An Announcment

Last night, at approximately 9:33pm, I hit the golden 100,000 words on my novel.

 

Oh. Yeah. Baby.

 

http://www.viddler.com/explore/SaintJoi/videos/63/ingroup/nanowrimo/

Sorry for absence...

...but I've been busy noveling. My current wordcount is 55,000 words. In 12 days. For anyone who doesn't know, that's flipping insane. My brain is starting to feel a little fried right now, but no more than usual for NaNo. That's kind of the scary thing--writing an average of 5000 words a day has not been that difficult. It takes effort of course, and some days it takes a lot to push through to the 5K, but it hasn't been much more difficult than usual.

 

so, hopefully blogging will resume in December...if my brain hasn't died....

 

 

 

So....many....ideas....

This is getting distracting...you ever see a fractal? I feel like my story is like that: whenever I look at a part of it that looks simple, it suddenly into this complex thing with way more history and story than will ever appear in the novel. Yikes.

 

I've decided what my novel is like: think Swiftly Tilting Planet meets Babylon 5. That sums it up oddly well, actually. I've got things very similar to Shadow technology, the Great Machine on Epsilon 3, and the telepaths. I've also got time travel, the importance of love over power, and the choice that changes the world.

 

How cool is that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14 HOURS

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'm dying to start writing!

 

*headdesk*

 

If you like Richard Lederer

You'll love this book! http://www.lulu.com/content/1310566

 

NaNoisms, compiled by Wrimos.

 

NaNoism: to quote one Wrimo: "A cross between a typo and a grenade. A normal typo is just annoying, but a NaNoism is a typo that smashes everything in the vicinity into nonsense."

 

Wrimo: participant of NaNoWriMo

 

Examples: "Adam ran through the chicken and bumped into Justian. " "-- the highest ranking officers were made of sturdy wood…" "Isn't the world wonderful? Filled with sunshine, rainbows, flowers and puppy rabbits."

 

Go buy the book!

Pastafari!

I love the NaNo forums...

 

We have the Christian thread, the atheist thread, the agnostic thread....

 

And now the Pastafarian thread. All hail the noodley appendage!

 

I love the NaNo forums.

Squeeeeee again!

Payday! This means I can finally donate to NaNoWriMo and get a pack of merit badges! Huzzah for the halo!

 

Yes, I know I am making no sense. It's the pre-November incoherency.

After a lovely few hours in the kitchen earlier in the week, I've decided that I want to learn how to can fruits and veggies! Fortunately, it looks like the boiling water bath method will do what I need, so I won't have to mess with a pressure canner. Huzzah! I love the idea of making my own preserves! Even better if I can learn how to do it by Christmas and give some as gifts.

 

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/pixar-developing-john-carter-of-mars-trilogy/

 

This makes me so happy! Dejah Thoris done by Pixar! John Carter on the big screen!

 

*bounces around in happy little circles*

One of the oddest pleasures of NaNoWriMo is that you have no life during November. This sounds weird; why is it so much fun to spend practically every spare moment working like crazy on a book that will almost certainly never be published, and only rarely seen by anyone else?

 

The death of your social life means that you end up very focused for one month. It's astounding what you can accomplish when you really put your mind to it. You end up discovering that inspiration is not really all that great as a motivator, and it usually only comes after you've been truding through dialogue and plot points for an hour. When you write yourself into a corner, you will discover wells of creativity in yourself that you never dreamed were there!

 

It also means that for a month, you get to try on the persona of a writer. Instead of being an accountant or a sales clerk or a student, you get to be a creative individual, producing a work of art from your own head! For one month, you are an artist, a creator in touch with the muse! But at the end of the month, you get to resume your normal life. You get the best of both worlds!

 

But the strange thing is, your normal life is never quite the same again. You overhear conversations, and think "That would make a great scene." You sit watching sunset when you're stuck in traffic, and start trying to describe it. Little plots and scenes crop up in your consciousness from time to time. You keep hitting the word count button, even on office memos.

 

NaNo: it's not just a month of insanity, it's a way of life.

 

(C'mon, November! Hurry up and get here!)

If any one ever needs a gift idea for me, I'm trying to collect the works of Chesterton, published by Ignatius Press. The only volume I have so far is the one with Francis of Assisi, The Everlasting Man, and Thomas Aquinas.

 

You know it's Friday when...

...your boss and the IT guy get into a war seeing whose little plastic Halloween witch has the scariest cackle.

 

So not kidding.

Just a quick post, to let everyone know about a very cool webcomic: www.crimsondark.com

Nicely done, great dialogue, intriguing story, and one of the most gorgeous ships I've ever seen: the Niobe.

Go check it out! (And thanks to Adam for the heads-up!)

This NaNo is making my head hurt!

 

I have cavemen, an Atlantis-like island, a watery world with few continents, 2 renaissances, future guilds of evil historians, and at least 200,000 years of history, economics, ecology, and geology to juggle!!

 

AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

(This is either going to be a ridiculously fun story, or ridiculously excruciating.....)

NANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S BACK!!! The site is back up, ready for signups!!! Only one month till insanity! Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dances the dance of joy*

 

Ha!!! I rule! Shiny! *dances the dance of joy*

This is so awesome.

"Your hair is reminiscent of a self-digesting yak in heat."

Me Joi. Want Tarzan!

This past weekend, I got to sit and read the first few pages of Tarzan (reading Princess of Mars made me want to read more of Edgar Rice Burroughs' work). Talk about a rollicking good tale! It seemed like a very entertaining book, and even in that short section had one line that made me laugh out loud! I'm hoping to read the whole thing soon, and go on to reading more of his work. I haven't read a writer whose books were this much sheer fun since H. Rider Haggard,