in re-writes.

So yeah! Exciting times! And once I get this thing finished in draft form I can move on to other writing and icons!

Is anyone else having issues with their Ad Blocker add-on right now? I'm finding ads popping up where there haven't been ads before in all the time I've had Ad Blocker. Like in my yahoo mail and on websites and things. I've been doing some blocking to make them go away again, but still. I did unblock a few things today but they were certain tinypic servers that somehow were blocked in general, instead of for individual images but nothing like the shit I've been seeing today.

10,157 on Big Bang! I wrote nearly 3000 words tonight! If I can do that again tomorrow night and again at some point over the weekend that would be GREAT. I think I can wrap this up by then and then revise like mad after the deadline.

Jared's angst, though? Is kinda lamesauce. I want to tell him being being a fucking loser. Well, another character already is.

I don't know.

10,000, though! WOO!

~~ Well, now that Kings is on its way to dead and buried, I won't be doing the caps anymore. I'm not often home on Saturdays or watching normal TV, anyway. But whatever, NBC. Whatever.

~~ Work is... work this week. Monday was hectic and I wanted to stab my eyes out. Today was hectic, too, but less stressful and I was in a better mood. Tomorrow I'll just have to wait and see.

~~ It was 18C here today, which is 64F. Tomorrow it'll likely be 18 again and Thursday I hear it'll be 18, which will likely be more like 22C or 72F. And people are still wearing effing winter coats! I wore skirts the last two days! SKIRTS! It was 3C a couple weeks ago and I was like- SUMMER'S HERE! *puts on strappy sandals*

~~ I think I restarted my BigBang last night. I honestly don't know if I'll be getting it done by May. I want to, but I'm seriously in a place where the writing isn't coming. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm a little sadface over it since I've enjoyed the experience the last two years but I'm coming to accept that I can't force what doesn't want to happen. I'm not Edward Cullen, after all.

~~ Finally, two people in my RL are reading "Breaking Dawn". Someone will now know the pain I've suffered through since last July. Oh, "Twilight". How I love to hate you. I have to bring in the window-sized banner of Edward Cullen from HMV that's in my car right now. I have no idea what the hell I'm gonna do with it.

~~ Project Runway Canada finale... next week? And new Fringe right now! Adventureland (I hope) and Hannah Montana this week! WHEE! AND AND AND! SHORT WEEK!!!!!!!