Big party for Wendy

well, as some have seen, if they've been to Wendy's blog, she's reached the 20,000 word goal for Script Frenzy

YAY WENDY!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!

and now, i'll try and get a couple pages written before i go to bed... i'm kind of in the mood to kill someone off... writing-wise, not actually... well, actually i'm in the mood to kill off two people, and i'm going to, either tonight or tomorrow... then, comes the chapters with emotional realizations... those are always fun

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song: "The Bird and The Worm" by The Used
book: "The Pocket Muse: Ideas & Inspirations for Writing" by Monica Wood

Evil Tuesday

today was strange... and for the most of it i was laid up with a strange combo of a normal headache and a sinus headache... and it's started to come back, so i'm in a fair amount of pain right now

because of the weird headache, i barely got any writing done... but i got some done yesterday, and early yesterday morning... and right now i'm so not in the mood to go to class tomorrow, but we're starting to read something new so i should go... i'm just not going to enjoy it a whole lot

now... i think i'm going to take something and hope it goes away... i wish i could write some more without it hurting

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Proof I'm a night owl

ok, this is just insane... it's right after midnight here and i've found my writing groove again... take that, Wendy... ok, kidding, but still, this is just strange... it's midnight, i have to be up at around 7:30am to get ready for class, and i'm away from my laptop until 3:30 in the afternoon

this really sucks... why can't i get the writing groove back when i get back from class?? it would be so much more convenient if i felt like writing when i knew i didn't have to be anywhere the next day... o well... long weekend's coming up, which means i have class Wednesday morning, then no class until the next Wednesday... wooooooooooooo

of course, i'm out of town on the week-end, but i'll be taking my laptop with me since i've made a deadline to finish my book, which is obviously a first draft of a manuscript... i'm aiming to finish by the end of August... but if i average 3 pages a day, it'll take me 22 or so days for me to reach my tentative page goal of 404, which is about 101,000 words... and that's about the middle of July... once i go back and add enough to get me to at least 22 pages a chapter, which'll give me 404 pages, then i'll start at the beginning and edit and review to my heart's content

unfortunately, this mid-July date is surrounded by 2 papers i'll have due... thank God one was moved to the 18th instead of me having both due on the 16th... ewwwww

i guess that's it for me for now... i'm off to write another 3 and a half pages (which i told myself i'd write before i went to bed)

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song: "Not Good Enough For the Truth in Cliche" by Escape the Fate
book: "Hunting the Hunter" by Shiloh Walker

Different forms of art

so, i did something rebellious and crazy today... well, i can't really say that, since my mom went with me... the both of us made an appointment to get a tattoo in about 3 weeks... no, they're not matching or anything, that's just nuts, we're not that close... well, we're probably right before the line crossing into 'that close'

this is a picture of what i'm getting... isn't it cute??... it's a picture from the 'Julie' books by Jean Craighead George, in case you're all wondering... now, it's time to get back to trying to finish my book... darn you Wendy for stealing my writing drive

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books: The Donovan series (Captivated, Entranced, Charmed, and Enchanted) by Nora Roberts

Reading music

yesterday i was listening to my iPod on my way home from class (i have one of those old green mini ones that they don't make anymore) and i realized something

i listen to music because i like the lyrics

now, i'm all for people making music for a living, but i'm such a word girl that i focus more on the lyrics, because they tell a little story

well, there's my blabbering for today... everyone else can blabber to a friend of theirs for a few minutes today

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Writing update

hi-ho peoples, it's been a while... right?? i forget how often i actually write to this darn thing

so, i'm almost at 86,000 words for my novel, which is about 334 pages double spaced... sometimes it freaks me out when i see the little total page number scroll up when i open the file... the rest of the time i'm all giddy :D... i'm still surprised i've written that much since November... of course, i took December off, and most of February and March and half of April... but my goal is to finish by September... which'll be hard since i have essays due in about 3 or 4 weeks and exams after that hee hee hee... secret message time

the SiWC registration starts in July, and i'm debating whether or not to book an appointment with an editor or agent... i mean, i'm most of the way through this darn book, i have about 3 more chapters to write (i kind of planned out what each chapter would be about so i wouldn't go off track)... my mom said i should make the appointment and just bring the first couple of chapters, but i told her i want to edit the whole thing once before i do that... tell me what you think, people, or just Wendy, if you end up being the only person to read this

i was listening to an interesting podcast from The Writing Show with Paula B... head to http://writingshow.com/ to listen to it... it's the latest one, and very interesting... and it got me thinking that i want an interview like this done with someone talking to me, but maybe i'm just jealous that no one's interested enough to interview me

i guess that's it for now... maybe i'll blabber some more tomorrow... have a better Monday than me, peoples, i had to finish an essay this morning... ewww... why did i chose to major in English??

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song: "Time is Running Out" by Muse

Something I've learned about myself

i realized something today when my friend Wendy was talking to me on how many words she's reached so far for Script Frenzy

i'm not a script writer, i'm a book writer

i thought i could write a script, but i can't cope with the format, and i need to write things out as they happen in my mind one after the other in full sentences and get people to talk using quotes... i see things happening in my mind and I have to write what i see, not take the time to write what the setting is in little headings

o well, at least i tried it, right? and i guess i could always go back and write it as a novel instead

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song: "Sleepless Nights" by Faber Drive
book: "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer