Current Page: 12
Target Page: 16
Pages In Between: 4
Approximate Word Count: 3340
Location In Story: Demetrius Has Arrived! Now Romeo just needs to get her guts together and... you know... go forth, INTO THE CLEARING FROM WHENCE SHE HAS JUST COME, and actually TALK to him. Like, say hi and everything.
Yeah. Romeo is turning out a lot shyer than I thought she would. I thought she'd be kind of feisty, but actually, she's the sort of person who will NOT introduce herself to people unless she's in a situation (like her Shakespeare summer camp) where she's otherwise fine with stuff. Well, to be fair, she HAS had a pretty rough morning. She came home, thought her parents were baby-making in the car but it was actually gargoyles eating them, then she hid in the closet under the stairs, and THEN she dived into this blue orb of weirdness that confiscated her phone and iPod and gave her a knife instead. THEN a reasonably attractive Han-Solo-type lands in the clearing she has just exited, even though the planet she is on is really like Endor more than Cloud City or Coresant (not sure if that is how you spell it), so she's all confused.
Yes, I AM a Star Wars nerd. Thank you for asking.
Romeo should have been a Star Wars dork. That might have made life a lot easier. Now I may never know. Though she could turn out to have Star-Wars-Dork qualities... I LIKE THIS IDEA!
But whatever. Shakespeare is awesome too.
Anyhow, she's now mustering herself to go and talk to him. She's talking herself out of her shyness by making all of these analogies to Shakespeare - he won't kill her because they're not doomed lovers like Romeo and Juliet; he won't kill her because his friends haven't talked him out of liking her like in Othello; again, like Othello, the jealous friend might not actually EXIST, and even if he DID, Romeo wouldn't be shot straight away because the guy would have to wait a while because he is making sure he can be jealous of Demetrius for Romeo's affections.
For the record, Iago in this story does NOT know Demetrius until a LOT later. Like, in one of those villain-taunting-a-hero-character-because-he's-a-meany-butt type scenes. That's the first time they meet. Maybe. I don't know. I'm not that far in yet.
Anyhow, I have to sign off and go write and do homework and other things of a productive, non-procrastinative nature. I'll post tomorrow. Most likely. Actually, YES I WILL. Because I CAN! And also because I HAVE TO!
Yeah. Okay. I'm going now.
Goodbye.
Until tomorrow.
Hopefully by then Romeo will have actually talked to Demetrius. And then my plot will no longer be stalled. It'll actually be doing something! Because they know each other now! Huzzah!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Day Two: I Should Be Writing
Current Page: 9
Target Page: 16
Pages Left: 7
Approximate words today: 350
Location In Story: Iago has found out about Romeo being in Mercanova. And he is PISSED. And he has sent out his gargoyle minions to stop her from meeting Demetrius and Puck and Morgan/ Belarius. Meanwhile, Romeo is about to meet Demetrius. (That is the bit I am about to write, once I get off of the blog and pick up my pen and my journal and such).
I have discovered, while I was writing, that the two gargoyles function EXACTLY as these two idiotic wizards (Maa and Kela) did in the novel I did last year: simply as annoying nuisances who did not really do anything except act stupid, get a laugh out of some of the readers, and try and hold up the important people from achieving their goals/ quest/ whatever it is they are trying to do. In this case, the gargoyles are trying to stop the Prophecied from meeting each other. Except that is not going to work out (most likely), because Iago JUST sent them and Demetrius is about to arrive, and the gargoyles landed at the same time as Romeo did, and Iago doesn't live less than ten minutes away from where Romeo landed. So the gargoyles are going to fail. And then Iago will send armies after them all. Which will be quite funny for the gargoyles, really. Well, funny for ME to watch the gargoyle's pathetic reaction to it all. I don't want to kill them, but they really don't function as more than something to laugh at.
And I also just realized that the gargoyles are the only two characters whose names I made up, rather than drawing their names from Shakespeare. I think I'll keep it that way - I don't think Shakespeare, although brilliant in other areas, has any gargoyle-y sounding names that would fit my two characters.
But yeah. That's where I am.
I've only done a page, and I have musical auditions today and tomorrow, English and Government starting in about 45 minutes, and I'm spending my last block of the day in a warm-up room before the audition, since today is the singing part.
Hey, I just realized something extremely important for my novelling adventure! I only have Earth Space homework tonight!! We had a calculus test today, so I have no homework there, and an Earth Space test tomorrow! Okay, I'll probably have to do some government studying tonight as well, and I might get some homework from English (I don't know yet), but having no calculus homework means I can spend an extra hour writing instead of trying to find derivatives and stuff.
Anyhow, I still need to go and write now. Might post later. Not sure yet. That will be determined by much I write today. And how much time I have tonight. And stuff.
If I have something to say, I will come in and say it.
Oh, yeah, before I leave, I have a funny story to tell.
So, today during lunch, my friend brought in my copy of Chris Baty's book, "No Plot? No Problem!" (I loaned it to her, and we both wanted to see the pep talk for this week - since Chris Baty is awesome and he does pep talks in a BOOK. I kind of love him. He's kind of wonderful). Anyway, I read the pep talk aloud while my friend dramatically acted out the pep talk. Since it was a noble-adventure-sounding type of pep talk, she was striking a lot of dramatic poses and looking off into the distance and such. It was wonderful.
Though we did poke the "Take My Inner Editor" button a paragraph early. But whatever. Minor details. Only when we are writing will we actually need them to bump our word count.
Anyhow, now I have custody of the book. Next week, she will read the pep talk and I will be the one striking random poses and pantomiming stuff.
Which is exciting.
huzzah!
Okay, now onto the novel which Chris Baty was pep talking me to write! And hopefully getting a good word count in before I have to go to English! Or maybe all of today's word count! (okay, that is not going to happen. I do not write that fast.)
Okay, going to go write a novel. Bye.
May post later. I don't know yet.
Target Page: 16
Pages Left: 7
Approximate words today: 350
Location In Story: Iago has found out about Romeo being in Mercanova. And he is PISSED. And he has sent out his gargoyle minions to stop her from meeting Demetrius and Puck and Morgan/ Belarius. Meanwhile, Romeo is about to meet Demetrius. (That is the bit I am about to write, once I get off of the blog and pick up my pen and my journal and such).
I have discovered, while I was writing, that the two gargoyles function EXACTLY as these two idiotic wizards (Maa and Kela) did in the novel I did last year: simply as annoying nuisances who did not really do anything except act stupid, get a laugh out of some of the readers, and try and hold up the important people from achieving their goals/ quest/ whatever it is they are trying to do. In this case, the gargoyles are trying to stop the Prophecied from meeting each other. Except that is not going to work out (most likely), because Iago JUST sent them and Demetrius is about to arrive, and the gargoyles landed at the same time as Romeo did, and Iago doesn't live less than ten minutes away from where Romeo landed. So the gargoyles are going to fail. And then Iago will send armies after them all. Which will be quite funny for the gargoyles, really. Well, funny for ME to watch the gargoyle's pathetic reaction to it all. I don't want to kill them, but they really don't function as more than something to laugh at.
And I also just realized that the gargoyles are the only two characters whose names I made up, rather than drawing their names from Shakespeare. I think I'll keep it that way - I don't think Shakespeare, although brilliant in other areas, has any gargoyle-y sounding names that would fit my two characters.
But yeah. That's where I am.
I've only done a page, and I have musical auditions today and tomorrow, English and Government starting in about 45 minutes, and I'm spending my last block of the day in a warm-up room before the audition, since today is the singing part.
Hey, I just realized something extremely important for my novelling adventure! I only have Earth Space homework tonight!! We had a calculus test today, so I have no homework there, and an Earth Space test tomorrow! Okay, I'll probably have to do some government studying tonight as well, and I might get some homework from English (I don't know yet), but having no calculus homework means I can spend an extra hour writing instead of trying to find derivatives and stuff.
Anyhow, I still need to go and write now. Might post later. Not sure yet. That will be determined by much I write today. And how much time I have tonight. And stuff.
If I have something to say, I will come in and say it.
Oh, yeah, before I leave, I have a funny story to tell.
So, today during lunch, my friend brought in my copy of Chris Baty's book, "No Plot? No Problem!" (I loaned it to her, and we both wanted to see the pep talk for this week - since Chris Baty is awesome and he does pep talks in a BOOK. I kind of love him. He's kind of wonderful). Anyway, I read the pep talk aloud while my friend dramatically acted out the pep talk. Since it was a noble-adventure-sounding type of pep talk, she was striking a lot of dramatic poses and looking off into the distance and such. It was wonderful.
Though we did poke the "Take My Inner Editor" button a paragraph early. But whatever. Minor details. Only when we are writing will we actually need them to bump our word count.
Anyhow, now I have custody of the book. Next week, she will read the pep talk and I will be the one striking random poses and pantomiming stuff.
Which is exciting.
huzzah!
Okay, now onto the novel which Chris Baty was pep talking me to write! And hopefully getting a good word count in before I have to go to English! Or maybe all of today's word count! (okay, that is not going to happen. I do not write that fast.)
Okay, going to go write a novel. Bye.
May post later. I don't know yet.
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