November 30, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 30! DONE!WOOT! FINISHED!
Final word count: 50,149.
What a year. I learned a lot about my writing style in comparison to Twon's, and had a ton of fun. WOOT. Masochist that I am, I can hardly wait to do it again next year!
Vote, vote, who's got my vote?The subject of who folks are going to vote for came up on a board recently, and I realized I hadn't taken a hard look at Democratic candidates voting records.
Why do I vote Democratic? I am a hardcore reproductive rights advocate, so any candidate that is pro-forced-birth gets an instant thumbs down from me. I'm also pro gay rights, environmentalism, peace, separation of church and state, civil rights, and social programs to help folks help themselves. I also want to vote for a candidate who has a chance to actually win. So, I vote Democratic in races for major offices.
So, let's see how the major Democratic candidates do for me.
November 29, 2007
NaNowrimo: Day 29
WOO! NEARLY THERE!
November 28, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 28
WOO. Only 4k to go! Got a lot of writing done today, but not as much as I'd hoped. I'm just not feeling it this evening, writein or no. Feh. Hopefully will do well tomorrow and Friday.
November 27, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 27
Man. Was busy Sunday and wrote 0 words. Was depressed and tired Monday (because I finished the damn plot and had 10k left to write) and wrote 771 words.
Today I am back on track and wrote 2299 words! How, you may ask, is this possible, since I finished the plot and kind of suck at adding padding after the fact?
I'm writing a story one of the characters in the Real Plot can read at some point. Or something. I'll work it in if I feel like it. I've outlined it and everything. It's a big dumb fantasy short story, loosely in the style of Fafhrd and the Grey Mauser. Good times. And I'm being wordy as hell, which I somehow find easier in a fantasy setting than in a modern day one. This year's NaNo has been full of educational tidbits like that.
November 24, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 24
Woo, 40k! I am back on track! Downside: I have 10k words left to go and I am OUT of plot. Crap crappity crap crap. On the bright side, I can probably spend that much padding out people's life stories and whatnot. I'll figure something out. I only have to do 1700/day from here on out, so that's something.
November 23, 2007
NaNoWriMo Day 23: WOO!
WOO! Over 5k written today! GO ME. Failed utterly to write ANYTHING yesterday, so I had to catch up.
I am, however, having the same problem I have every year: when I am trying to book along and make good wordcount progress, my scenes get shorter and shorter. GRR. I am looking at running out of plot damn quickly, and it is pissing me right off. I gotta get better at translating wordcount panic into padding instead of brevity. On the bright side, I did manage to work a rewrite of the entire Nieman Marcus Cookie Recipe forward into the text.
November 21, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 21
WOO!!!! 30,001!!!!! ALL IN ONE DAY TOO! Darn you Rock Band and your terrifying allure!
But now I am done for the day (4,464 words, thank you very much!) so I can go play some more! YAY!
November 20, 2007
How odd
The above photo has 1600 views on Flickr. My next most-viewed pic has almost 500 views (it's this crazy shot of Twon). What is it about those stickers that makes people want to view the photo? Is it that they want to enlarge it so they can read them? What's the deal?
Crazy.
Also crazy: my third-most-viewed shot is this one of me doing a makeup test for my Judy Nails costume. It's only five views behind the shot of Twon.
WTF, people. Srsly.
November 19, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 19
WOO! 25k Reached! Been too busy to post, but not too busy to write the last few days. Go me. Excerpt below.
November 15, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 15
Grr. I think this may well have been my least productive and most rage-inducing writein ever. I swear, this entire coffeeshop is full of noisy people with penetrating voices. I only got about 2500 words written and I feel like punching something.
No excerpt today. I am too angry and just want to get the fuck out of here. Grrrr.
November 14, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 14
Woo, crossed 15k!!!
November 13, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 13
WOO! Doin' good. I busted out the NaNo Report Card I used last year and tweaked it for this year, and that's helping me out a bit, I think. I'm also having a lot more fun now that I'm back in the groove, pumping out words at 1500 or so an hour. Go me. Excerpt below.
November 12, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 12
WOO! 10k crossed! Nevermind I'm supposed to be at 20k today.
November 10, 2007
NaNoWriMo 2007: Day 10
Still chugging along slowly. Woo.
November 08, 2007
NaNoWriMo 2007: Day 8
Bleah. Crummy day. Only wrote about 500 words. Better than nothing. But no excerpt today. Feh.
Woo!
Your Score: True Bay Area Native
You scored 16!
16-18 correct - You're a true Bay Area native - and you even got some of the EXTRA CREDIT questions! Impressive. Feel free to look down on Los Angeles with pride. (You probably already do.)
Link: The SF Bay Area Native Test written by miata_girl on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test
November 07, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 7
Crossed 5k, woo! Go me. Gotta keep plugging, though. Long way to go to catch up. Siiiigh.
Today's excerpt below...
MC Frontalot in SF 11/25!!MC Frontalot will be at Cafe du Nord in SF on 11/25!!!
I am of course going. Who all wants to come? I have one person who's in so far. I'm going to order tix all at once to save on the fees, so ping me by the 15th and I'll get you one too.
November 06, 2007
NaNoWriMo: Day 6
Well, I wrote 2120 words today. Not bad. I'll catch up eventually. At least the plot outline is pretty much done. Wooo.
November 05, 2007
Dethklok Live!Oh, mans. I had the best time this Friday.
OK, let me clarify.
I had a tremendously ass time. Then I had a time so metal and awesome that the overall experience was fantastic.
November 02, 2007
NaNo progress = sad, sad, sad.
Well, yesterday I never managed to add to the 1000 words I wrote at the first-minute writein.
And today I have been so busy that I've only managed to get the outline I'm working on about two-thirds-done.
Worse: This weekend is going to be VERY VERY BUSY, and I will be out of the apartment and Doing Things from 8am-10pm both days. So much for catching up at a writein or something.
So. Wordcount: 1000. Until Monday. Not an auspicious start to the month.
Gotta get myself to a buncha writeins next week, I guess.
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