Yeah, I'm trying to write more than 3000 words. Since I'm going to become a hermit for all of Thanksgiving break, please do not expect regular posts for the last week of NaNo. I will TRY to post, though.
But mostly, I'll be writing a LOT.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Day 18: catching up
Current Page: 102
Start page: 98
Target Page: 109
Pages Written Today: 4
Pages Left Today: 7
Location In Story: Proceeding into the castle. I haven't written very much since last I posted, so I'm going to go and write now.
Start page: 98
Target Page: 109
Pages Written Today: 4
Pages Left Today: 7
Location In Story: Proceeding into the castle. I haven't written very much since last I posted, so I'm going to go and write now.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Day 17: In Which I Am Behind
Start Page: 94
Current Page: 98
Target Page: 103
Pages Written Today: 4
Pages Left Today: 5
Location In Story: Hero has been spotted and (not really) seduced, but Romeo successfully dragged Demetrius away and put him back on track. Hero decides that, after waiting around for a while, that she is going to go off and find Romeo and Demetrius and Puck and Morgan. With the help of Sebastian, of course. She wouldn't go without Sebastian. However, now I can't think of what to have Romeo and Puck and Demetrius and Morgan do. I'm kind of at a roadblock, but I can't exactly do anything about it right now because I have to blog and do calculus and government and go to rehearsal today, and tomorrow will only be aided by the fact that I have time to sleep in the morning.
Anyhow, moving on.
Well, there is nothing really to move on to, except homework and writing, and I have a government test tomorrow, a hike to go on with Earth-Space, a novel to write in a month, calculus to review, and a musical to rehearse. All tomorrow. Today I have to do basically the same thing, minus the hike. I DO have to review government and do calculus homework and write a novel. Even though writing a novel is optional, it's the thing I want to do most. Even though there are a lot of things I SHOULD be doing. And even though it's the one thing I don't HAVE to do. And even though I'm having another bout of writer's block. GAH!
Funny how that ALWAYS happens. The one thing you don't have to do is the one thing you want to do most.
For all of you non-writers out there, I dare you to write a novel next November. You don't have to publish it; it doesn't have to be the next Supremely Brilliant Novel That Will Forever Change The World. But I dare you to do it. I dare you to let your life be changed by words. And to let me know that I'm not the only lunatic doing calculus and National Novel Writing Month and the musical all at the same time.
For all of you wimps out there who aren't doing all three, I dare you to try a month of complete insanity. It will be the strangest thing you have ever done, but it will also be the coolest thing you will ever do. Why? Well, it means that you have gone to the edge of glory, as Lady Gaga would say. You have done what no mere mortals do.
In other words, you can go to the breaches of utter ridiculosity and come out alive, should you dare to venture out to the horizon of Sleep Deprivation and Utter Creativity.
Wow. I sound really poetic when I only get six hours of sleep two nights in a row.
Yeah. Okay. I need to go get food and write maybe twenty words before I go to rehearsal.
I will see you all on the other side of tomorrow.
Wow. That also sounded really poetic. Though I write poetically when I'm tired, I REFUSE to lose more sleep than I already have. I slept in for 20 minutes this morning; I dreamed that two guys I know had met each other like forty years ago even though the older one is 19.
Yeah. I hate stress dreams, too.
ONWARD!
Current Page: 98
Target Page: 103
Pages Written Today: 4
Pages Left Today: 5
Location In Story: Hero has been spotted and (not really) seduced, but Romeo successfully dragged Demetrius away and put him back on track. Hero decides that, after waiting around for a while, that she is going to go off and find Romeo and Demetrius and Puck and Morgan. With the help of Sebastian, of course. She wouldn't go without Sebastian. However, now I can't think of what to have Romeo and Puck and Demetrius and Morgan do. I'm kind of at a roadblock, but I can't exactly do anything about it right now because I have to blog and do calculus and government and go to rehearsal today, and tomorrow will only be aided by the fact that I have time to sleep in the morning.
Anyhow, moving on.
Well, there is nothing really to move on to, except homework and writing, and I have a government test tomorrow, a hike to go on with Earth-Space, a novel to write in a month, calculus to review, and a musical to rehearse. All tomorrow. Today I have to do basically the same thing, minus the hike. I DO have to review government and do calculus homework and write a novel. Even though writing a novel is optional, it's the thing I want to do most. Even though there are a lot of things I SHOULD be doing. And even though it's the one thing I don't HAVE to do. And even though I'm having another bout of writer's block. GAH!
Funny how that ALWAYS happens. The one thing you don't have to do is the one thing you want to do most.
For all of you non-writers out there, I dare you to write a novel next November. You don't have to publish it; it doesn't have to be the next Supremely Brilliant Novel That Will Forever Change The World. But I dare you to do it. I dare you to let your life be changed by words. And to let me know that I'm not the only lunatic doing calculus and National Novel Writing Month and the musical all at the same time.
For all of you wimps out there who aren't doing all three, I dare you to try a month of complete insanity. It will be the strangest thing you have ever done, but it will also be the coolest thing you will ever do. Why? Well, it means that you have gone to the edge of glory, as Lady Gaga would say. You have done what no mere mortals do.
In other words, you can go to the breaches of utter ridiculosity and come out alive, should you dare to venture out to the horizon of Sleep Deprivation and Utter Creativity.
Wow. I sound really poetic when I only get six hours of sleep two nights in a row.
Yeah. Okay. I need to go get food and write maybe twenty words before I go to rehearsal.
I will see you all on the other side of tomorrow.
Wow. That also sounded really poetic. Though I write poetically when I'm tired, I REFUSE to lose more sleep than I already have. I slept in for 20 minutes this morning; I dreamed that two guys I know had met each other like forty years ago even though the older one is 19.
Yeah. I hate stress dreams, too.
ONWARD!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Day 16: past halfway!
Start Page: 89
Current Page: 92
Pages Written Today: 3
Target Page: 97
Pages Left To Go: 5
Location In Story: Demetrius is about to spring from his cover and start soliloquizing to Hero, who, despite the fact that it's DAWN and she should be ASLEEP rather than staying up and WAITING for them to come (even though she knew they were coming to save her; Belarius told Hamlet via MagicSkype), is waiting for Demetrius and Romeo and Puck and Belarius on her balcony. She's doing nothing of consequence on said balcony, except for standing there and looking pretty. And maybe saying a bit of a sonnet or two, for good measure.
To be quite honest, I thought this time would come a LONG time ago (on maybe Day 7 or 8), but I'm quite glad that I've had the time to pad my word count, because I don't think the story would last for 50,000 words if I hadn't had the time to establish the characters and add some Chekhov's Guns that I did not know existed in the story (for all of you who do not know what a Chekhov's Gun is... it's that cliche of EVERYTHING that if you mention a weapon in the beginning of something, someone will die because of it at the end. If a knife is shown in Act 1, someone will die in Act 2 or 3. If there's a gun hanging on the wall in Act 1, someone will fire it in Act 2 or 3. It also applies to offhand statements, notation of the little details, and other things of a seemingly inconsequential nature; all of these will come back and bite you. In the world of literature, nothing is ever unimportant). So that's all good.
Now I'm just procrastinating on going back to studying. I do NOT have to do calculus homework today, which is VERY exciting. I wasn't looking forward to doing MORE mind-numbing equations. It started to make sense last week, but then this week came along and the teacher introduced the chain rule, and now everything's confusing again. I'm starting to make sense of it once more, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it wrong and that something will be introduced on Friday or Monday that will throw me off. Whatever that source of confusion might be, I can guarantee that I'm not looking forward to it.
In other news, rehearsals have begun for the musical. I have all of ONE LINE and ONE SOLO!!! WOOHOO!!! Sadly, I'm not playing one of those awesome multi-cast musical ninjas who can do anything and makes everyone else look good, but this is the next best thing. Sadly, a musical like "Oklahoma!" is not the sort of musical that takes kindly to ninjas, multi-cast and musical or not. "Guys and Dolls" needed a few ninjas, but "Oklahoma!" isn't a very ninja-friendly musical, since it's set primarily in one area among one group of people (as opposed to "Guys and Dolls," which has Cubans, gangsters, New Yorkers, Hot Box Girls, and Missionaries).
So that's what's happening right now. Nothing of significant consequence.
Except my voice is dying from yelling over the music during Fall Formal on Thursday. I was horrible on Friday and I improved on Saturday and Sunday, but Monday I started to sing again, which utterly killed my voice. Now I'm trying to keep hydrated and eat lots of oranges.
Now I must return to the darkness that is studying for government and vocabulary tests and writing about how Demetrius thinks he's Romeo Montague. And do laundry.
I am excited.
But not for vocab.
Or government.
I cannot tell you how supremely pumped I am to write this scene.
Current Page: 92
Pages Written Today: 3
Target Page: 97
Pages Left To Go: 5
Location In Story: Demetrius is about to spring from his cover and start soliloquizing to Hero, who, despite the fact that it's DAWN and she should be ASLEEP rather than staying up and WAITING for them to come (even though she knew they were coming to save her; Belarius told Hamlet via MagicSkype), is waiting for Demetrius and Romeo and Puck and Belarius on her balcony. She's doing nothing of consequence on said balcony, except for standing there and looking pretty. And maybe saying a bit of a sonnet or two, for good measure.
To be quite honest, I thought this time would come a LONG time ago (on maybe Day 7 or 8), but I'm quite glad that I've had the time to pad my word count, because I don't think the story would last for 50,000 words if I hadn't had the time to establish the characters and add some Chekhov's Guns that I did not know existed in the story (for all of you who do not know what a Chekhov's Gun is... it's that cliche of EVERYTHING that if you mention a weapon in the beginning of something, someone will die because of it at the end. If a knife is shown in Act 1, someone will die in Act 2 or 3. If there's a gun hanging on the wall in Act 1, someone will fire it in Act 2 or 3. It also applies to offhand statements, notation of the little details, and other things of a seemingly inconsequential nature; all of these will come back and bite you. In the world of literature, nothing is ever unimportant). So that's all good.
Now I'm just procrastinating on going back to studying. I do NOT have to do calculus homework today, which is VERY exciting. I wasn't looking forward to doing MORE mind-numbing equations. It started to make sense last week, but then this week came along and the teacher introduced the chain rule, and now everything's confusing again. I'm starting to make sense of it once more, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it wrong and that something will be introduced on Friday or Monday that will throw me off. Whatever that source of confusion might be, I can guarantee that I'm not looking forward to it.
In other news, rehearsals have begun for the musical. I have all of ONE LINE and ONE SOLO!!! WOOHOO!!! Sadly, I'm not playing one of those awesome multi-cast musical ninjas who can do anything and makes everyone else look good, but this is the next best thing. Sadly, a musical like "Oklahoma!" is not the sort of musical that takes kindly to ninjas, multi-cast and musical or not. "Guys and Dolls" needed a few ninjas, but "Oklahoma!" isn't a very ninja-friendly musical, since it's set primarily in one area among one group of people (as opposed to "Guys and Dolls," which has Cubans, gangsters, New Yorkers, Hot Box Girls, and Missionaries).
So that's what's happening right now. Nothing of significant consequence.
Except my voice is dying from yelling over the music during Fall Formal on Thursday. I was horrible on Friday and I improved on Saturday and Sunday, but Monday I started to sing again, which utterly killed my voice. Now I'm trying to keep hydrated and eat lots of oranges.
Now I must return to the darkness that is studying for government and vocabulary tests and writing about how Demetrius thinks he's Romeo Montague. And do laundry.
I am excited.
But not for vocab.
Or government.
I cannot tell you how supremely pumped I am to write this scene.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Day 15: the return of plot!
Current Page: 88
Start Page: 85
Target Page: 91
Pages Written Today: 3
Pages Left To Go: 3
Location In Story: It's the Eve of the First Time They Go Into The Castle To Do Things Of An Important Nature. I've decided that the reason they are infiltrating (or whatever it is they're doing; I don't know whether it's as cool as infiltrating, but they're only four in number, so they're not storming the castle... what do you call this, anyway?) is to find and rescue Prince Sebastian and Princess Hero. And bring them out of the castle and have them help Romeo and Demetrius and Puck and Morgan/ Belarius to complete whatever it is they need to be doing (here meaning overthrowing Iago and saving Mercanova and restoring the rightful king to power and thus fulfilling the Prophecy. Also, getting Romeo her sword). I don't know WHY they are doing a rescue mission first, but they are doing the rescue mission.
So that's where I am. Huzzah!
This juncture in the novel signifies the Return of the Plot, which was hitherto absent. Now it's returned, and it's being cherished and appreciated, because I've greatly missed having a direction in the novel. Now I have a direction within the novel, and I'm happy.
Of course, the whole Palace Invasion Mission will go horribly awry and Morgan/ Belarius will get captured and nobody gets saved, but they don't know that yet. If they knew, wouldn't bother going into Elsinore in the first place.
But, since they don't know that stuff of an annoying, horrible, dramatic, and potentially destructive nature are going to happen, FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Of course, Romeo, Demetrius, Puck, and Morgan are all very nervous about this whole infiltration/ invasion/ raid/ rescue mission/ whatever it is, but none of them are going to admit it. I want to give the scene its dues, so I'm not going to write it until after Conservatory.
Instead, during the rest of my free afternoon, I'm going to read "Othello" and look up some stuff for Conservatory and maybe get a new monologue (I have to make sure that the one I'm using for my comedic monologue for my VCU audition is actually legal under the stipulations). I have several stock monologues that I can use for a variety of situations, but only one of them might work for the situation at hand.
So, until another time, farewell. I must go and perform things of an academic and required nature.
And also write a scene in which things of an annoying, horrible, dramatic, and potentially destructive nature (aka failure) may or may not occur.
But first, I must read about a jealous and manipulative bad guy who shares the name of my NaNoWriMo villain, and I must locate monologues that I'm absolutely certain that I can use whilst auditioning for colleges for the performing arts (and other things of an artsy nature).
Farewell.
Start Page: 85
Target Page: 91
Pages Written Today: 3
Pages Left To Go: 3
Location In Story: It's the Eve of the First Time They Go Into The Castle To Do Things Of An Important Nature. I've decided that the reason they are infiltrating (or whatever it is they're doing; I don't know whether it's as cool as infiltrating, but they're only four in number, so they're not storming the castle... what do you call this, anyway?) is to find and rescue Prince Sebastian and Princess Hero. And bring them out of the castle and have them help Romeo and Demetrius and Puck and Morgan/ Belarius to complete whatever it is they need to be doing (here meaning overthrowing Iago and saving Mercanova and restoring the rightful king to power and thus fulfilling the Prophecy. Also, getting Romeo her sword). I don't know WHY they are doing a rescue mission first, but they are doing the rescue mission.
So that's where I am. Huzzah!
This juncture in the novel signifies the Return of the Plot, which was hitherto absent. Now it's returned, and it's being cherished and appreciated, because I've greatly missed having a direction in the novel. Now I have a direction within the novel, and I'm happy.
Of course, the whole Palace Invasion Mission will go horribly awry and Morgan/ Belarius will get captured and nobody gets saved, but they don't know that yet. If they knew, wouldn't bother going into Elsinore in the first place.
But, since they don't know that stuff of an annoying, horrible, dramatic, and potentially destructive nature are going to happen, FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Of course, Romeo, Demetrius, Puck, and Morgan are all very nervous about this whole infiltration/ invasion/ raid/ rescue mission/ whatever it is, but none of them are going to admit it. I want to give the scene its dues, so I'm not going to write it until after Conservatory.
Instead, during the rest of my free afternoon, I'm going to read "Othello" and look up some stuff for Conservatory and maybe get a new monologue (I have to make sure that the one I'm using for my comedic monologue for my VCU audition is actually legal under the stipulations). I have several stock monologues that I can use for a variety of situations, but only one of them might work for the situation at hand.
So, until another time, farewell. I must go and perform things of an academic and required nature.
And also write a scene in which things of an annoying, horrible, dramatic, and potentially destructive nature (aka failure) may or may not occur.
But first, I must read about a jealous and manipulative bad guy who shares the name of my NaNoWriMo villain, and I must locate monologues that I'm absolutely certain that I can use whilst auditioning for colleges for the performing arts (and other things of an artsy nature).
Farewell.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Day 14: Musical Madness
Start Page: 79
Current Page: 82
End Page: 85
Pages Written Today: 3
Pages Left To Go: 3
Location In Story: Romeo has caught the first glimpse of her father. Morgan basically pulled up a magical Skype session to check in with the king (he was acting on Royal Orders), and Romeo, who was thinking about 'Cymbeline' the night before (there's a character in 'Cymbeline' who goes by Morgan, but whose real name is Belarius, and he's a banished lord who doesn't like the king and has 'adopted' the King's oldest twins), thought he might be up to something and decided to follow him into the woods when she saw him leaving their clearing to go and do something (she had fallen into a doze by the fire ring, but she had not really fallen asleep because she'd gotten around 20 hours of sleep in the previous 40 hours, so she was reasonably awake when she saw him leave). He was only checking in with the King, however. And Morgan IS really Belarius in this novel, but Morgan/ Belarius IS well-intentioned and King Hamlet DID send him to look after Romeo and Demetrius and Puck, and Morgan/ Belarius DID volunteer, so there's no motivation for anger on his part. Romeo didn't actually get to speak to her father, because she didn't want to incur Morgan/ Belarius's wrath by randomly showing up from behind a bush when it was only like an hour past dawn and when he was trying to be secretive in his initiatives to go have a magical Skype session with the king.
So that's where I am. My plot has gone out the window, in other words. Right now, Romeo and Demetrius and Puck and Morgan should probably be storming the castle for the first time, but they won't even START combat training for another thousand words or so. Also, Romeo was not supposed to know Morgan's real name until they stormed the castle, but now she knows, and she's forbidden from telling the other two about it.
I just hope I'll get to SOMETHING significant by the end of the week. Right now, I have so ridiculously little plot initiative, it's ridiculous.
Anyway, TOPIC CHANGE! Onto discussion of the musical, "Oklahoma."
The first musical rehearsal was today, and I didn't get a ton of homework and writing done beforehand (I still have some calculus (which has stopped making sense) to do and I have to read some of "Othello" and I have to write three more pages for NaNo), so I still have around an hour of homework to do. Actually, more like an hour and a half. Maybe two hours. I'm not sure.
Apparently, my character in the musical is made up. That's right, I don't actually exist. I am, according to the director (along with some other kids whose characters were NOT made up), part of the AP ensemble. This means that I get to sing and dance with six other people (including the female lead) in ONE song, and then I'm part of the crowd scene in the rest of the show. I have all of ONE line, and since my name is not mentioned, it's just a line for a character labeled "Girl."
So that is what is up with the musical.
Okay, I have to go now. I must go forth and further my plot and write my novel and do my calculus and read about Othello and how Iago is a complete jerk to him because Iago's a really jealous type of dude. I shall not return until I've done something of and extremely productive nature.
Farewell.
Current Page: 82
End Page: 85
Pages Written Today: 3
Pages Left To Go: 3
Location In Story: Romeo has caught the first glimpse of her father. Morgan basically pulled up a magical Skype session to check in with the king (he was acting on Royal Orders), and Romeo, who was thinking about 'Cymbeline' the night before (there's a character in 'Cymbeline' who goes by Morgan, but whose real name is Belarius, and he's a banished lord who doesn't like the king and has 'adopted' the King's oldest twins), thought he might be up to something and decided to follow him into the woods when she saw him leaving their clearing to go and do something (she had fallen into a doze by the fire ring, but she had not really fallen asleep because she'd gotten around 20 hours of sleep in the previous 40 hours, so she was reasonably awake when she saw him leave). He was only checking in with the King, however. And Morgan IS really Belarius in this novel, but Morgan/ Belarius IS well-intentioned and King Hamlet DID send him to look after Romeo and Demetrius and Puck, and Morgan/ Belarius DID volunteer, so there's no motivation for anger on his part. Romeo didn't actually get to speak to her father, because she didn't want to incur Morgan/ Belarius's wrath by randomly showing up from behind a bush when it was only like an hour past dawn and when he was trying to be secretive in his initiatives to go have a magical Skype session with the king.
So that's where I am. My plot has gone out the window, in other words. Right now, Romeo and Demetrius and Puck and Morgan should probably be storming the castle for the first time, but they won't even START combat training for another thousand words or so. Also, Romeo was not supposed to know Morgan's real name until they stormed the castle, but now she knows, and she's forbidden from telling the other two about it.
I just hope I'll get to SOMETHING significant by the end of the week. Right now, I have so ridiculously little plot initiative, it's ridiculous.
Anyway, TOPIC CHANGE! Onto discussion of the musical, "Oklahoma."
The first musical rehearsal was today, and I didn't get a ton of homework and writing done beforehand (I still have some calculus (which has stopped making sense) to do and I have to read some of "Othello" and I have to write three more pages for NaNo), so I still have around an hour of homework to do. Actually, more like an hour and a half. Maybe two hours. I'm not sure.
Apparently, my character in the musical is made up. That's right, I don't actually exist. I am, according to the director (along with some other kids whose characters were NOT made up), part of the AP ensemble. This means that I get to sing and dance with six other people (including the female lead) in ONE song, and then I'm part of the crowd scene in the rest of the show. I have all of ONE line, and since my name is not mentioned, it's just a line for a character labeled "Girl."
So that is what is up with the musical.
Okay, I have to go now. I must go forth and further my plot and write my novel and do my calculus and read about Othello and how Iago is a complete jerk to him because Iago's a really jealous type of dude. I shall not return until I've done something of and extremely productive nature.
Farewell.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Day 13: unlucky?
Start Page: 75
Target Page: 79
Pages In Between: 4
Current Page: 75 (I HAVE written a little bit today, I swear! True, I've done only about four lines, but that's better than writing nothing at all!)
Pages Written Today: less than one
Pages Left To Go: 4
Location In Story: Romeo is speculating about how her tale will end using references to Shakespeare. She's considering "Hamlet" as a distinct possiblity (the only thing missing is a dead significant other, a deceased parent, and visions of said deceased parent repeatedly haunting her until she does something about the deceased parent's death, which was brought about by her jealous, murderous uncle, who is only jealous but not murderous in this). "Othello" has been ruled out because Othello and Desdemona were Demetrius's parents and they're already dead. Right now, I'm basically just giving Romeo an internal monologue because I need the words and I don't want to end the chapter after only one page. And also to give myself ideas about how to fully transition into the next bit of the novel. And I'm pulling up all the potential Shakespeare references that I can think of without doing a full spoiler of the rest of the book or completely confusing myself.
So that's where I am.
The hardest part about long weekends is all the homework that I've procrastinated on during the entire weekend is starting to catch up with me. Since the days are getting darker earlier, I keep thinking the time is closer to 8:30 than 5:30, so I keep thinking I have less time to do all my homework than I actually do. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. I'm sort of freaking out about the amount of stuff that I have left to do, which is kind of bad, but then I remember that I have three more hours to do it than I thought I did, which is good, I guess. It doesn't take away from the fact that I have to do it, but at least I have more time than I thought I did.
But the homework still exists. The pressure still exists. I still have to go to rehearsal tomorrow and study for government and do some calculus corrections and read "Othello" and email some stuff to my Earth Space teacher and write and write and write.
So, rather than blogging further (since I've completed the mandatory part of that task and I've very little left to say,), I must go forth and do homework, do my writing, do my reading, do my emailing, and live my life. And do calculus. Grrrrrr.
Farewell!
Target Page: 79
Pages In Between: 4
Current Page: 75 (I HAVE written a little bit today, I swear! True, I've done only about four lines, but that's better than writing nothing at all!)
Pages Written Today: less than one
Pages Left To Go: 4
Location In Story: Romeo is speculating about how her tale will end using references to Shakespeare. She's considering "Hamlet" as a distinct possiblity (the only thing missing is a dead significant other, a deceased parent, and visions of said deceased parent repeatedly haunting her until she does something about the deceased parent's death, which was brought about by her jealous, murderous uncle, who is only jealous but not murderous in this). "Othello" has been ruled out because Othello and Desdemona were Demetrius's parents and they're already dead. Right now, I'm basically just giving Romeo an internal monologue because I need the words and I don't want to end the chapter after only one page. And also to give myself ideas about how to fully transition into the next bit of the novel. And I'm pulling up all the potential Shakespeare references that I can think of without doing a full spoiler of the rest of the book or completely confusing myself.
So that's where I am.
The hardest part about long weekends is all the homework that I've procrastinated on during the entire weekend is starting to catch up with me. Since the days are getting darker earlier, I keep thinking the time is closer to 8:30 than 5:30, so I keep thinking I have less time to do all my homework than I actually do. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. I'm sort of freaking out about the amount of stuff that I have left to do, which is kind of bad, but then I remember that I have three more hours to do it than I thought I did, which is good, I guess. It doesn't take away from the fact that I have to do it, but at least I have more time than I thought I did.
But the homework still exists. The pressure still exists. I still have to go to rehearsal tomorrow and study for government and do some calculus corrections and read "Othello" and email some stuff to my Earth Space teacher and write and write and write.
So, rather than blogging further (since I've completed the mandatory part of that task and I've very little left to say,), I must go forth and do homework, do my writing, do my reading, do my emailing, and live my life. And do calculus. Grrrrrr.
Farewell!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Day 12: In Which I Hardly Write Again
Start Page: 70
Current Page: 72
Pages Written Today: 2
Target Page: 73
Pages Left To Go: 1
Location In Story: I am currently having all my characters stall so I can figure out what to have them do next. They could maybe discuss battle strategy. I'm not sure yet. So I'm have them stall the story until I figure it out by having Romeo and Puck and Demetrius and Morgan discuss what they next should discuss. They'll most likely go with discussion of battle strategy and other things of a reasonably important nature.
As you can tell, I did NOT succeed in the 11,111 word challenge yesterday. I find my lack of success in this endeavor rather depressing. However, I DID set a new personal record for Words Written In A Day for this year (I'm not sure if I trumped anything I did last year; I don't remember any of the records I set last year). So that's a good thing, since I can relax on word count later (and/ or today). I'm going to try and write past page 73 today so I can bump my word count for later, when a time comes when I get super stressed and incapable of doing 2,000 words a day, but if I don't get past page 73, then whatever, since my word count is already about what it should be for my target of 2,000 words a day. That in itself is a sort of padding because I will have time to catch up on word count if I fall behind (if I continue to do 2,000 words a day, I'll finish 50,000 words by November 25th). I have no idea whether 50,00 words is enough to tell the story, but if I keep up doing 2,000 words a day, then I'll have time at the end of the month to write accordingly.
Um... I do not know what else to say right now.
Nothing of great consequence happened today.
I didn't write much, which I should probably fix right about now (or very soon). I am also going to have to do calculus after dinner, as well as other homework things. For example, I have to read 'Othello' today as well. And email some Earth-space stuff to my teacher. And study for a government test. And finish my word count. And possibly exceed my word count, since musical rehearsals start on Monday and I do not want to get to the point where I have to go to sleep at around two in the morning every single day I have musical rehearsal. Because going to sleep at two in the morning on any day really sucks. Especially when you have a novel to write, calculus homework to do, Shakespeare to read, Earth-Space to email, and government tests to study for.
So yeah. I am going now.
Farewell.
Current Page: 72
Pages Written Today: 2
Target Page: 73
Pages Left To Go: 1
Location In Story: I am currently having all my characters stall so I can figure out what to have them do next. They could maybe discuss battle strategy. I'm not sure yet. So I'm have them stall the story until I figure it out by having Romeo and Puck and Demetrius and Morgan discuss what they next should discuss. They'll most likely go with discussion of battle strategy and other things of a reasonably important nature.
As you can tell, I did NOT succeed in the 11,111 word challenge yesterday. I find my lack of success in this endeavor rather depressing. However, I DID set a new personal record for Words Written In A Day for this year (I'm not sure if I trumped anything I did last year; I don't remember any of the records I set last year). So that's a good thing, since I can relax on word count later (and/ or today). I'm going to try and write past page 73 today so I can bump my word count for later, when a time comes when I get super stressed and incapable of doing 2,000 words a day, but if I don't get past page 73, then whatever, since my word count is already about what it should be for my target of 2,000 words a day. That in itself is a sort of padding because I will have time to catch up on word count if I fall behind (if I continue to do 2,000 words a day, I'll finish 50,000 words by November 25th). I have no idea whether 50,00 words is enough to tell the story, but if I keep up doing 2,000 words a day, then I'll have time at the end of the month to write accordingly.
Um... I do not know what else to say right now.
Nothing of great consequence happened today.
I didn't write much, which I should probably fix right about now (or very soon). I am also going to have to do calculus after dinner, as well as other homework things. For example, I have to read 'Othello' today as well. And email some Earth-space stuff to my teacher. And study for a government test. And finish my word count. And possibly exceed my word count, since musical rehearsals start on Monday and I do not want to get to the point where I have to go to sleep at around two in the morning every single day I have musical rehearsal. Because going to sleep at two in the morning on any day really sucks. Especially when you have a novel to write, calculus homework to do, Shakespeare to read, Earth-Space to email, and government tests to study for.
So yeah. I am going now.
Farewell.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Day 11: when I attempt lunatic word counts
Current Page: 64
Target Page: 95 (will get to this in a minute)
Pages Written Today: 4
Pages Left To Go: 31
Location In Story: Romeo has just knocked out about 300 orcs (she put them to sleep with her wordy awesomeness, because she can) and has now passed out from the strain. Also, King Hamlet is speculating how he might meet his daughter, and what she might look like. (King Hamlet is Romeo's father).
Before I get to Why I Am Writing 35 Pages In One Day, I would first like to say: THANK YOU VETERANS FOR YOUR AWESOMENESS!
Now onto the Topic of Today's Post: Why I Am Attempting To Write 35 Pages In One Day.
Well, as you all know, today is 11/11/11, the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the twenty-first century. Yes, I DID wish at 11:11 AM this morning as well, because the 11:11 wish would obviously be more potent today than on other days.
Anyhow, as it is 11/11/11, there are two potential National Novel Writing Month Challenge Options: write for 11 hours today (no WAY will I be able to do that), or write 11,111 words today. Since I can't sit still and write for 11 hours straight (not that I have tried, because I can barely do 1-2 hours, AND I am feeling lousy, so that makes me even more distractable than normal), I am trying the 11,111 word challenge.
Although I am already ahead on my word count, I want to get to a point where I can actually get to a reasonable plot development, instead of having a bunch of minor plot developments. I need to get myself to the first Super Epic Plot Development. If I do that, then I will for sure finish the novel in a month, because I will be fully interested in what is going on. Because things of an important nature will be occuring. Huzzah!
Yeah, I am not doing a lot of homework today. I thought I would, but I am not. I AM out of bed and dressed and showered and I have fed myself twice today, which is an accomplishment. I have also written about 1400 words, which is also a good accomplishment. So it is a good day in most respects.
Obviously, I am going to have to take a break from writing a TON tomorrow and Sunday because I will have procrastinated so much on homework and such, but if I make the 11,111 words today, then I will be able to afford to go easy tomorrow and Sunday.
Week three is going to be the hardest of the month, though. That is because Week Three is the only week in November in which I do not have any additional days off of school. Which is annoying. Also, I do not know how far I am going to get today, and my progress today will determine a lot of my progress for week three. I will either be forcing myself to write and only be getting like 1,000 words a day, or I will be finding every spare moment to write because I am fully interested in the novel, because things of an important nature are happening, which is exciting.
Okay, time to stop procrastinating and start getting a purple ink stain on my finger and writer's cramp in my wrist. Farewell!
Oh, yeah. Fall formal last night? It was awesome. Finally, a GOOD year. Huzzah! Except for my shoes. I am still debating whether my shoes were a win or a fail - they were 3.5 inch stiletto-type shoes, and they were bright orange and slightly painful. I enjoyed being 5'10", but my toes did not enjoy it.
Okay, really. I am done procrastinating.
Goodbye.
Target Page: 95 (will get to this in a minute)
Pages Written Today: 4
Pages Left To Go: 31
Location In Story: Romeo has just knocked out about 300 orcs (she put them to sleep with her wordy awesomeness, because she can) and has now passed out from the strain. Also, King Hamlet is speculating how he might meet his daughter, and what she might look like. (King Hamlet is Romeo's father).
Before I get to Why I Am Writing 35 Pages In One Day, I would first like to say: THANK YOU VETERANS FOR YOUR AWESOMENESS!
Now onto the Topic of Today's Post: Why I Am Attempting To Write 35 Pages In One Day.
Well, as you all know, today is 11/11/11, the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the twenty-first century. Yes, I DID wish at 11:11 AM this morning as well, because the 11:11 wish would obviously be more potent today than on other days.
Anyhow, as it is 11/11/11, there are two potential National Novel Writing Month Challenge Options: write for 11 hours today (no WAY will I be able to do that), or write 11,111 words today. Since I can't sit still and write for 11 hours straight (not that I have tried, because I can barely do 1-2 hours, AND I am feeling lousy, so that makes me even more distractable than normal), I am trying the 11,111 word challenge.
Although I am already ahead on my word count, I want to get to a point where I can actually get to a reasonable plot development, instead of having a bunch of minor plot developments. I need to get myself to the first Super Epic Plot Development. If I do that, then I will for sure finish the novel in a month, because I will be fully interested in what is going on. Because things of an important nature will be occuring. Huzzah!
Yeah, I am not doing a lot of homework today. I thought I would, but I am not. I AM out of bed and dressed and showered and I have fed myself twice today, which is an accomplishment. I have also written about 1400 words, which is also a good accomplishment. So it is a good day in most respects.
Obviously, I am going to have to take a break from writing a TON tomorrow and Sunday because I will have procrastinated so much on homework and such, but if I make the 11,111 words today, then I will be able to afford to go easy tomorrow and Sunday.
Week three is going to be the hardest of the month, though. That is because Week Three is the only week in November in which I do not have any additional days off of school. Which is annoying. Also, I do not know how far I am going to get today, and my progress today will determine a lot of my progress for week three. I will either be forcing myself to write and only be getting like 1,000 words a day, or I will be finding every spare moment to write because I am fully interested in the novel, because things of an important nature are happening, which is exciting.
Okay, time to stop procrastinating and start getting a purple ink stain on my finger and writer's cramp in my wrist. Farewell!
Oh, yeah. Fall formal last night? It was awesome. Finally, a GOOD year. Huzzah! Except for my shoes. I am still debating whether my shoes were a win or a fail - they were 3.5 inch stiletto-type shoes, and they were bright orange and slightly painful. I enjoyed being 5'10", but my toes did not enjoy it.
Okay, really. I am done procrastinating.
Goodbye.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Day 10: in which I am on a reasonable track and worrying about the musical
Current Page: 57
Pages Written Today: 1.5
Target Page: 61
Pages To Go: 4
Location In Story: Iago plans to send orcs after Romeo (he doesn't know that Demetrius and Puck are alive and he doesn't know that Belarius is with them). He intends for the orcs to take Romeo by force and then bring her back to the palace; he plans on torturing her and then tempting her to come to the dark side (maybe he'll bribe her with cookies); if she refuses, she dies. He's sent out the orcs, and now he's just waiting for them to come back. Romeo's father, Hamlet (who's NOT, emotionally unstable, nor is Ophelia), isn't happy about both the torturing and potential death thing, AND the fact that none of Romeo's family will be able to see her or meet her before she's subjected to things of an extremely unpleasant nature. Now, BACK TO DEMETRIUS AND ROMEO AND PUCK AND MORGAN/ BELARIUS! (that's the bit that I haven't written yet). Also, Demetrius and Romeo... they aren't exactly friends, and they haven't bonded at ALL, but they've reached a truce. And they both agree to honor the truce. Which is a very good thing, I guess. Once Romeo gets more control over her words, they will be doing that sort of argue/ banter type of thing that some people do when they may or may not be flirting (or are masking their flirting by arguing, or are arguing because they don't think they are flirting because they don't like the other person. It's the third one that Romeo and Demetrius will be doing when I get to that bit).
I think I'm reasonably on track for my personal word count. I only have about 1200 more words to go until I hit my personal daily word count, which is exciting. I should be writing right now, because fall formal is tonight, but I can write during my third free block today. Besides, the dance starts really late tonight, so I can write some this afternoon as well, since today is basically a Friday, since there's no school tomorrow.
Anyway, in other news, cast lists for the musical have NOT gone up yet, which is annoying me very much. The director said they'll be posted next block, but the chorus room is in the basement, and for the next two blocks after this I have classes on the third floor, so I can't go down in between classes because then I'll be late to class (both of which are AP and, although an AP grade is weighted, I don't want to flub more than I have to on them), and neither of the next two teachers I have are the sort of teachers who condone lateness. This means I have to wait until 3:15 at the earliest before I can see what part I got (or if I even got a part, or whether I'm in the ensemble or whether I'm one of those nameless ninjas who plays all of the important supporting people who nevertheless has all of zero lines, like I was last year). I wouldn't mind being one of those nameless ninjas who do everything, but I want to know whether I'm actually a ninjas or whether I am someone important. Or whether I'm someone unimportant. All of the above are very viable options.
I just really want to know.
GAAH!!!
As you can tell, I'm very bad at handling suspense. Especially when it's something that I actually think I did well on. In theory (and mostly in fact), that's always the case - I thought I did well on it, and I want to know whether the people who were supposed to be judging me think so. I don't care about how much everyone else is judging me, but if I disappoint the directors, then I'm screwed. Which is not fun.
And I'm getting myself to the point where I am too nervous to write well.
Despite the fact that writing well is not a criteria for succeeding in NaNoWriMo.
There's a difference between writing well and writing coherently. Writing well means that you understand it and it sounds cool. Writing coherently means you can understand it. Right now, I can't do either.
I think I did well on the call back, but what I've noticed is that I'm the sort of person who is an infallible optimist. I hope for the best, and I think I did well, but then it turns out that I didn't do well at ALL (or at least not as well as I thought I did), and then I'm all annoyed and disappointed. Which is really depressing. Literally.
Okay, I am going to sign off now. Hopefully I got a good part. And hopefully there will be something for me to kick if I am not entirely happy with my part.
GRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pages Written Today: 1.5
Target Page: 61
Pages To Go: 4
Location In Story: Iago plans to send orcs after Romeo (he doesn't know that Demetrius and Puck are alive and he doesn't know that Belarius is with them). He intends for the orcs to take Romeo by force and then bring her back to the palace; he plans on torturing her and then tempting her to come to the dark side (maybe he'll bribe her with cookies); if she refuses, she dies. He's sent out the orcs, and now he's just waiting for them to come back. Romeo's father, Hamlet (who's NOT, emotionally unstable, nor is Ophelia), isn't happy about both the torturing and potential death thing, AND the fact that none of Romeo's family will be able to see her or meet her before she's subjected to things of an extremely unpleasant nature. Now, BACK TO DEMETRIUS AND ROMEO AND PUCK AND MORGAN/ BELARIUS! (that's the bit that I haven't written yet). Also, Demetrius and Romeo... they aren't exactly friends, and they haven't bonded at ALL, but they've reached a truce. And they both agree to honor the truce. Which is a very good thing, I guess. Once Romeo gets more control over her words, they will be doing that sort of argue/ banter type of thing that some people do when they may or may not be flirting (or are masking their flirting by arguing, or are arguing because they don't think they are flirting because they don't like the other person. It's the third one that Romeo and Demetrius will be doing when I get to that bit).
I think I'm reasonably on track for my personal word count. I only have about 1200 more words to go until I hit my personal daily word count, which is exciting. I should be writing right now, because fall formal is tonight, but I can write during my third free block today. Besides, the dance starts really late tonight, so I can write some this afternoon as well, since today is basically a Friday, since there's no school tomorrow.
Anyway, in other news, cast lists for the musical have NOT gone up yet, which is annoying me very much. The director said they'll be posted next block, but the chorus room is in the basement, and for the next two blocks after this I have classes on the third floor, so I can't go down in between classes because then I'll be late to class (both of which are AP and, although an AP grade is weighted, I don't want to flub more than I have to on them), and neither of the next two teachers I have are the sort of teachers who condone lateness. This means I have to wait until 3:15 at the earliest before I can see what part I got (or if I even got a part, or whether I'm in the ensemble or whether I'm one of those nameless ninjas who plays all of the important supporting people who nevertheless has all of zero lines, like I was last year). I wouldn't mind being one of those nameless ninjas who do everything, but I want to know whether I'm actually a ninjas or whether I am someone important. Or whether I'm someone unimportant. All of the above are very viable options.
I just really want to know.
GAAH!!!
As you can tell, I'm very bad at handling suspense. Especially when it's something that I actually think I did well on. In theory (and mostly in fact), that's always the case - I thought I did well on it, and I want to know whether the people who were supposed to be judging me think so. I don't care about how much everyone else is judging me, but if I disappoint the directors, then I'm screwed. Which is not fun.
And I'm getting myself to the point where I am too nervous to write well.
Despite the fact that writing well is not a criteria for succeeding in NaNoWriMo.
There's a difference between writing well and writing coherently. Writing well means that you understand it and it sounds cool. Writing coherently means you can understand it. Right now, I can't do either.
I think I did well on the call back, but what I've noticed is that I'm the sort of person who is an infallible optimist. I hope for the best, and I think I did well, but then it turns out that I didn't do well at ALL (or at least not as well as I thought I did), and then I'm all annoyed and disappointed. Which is really depressing. Literally.
Okay, I am going to sign off now. Hopefully I got a good part. And hopefully there will be something for me to kick if I am not entirely happy with my part.
GRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Day 9: In Which I Get Lagged
Current Page: 51
Target Page: 55
Pages Written Today: About 1
Pages Until Completion: 4
Location In Story: Demetrius + Romeo = friends? No, I don't know, either. I haven't written that part. (I'm about to, however, and it something that I should be doing sooner rather than later, so I can pad my word count for today). Also, Puck + Morgan = love? Not sure about that either. In the train of thought that is commonly maintained by people of a creepy nature, Puck and Morgan are in each other's trousers right now. However, I control the pen, which means they're not getting into each other's trousers until I say they're getting into each other's trousers. (I don't even know whether they're ACTUALLY going to get together or whether it's just me and the creepers having wishful thinking. That also remains to be seen, along with the whole relationship with Romeo and Demetrius. Oh, speculation. Thou annoyest me greatly. Grr.)
Anyhoo, I need to stop blogging and start writing, like, NOW. I KNOW that I am ahead of the necessary daily word count, but I am not of the necessary ME word count (read: I want to be able to type during Thanksgiving break, so I need to be writing the rest of the story pronto. AKA now).
But the one thing that has been holding me back and messing me up is the fact that I had a day off yesterday and I have another one off on Friday. It is completely throwing me off because I have school, and then I do not, and then I do again, and then I do not, and then I do! GAAAHHH! Theoretically, the spare time is brilliant for writing, but I am such a world-class procrastinator (like I am *ahem* not doing now) that it has been hitherto completely lost on me (also, homework has been hitherto lost on me. I am vacillating between comprehension and insanity when it comes to calculus).
Another thing: fall formal is tomorrow. I am the only one of my group of close friends group who is going to fall formal. This is rather depressing. I, unlike many of my friends, actually reasonably ENJOY these things. Sometimes, though, I wish I was not the only one, even (maybe even 'especially') since it is the last year that I can go to fall formal - so why not go?
Whatever. If worst comes to worst, I will make myself find a way to shove my National Novel Writing Mont journal into my bag before I leave (a feat that is doubtless going to prove difficult, as the bag is miniscule and the journal is a regular-sized composition book), but I hope that will not have to happen. Mostly because I cannot write with loud music pumping into my head from all sides. But maybe I can send the characters to a high school dance or something, and then things would fit perfectly in the situation. WOOHOO! (okay, that is not going to happen. First of all, Romeo would rather physically punch Demetrius in the face than let him see her in a dress at this point in time. Second of all, everyone except Romeo would be freaked out by the manner of dancing exhibited at school dances, at least the ones at the school I go to).
Also, I had callbacks today for the musical. I think I did reasonably well, except my accent was horrible. It barely existed. But, all in all, I think I performed well. I could have had more character when I was reading for Ado Annie, but the decision is no longer in my hands; I will be perfectly fine with doing ensemble. Okay, I will be SORT of pissed if I get ensemble, since I got this far in the audition process and I liked how I performed, generally. But I will have to deal with it if I get ensemble, because that is the way life is. Even if life sucks, life still has to go on.
Right. On to writing!
(and, thankfully, not calculus homework today. I do not have to go to another calculus again until Monday (hallelujah!), though I DO plan on doing my homework on Friday. Really.)
Right. Time to go forth and conjure characters from places hitherto unknown by me!
Correction: make the characters do stuff that is hitherto unspecified, since they have already deviated enough in past nine days that I cannot afford to force them back on track now.
Target Page: 55
Pages Written Today: About 1
Pages Until Completion: 4
Location In Story: Demetrius + Romeo = friends? No, I don't know, either. I haven't written that part. (I'm about to, however, and it something that I should be doing sooner rather than later, so I can pad my word count for today). Also, Puck + Morgan = love? Not sure about that either. In the train of thought that is commonly maintained by people of a creepy nature, Puck and Morgan are in each other's trousers right now. However, I control the pen, which means they're not getting into each other's trousers until I say they're getting into each other's trousers. (I don't even know whether they're ACTUALLY going to get together or whether it's just me and the creepers having wishful thinking. That also remains to be seen, along with the whole relationship with Romeo and Demetrius. Oh, speculation. Thou annoyest me greatly. Grr.)
Anyhoo, I need to stop blogging and start writing, like, NOW. I KNOW that I am ahead of the necessary daily word count, but I am not of the necessary ME word count (read: I want to be able to type during Thanksgiving break, so I need to be writing the rest of the story pronto. AKA now).
But the one thing that has been holding me back and messing me up is the fact that I had a day off yesterday and I have another one off on Friday. It is completely throwing me off because I have school, and then I do not, and then I do again, and then I do not, and then I do! GAAAHHH! Theoretically, the spare time is brilliant for writing, but I am such a world-class procrastinator (like I am *ahem* not doing now) that it has been hitherto completely lost on me (also, homework has been hitherto lost on me. I am vacillating between comprehension and insanity when it comes to calculus).
Another thing: fall formal is tomorrow. I am the only one of my group of close friends group who is going to fall formal. This is rather depressing. I, unlike many of my friends, actually reasonably ENJOY these things. Sometimes, though, I wish I was not the only one, even (maybe even 'especially') since it is the last year that I can go to fall formal - so why not go?
Whatever. If worst comes to worst, I will make myself find a way to shove my National Novel Writing Mont journal into my bag before I leave (a feat that is doubtless going to prove difficult, as the bag is miniscule and the journal is a regular-sized composition book), but I hope that will not have to happen. Mostly because I cannot write with loud music pumping into my head from all sides. But maybe I can send the characters to a high school dance or something, and then things would fit perfectly in the situation. WOOHOO! (okay, that is not going to happen. First of all, Romeo would rather physically punch Demetrius in the face than let him see her in a dress at this point in time. Second of all, everyone except Romeo would be freaked out by the manner of dancing exhibited at school dances, at least the ones at the school I go to).
Also, I had callbacks today for the musical. I think I did reasonably well, except my accent was horrible. It barely existed. But, all in all, I think I performed well. I could have had more character when I was reading for Ado Annie, but the decision is no longer in my hands; I will be perfectly fine with doing ensemble. Okay, I will be SORT of pissed if I get ensemble, since I got this far in the audition process and I liked how I performed, generally. But I will have to deal with it if I get ensemble, because that is the way life is. Even if life sucks, life still has to go on.
Right. On to writing!
(and, thankfully, not calculus homework today. I do not have to go to another calculus again until Monday (hallelujah!), though I DO plan on doing my homework on Friday. Really.)
Right. Time to go forth and conjure characters from places hitherto unknown by me!
Correction: make the characters do stuff that is hitherto unspecified, since they have already deviated enough in past nine days that I cannot afford to force them back on track now.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Day 8: In Which I Realize That I'm Farther Than I Thought
Pages Written Today: 1.5-ish
Current Page: 45
Target Page: 49
Pages In Between: 4.5
Location In Story: Romeo and Demetrius and Puck now know WHY they are in Mercanova and WHY Morgan sent them there. It's now the next morning, when nothing of consequence is scheduled to occur. Huzzah! (okay, not really huzzah. When nothing's scheduled to occur, it means I have to clean my room, do homework, and stall for 2,000 words until something important happens).
I have now thought of a long and extremely complicated back story for how the Prophecy came to be said/ how they figured out it was going to happen SOON/ why Romeo and Puck and Demetrius are the people mentioned in the prophecy. However, I don't want to go into that right now, because it's rather confusing and I don't remember a lot of it, so I'm not going to say it. But it DOES involve Romeo's father being called Hamlet, and Iago acting just like Iago does to Othello (except not at all like how Iago actually acts. He IS the misunderstood guy who gets passed over for a boon, but he doesn't kill Hamlet or Ophelia. He just deposes Hamlet. And in this Hamlet-Ophelia relationship, stuff works out and nobody dies), and Demetrius's parents being Othello and Desdemona (and Othello kills Desdemona because he thinks that Demetrius is an illegitimate child and blah blah blah, and then Demetrius is sent off to live elsewhere and Othello kills himself because of someone telling him that his son was legit and his wife was legit, and then Othello becomes suicidal and dies). And Romeo finds out that she DOES have a twin brother, and the way she was able to not be killed by Iago is by her parents telling Iago that they had two boys and one of them died. And they named her Romeo to back up the story.
Soooo yeah. That's where I am right now.
I did a word count calculation for some of the earlier pages in the novel (the ones that I had already gotten words-per-line counts on), and it turns out that my word count average is WAY above what I thought it was, so I do not have to be on page 50-something by the end of today. I have to be on page 49 (and I don't at the end of page 49, either. I only have to be about halfway down on page 49, which means I can spend time doing things that my mother would yell at me if I didn't do. Like homework).
What a way to spend a day off.
Right, well, I have to go forth and clean my room.
Farewell.
Oh, yes, one last thing: last night, I think I had the most brilliant line/ joke/ writing revelation ever. And I wrote it. (I don't remember whether I posted about it or not; if I did, post, ignore this).
Last night, the reason Demetrius stopped being a completely tease-Romeo-to-annoy-her-and-for-no-other-reason type of annoying butthead was because Romeo threatened (in a very serious manner) to use her word power to shrink his genetalia if he bugged her.
And she said it with a straight face.
And then he backed off.
HAHAHAHAAAAA!
Okay, I am going to go clean my room and do my homework now. Goodbye. I'll hopefully post later today, when I am actually caught up on my word count and stuff.
Farewell.
Current Page: 45
Target Page: 49
Pages In Between: 4.5
Location In Story: Romeo and Demetrius and Puck now know WHY they are in Mercanova and WHY Morgan sent them there. It's now the next morning, when nothing of consequence is scheduled to occur. Huzzah! (okay, not really huzzah. When nothing's scheduled to occur, it means I have to clean my room, do homework, and stall for 2,000 words until something important happens).
I have now thought of a long and extremely complicated back story for how the Prophecy came to be said/ how they figured out it was going to happen SOON/ why Romeo and Puck and Demetrius are the people mentioned in the prophecy. However, I don't want to go into that right now, because it's rather confusing and I don't remember a lot of it, so I'm not going to say it. But it DOES involve Romeo's father being called Hamlet, and Iago acting just like Iago does to Othello (except not at all like how Iago actually acts. He IS the misunderstood guy who gets passed over for a boon, but he doesn't kill Hamlet or Ophelia. He just deposes Hamlet. And in this Hamlet-Ophelia relationship, stuff works out and nobody dies), and Demetrius's parents being Othello and Desdemona (and Othello kills Desdemona because he thinks that Demetrius is an illegitimate child and blah blah blah, and then Demetrius is sent off to live elsewhere and Othello kills himself because of someone telling him that his son was legit and his wife was legit, and then Othello becomes suicidal and dies). And Romeo finds out that she DOES have a twin brother, and the way she was able to not be killed by Iago is by her parents telling Iago that they had two boys and one of them died. And they named her Romeo to back up the story.
Soooo yeah. That's where I am right now.
I did a word count calculation for some of the earlier pages in the novel (the ones that I had already gotten words-per-line counts on), and it turns out that my word count average is WAY above what I thought it was, so I do not have to be on page 50-something by the end of today. I have to be on page 49 (and I don't at the end of page 49, either. I only have to be about halfway down on page 49, which means I can spend time doing things that my mother would yell at me if I didn't do. Like homework).
What a way to spend a day off.
Right, well, I have to go forth and clean my room.
Farewell.
Oh, yes, one last thing: last night, I think I had the most brilliant line/ joke/ writing revelation ever. And I wrote it. (I don't remember whether I posted about it or not; if I did, post, ignore this).
Last night, the reason Demetrius stopped being a completely tease-Romeo-to-annoy-her-and-for-no-other-reason type of annoying butthead was because Romeo threatened (in a very serious manner) to use her word power to shrink his genetalia if he bugged her.
And she said it with a straight face.
And then he backed off.
HAHAHAHAAAAA!
Okay, I am going to go clean my room and do my homework now. Goodbye. I'll hopefully post later today, when I am actually caught up on my word count and stuff.
Farewell.
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