Writing update... number however many it is

so... i've done almost no writing since early July, which pisses me off just a little... i mean, i wanted to finish this darn thing, so i could maybe do an editor/agent interview at the SiWC in October... now, i'll be lucky if i finish before classes start again in September

exams happen in about a week and a half... hopefully they won't be terribly impossible... i don't think they will be, but you never know... this pretty much means i have until Friday to write as much as i can, then study my butt off... i think i can do it... this one distance class just made no sense half the time, but with some luck, the exam won't suck

now, i'm going to try and get some writing done, get some people through some realizations... and props to Wendy for continuing with her script

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song: "Bitemarks and Bloodstains" by Finch
book: "Parallel Heat" by Deidre Knight

New blog alert

so, there are some new links to the side, and i'd like to go through them all, just so you people know what they all are

first is Wendy's blog, which has been redecorated recently... Wendy's a blast, and her blog is always amusing... second is Lory's, someone i met through Wendy, and is someone i do online RP-ing with... next is Nancy's, which has a lot of pictures

next is the blog of a literary agent i've been visiting for a little while now, her name is Kristin Nelson, and i heard she's going to be at the SiWC in October, so i'm looking forward to going to the workshop she'll be instructing... next is Elizabeth's blog... i found her through Kristin's blog, and found her comments on writing and wanting to be pulished and life very interesting

the Plotastic blog is interesting... the idea that Mark, the creator, had is to write a first draft of a novel based on plot elements that received the most amount of votes... his site explains it better than i can... next is the link to Paula B's Wrting Show podcast, in case no one listens to podcasts through iTunes... last is the blog of Jamie Sobrato, a published author... i don't know her or anything, but her blog is interesting and talks of her upcoming works

so, that's it, people... enjoy the rest of the week

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song: "Change For Me" by Low Level Flight
book: any Winston brothers story by Lori Foster

Return from the abyss

ok, i was really down in Seattle... i'm just glad i'm back home... that hotel bed really sucked

i got a bunch of writing done, which was nice... i hope to hit 92,000 words sometime today... i'm starting to like this novel more, which is a good sign... i don't want to write something that sounds like crap

Wendy got to 20,000 words for her script... and i want to read the darn thing so i know what she's been doing for the past month... o well, at least she finished *hugs*

oh, and happy late Canada Day, peoples

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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

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

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

Much deserved props

ok, i think it's time that some props went out for great people that i know

first, props to Wendy, the best Canadian person i write with... she's so talented and so funny, everyone should meet Wendy

and Nancy, she's the sweetest person on the planet... she's a total mom, but i love her because of it... moms are the best people on the planet... she's so creative, too... one day you'll pick between reading my books and reading Nancy's books

and Jeannie... how can anyone not love Jeannie?? she's one of the nicest people i'll ever meet, and another of the sweetest... *hugs for my Jeannie*

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song: "She's So High" by Tal Bachman
book: "The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth" by James Lovelock

Day eight: Almost at a standstill... and almost crying

okay, i'll talk about the crying first, because it would've been happy crying... i didn't actually cry, i did get a little teary-eyed, and i blame one person... i blame Wendy

now, i'm not angry with her, i'm just really touched and all emotional-y... yesterday, her blog mentioned the writing i was doing for NaNoWriMo, so i sent her the first part of what i have, like, the first 20 pages or so, it's basically a little intro and the first chapter... her response was she loved it, and i mean LOVED it... so far everyone seems to love it, like, LOVE it-love it... which makes me feel better, knowing i'm not writing all this boring crap that no one will like

so, today on Wendy's blog was a poem, which i loved, babe, it's so good... and it's kind of like a poetic version of how someone is changed from a human to a werewolf... which did make me reconsider what they look like as werewolves (like if they're actual wolves or something close but a little more human)... i loved how it was written, in little sections... and of course, the mention of sushi... and i've only had bad sushi once, and i'll never go back there again

now, onto my standstill... i don't quite know what's going on... i haven't really been writing as much as i was last week, which is annoying... i have been going back and adding more, which always gets me to add more when i think i've forgotten something, which is good

now, think of it in terms of pages and words... 4 pages, double spaced, 12 point type, is about 1,000 words... do you know how hard it is to write that much when you think of it like that?? i always get stuck when i think of it like that... i wanted to get to 25,000 before i left for lunch, and i might just be able to do it if i stop blabbering on here

song: "Beautiful" by Warwick Avenue
book: "Red Lily" by Nora Roberts