So I got up this morning (well, really just around noon) and I baked 3 batches of cookies to bring with me to the overnight writing session tomorrow. I did sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, and chocolate chip cookies. They all turned out really well and are very yummy. I even decorated them with icing. It was fun. I've also packed up some tea and some sugar, all I need now is an electric kettle. I hope I can find one... I don't know where the one I have is, it is packed away in the garage somewhere... I'll have to see if I can borrow my daddy's <3 lol.
My writing went terrible today. I think I only wrote somewhere between 200-300 words. I just wasn't in the mood, and was having some other issues that some chocolate pudding fixed up quite nicely. Yay for Chocolate pudding! Its this healthy kind too, something my mom's boyfriend found, so its not compleatly terrible for me to have some, and it doesn't taste that bad either.
I also started making christmas gifts (I might have mentioned that in an earlier post already) and so I worked a little bit on them too. They are comming along... slowly. I chose to do something I have never done much of before, so it took me a bit to get used to doing it and having it turn out alright. I think It took me 4 tries before I got something that was streight enough for me to use. LoL. Well, I am having fun doing it, so thats cool and I am pleased. I hope the recipiants will be too.
Well, I am off to bed so I can pile on those hours of sleep so I will be able to stay up all night at the writing session tomorrow night.
*waves* Night!
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Getting closer
It's been another couple of days since I posted last (I know, I know *wrist slaps*) I've just been so busy between writing and sleeping (and I decided I would start to make christmas gifts as well) So I feel like i'm kinda going crazy. At the end of each day I feel so exhausted that I am too tired to fall asleep. Of course, it might have to do with the amout of caffeine I've been consuming. So i'm just over 37k words *cheers* but I didn't write yesterday because I had some other engagements going on and My day was just too full, so I wrote over my daily wordcount today, but I didn't make up enough to cover all of yesterdays word count too. I'm hoping that going to the Over Night Writing Session will give me a kick in the pants to keep going. It's suppose to be THE big event so I'm looking foreward to it. I hope to get their early so I get a plug for my laptop. lol. I should remember to bring an outlet extender thing and an extention cord. *Hopes really hard I remember to pack them tomorrow* I'm baking cookies to bring with me to the session (or is it a party?) because everyone loves to snack on cookies and munchies help people write. Well, most of the time anyways. I also need to find an electric kettle I can take with me so I can make tea, because where we are going to be wont have a kettle. They will have a coffee machine though. I hope someone remembers to bring cream and sugar for those who like it in their coffee. And if I decide to have a cup of coffee if (or should I say when) I get bored of drinking tea, I -really-hope its a decent brand of coffee and not that no name cheap brand stuff that tatses really terrible. But I don't know who is bringing the coffee, so I can't complain, because it is not me who is paying for it. Or if we are really luckey, there will be a coffee shop in close proximity to where we will be and I will show up with a coffee and save my tea for later in the night. We shall See.
Anyways, I'm off to bed so I can get up and bake cookies tomorrow! I hope to drop in and update before the overnight session, but if I don't, Wish me luck, and send me Telepathic Caffeine ^_^
Anyways, I'm off to bed so I can get up and bake cookies tomorrow! I hope to drop in and update before the overnight session, but if I don't, Wish me luck, and send me Telepathic Caffeine ^_^
Monday, November 17, 2008
It's Been A Crazy Couple of Days
So I havn't updated in like a week I think, Which I appologize for, for anyone who is following this. ^_^
I've been writing like mad, except for the days where I didn't write anything. lol. There were a few days where I couldn't write anything because my day was just filled with too much other stuff I had to deal with, but I managed to make up for it on the following days, So I'm still ahead in my word count. *Yay!* Yesterday I just breached the 30k mark, which makes me *has to think* 3/5 of the way done, which makes me *gets out calculater* 60% of the way done, and yesterday was the halfway point. *Dances* I'm feeling pretty good about it, especially since I managed to keep my word count up even though there were a few days I couldn't write.
When I logged my word count last night, In the word war list, I am number 15. So much for wanting to stay within the top 10. lol. Its crazy though, There is one girl on the toronto team that had written over 200k so far, and another woman who is over 100k. Then there are a bunch of people who are just past 50k and the rest of us normal people who are at a much smaller number. hehe! The Toronto Word War team has collectivly written over 1 million words, and I think we are actually at a much higher (and more impressive) number now, but I just cant remember the stats at the moment. We are 300k words ahead of Vancouver, so as long as we keep this up, we are going to crush them! I beleive we are also beating them in total donations given as well which will give us extra bragging rights. ^_^ GO TORONTO!!
Last night was the halfway party and CD exchange which was really fun. We went to The Yellow Griffin Pub and they serve over 35 different types of hambergers, plus you could get all of the hanbers as chicken instead of beef so it it really like 70 different hambergers. It was crazy. I couldn't decide what I wanted to eat, and I couldn't find just a regular old joe hamber with lettuce, tomato and onion on the menu. I had to ask, and they have one, it just had a funny name on the menu and with all the other burgers, I must have missed reading the burger discription. The drinks were good and I met a bunch of people that I hadn't met before, which was really fun. One of the girls I met is interested in having me make her a corset, which is exciting because I havn't done one in a couple of months and I've been thinking about making one just because, but it's much more fun to make them for other people, and now I've got a reason to ^_^ (Plus, she's got the coolest pink hair I have ever seen!) There was someone else who asked me if I could teach her how to sew corsets, so that will be fun, if she decides to actually go through with it. The CD exchange was fun too. I had a blast putting together my cd, Picking which songs I was going to use that I had was time consuming though. Some of the Cds I got in return were pretty cool (although I havn't listened to all of them yet) and there was one that was absolutly terrible in my opinion, but hey, thats just me.
So now that I've procrastinated for an hour by writing this post, I have to get back to writing and get some wordage in so I can move up the list, or try to anyways. So Cheers! And wish my happy writing ^_^
I've been writing like mad, except for the days where I didn't write anything. lol. There were a few days where I couldn't write anything because my day was just filled with too much other stuff I had to deal with, but I managed to make up for it on the following days, So I'm still ahead in my word count. *Yay!* Yesterday I just breached the 30k mark, which makes me *has to think* 3/5 of the way done, which makes me *gets out calculater* 60% of the way done, and yesterday was the halfway point. *Dances* I'm feeling pretty good about it, especially since I managed to keep my word count up even though there were a few days I couldn't write.
When I logged my word count last night, In the word war list, I am number 15. So much for wanting to stay within the top 10. lol. Its crazy though, There is one girl on the toronto team that had written over 200k so far, and another woman who is over 100k. Then there are a bunch of people who are just past 50k and the rest of us normal people who are at a much smaller number. hehe! The Toronto Word War team has collectivly written over 1 million words, and I think we are actually at a much higher (and more impressive) number now, but I just cant remember the stats at the moment. We are 300k words ahead of Vancouver, so as long as we keep this up, we are going to crush them! I beleive we are also beating them in total donations given as well which will give us extra bragging rights. ^_^ GO TORONTO!!
Last night was the halfway party and CD exchange which was really fun. We went to The Yellow Griffin Pub and they serve over 35 different types of hambergers, plus you could get all of the hanbers as chicken instead of beef so it it really like 70 different hambergers. It was crazy. I couldn't decide what I wanted to eat, and I couldn't find just a regular old joe hamber with lettuce, tomato and onion on the menu. I had to ask, and they have one, it just had a funny name on the menu and with all the other burgers, I must have missed reading the burger discription. The drinks were good and I met a bunch of people that I hadn't met before, which was really fun. One of the girls I met is interested in having me make her a corset, which is exciting because I havn't done one in a couple of months and I've been thinking about making one just because, but it's much more fun to make them for other people, and now I've got a reason to ^_^ (Plus, she's got the coolest pink hair I have ever seen!) There was someone else who asked me if I could teach her how to sew corsets, so that will be fun, if she decides to actually go through with it. The CD exchange was fun too. I had a blast putting together my cd, Picking which songs I was going to use that I had was time consuming though. Some of the Cds I got in return were pretty cool (although I havn't listened to all of them yet) and there was one that was absolutly terrible in my opinion, but hey, thats just me.
So now that I've procrastinated for an hour by writing this post, I have to get back to writing and get some wordage in so I can move up the list, or try to anyways. So Cheers! And wish my happy writing ^_^
Friday, November 7, 2008
Ick
Hit a slump today. Couldn't write. Was like I was trying to swim through mud. Hopefully I'll have a better time tomorrow. ugh!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Another day over and done with
Oi, today was terrible. I was feeling sick most of the day so I slept and when I was writing I just barely made it over the daily word count minimum. My brain just wasn't functioning. To top it all off, I have developed a hacking cough that hurts my throat. I'm hoping it's just lack of sleep because I have been up late for the last couple of weeks, but I might be comming down with a full-fledged cold. Ick. I just hope I feel well enough to go to the social brunch on Saterday, since I was unable to make it to the writing session today at the library. My word count total today is 14,021 which puts me approximatly 2 1/2 days ahead in my word count. I hope to get lots of writing donew tomorrow though, because i'm sitting at number 14 in the toronto side of the Word War, not bad, but I'd still like to be in the top 10.... not that I have been there yet...but hopefully. It means I need to pump out some major wordage.
Fill you in on more later
Fill you in on more later
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Intricacies of Alien Toilets and Other Musings
I don't know where to start today. LoL. I ate too much halloween candy tonight so I'm fully of sugary energy. So i'm pretty pleased with my word count so far, tonight I'm at 12,333 words, but I looked at the Word War scoreboard and I'm sitting in 11th place on the Toronto team. Not too bad, but I would like to try and stay in the top 10 just because, so I need to kick up my daily wordcount a bit. Hopefully I will get super writing insperation at tomorrows Write-In (Which I hope to attend if I don't sleep through my alarm...its before noon >.< ugh. silly alarm isn't loud enough to wake me up the first time it goes off in the morning, Or I just don't hear it cause I can sleep through almost anything...) Its at a library so i'm thinking it will be quiet, which means I should type more... But there is no Coffee :( I don't know How I'll fare without coffee or tea...maybe I'll be able to get something before I get there. I just don't know the area very well and I am highly likely to get lost looking for a coffee shop. LOL.
So somehow I managed to write about 1,700 words on my main female character trying to use an alien toilet the other day. I don't know what happened but I was at the write in and I realized that once my character is abducted by aliens, she is eventually going to have to pee, So I had to invent an Alien toilet. hehehe. I could just be like a normal writer who doesn't worry about their characters urinating, but because I was in a weird mood and didn't exactly know where I was going next, or how my character was going to escape, I decide that it was the perfect time for her to have to pee really really badly. LoL. It's mostly extensive discription on the weird contraption and how it works, and how an alien would use the bathroom... So in conclution, it's mostly fluff, but I don't care because it was a lot of fun to write! And that's what NaNo's about, having fun ^_^ Tommorrow I take it upon myself to help My main Character (her name is Deirdre) and her alley cat friend (Schrodinger) escape by flying an alien emergency escape pod accidentally into the past (around the 17th century) So we'll see where I end up. HeHe!
Well Good night all, and Happy Writing!
So somehow I managed to write about 1,700 words on my main female character trying to use an alien toilet the other day. I don't know what happened but I was at the write in and I realized that once my character is abducted by aliens, she is eventually going to have to pee, So I had to invent an Alien toilet. hehehe. I could just be like a normal writer who doesn't worry about their characters urinating, but because I was in a weird mood and didn't exactly know where I was going next, or how my character was going to escape, I decide that it was the perfect time for her to have to pee really really badly. LoL. It's mostly extensive discription on the weird contraption and how it works, and how an alien would use the bathroom... So in conclution, it's mostly fluff, but I don't care because it was a lot of fun to write! And that's what NaNo's about, having fun ^_^ Tommorrow I take it upon myself to help My main Character (her name is Deirdre) and her alley cat friend (Schrodinger) escape by flying an alien emergency escape pod accidentally into the past (around the 17th century) So we'll see where I end up. HeHe!
Well Good night all, and Happy Writing!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Woo! Over 10,000
Another short post (sorry)
I have my current word count at 10,241 words, Thats makes me 1/5 of the way there! *Dances* I went to the Second official Write-In today, I had a terrible time finding it, but that is not too surprising since I am -very- directionally challenged. I had a blast though and did my most productive word count in one writing sesion (over 2000 words) And I got a sticker which I have stuck onto my laptop. ^_^ yay!!
Cheer! Wish me good writing!!
I have my current word count at 10,241 words, Thats makes me 1/5 of the way there! *Dances* I went to the Second official Write-In today, I had a terrible time finding it, but that is not too surprising since I am -very- directionally challenged. I had a blast though and did my most productive word count in one writing sesion (over 2000 words) And I got a sticker which I have stuck onto my laptop. ^_^ yay!!
Cheer! Wish me good writing!!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Quick, while it's still Nov. 3rd...
A really short post today because I'm exhausted and I have to get up early for a dentist appointment tomorrow (booo! ick!) . My novel is comming along all right, I'm pulling in more than my minimum word count per day, but I know if I just gave myself a few more hours a day I could probally double my word count... but anyways, I'm at 8,220 words today, which I feel pretty good about. I'm hoping that I will be able to get out to the Second Official Write-In which is happening tomorrow at the Greenavi Cafe. It's a pretty new place, but I've heard that it's good, so I hope my schedual allows me to go! And I hope DJ brings the stickers this time! At the first write in, he forgot to bring them and I was hoping to get one to stick on my laptop. lol. Hopefully I'll also find some money to make a donation to NaNo, because I think it is absolutly awesome and I want a Halo on my profile by my name. hehehe!
Well, I'm off to read a Nanoland chronical before I go to sleep.
Night All ^_^
Well, I'm off to read a Nanoland chronical before I go to sleep.
Night All ^_^
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Brain Overload
So I totally thought I didn't post anything yesterday because I was too tired... Guess I was so tired I didn't remember that I did post. LoL. Silly Me.
Today was great. It was the first official Toronto NaNoWriMo Write In, and it was lots of fun. It took place at the Timothy's on Danforth somewhere in down town toronto, or down town-ish. Either way I had to take the subway to get there. It was packed. Us Wrimo's took over the entire coffee shop. We started out as one little row by the door, but soon expanded to be everywhere. I shared a table with one of ML's (DJ I think, but I'm terrible with names) and actually managed to get some writing in amoung all the talking that was going on. I stayed for 2 hours and I only wrote 1,500 words, which isn't a full days word count, but its not too far off either. But if I compare my results with when I was typing alone in the quite of my bedroom, there is like an over 200-something word count difference, and thats with me really trying to type at the write in, so it appears I'd be better off typing at home. I'm not going to let that stop me from going to the other write ins though. Meeting people is fun, even though I feel really weird talking to people I don't know, but hey, everyone starts out as someone you don't know, so I guess I can't complain. I drank a really good Cafe Mocha (way better than the ones I've had at Starbucks) and pulled my word count up to a total of 4,986 words. Not too bad for only 2 days, but I don't want to get lazy just because I'm ahead in my word count. Then, next thing I'd know, I'd be like 1,000 words behind. Which (obveously) wouldn't be good. So now I am trying to convince myself that I really do want to write that last 170 words before I go to bed, even though I am so so sleepy. What I really want to do is read a book and have someone else do the work of narrating for me. lol, Tough luck for me.
Anywhoo, I should be typing my novel instead of typing a blog so I'm out for the night.
Byes!
Today was great. It was the first official Toronto NaNoWriMo Write In, and it was lots of fun. It took place at the Timothy's on Danforth somewhere in down town toronto, or down town-ish. Either way I had to take the subway to get there. It was packed. Us Wrimo's took over the entire coffee shop. We started out as one little row by the door, but soon expanded to be everywhere. I shared a table with one of ML's (DJ I think, but I'm terrible with names) and actually managed to get some writing in amoung all the talking that was going on. I stayed for 2 hours and I only wrote 1,500 words, which isn't a full days word count, but its not too far off either. But if I compare my results with when I was typing alone in the quite of my bedroom, there is like an over 200-something word count difference, and thats with me really trying to type at the write in, so it appears I'd be better off typing at home. I'm not going to let that stop me from going to the other write ins though. Meeting people is fun, even though I feel really weird talking to people I don't know, but hey, everyone starts out as someone you don't know, so I guess I can't complain. I drank a really good Cafe Mocha (way better than the ones I've had at Starbucks) and pulled my word count up to a total of 4,986 words. Not too bad for only 2 days, but I don't want to get lazy just because I'm ahead in my word count. Then, next thing I'd know, I'd be like 1,000 words behind. Which (obveously) wouldn't be good. So now I am trying to convince myself that I really do want to write that last 170 words before I go to bed, even though I am so so sleepy. What I really want to do is read a book and have someone else do the work of narrating for me. lol, Tough luck for me.
Anywhoo, I should be typing my novel instead of typing a blog so I'm out for the night.
Byes!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
And so it's November 1st
Woo! Its' here! It's Here!
So I decided I would stay up until midnight and start typing right away. I got just over my minimum day's wordcount (1667 words) in 1 1/2 hours before I crashed and had to go to sleep. The only problem was I slept through my alarm and I missed going to the Inner Critic Clay Social. Whoops >.< I was looking foreward to it too. I've written 3,486 words so far, but I can't figure out how to load my word count onto the website. Plus the website is being difficult and not loading. I'm assuming its because of all the people who are trying to access it all at the same time, so I guess I can forgive it. LoL! I hope I'll be able to get back on later tonight. But so far things are going well. I havn't run into writer's block and I don't appear to be going through the outline too fast - not yet anyways. So I'm pretty optimistic. Anyways, I hope to get another few hours of writing in before I go to bed tonight, but right now I feel like my brain is hurting, so I'm just gonna give myself a few hours of rest. I'm sure I'll be as good as new after a small nap. lol
Cheers!
So I decided I would stay up until midnight and start typing right away. I got just over my minimum day's wordcount (1667 words) in 1 1/2 hours before I crashed and had to go to sleep. The only problem was I slept through my alarm and I missed going to the Inner Critic Clay Social. Whoops >.< I was looking foreward to it too. I've written 3,486 words so far, but I can't figure out how to load my word count onto the website. Plus the website is being difficult and not loading. I'm assuming its because of all the people who are trying to access it all at the same time, so I guess I can forgive it. LoL! I hope I'll be able to get back on later tonight. But so far things are going well. I havn't run into writer's block and I don't appear to be going through the outline too fast - not yet anyways. So I'm pretty optimistic. Anyways, I hope to get another few hours of writing in before I go to bed tonight, but right now I feel like my brain is hurting, so I'm just gonna give myself a few hours of rest. I'm sure I'll be as good as new after a small nap. lol
Cheers!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Only 1 Day Left!
Wait make that Only 3 hours left! NaNoWriMo officially starts in just under 3 hours when the clock hits midnight! I'm so excited. I havn't decided weather I am going to wait up until midnight hits and do some writing before I go to sleep, but I managed to procrastinate 4 hours away by giving out Halloween candy (I dressed up as a princess in a hot pink poofy dress with a crinoline underneath, a purple wig and a pink crown. There was one little boy who lives on my street who came to see me 5 times, he just thought I was the cat's meow. LoL. He is only like 3 or 4 years old, it was cute.) So that took up some time where I wasn't excitedly and impatiently hovering over my keyboard. Good time distraction Halloween is, plus some of the kids are just so damn cute! Also, because I am crazy, and they didn't post the sign-up sheet last night while I was asleep (effectivly denying me a spot), I went against my own good advice and signed up to be part of the Word War Team. Now I am absolutly determind to crank out 50k words or more. Can't let Toronto down, we are gonna crush Vancouver! (at least we hope) ^_^ I'm totally craving Halloween chocolate right now, I'd make myself some tea, but then I would be up until dawn writing (not that thats such a terrible thing) and then I'll be too tired to go to the Inner Critic Clay Social event tomorrow. And as it happens, I'm looking forward to it because I want to meet more people who are participating. I'm looking to make more friends! hehehe! Well, there are now only 2.5 hours left until midnight... Do I go to bed or stay up to type? Gah! I can't decide, I'm too excited to sleep though, I guess I wil be staying up.... Wish me luck!!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Kick Off Party 2008!!!
So tonight was the Kick Off Party for NaNoWriMo 2008 at The Butler's Pantry (down town T.O.) and it was a total blast! First there were introductions, the ML's introduced themselves and the Toronto NaNo schedual was announced. This year's Word War Competitor was announced also. Last year we went up against Chicago & New York and we won! This year we are competing locally, and our competitor is (Duh-Duh-Duh!!) Vancouver!! We are determind to win again this year. I was thinking abouot staying up late and signing up for the Word War Team on the forum, but I think that as this is my first year NaNoing, I will just be part of the cheering section to give myself a year to just get to 50,000 words (since I don't think I have ever written that much in one story ever).
Along with socializing, there were games that we played durring the party, and some prizes to boot. For the trivia portion, I answered a question correctly and I won a cute bunny notebook that says "Cute but psycho. Things even out." I think its the perfect NaNo Notebook, saying and all. Another game we played was a story writing game. a peice of paper was passed around and each peson was to write one or two sentences then fold the paper over so the person writing after you can't see what you've wrote. After everybody has written something on the paper, it was read out loud to the group. We had four papers going, and the stories turned out so-so-so funny. It was a great activity. The last one we did was we were each given an envelope and a cue card and we were to write a character name and discription on it and place it back in the envelope and seal it. The envelopes were then shuffled and redistributed back to each person. The idea was that whichever character you got on the card you received, you have to (as a challenge of course, you don't have to) somehow incorperate him/her/it into your own NaNo novel. I thought that was a great idea and the character I received back fits into my story very neatly. Her name is Catalina and has blonde hair and green eyes. She works as a tavern wench. She is practical, no nonsense, sharp tongued and short tempered. She should fit perfectly into one of my tavern scenes while my character is in the 17th century. I got a good match.
The other thing that I am uber excited about is the NaNoWriMusic 2008 CD. I bought it, I just had too, and came home and right away popped it into my CD player. I've listened to the whole CD twice so far this night, and my favourite song on the entire CD is called Writer's Block by Deborah Linden & Errol Elumir. The music is good, and the lyrics are so witty and just perfect. I would recomend to any other Wrimo to buy the CD. Its only $10.00 and the proceeds go to the Toronto chapter of NaNoWriMo, and everything extra goes to NaNo head-office as a general donation to NaNo. All the other songs on the CD are great as well and I think it will be the perfect musical tool to listen to when I'm in a writing funk or just need something fun.
The other thing I wanted to mention was the really cool, home-made, foam dragon hat that BunnyHero was wearing. I took a few pictures and if I can figure out how, I will post them so everyone can see. It was the most unique thing that I have ever seen made out of that coloured craft-foam. It was too cool for words. I want one too :P
Later *waves*
Along with socializing, there were games that we played durring the party, and some prizes to boot. For the trivia portion, I answered a question correctly and I won a cute bunny notebook that says "Cute but psycho. Things even out." I think its the perfect NaNo Notebook, saying and all. Another game we played was a story writing game. a peice of paper was passed around and each peson was to write one or two sentences then fold the paper over so the person writing after you can't see what you've wrote. After everybody has written something on the paper, it was read out loud to the group. We had four papers going, and the stories turned out so-so-so funny. It was a great activity. The last one we did was we were each given an envelope and a cue card and we were to write a character name and discription on it and place it back in the envelope and seal it. The envelopes were then shuffled and redistributed back to each person. The idea was that whichever character you got on the card you received, you have to (as a challenge of course, you don't have to) somehow incorperate him/her/it into your own NaNo novel. I thought that was a great idea and the character I received back fits into my story very neatly. Her name is Catalina and has blonde hair and green eyes. She works as a tavern wench. She is practical, no nonsense, sharp tongued and short tempered. She should fit perfectly into one of my tavern scenes while my character is in the 17th century. I got a good match.
The other thing that I am uber excited about is the NaNoWriMusic 2008 CD. I bought it, I just had too, and came home and right away popped it into my CD player. I've listened to the whole CD twice so far this night, and my favourite song on the entire CD is called Writer's Block by Deborah Linden & Errol Elumir. The music is good, and the lyrics are so witty and just perfect. I would recomend to any other Wrimo to buy the CD. Its only $10.00 and the proceeds go to the Toronto chapter of NaNoWriMo, and everything extra goes to NaNo head-office as a general donation to NaNo. All the other songs on the CD are great as well and I think it will be the perfect musical tool to listen to when I'm in a writing funk or just need something fun.
The other thing I wanted to mention was the really cool, home-made, foam dragon hat that BunnyHero was wearing. I took a few pictures and if I can figure out how, I will post them so everyone can see. It was the most unique thing that I have ever seen made out of that coloured craft-foam. It was too cool for words. I want one too :P
Later *waves*
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Blog #2 - the second day in a new blogger's life
I've decided that I need to come up with some more interesting titles for my Blog entries. I'd label it something exciting, but nothing of note really happened today.
Today was long and tiring. I had a "class" (for lack of better name to call it) in the afternoon, then went streight from there (Spadina & College) to the mall across from the Lawrence West subway station (can't remember it's name) for a Survivor of Suicide (aka. SoS) meeting. (My brother committed Suicide just before Christmas last year and dealing with the grief is hard. Really hard. I hope you never have to go through such a tradgedy in your life.) He hung himself in the basement of my father's house, and although he had tried to overdose earlier in the year, it still came as quite a shock. He had been hospitalized because of his first attempt and had just been released from the hospital a day before the incident. I'm not sure how Christmas will go this year, considering how last years Christmas went. It's comming up on a full year since his death, and with the Christmas season quickly approaching, everyone's strings are strung real tight, and emotions are running at an all time high. The group topic today was on coping stratedgies, and to be honest, I'm not sure how I'm coping. I mean, I'm getting through life one day at a time, but there are so many things that remind me of my brother and it is hard. I was looking at Christmas cards in the mall while I was waiting for the meeting to start, and the first section I saw were the Christmas cards for brothers. It really hit a nerve. I'll never be able to buy him anymore really cheesy-yet-funny Christmas cards. I always had such fun picking out the one with the absolute worst brother/sister humor in it, knowing he would get the joke. *sigh* Oh well, life moves on...
On the NaNo front, because I was so busy today, I didn't have a chance to work on my character profiles, and there are only 2 days left until November... I'm begining to get nervous. I'm really hoping that I will get some spare time tomorrow to work on them, otherwise I'll be flying by the seat of my pants, and who knows where I will end up from there. LoL! The Kick Off Party is tomorrow at a restaurant somewhere in Down-town T.O. I'm going to have to look up the address again and figure out how to get down there by the TTC. As odd as it may sound, I'm dragging my mother along with me. I'm doing this because a) I don't want to be down-town and taking the subway at 11pm by myself, and b) I know my mother is really into books, so weather she is going to participate in NaNo or not, she is going to be my personal cheering section and therefore my "date". Of course, she doesn't know this yet... The cheering section part that is, and then c) I was originally going to take my boyfriend, but he is going back to school for the 2nd of 3 sections to become an Electrician, so he couldn't make it (we live really far apart, like a 2 hour drive apart. and yes, it sucks). So the conclusion is: I'm taking my mother. I know there will be lots of other parents with their kids there, in a large range of ages, so I shouldn't feel too out of place. At least I hope not. I am really looking foreward to it though. They will be announcing who we (Toronto) are going to be up against for the Word War. I'm not sure if I want to jump in over my head and sign up for the Word War team this year, as it's my first year and there are only 50 spots on each team, and I'm afraid that I won't live up to my potential because it is my first year participating. They will also be releasing and selling the Toronto NaNo CD which is original music written by Toronto artists about and for NaNoWriMo. The CD should cost around $10.00 which I will be able to afford on my poor starving writer's income of $0. LoL. I'll be borrowing money from my mom most likely... How sad is that? Yikes. I'll be back looking for work soon I hope, once my schedule of doctors/dentists/classes/meetings and other such events stop taking over my life... in a few weeks perhaps? Maybe as long as a month, but I need to get work before December, or else nobody will be receiving gifts this year unless they want something made from fabric and modeling clay or something of the like. Maybe I'll just create personalized glass ornaments for everyone. Get some beads, paint, and some old tree ornaments, and I'll be set. Unless I can come up with something more creative...hmmm.....
Hopefully, I'll get to post tomorrow after I get home from the party, but I might be so tired that it'll have to wait a day. We'll see.
ttyl ^_^
Today was long and tiring. I had a "class" (for lack of better name to call it) in the afternoon, then went streight from there (Spadina & College) to the mall across from the Lawrence West subway station (can't remember it's name) for a Survivor of Suicide (aka. SoS) meeting. (My brother committed Suicide just before Christmas last year and dealing with the grief is hard. Really hard. I hope you never have to go through such a tradgedy in your life.) He hung himself in the basement of my father's house, and although he had tried to overdose earlier in the year, it still came as quite a shock. He had been hospitalized because of his first attempt and had just been released from the hospital a day before the incident. I'm not sure how Christmas will go this year, considering how last years Christmas went. It's comming up on a full year since his death, and with the Christmas season quickly approaching, everyone's strings are strung real tight, and emotions are running at an all time high. The group topic today was on coping stratedgies, and to be honest, I'm not sure how I'm coping. I mean, I'm getting through life one day at a time, but there are so many things that remind me of my brother and it is hard. I was looking at Christmas cards in the mall while I was waiting for the meeting to start, and the first section I saw were the Christmas cards for brothers. It really hit a nerve. I'll never be able to buy him anymore really cheesy-yet-funny Christmas cards. I always had such fun picking out the one with the absolute worst brother/sister humor in it, knowing he would get the joke. *sigh* Oh well, life moves on...
On the NaNo front, because I was so busy today, I didn't have a chance to work on my character profiles, and there are only 2 days left until November... I'm begining to get nervous. I'm really hoping that I will get some spare time tomorrow to work on them, otherwise I'll be flying by the seat of my pants, and who knows where I will end up from there. LoL! The Kick Off Party is tomorrow at a restaurant somewhere in Down-town T.O. I'm going to have to look up the address again and figure out how to get down there by the TTC. As odd as it may sound, I'm dragging my mother along with me. I'm doing this because a) I don't want to be down-town and taking the subway at 11pm by myself, and b) I know my mother is really into books, so weather she is going to participate in NaNo or not, she is going to be my personal cheering section and therefore my "date". Of course, she doesn't know this yet... The cheering section part that is, and then c) I was originally going to take my boyfriend, but he is going back to school for the 2nd of 3 sections to become an Electrician, so he couldn't make it (we live really far apart, like a 2 hour drive apart. and yes, it sucks). So the conclusion is: I'm taking my mother. I know there will be lots of other parents with their kids there, in a large range of ages, so I shouldn't feel too out of place. At least I hope not. I am really looking foreward to it though. They will be announcing who we (Toronto) are going to be up against for the Word War. I'm not sure if I want to jump in over my head and sign up for the Word War team this year, as it's my first year and there are only 50 spots on each team, and I'm afraid that I won't live up to my potential because it is my first year participating. They will also be releasing and selling the Toronto NaNo CD which is original music written by Toronto artists about and for NaNoWriMo. The CD should cost around $10.00 which I will be able to afford on my poor starving writer's income of $0. LoL. I'll be borrowing money from my mom most likely... How sad is that? Yikes. I'll be back looking for work soon I hope, once my schedule of doctors/dentists/classes/meetings and other such events stop taking over my life... in a few weeks perhaps? Maybe as long as a month, but I need to get work before December, or else nobody will be receiving gifts this year unless they want something made from fabric and modeling clay or something of the like. Maybe I'll just create personalized glass ornaments for everyone. Get some beads, paint, and some old tree ornaments, and I'll be set. Unless I can come up with something more creative...hmmm.....
Hopefully, I'll get to post tomorrow after I get home from the party, but I might be so tired that it'll have to wait a day. We'll see.
ttyl ^_^
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Pilot
Ever wonder why the first show in a television series is called the Pilot episode? I do, but I havn't gotten around to finding out why, not yet anyways. Funny that, it would be as simple as typing it into Google...anyways...So as you can probally tell, this is my first post and not only that, it's my first Blog post EVER. I've never had a Blog before, so all this is kinda new to me. I guess there has to be a first for everything, and this is that for this (still following me?). I've never had the urge to Blog before now, but thats because I havn't really had a reason to - not that I have much of a reason to start now, other than I saw a post about Blogging on a website I visit frequently, and decided I would give it a shot. I mean, Why Not?? It's certainly not going to harm anything... at least I sure hope not!
So my big and exciting topic today is NaNoWriMo Yay!! It stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place in November (Thats only 3 days from now!!). The challenge is to write a novel, which is defined as 50,000 words in 30 days. It sounds crazy, but it is suppose to be uber-crazy-fun! That works out to being 1667 words per day. This is my first year participating, and I am super psyched. Its so popular that there is a handbook published about it called NO PLOT, NO PROBLEM! which I happend to pick up at Chapter's in the month of June because I wanted to brush up on some of my writing skills and I had some time off work to do a bit of light reading. Little did I know that after reading it, I would get sucked into the insane, addicting, wild world of NaNoWriMo. But I am Really glad I did! I've been plotting and doing character outlines since July, and just having a blast. Tnere are some rules though, but they make sence to follow if you want to get the most out of your NaNo experiance. Like you can't use a story you have already been working on before November - your novel has to be brand-new, and you can't write the same word over and over 50,000 times. Oh! And it has to be Fiction. Any kind of fiction is fine - fantasy, sci-fi, horror, suspence, mystery, erotica, romence, western, etc, etc. Of course there are many people who participate and write something non-fiction, but it is aimed at people who are writing fiction. The aim isn't to write something thats 100% perfect, it's meant to help get your creative juices flowing and just get your story idea onto paper. Treat it like a first really rough-draft of a novel. There are even meet-ups with other people participating in your area, to do writing or other fun socializing events like the Kick Off Party, or the TGIO (Thank God It's Over) party. Along with other fun activities and challenges. But if you arn't a social person, you can totally just do it at home, by yourself, or anywhere you feel comfortable writing. You can even try and convince a family member or friend to join in the writing insanity that is November! Check out the site at www.nanowrimo.org It has all the Information and sign up stuff and what-not, It'll even explain it better than I am. LoL!
I'll leave it at that for tonight, and I'll fill you in on all my Crazy NaNo Adventures as they happen before and throughout the month.
Have fun!
So my big and exciting topic today is NaNoWriMo Yay!! It stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place in November (Thats only 3 days from now!!). The challenge is to write a novel, which is defined as 50,000 words in 30 days. It sounds crazy, but it is suppose to be uber-crazy-fun! That works out to being 1667 words per day. This is my first year participating, and I am super psyched. Its so popular that there is a handbook published about it called NO PLOT, NO PROBLEM! which I happend to pick up at Chapter's in the month of June because I wanted to brush up on some of my writing skills and I had some time off work to do a bit of light reading. Little did I know that after reading it, I would get sucked into the insane, addicting, wild world of NaNoWriMo. But I am Really glad I did! I've been plotting and doing character outlines since July, and just having a blast. Tnere are some rules though, but they make sence to follow if you want to get the most out of your NaNo experiance. Like you can't use a story you have already been working on before November - your novel has to be brand-new, and you can't write the same word over and over 50,000 times. Oh! And it has to be Fiction. Any kind of fiction is fine - fantasy, sci-fi, horror, suspence, mystery, erotica, romence, western, etc, etc. Of course there are many people who participate and write something non-fiction, but it is aimed at people who are writing fiction. The aim isn't to write something thats 100% perfect, it's meant to help get your creative juices flowing and just get your story idea onto paper. Treat it like a first really rough-draft of a novel. There are even meet-ups with other people participating in your area, to do writing or other fun socializing events like the Kick Off Party, or the TGIO (Thank God It's Over) party. Along with other fun activities and challenges. But if you arn't a social person, you can totally just do it at home, by yourself, or anywhere you feel comfortable writing. You can even try and convince a family member or friend to join in the writing insanity that is November! Check out the site at www.nanowrimo.org It has all the Information and sign up stuff and what-not, It'll even explain it better than I am. LoL!
I'll leave it at that for tonight, and I'll fill you in on all my Crazy NaNo Adventures as they happen before and throughout the month.
Have fun!
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