Pages Written Today: 8 Pages Left To Write Today: 4 Page Started: 149 Current Page: 156 Page To End On: 160 Location in Story: Just killed the Goblin King. He was drunk. And now Nemesis is feeling bad about it because there was no a fight nor any challenge, and she's feeling sort of traumatized about it even though he had to die because he was a jerk to griffins and to King Acherna's spirit (King Acherna of Shamaye was the last king, and the Shamytes have an Ancient Egyptian-like afterlife belief system, and the goblin king locked Acherna's spirit inside his tomb right after he died so he couldn't get out to the afterlife). And now I'm getting somewhat traumatized by it, too, and I'm not sure why. Could it be possibly that I'm putting too much of my time and feelings into this novel?
Next to come is the Next God and Star, Aero and Nix (war and confusion, respectively).
And as I have abused the chapter breaks, and if I were going by numbers of chapters rather than word counts about the novel's length, the novel would end soon. But I'm NOT going by chapters; I'm going by word counts. And the novel will NOT be ending anytime soon. Because that would suck. And also it isn't done yet. And I'm babbling. Can you tell?
I'm going now.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Day 19: Weekend lag
I am THOROUGHLY dissapointed by my lack of capabilities of seeing Harry Potter 7.1 today. Stupid driver's education system. :P Anyhoo, udpates:
Pages today: 2
Pages Left: 10
Current Page: 142
Page Started On: 140
Page to end on: 152
Location: in King Acherna's tomb/ Goblin King Shakkan's palace, talking to the 'spirit' of King Acherna. Why is 'spirit' in quotation marks? Because it may or may not ACTUALLY be the spirit of King Acherna. Either way, the dude is pissed. If three-thousand-year-old dead bodies can be pissed. Anything's possible.
Anyhoo, the possiblity that I'm going to follow now is the one that involves watching TV and writing a lot. And wishing I hadn't had driver's ed today so I could have gone to see Harry Potter. Sigh. Oh, well.
In other news, today was actually an okay day. Nobody died, my NaNo notebook was not removed from my presence in any way, and no catastrophes occurred (at least none that I know of, anyway, aside from my turns, according to my teacher). So that's my daily rant. I'm going to go write and watch TV and write and write and write. And watch TV. But mostly write. And maybe knit.
Pages today: 2
Pages Left: 10
Current Page: 142
Page Started On: 140
Page to end on: 152
Location: in King Acherna's tomb/ Goblin King Shakkan's palace, talking to the 'spirit' of King Acherna. Why is 'spirit' in quotation marks? Because it may or may not ACTUALLY be the spirit of King Acherna. Either way, the dude is pissed. If three-thousand-year-old dead bodies can be pissed. Anything's possible.
Anyhoo, the possiblity that I'm going to follow now is the one that involves watching TV and writing a lot. And wishing I hadn't had driver's ed today so I could have gone to see Harry Potter. Sigh. Oh, well.
In other news, today was actually an okay day. Nobody died, my NaNo notebook was not removed from my presence in any way, and no catastrophes occurred (at least none that I know of, anyway, aside from my turns, according to my teacher). So that's my daily rant. I'm going to go write and watch TV and write and write and write. And watch TV. But mostly write. And maybe knit.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Day 18: A good day
Pages Today: 5
Pages Left Today: 7
Page Started On: 132
Current Page: 137
Page To End On: 144
Location In Story: Sunburned and in the tomb of some long-dead king that also happens to be the home of the Goblin King. Also, Maa and Kela are arguing again. Wait, that's news?
Well, today was a good day for once, and it started last night. What happened last night? I went to bed before midnight! And it made me very happy! So today was actually okay. Even AP. I wasn't called on, nor did I feel excessively stupid, frustrated at my apparent lack of ability, or in any other way entirely annoyed. Which generally doesn't happen. So today has, so far, been proclaimed a Very Good Day. I don't even have a ton of homework! And, even better, the fact that I had musical rehearsal today didn't change the fact that I'll actually sleep tonight!! (Rehearsal actually made the day kind of better - although for some reason I wasn't able to access proper breath support, it was the sing-through. And sing-throughs are fun. Except when they're not.).
So, yes, in case you were wondering, the only bad thing about today is my lack of capability to catch up on writing. But that's why God invented weekends. Maybe. I think God also invented weekends to sleep, too...
Pages Left Today: 7
Page Started On: 132
Current Page: 137
Page To End On: 144
Location In Story: Sunburned and in the tomb of some long-dead king that also happens to be the home of the Goblin King. Also, Maa and Kela are arguing again. Wait, that's news?
Well, today was a good day for once, and it started last night. What happened last night? I went to bed before midnight! And it made me very happy! So today was actually okay. Even AP. I wasn't called on, nor did I feel excessively stupid, frustrated at my apparent lack of ability, or in any other way entirely annoyed. Which generally doesn't happen. So today has, so far, been proclaimed a Very Good Day. I don't even have a ton of homework! And, even better, the fact that I had musical rehearsal today didn't change the fact that I'll actually sleep tonight!! (Rehearsal actually made the day kind of better - although for some reason I wasn't able to access proper breath support, it was the sing-through. And sing-throughs are fun. Except when they're not.).
So, yes, in case you were wondering, the only bad thing about today is my lack of capability to catch up on writing. But that's why God invented weekends. Maybe. I think God also invented weekends to sleep, too...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Day 17
Pages So Far Today: 5
Pages Until Quota: 7
Starting Page: 124
Current Page: 129
Page To End On: 136
Location In Story: Nem went off to figure out some stuff before dawn after she and her friends spent the night with her former history substitue teacher/ explorer. Now Zack is freaking out because she left without telling anyone where she went because they were all asleep. She had to trade a bit of her hair and buy some fruit to find out what she needs to find out, which is kind of important, but she found it out and the plot is FINALLY moving.
Well, as page 129 is relatively close to the end of the notebook, the potential success of my NaNoWriMo attempts seems to be lurking in the near future, at least in my head. But I probably just jinxed it...
I'm also finding out that getting four hours of sleep is becoming a habit, and I'm not sure that I'm fond of it. School and life are fine. I'm just really pissy while I'm at it. Thanks, AP history teacher. My sleep cycle loves you too. But in other news, I just past yesterday's quota. HOORAY!! A few more sleepless nights - I was actually productive last night - and I just might catch up in time for the weekend. YAY!
Pages Until Quota: 7
Starting Page: 124
Current Page: 129
Page To End On: 136
Location In Story: Nem went off to figure out some stuff before dawn after she and her friends spent the night with her former history substitue teacher/ explorer. Now Zack is freaking out because she left without telling anyone where she went because they were all asleep. She had to trade a bit of her hair and buy some fruit to find out what she needs to find out, which is kind of important, but she found it out and the plot is FINALLY moving.
Well, as page 129 is relatively close to the end of the notebook, the potential success of my NaNoWriMo attempts seems to be lurking in the near future, at least in my head. But I probably just jinxed it...
I'm also finding out that getting four hours of sleep is becoming a habit, and I'm not sure that I'm fond of it. School and life are fine. I'm just really pissy while I'm at it. Thanks, AP history teacher. My sleep cycle loves you too. But in other news, I just past yesterday's quota. HOORAY!! A few more sleepless nights - I was actually productive last night - and I just might catch up in time for the weekend. YAY!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
and back again from the procrastinator...
I've just learned that you can also play with cool stuff here. It's really kind of lame that I've only just realized that you can do this... I mean, I've known for a while that you can play with color, but I've never really tried to use the other cool shindigs for a while. I didn't even KNOW I had strike through until today, I don't think... I'm so lame, not realizing this until now...
Yes, I know where I should be
Yes, I know, I'm supposed to be doing homework. But I'm in a particularly anti-homework mood, so I'm here blogging instead. Like usual when I'm in an anti-homework mood. And when I'm hungry. And when I've just finished cleaning my room. But especially when I'm in an anti-homework mood because I'm hungry after cleaning my room, for example, right now. Go figure. Anyhow, I'm also kind of bored because, aside from homework and "Glee" later, I have nothing to do aside from blogging. And maybe going and getting some pretzels or something to eat. Or something.
And as a general FYI, I may or may not be posting an update (probably the latter) on the days when I have musical rehearsal, because of circumstances like the one that happened yesterday with the epic staying-up-late-and-feeling-tired-now-but-normal-ish thing. Especially because I probably won't have time to write a lot of NaNoWriMo anyway (BOO!), so there probably won't be anything to tell you about except for maybe how tired I am and how sorry I am that I didn't post the day before or something. And how I should be doing my homework and that I am perfectly (not) content with staying up until midnight again if I have to.
I've noticed something as well, though.
Unless I get just enough sleep to start dreaming, I don't normally feel tired when I miss sleep until late afternoon. For example, now I'm really tired from the staying up late last night, but this morning I was fine. Probably partially due to the fact that I had caffeine this morning.
And as a general FYI, I may or may not be posting an update (probably the latter) on the days when I have musical rehearsal, because of circumstances like the one that happened yesterday with the epic staying-up-late-and-feeling-tired-now-but-normal-ish thing. Especially because I probably won't have time to write a lot of NaNoWriMo anyway (BOO!), so there probably won't be anything to tell you about except for maybe how tired I am and how sorry I am that I didn't post the day before or something. And how I should be doing my homework and that I am perfectly (not) content with staying up until midnight again if I have to.
I've noticed something as well, though.
Unless I get just enough sleep to start dreaming, I don't normally feel tired when I miss sleep until late afternoon. For example, now I'm really tired from the staying up late last night, but this morning I was fine. Probably partially due to the fact that I had caffeine this morning.
Day 16: the day after halfway
Pages Today: 5
Pages Left To Write Today: 8
Page Started On: 115
Page To End On: 128
Location In Story: Unexpected encounter with Nem's former teacher turns out to be beneficial. And Flayan has been introduced.
And yes, I know, I didn't post yesterday. I'm sorry. I had a TON of things to do. First it was the first musical rehearsal, from which I had to leave early (I thought my bit was over, but it wasn't, so I accidentally left before my lines as the pivotal role of The Waiter) to go to a black belt kup test (it went okay, aside from the board breaking. We have to do the sparring next week or the next time we go or whatever), and then I had to eat and sit down and write an AP essay that took me 3.5 hours because it had to be handwritten and it was assigned YESTERDAY and was due TODAY. Yeah, not a lot of time for blogging and writing yesterday. However, the rehearsal and the AP essay were my main sources of panic, and now those both have passed with somewhat success. Well, rehearsal did, anyway. Whether I get good grade on my essay is yet to be seen. And whether she can actually understand my handwriting is another issue. It also happened to be my first super-late night for homework. I usually feel like the only junior who normally doesn't stay up until a quarter to midnight or later doing homework - even my brother did it when he was a junior - but I could be wrong. It's just kind of awkward when people are like, "Yeah, I was up til 3 last night doing my AP US essay/ studying for the AP English test/ doing NaNoWriMo!" And I'm just like, "Um... I did my AP US essay before nine, I'm not in AP English, and I did my NaNoWriMo quota during my free blocks..." It's really awkward because it feels like I'm the only one in my group of friends - or in my grade, for that matter - whose lamp is usually out by 11 on school nights. (However, we were visited by our old middle school friend on Halloween, and she said she felt the same way, so that was kind of nice, especially as she goes to a 'normal' school and is taking all IB courses... not sure how IB compares to AP, but I know it's hard).
And, unless I want to repeat yesterday night (I don't), I'm going to go clean my room and do my homework so I can watch Glee tonight. YAAY!!!
Pages Left To Write Today: 8
Page Started On: 115
Page To End On: 128
Location In Story: Unexpected encounter with Nem's former teacher turns out to be beneficial. And Flayan has been introduced.
And yes, I know, I didn't post yesterday. I'm sorry. I had a TON of things to do. First it was the first musical rehearsal, from which I had to leave early (I thought my bit was over, but it wasn't, so I accidentally left before my lines as the pivotal role of The Waiter) to go to a black belt kup test (it went okay, aside from the board breaking. We have to do the sparring next week or the next time we go or whatever), and then I had to eat and sit down and write an AP essay that took me 3.5 hours because it had to be handwritten and it was assigned YESTERDAY and was due TODAY. Yeah, not a lot of time for blogging and writing yesterday. However, the rehearsal and the AP essay were my main sources of panic, and now those both have passed with somewhat success. Well, rehearsal did, anyway. Whether I get good grade on my essay is yet to be seen. And whether she can actually understand my handwriting is another issue. It also happened to be my first super-late night for homework. I usually feel like the only junior who normally doesn't stay up until a quarter to midnight or later doing homework - even my brother did it when he was a junior - but I could be wrong. It's just kind of awkward when people are like, "Yeah, I was up til 3 last night doing my AP US essay/ studying for the AP English test/ doing NaNoWriMo!" And I'm just like, "Um... I did my AP US essay before nine, I'm not in AP English, and I did my NaNoWriMo quota during my free blocks..." It's really awkward because it feels like I'm the only one in my group of friends - or in my grade, for that matter - whose lamp is usually out by 11 on school nights. (However, we were visited by our old middle school friend on Halloween, and she said she felt the same way, so that was kind of nice, especially as she goes to a 'normal' school and is taking all IB courses... not sure how IB compares to AP, but I know it's hard).
And, unless I want to repeat yesterday night (I don't), I'm going to go clean my room and do my homework so I can watch Glee tonight. YAAY!!!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
not exactly panicking..
Well, I've written a lot more today.
And yes, mother, of COURSE I'm (not) doing my AP reading.
But, in other news, NaNo hasn't got me as panicked as it did before. Mostly, I think, because I caught up. Sort of.
Anyway, I'm officially declaring my progress with NaNoWriMo. YAY!
Also, that I'm probably going to be participating in NaNoFiMo (yes, it actually exists): National Novel Finishing Month. It's during December. And I'll be participating. Because I can. Also because I'll probably need to. Because, let's face it, even if I DO manage to hand-write 240 Composition Book Pages, that's still only 96 typed pages. And, in my head, even with the extra pages created by page breaks for chapters, doing 96 pages condensed isn't a novel. It's a... non-novel.
It's what John Steinbeck did when he was too braindead after sitting down and writing "Grapes of Wrath" - he decided to do NaNoWriMo and wound up with "Of Mice and Men." Except for the fact that he did "Of Mice and Men" first. And that NaNoWriMo wasn't around in 1937-9.
It wasn't around until 1999.
So... my point is no longer valid.
I'm going to go do AP now.
And yes, mother, of COURSE I'm (not) doing my AP reading.
But, in other news, NaNo hasn't got me as panicked as it did before. Mostly, I think, because I caught up. Sort of.
Anyway, I'm officially declaring my progress with NaNoWriMo. YAY!
Also, that I'm probably going to be participating in NaNoFiMo (yes, it actually exists): National Novel Finishing Month. It's during December. And I'll be participating. Because I can. Also because I'll probably need to. Because, let's face it, even if I DO manage to hand-write 240 Composition Book Pages, that's still only 96 typed pages. And, in my head, even with the extra pages created by page breaks for chapters, doing 96 pages condensed isn't a novel. It's a... non-novel.
It's what John Steinbeck did when he was too braindead after sitting down and writing "Grapes of Wrath" - he decided to do NaNoWriMo and wound up with "Of Mice and Men." Except for the fact that he did "Of Mice and Men" first. And that NaNoWriMo wasn't around in 1937-9.
It wasn't around until 1999.
So... my point is no longer valid.
I'm going to go do AP now.
Day 14: May I panic now?
Pages Today: 1.25
Pages Until Completion of Today's Quota: 9
Current Page: 103
Page To End On: 112
Location in Story: Have their new heading and are getting background of the people/ climate in the area they're going to next and discussing how they're going to get there without going bankrupt.
My question is: Can I panic now?
Why, you ask?
Today is Sunday. I probably have around four hours of homework to do today, because AP is annoying and notes take forever. And, although I was able to get some writing done last night, last weekend I didn't start Sunday TEN PAGES SHORT with four hours of homework in addition. And so now I'm panicking. And I hate panic. AAHH! However, there'll be some hope if I get off RIGHT NOW and start doing either homework or writing or something. I'm just glad I don't have to read the entire AP chapter tonight, because then by the end of today I'd be a total of 17 pages behind because I'd have no time to write whatsoever after that. Which would be even MORE annoying.
And I'm going and being productive now. Goodbye.
Pages Until Completion of Today's Quota: 9
Current Page: 103
Page To End On: 112
Location in Story: Have their new heading and are getting background of the people/ climate in the area they're going to next and discussing how they're going to get there without going bankrupt.
My question is: Can I panic now?
Why, you ask?
Today is Sunday. I probably have around four hours of homework to do today, because AP is annoying and notes take forever. And, although I was able to get some writing done last night, last weekend I didn't start Sunday TEN PAGES SHORT with four hours of homework in addition. And so now I'm panicking. And I hate panic. AAHH! However, there'll be some hope if I get off RIGHT NOW and start doing either homework or writing or something. I'm just glad I don't have to read the entire AP chapter tonight, because then by the end of today I'd be a total of 17 pages behind because I'd have no time to write whatsoever after that. Which would be even MORE annoying.
And I'm going and being productive now. Goodbye.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Day 13: When it starts catching up with you
Pages Written Today: not even one. 22 words (a chapter title and a line).
Pages Left To Write Today: 9
Current Page: 95
Page To End On: 104
Location in story: Luke and Sparky have found stuff out! Now Sparky has to deliver it to Nem + co. Yeah, not much farther than yesterday.
Today was one of those days that's so crowded with Stuff You Have To Do that there's all of no time to write. Which means I'm totally screwed. I did some service stuff this morning and saw "Oklahoma!" (which was REALLY good, by the way) at the nearest professional theater. And there was about an hour in between when we got home and when we had to leave again. And in about 45 minutes we're going to be leaving again and going to my parent's friend's house for dinner. And apparently I have to call my driver's ed teacher to reschedule some stuff and a lot of annoying stuff like that. So life is really annoying right now. Go figure.
So I'm going to go write now before all hope is lost and I have to leave.
Pages Left To Write Today: 9
Current Page: 95
Page To End On: 104
Location in story: Luke and Sparky have found stuff out! Now Sparky has to deliver it to Nem + co. Yeah, not much farther than yesterday.
Today was one of those days that's so crowded with Stuff You Have To Do that there's all of no time to write. Which means I'm totally screwed. I did some service stuff this morning and saw "Oklahoma!" (which was REALLY good, by the way) at the nearest professional theater. And there was about an hour in between when we got home and when we had to leave again. And in about 45 minutes we're going to be leaving again and going to my parent's friend's house for dinner. And apparently I have to call my driver's ed teacher to reschedule some stuff and a lot of annoying stuff like that. So life is really annoying right now. Go figure.
So I'm going to go write now before all hope is lost and I have to leave.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Day 12: The Second Friday
Pages Written So Far Today: 6
Pages Left To Write Today: 4
Current Page: 92 (If it were typed, it would be around page 36)
Page To End On: 96
Location in Story: Dragons have been fought. Now Heron and Stea are free. YAY!! Only four more pairs to go!! Cut to Luke. He's very bored without his best friend around to provide some sort of mischief-making fun for him to partake in. So he argues with the guard at his door, Sir Nikolas Whatzit. Yes, you read that right. The guard's name is Nikolas Whatzit, and he's an idiot. But that isn't the point. The point is Luke's bored and wishing he could help Nem, and eventually Sparky the Star comes and helps him out. So that's that. YAY!!
For some reason, I've had the growing urge to start typing up my novel-in-progress. Why? I'm trying to figure that out. I still want to be able to say I wrote a novel by hand, even if it only ends up being less than 100 pages long, but whatever. The way it's turning out, handwriting it in a composition notebook will make it 240 pages long by the end of the month, if I continue with the whole eight-pages-a-day thing. Which I will. Probably. YAY WEEKENDS!
I'm really glad that NaNoWriMo is in November. The other ideal month would be December, because of winter break and everything. I'm glad it's November, however, because I'm around enough people who are doing NaNoWriMo as well to stay motivated, but we also have enough breaks for me to be able to sit and do nothing but write at like 11 pm. Not that I actually DO that on weekends or anything silly like that...
YAY WRITING!!!
Pages Left To Write Today: 4
Current Page: 92 (If it were typed, it would be around page 36)
Page To End On: 96
Location in Story: Dragons have been fought. Now Heron and Stea are free. YAY!! Only four more pairs to go!! Cut to Luke. He's very bored without his best friend around to provide some sort of mischief-making fun for him to partake in. So he argues with the guard at his door, Sir Nikolas Whatzit. Yes, you read that right. The guard's name is Nikolas Whatzit, and he's an idiot. But that isn't the point. The point is Luke's bored and wishing he could help Nem, and eventually Sparky the Star comes and helps him out. So that's that. YAY!!
For some reason, I've had the growing urge to start typing up my novel-in-progress. Why? I'm trying to figure that out. I still want to be able to say I wrote a novel by hand, even if it only ends up being less than 100 pages long, but whatever. The way it's turning out, handwriting it in a composition notebook will make it 240 pages long by the end of the month, if I continue with the whole eight-pages-a-day thing. Which I will. Probably. YAY WEEKENDS!
I'm really glad that NaNoWriMo is in November. The other ideal month would be December, because of winter break and everything. I'm glad it's November, however, because I'm around enough people who are doing NaNoWriMo as well to stay motivated, but we also have enough breaks for me to be able to sit and do nothing but write at like 11 pm. Not that I actually DO that on weekends or anything silly like that...
YAY WRITING!!!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Day 11: are you getting bored yet?
Pages Written Today: 5
Current Page: to-be-begun chapter on page 82
Page I should be on by the end of today: 88
Page Started On: 76
Location in story: just killed Fenn the dragon, about to meet the star and goddess and get the cool shindigs that come with saving stars and goddesses. What are these cool shindigs? I have no idea! I just know they're cool and that the four main people get them, and that Maa and Kela won't, and Maa and Kela won't be happy.
I didn't do any writing last night. I thought I would, but I didn't. Mostly because I'm too lazy, because I didn't want to go and get my pens and then get my notebook out of my backpack and then try to write about dragons after a dance.
Plus, I don't think I could write a very good dragon fight after a dance. Dances and dragons don't go together very well. Unless it's the climax of "Enchanted." But even then, it kind of sucked. I wouldn't want to fight a dragon on top of the Empire State Building in the middle of your average climactic rainstorm.
Current Page: to-be-begun chapter on page 82
Page I should be on by the end of today: 88
Page Started On: 76
Location in story: just killed Fenn the dragon, about to meet the star and goddess and get the cool shindigs that come with saving stars and goddesses. What are these cool shindigs? I have no idea! I just know they're cool and that the four main people get them, and that Maa and Kela won't, and Maa and Kela won't be happy.
I didn't do any writing last night. I thought I would, but I didn't. Mostly because I'm too lazy, because I didn't want to go and get my pens and then get my notebook out of my backpack and then try to write about dragons after a dance.
Plus, I don't think I could write a very good dragon fight after a dance. Dances and dragons don't go together very well. Unless it's the climax of "Enchanted." But even then, it kind of sucked. I wouldn't want to fight a dragon on top of the Empire State Building in the middle of your average climactic rainstorm.
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