And again...

Well, here I am again. YAY! I've done some writing and some homeworking, and I feel like blogging right now. So here I am. Hooray! You know, I've noticed something. I just noticed how easy it is to fall into the habit of going back to re-word stuff to make it longer until I started working on NaNoWriMo (or how much I do so). I know that it's completely against the rules of NaNoWriMo, but I'm finding myself doing it anyway. (by the way, you aren't supposed to be editing during NaNoWriMo. The point is to just crank the darn novel out of your head and say you did). I'm not entirely sure, though - IS it against the rules to edit if it makes a phrase longer, and therefore makes you, the writer, more likely to succeed? I think it kind of works? Maybe?
Mind you, this whole extra-wordiness thing doesn't come without benefits. I just had to write up a physics paper about Why Our Egg Drop Project Failed, and using the extra amount of elaboration capabilities I have acquired, I was able to make it actually three pages long, instead of, I don't know, half a paragraph, maybe? Okay, it wouldn't have been THAT long. But I AM in more practice of not writing compound words unless it's in dialogue for characters who are not likely to not make compound words (blog posts excepted), so that did help. And also, our project was terrible. And there was a lot to fix about it. But it was longer when I hand wrote it. So I had to use the elaboration skills to make it work. YAY TIM GUNN FOR MAKING THAT PHRASE REMIND ME OF HIM!
I'm feeling really random right now. I'm out of it. I didn't take my meds this morning so I had to have coffee at around noon, and I intended to take a vitamin only, since the coffee's caffeine would work well enough for the time being, but I accidentally also took my meds. I'm going to be up LATE tonight...
Well, at least I can get some more writing done.

Day 6

Pages Written So Far Today: .5
Pages To Write Until Done Today: 7.5
Total Pages Written So Far (counting page breaks for chapters): 41
Page to Stop At Today: 48
Location in Story: prophetic dreams give Nemesis and Zack their first heading for Where To Go To Find The First Star And The First Goddess
What's happened since I last Posted: Nemesis and Zack went to the shrine; Maa and Kela have begun arguing and Maa's moods have begun to affect the weather. They discovered where the first pair (Heron and Stea - healing, home and hope; healing) are hidden, but they're held up by Maa's moods pissing off the minor rain gods and having rain dumped on just the two of them. The end.
In other news, I had an audition today for District Chorus. I think it went okay, except for sight reading. I kind of killed that. But I think the main part of the audition went okay. I was also the room monitor for the tenor 1's and the freshman and sophomore soprano 1's (those are the higher parts of the two voice parts). I basically gave their sheets to the judges (who are behind a screen during the audition) and pressed 'play' on the CD player for the backup music.
I felt really sorry for the people who messed up out of nervousness and the people for whom I accidentally caused the CD player to have technical difficulties, because until the terror kicked in they were doing fine.
There was this one girl who was freaking amazing, though - she hit all the notes perfectly (even the really high jump to a high G) and got her sight reading nearly perfect on the first attempt during the practice session (they get 30 seconds of practice before performing it), and she did it perfectly during the performance. It was insane. I'd be depressed if her score doesn't make the cutoff, because she was really good.
A lot of the girls were really good, even though some got off-key after the jump and/ or were really quiet the entire time. A lot of the guys were good too, but I noticed that a higher percent of them messed up. The percentages were probably fudged because there were probably twice as many girls as there were guys auditioning in our room.
So that's that for today. :D