I promised Danny a blogpost and this is what I thought of.

"Is there an "I must act like a bloody idiot" clause written into your contract, or is it just you?"
- Something I came up with while watching telly really late at night....
Righto.Terribly sorry about the hiatus, but sometimes things get out of hand. But today is Tuesday and I've been having trouble getting to sleep on Tuesdays lately, so I might as well use the extra hours doing something resembling something useful, yeah?
So apparently there's a new X-Men movie coming out. I saw the [really big] display for it at the movie theatre when I went a couple weeks ago with a friend. [True Grit was just as good the second time around as it had been the first.] And I'll probably go see the X-Men because I watched the first four and I like a good action film.
Also, The Hobbit is becoming a reality and I am thrilled. And no, that's not just because of a rumor that a certain David Tennant might be part of the cast. I liked the book, read it a few years ago. Apparently the movie will be in two parts, which I like; it's a large story and try as one might, one would miss a lot of things if one tried to squeeze the novel into one film.
- Writing news - [because you're all so thrilled to hear me talk about my characters and such]
I'm about half way through figuring out where exactly my novel is going. The main characters have apparently developed minds of their own, and yes, I realize just how crazy that sounds, but I can assure you I had no original plans for the main character to become a drug addict. That was very much unexpected.... or maybe I've just been watching too many old episodes of House M.D. lately. There is also some semblance of a plot now, and for those of you who have known me for a while, you know spectacular that is and you're probably all taking bets to see how long this euphoria lasts before I'm back moaning about how I have no plot.
Script Frenzy starts in less than two weeks and yes, I am very excited. I am writing a dystopian, and I have grand plans for thinking outside the bloody stupid box.

I have some pretty nice neighbors. One of them, Ms. B., always askes how my writing is going and almost always encourages me to talk to her about what I'm writing and always asks questions and she's just awesome because she's actually interested in what I'm talking about. Another one, Mr. S., he has this hobby of rocks and cutting and smoothing them so that they're really nice to look at and he let me choose from a selection of stones that he smoothed and I now have a very nice inspiration rock. Although, if you think about it, most of my neighbors are pretty neat in their own ways.


And I think that's it for now. Yeah, I think that right here's a good place to stop.

Useful link

I found this site while surfing the NaNoWriMo forums.
LitLift

LitLift is a free online novel writing application built to help us writers research, store and organize all the information we use to write our novels/short stories/etc.

Rambling.

I really, really, should be writing right now.
And of course - I'm not.
I'm talking to you instead.
I'm sure you should be doing something else right now. Lets pretend though, for just a moment, that we have no where else to be, and nothing else to do.


. . .


Okay, I think that's long enough.

I spent the last two weeks attending a summer workshop for teen writers and I loved it. I saw old friends, made new ones, learned new things, wandered the art museum for a few hours, relearned things from last year, met some awesome Doctor Who fans, and I could go on and on.
The one thing I didn't do was do a whole lot of writing. Sure, I wrote in class, but when I went home after the day's class, I would write maybe a paragraph or two, and that was it. I've been in a funk for a couple of months now, actually. . .
Too many ideas buzzing around in my head and they're all for the same story.
Ah well.
I'll be out of town, getting a change of scenery in a week or two, so that should help.
And then NaNoWriMo is coming.
I might be out of town for a week in November. But that's okay. I can still write, I just need to be firm about it.

And I think I'll go write now. Yeah, that sounds good. . .

A warning and a little bit more.

I just realized I kinda wasted my March. I spent the month preparing a Script Frenzy idea only to place it on a shelf a couple hours ago so I could chase after another one. I couldn't help it, the new idea is beckoning me with technology, medicine, politics, rebellion. . . I will pursue the old idea some other time.
30 hours till the frenzy begins. . .

Be prepared for infrequent posting, odd subjects, and a lot of gibberish. Feel free to abandon this blog until April is over if you feel it would protect your sanity.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Snow

It's snowing. I love the snow. It makes the world look softer, as if I could deal with it. I went out in it, barefoot and coatless to dance, something that would have my sister rolling her eyes.
I shall now have to write a scene that has snow, and a lot of it.
Be careful, be safe.

Quotes of the day

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

2010 will be the year

I am putting this pledge on here, so that I will hopefully keep it. My pride and honor are very important to me, and if I tell you, then I have to follow through. I am notorious for not finishing things. My precious work in progress, Rebel, has never had a finished first draft. A crime, in my opinion. I have spent a year and a half of my life working on various versions of it. Two years, if you count that horrendous first attempt at writing I did at age eleven, which I still look back upon, somewhat fondly.

I promise you, that I will finish a first draft of Rebel by the end of this year, or die trying. This will be an awful draft, and in two years, I will laugh at it as hard as I laugh at my first real attempts. You can only give what you have, and I have yet to see enough of the world.

I thank you, all of you, for the inspiration you give me.

Goodnight, and good luck.