Sunny week-end alert

well, for all you people experienceing summer and it's going to be sunny, enjoy yourself... if you're not any of those people, well, watch a beach movie and pretend it's sunny out

it's looking like a slow week-end here, haircut tomorrow, nothing on Sunday... hopefully i'll get a chunk of writing done before the essay rush happens mid-next week... i hate it when i have 2 papers due the same week

so, i started on my writing contest submission for the SiWC... i just want to finish the darn thing and submit it... i don't exactly care if i win or get an honorable mention... i just want to send in the little story and have actual authors read it

now, i'm going to try and keep on writing... if i don't, then i'll lose my train of thought, and i'll end up forgetting about it completely

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song: "The Grace" by Neverending White Lights
book: "Bet Me" by Jennifer Crusie

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

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

Day six: Writer's block starts to hit

i so think i'm going to have more crappy days like yesterday, which totally sucks

yesterday was just slow and boring... well, on Saturday night our hot water heater died between 6pm and 11pm and flooded our basement a little, so i got to bed late that night, like at 1 in the morning Sunday... i got up 7 hours later, just so i was up early enough to go with my dad to the airport to drop off my mom... she's in Austin, Texas until Saturday night for work (and maybe she'll get some writing done)

since yesterday was so slow, i got just over another 1,000 words done, which included some new stuff and some padding in other places... for the first 4 days i averaged about 4,000 words a day, and yesterday i just got over 1,000

so, today's going to be catch up, to try and get to 22,000... which is about another 4,600 words at this point... ooooo, fun

and at this moment, the guys who were going to replace the hot water heater are leaving, because there's a drain in the way, that was obviously put in after the heater was, and there isn't enough room to fit the heater past it... so, yeah, life sucks right now... hopefully your lives don't suck as much, peoples