NaNoWriMo starts in about a month. So far I have a list of main characters, a vague family dynamic, and a vague “urban/suburban fantasy” theme. Kat gave me a list of questions to answer to help me get to know my MC’s better, and I’ll be posting both Q’s and A’s in the near future. Once NaNo starts I also intend to post any excerpts I don’t think are complete crap.
Character concepts and Q&A:Part 1.1 tomorrow!
Well. I meant to post several times lately and every one, well, I didn’t. I’m a lazy bastard. Anyway, I realized today that I have less than two months to figure out what I’m doing for NaNoWriMo this year. I have a few projects in the works, but none that I feel are ready to start writing. I don’t know what to do. What I really need are some characters. Thats where I always start. Hmm.
In other news, I made a huge Facebook goof and accidentally outed myself to my family. >.< That’s what I get for giving in to peer pressure. The real irony is, if my pattern holds, now that I finally got a Facebook page, all my friends who’ve been bugging me to get one are gonna stop using it. Happened with LiveJournal and MySpace. We’ll see.
Ciao for now.
Well, I had posted a 101 update, but I took it down till I have time to type the whole damn thing in, since I can’t figure out how to fix the double spacing from copying it over from word. Very, very frustrating. *grits teeth* I’ll get it back up soon though.
I don’t really feel like going through every little thing, so as far as 101 in 1001 goes, I’ll just say that I’m doing well on some goals, and not so well on others. I’m going to be cracking down on my health goals soon, because I now weigh over 140 lbs, which wouldn’t be a big deal if it was muscle but it isn’t. It’s the also the most I’ve ever weighed, so it’s a bigger deal to me than it may seem to other people. Plus I gained an inch around my waist so a few of my pants don’t fit so well anymore, which sucks.
I’ve decided to completely rewrite Timekeepers. I’ll probably retitle it to since just calling it Timekeepers is kind of lame. I’m supposed to go for a walk with Kat tomorrow, so I’ll probably bounce some ideas off her. Hmm, just had a thought, I may take Timekeepers and Immortals and slam them together into the same story, or at least the same world. Worldbuilding, yay! I haven’t done that in ages. Great, now I’m going to be up till 4 brainstorming. Oh well.
I’ve been looking at taking online courses to maybe finally finish college. I’ve been looking at paralegal programs, and I’m fairly excited about the whole thing. I’ve ben considering a career in law for a while and paralegal seems like a good springboard in. We’ll have to see if I can swing it financially though, that’ll be the biggest obstacle.
No progress in Entertainment, but I do know goals 11 and 12 should be done this July. Good so far with goal 13, though that has more to do with being broke than self restraint! So far I’m doing pretty well on goals 24, 29, and 30. I’m going to start work on goals 35, 36, and 40 next week, I just want to get through my chorus concert first. Check one walk off goal 48! I had a blast exploring Cat’s woods with her and Justin yesterday. I still have to do goal 49, because it’s important for several other goals. It’s pretty much top of my to-do list right now. I’ll probably do that and 50 today. Doing well with goal 60, though I wish I was sleeping and waking up a little earlier. Nothing to say so far in possessions. I’m changing goal 79 to any instrument in Rock Band. I’m working on the Bass right now. Cat’s got about 26 goals or something like that so hopefully I’ll be checking off 81 soon. Workning on 88 now! I’ve been working on 96 a bunch too.
And that’s about it for now! I can’t wait for the concert on Saturday. Doesn’t count towards goal 82 since I’m in it though. XP
Starting May 25th
Entertainment
1. Watch the whole “Law & Order” series.
2. Watch the whole “Law & Order: SVU” series.
3. Watch the whole “Bleach” anime series.
4. Re-read Shakespeare’s complete works.
5. Re-read my Neil Gaiman books.
6. Read American Gods and Anansi Boys.
7. Re-read Sabriel, etc.
8. Finish reading books I put down half way through.
9. Finish the Wheel of Time series.
10. Raise a Sim to adulthood, including University.
11. Have a Rent sing-along.
12. Have a movie marathon.
Financial
13. Eat out no more than once a week.
14. Pay off my GSM&R bill.
15. Make 3 consecutive car payments on time.
16. Get car fixed.
17. Save for a tattoo.
18. Save towards restarting my violin lessons.
19. Save towards a BJD.
20. Save towards photography equipment (camera/camcorder).
21. Keep my savings account balance above $300 for six months.
22. Don’t overdraw my checking account for six months.
23. Move out of my parents’ house.
Health
24. Walk every day for a half hour.
25. Stretch for 15 minutes twice a week.
26. Learn basic Yoga positions and practice for 15 minutes twice a week.
27. Practice Tai Chi for 15 minutes twice a week.
28. Exercise three times a week for 3 months.
29. Reduce soda drinking.
30. Drink more water.
31. Keep a food journal for one month.
Learning
32. Start learning French.
33. Start learning Irish.
34. Study Music Theory.
35. Practice my fiddle for 30 minutes every day for three months.
36. Master 5 songs on the fiddle.
37. Tune the piano.
38. Learn the basics of Piano.
39. Master 3 songs on the Piano.
40. Learn the basics of Tango.
41. Learn Sphere play.
42. Learn to spin Poi.
43. Learn to crochet.
Spiritual
44. Meditate for 10 minutes three times a week.
45. Participate in guided meditation once a month.
46. Finish developing my path.
47. Celebrate 3 consecutive path holidays.
48. Walk/run in the woods 15 times.
Organization
49. Create a schedule for practice and exercise.
50. Clean out my car.
51. Clean out my room.
52. Vacuum my room.
53. Organize my books into keep, donate, and sell groups.
54. Donate or sell unwanted books.
55. Go through my sewing stuff.
Physical Improvement
56. Dye my hair.
57. Get my haircut.
58. Get triskele tattoo.
59. Get vardo tattoo.
60. Stop oversleeping.
61. Tone up my abs.
62. See the ear doctor every four months.
Possessions
63. Buy a digital camera.
64. Buy a digital camcorder.
65. Buy a BJD.
66. Buy the rest of the “Charmed” series on DVD.
67. Buy the rest of the “Nip/Tuck” series on DVD.
68. Buy the “Celtic Woman” songbook.
69. Get my books back from Staci.
70. Get my books back from Melody.
71. Get my boots fixed.
72. Buy sneakers.
73. Buy sai.
Social
74. Audition for a solo in chorus.
75. Stay up all night singing show-tunes 3 times.
76. Get in touch family members I don’t see much.
77. Take a relative out to lunch/dinner.
78. Get a boyfriend.
79. Learn drums for Rock Band.
80. Start my own RP.
81. Get one other person to participate in 101/1,001.
82. Go to 2 concerts.
83. Go to a play or musical.
84. Take a vacation, if only for a few days.
85. Go to a club or bar 10 times.
86. Visit relatives in Florida.
87. Visit Cat at school twice.
Creative
88. Update my website once a week.
89. Finish prepping Painful Embrace and start writing.
90. Write 10,000 words for Immortals.
91. Write 10,000 words for VoLaD.
92. Write 10,000 words for Timekeepers.
93. Reach 20,000 words in National Novel Writing Month.
94. Write lyrics for 3 songs.
95. Compose 3 pieces of music.
96. Write a basic BJD character outline.
97. Make a costume for an anime convention.
98. Start sketching again.
99. Make a dream catcher.
100. Make a chain belt.
101. Start a ‘Captain’s Log’ scrapbook for Captain Bentley’s crew.
So I’ve decided to use the outline Kat and I had for the book for the graphic novel script. She gave me the OK to use her characters, Kira and Isabelle, so I decided to stay with the original premise. Of course, things will have to change to adjust for Alan (probably) being the focus character instead of Kira, and Kira and Isabelle’s personalities will be different with me writing them. I’m also expanding their family a bit, I want to go into more detail about their bloodline than we really planned to for the book. I’ll do character mini-profiles tomorrow. I can’t put the thoughts together straight just now.
I’m watching all the old Batman movies, and Michelle Pfeiffer was a way, way better catwoman than Hallie Berry. And for the movie being like, 10 years older, the original costume was still hotter. Also, I find it amusing that in those 10 or so years, Christofer Walken hasn’t aged a day. Like, seriously, that guy’s gonna outlive us all. Like a cockaroach or something.
I have decided I will participate this year. I’m going to use my characters from the now defunct Painful Embrace story; Alan and Natalie. Though I may change the names, the personalities will be basically the same. Meaning of course, Alan’s will be the same and Natalie gets to have one. I always did feel bad I never put as much work into her as I should have. Rhys is excited, as he’s gotten pretty bored with my inactivity the last week or so.
I should really hit the hay now since it’s 3 in the morning and I’m a little tipsy to boot. It was a good evening though. People watching was quite good and then Marc and I actually got along passably well over Rock Band, mostly because neither of us sucked enough to get on at each other.
Night folks. Zzzzz.
Edit: Before anyone asks, I have neither plot nor title for scriptfrenzy yet. Rest assured I will post as it comes to me.
I’m beginging to feel what I have dubbed as blog guilt, a condition where I don’t update as often as I’d like so I feel guilty. Then I remember I’m doing this for me and I don’t give a crap if noone reads it ’cause I don’t update often enough.
I’ve finally started my fiddle practice again. I found a hornpipe (The Rights of Man) and an air (O’Carolans Draught) that I really like, so I’ve been working on them. And I’m now trying to find a harp piece that Kat will like enough to actually inspire her to practice. I may even help her clean her room so she’ll have the space to do so :P I still haven’t worked on Waking Dream in a while, I think I may have to enlist help with that one, since I have no realistic idea of what is actually playable music for the harp and that is what I hope to have as the major instrument in the piece.
I’ve pretty much been at a creative halt, so no new news on the songwriting front, though Rhys did make his presence known earlier today, which I think means he wants to get back to work. We got Sean moved out of his mom’s house and into apartment with Justin. Apparently he and Kat broke up again last night. Part of me says to be supportive and tell them it’s for the best and all that, and part of me says that that would bite me in the ass when they get back together next month. I’ve had stuff like that happen before. I think I may becoming jaded to my friends dating lives. For the most part everyone follows the same dating patterns that they’ve used since high school and it all seems a little…I don’t even know what word I’m looking for. Part of it comes from me not dating and being able to watch it all as a third party and say “Oh I would handled that much better” and “I wouldn’t have done that“. But who knows really? The fact is I don’t date, so I don’t actually know how I’d handle these same situations. I’d like to think that waiting this long has prepared me to handle situations more maturely than some of my friends have in the past, and that never dating as a teenager means I don’t have bad high school dating habits to fall back on. I don’t really know though.
I just realized that this turned into a longer rant than I intended. I’m gonna shut up now.
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