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Revamp!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
8:56 AM
Assuming I have time today (and I don't) I'm going to play with the blog's layout. Huaazh!
Except that won't happen because we've got a formal outline to write about Chile, an essay to edit for the DuPont challenge, and some maths. (I say "maths" because, of course, it's British.)
And Hanukkah presents to finish making, yessir! And then maybe we'll write the rest of this novel...my characters are supposed to be breaking into Saint Mark's basilica but I somehow manage to bore myself with it.
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Sound of Settling
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
4:48 PM
Because that's what I'm listening to right now (Death Cab For Cutie).
Gotta love 'em. Anyway.
Now that NaNo's ended, the quiet whooosh of down time has fallen slightly on my chaotic life. Free time being a pitifully endangered resource this is a bit of a deception because we all know there's no such thing in high school (specially for a student who attempts way too much at any one time).
So long as it allows me to keep getting at least 7+ hours of sleep every night I don't care what kind of mirage it is it had better stick around for a while.
Naturally it means a few things (like art and The Novel) are going to be neglected this week but with several papers on their way out and a meeting with a Rockefeller scientist tomorrow and the Dupont Essay Challenge looming, they were out anyway. Or so I tell myself to justify crashing at 11pm as opposed to 1am.
Eh, either way it works.
18 more (school) days until winter vacation?
Which means only two more months until I can abandon this health class and pick up art again. There we are.
In the meantime, any reader (meaning you -squint-) who's checked out my dear friend Emily's blog (and you probably have since the person reading this is probably you, Miss Wayne) has probably seen her various "conversations with a fictional ___________." I'd have one here but she does it better anyway.
Plus my husband is her character so it's kinda like intellectual property infringement in some strange way.
So I'll leave it at that and go back to listening to The Killers. "Read My Mind" is the New Unofficial Anthem to The Messiah Notebooks. Though "Human" (Killers) does it justice too...
And then there's "The Scientist" by Coldplay which inspired half the book anyway.
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50,072
Sunday, November 29, 2009
11:10 AM
What is so special about this number?
That's my winning wordcount for National Novel Writing Month, which concludes tomorrow at midnight.
And I finished 24 hours early WHAT NOW?!
Honestly, this has been one of the most incredible ventures I've set upon. I've tried NaNo twice before--'07 and '08, and each year failed spectacularly. But this year, something magical happened, and I kept writing. When the words flowed like honey (slow but sweet) or when I had to threaten characters (or be threatened by my friends), they came, we came, we conquered.
Harking, Miss Trey, and all the rest of the cast of The Messiah Notebooks (formerly titled Republic of Lions) I wish you all the best in the forthcoming pages as we continue to complete your story. Love you guys.
-Celebrates-
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36000 and All's Well
Saturday, November 21, 2009
9:57 PM
This is officially something like the furthers I've ever gotten in National Novel Writing Month and IT FEELS BRILLIANT.
-knocks on wood-
According to those philosophers on NaNo, the 35000 is one of those thresholds that lead to the place where the writing gets much easier, which I may (-reaches for wood again-) have reached. Or, where, as Neil Gaiman once described, the place where where words are spoken to you directly from the gods of writing themselves. (I butchered that paraphrase, but oh well.) You hardly have you think, just write because your characters are speaking on the page and all you need to do is read what they've said.
I live for writing days like these. <3
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Stealing internet
Monday, November 16, 2009
7:44 PM
Or stealing time, because that's what it is.
Write Frankenstein interpretations--Write outline for history essay--Write article summaries for science research--Write database queries--Write literary queries--Write internship queries--Write NaNo.
Write math homework--Write science research log--Write meeting times.
Write powerpoint slides--Write novel.
My life at the moment. And so we go. Not much else.
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Frankenstein
Friday, November 6, 2009
5:24 PM
Don't you just love it when you're working on a novel, and then, suddenly, everything in your life falls in a circle around the plot? All at once you're drawing better understanding of plot and characters from everything around you and you're suddenly filled with resolve that you might actually have it in you to finish the thing?
Needless to say, today's been a good writing day. Even if I haven't actually written anything yet.
So I'm a day or so behind on my NaNo, but I'm not afraid! I have all weekend to get caught up because cross country season is, at long last, finished. (Ran the 5k in 26:03 in case you're interested.) That's more for my benefit because this blog isn't actually widely read...one day, faithful reader (of the future)! One day!
Anyway, it began with a wonderful article run by the Wall Street Journal. I don't usually like the Journal that much because if there's one thing that puts me to sleep quicker than a Dickens novel it's finance. Probably why Dickens puts me to sleep. Right, well, once in a while the Journal puts a nice literature article into its weekend arts section and today the large headline about novel writing caught my eye. Yes, folks, our favorite quasi-conservative newspaper, bounding right into my playing field! I was delighted. It was actually a great article, interviewing famous authors about their novelling techniques which made me feel tremendously more normal (some lock themselves in the bathroom, okay?). Well, buoyed by the morning's read I was rediculously excited by the new lit for English: Frankenstein. I read the first couple pages and nearly fainted from delight. Mary Shelley's writing gets me. Completely. Obviously it's more brilliant and whatnot but it made me feel better about the heavy prose Elements is outfitted in. And we watched more of To Kill a Mockingbird: the movie. Naturally, because of my secret love affair with Atticus Finch (what is with my obsession with this character?!) and Boo Radley's obvious sketchiness (I SAW YOU LURKING THERE BEHIND THE DOOR BOO), well, I was a happy sophomore.
Then we got out at 10, drove out a few hours (I actually love long bus trips, hah) ran, froze, ran, drove back. Well the driving was fun. And productive.
Off to write serious stuff!
Right'o.
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Quarterly?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
7:25 PM
Shhhh...I'm supposed to be studying.
Well I have been all day (thanks Latin and World History). But mostly Latin. Because World History doesn't care what declension you use.
Seems that just about the only thing I've gotten done is my word count for NaNo which is going (surprisingly) well. Right on track. Somehow. It's only more interesting than anything else I'm doing at the moment.
Which is a shame because escaping the first quarter of math with a decent grade would be a fantastic thing at this point. Well there's always English.
Meanwhile, I'm worried 'bout my little parakeet, Escher. Either something is seriously the matter with her or she's been taking undue violence from her sister Inti...either way I've got them separated and a vet appointment slated for Thursday. I suspect a broken toe, because the poor budgie isn't perching and is trying not to put weight on her left foot. Wish I could do something for her in the in the meantime besides set her up in her own cage with some comfy towels to nap on.
No art happening. Damn.
And, I'm finding, screenwriting contests are bloody expensive. It's not a wonder the stereotype starving author evolved. Before you can get rejected and not get paid you have to fork over money first. Jeez.
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