we shouldn't be giggling, it's a crime scene

I cleaned off my desk today.

Well, when I say cleaned off, I mean clearing enough room for my computer and the paper work I'm currently engaged in a battle to the inky death with, so everything else sort of ended up on the floor and the half of my bed that I use for storage.

I managed to forget every single grammar work sheet for class today, the printer's decided to get revenge on me, and I also spent three minutes trying to find a pair of scissors before remembering that they were hanging on a string taped to my wall. Yeah, I'm having that sort of day. It's probably a very good thing I'm not the one cooking dinner tonight.

I'm waiting for the manager of QRB&M to call me back, which is why I'm typing rather than going to get the cup of tea I very much need.

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There was a purpose to this blog post, but I seem to have forgotten it.

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For the people who know me in the strange dream state of real life, I'm selling buttons for a homeschool fundraiser and I would very much appreciate it if you bought one [or talked other people into buying them]. I've got little blue ones that say: CHS caryhomeschooler.org . They probably aren't that interesting unless you happen to belong to CHS, and they're $1 each. I've also got larger, reddish-brownish buttons that say: MY HOMESCHOOLER WILL SAVE YOUR HONOR STUDENT FROM THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Those buttons are $2.

I'm going to go and have that cup of tea now.

And, despite what my blog seems to think, I am posting this on a Wednesday.

Thinking outside the bloody stupid imaginary box

"If you hurt them in any way, I will hunt you down and cut your heart out with a rusty spork."

- Me.

I've got a Scottish accent at the moment, so if you would like, you can imagine this blogpost as it would sound read by someone with a Scottish accent.

As you can probably tell by the title, I'm not entirely thrilled with the phrase "Think outside the box" at the moment. Though apparently, that's what I'm doing at the moment.

I've started planning out a romance story.... not entirely certain if that is a good thing or not. And yes, there is some semblance of a plot. And yes, I am absolutely certain that it is going to go up in flames, but it's something different and it will give me a break from working on Scars of War, although I suppose I may have to change the title... something else to think about, yes?

Anyway, Script Frenzy starts in less than a week.

- non writing news -

I picked up a copy of The Reformed Vampire Support Group yesterday, am about five pages in, and am rather enjoying it. Finally, a vampire book that appears to be dealing with things properly. Also picked up a copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and am very much enjoying it. I love my library, in case you've managed to meet me and not figured that out by now.

I think that's all I've got to say for now, and I hope you enjoyed this pointless blog post.

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.

A vague sort of rambling that really doesn't have a title.

I'm just going to warn you now, I plan on doing a lot of babbling during this post.
Yeah.

NaNoWriMo is over. I spent the first couple of days after November ended just really drifting, the high pace writing really took up a lot of my time and I had a lot of free time I had no idea what to do with. And I finally let my inner editor back into my life a few days ago, um, a bit nervous as to what it'll do to the lovely rambling, 71,215 word jumbled mess I wrote, so I haven't really touched my NaNo novel yet, and I think I'll leave it for a while. Maybe start working back on it oh, let's say Dec. 31st, just for the heck of it.
Which, of course, means that I have to have a new writing project to keep me busy. Actually, I have two, but one is only temporary. Ezra handed over the story our writer's group is writing, and so I've got that to write. There's this lovely little Twilight rant in one of the chapters before mine, and I love it - that and the idea for a certain Nobel Prize. I love the rules in the front of the notebook, because it proves that I'm not the only Death Note fan in the group. Not entirely sure where I'm going to take the story, I'm thinking of starting the chapter with something slightly reminiscent of a Sherlock episode, but I'll get to that when I get to it.
The other writing project I've got is this thing I thought up in the middle of November and it's rather vague, as all my ideas are, but it will keep me busy for the moment. Started off as a sort of fan fiction for a book I liked when I was younger, and then I decided I'd have a bit more fun making it an "original" piece of fiction. And because I'm tired, and I'm sure this will all make absolutely no sense in the morning, I will give you the tentative names of two main characters from this unnamed side project. Alyss, no last name, and Peter Hook. Of course, I'm sure that made it obvious what book I got inspired by.

I had planned for a nice long blog post that made some sort of sense, but I've got Doctor Who to go and watch, so this is a temporary farewell... I hope, anyway.

My friend Ezra created this blog thing where he posted his very organized NaNoWriMo novel and started posting an untitled script, so if there's anyone reading this who hasn't gone and read this, here's the link. http://thestrand21st.blogspot.com/
Go. Read. Now.

Oh, and it snowed a week ago. And yes, I realize just how late this comment is.

NaNoWriMo blogpost #2

Oh dear.
The good news: I've got about 8,000 words written, which puts me a day ahead of schedule. I've fallen in love with the statistics on the profile pages, because even if I'm ahead a day, it won't let me off the hook unless I write 1,667 words. And I've made plans to have my MC die at the end of my latest novel idea.
The bad news: Earlier today, I reread a bit of novel and wanted to scream. I know its about quantity, not quality, but there is no way I will ever be able to salvage it. So I've ittalicalized, underlined, and greyed everything I've written so far, and started again with the story line I actually wanted to write.
Don't worry, Ezra, Ezran (the character I named after you) will still kill people, he just won't be ridiculously romantic)
And that's my NaNoWriMo update for today.

NaNoWriMo blogpost #1

So, first day of NaNoWriMo is over. My characters have taken over, plot bunnies are popping in and out, and my nice neat orderly plot has been tossed out the window.
The greatest annoyance that I've found is that my MC and the "villain" have fallen in love - that and I keep typing Ezran when I mean Jinx and vice versus.
I don't really mind though. Romances add words, Nightmares add words, running for one's life adds words, so I am content - for now, anyway - to leave my plot in the hands of my characters.
How is everyone else doing?

A challenge accepted

rock4ever95, you know just how to push my buttons, don't you?

Now let me fill the rest of you in on what exactly I'm talking about.

Last year, rock4ever95 and I challenged each other to see who could write the best novel during NaNoWriMo, the loser taking over the other person's blog or a week. That didn't exactly happen. I wrote a 52,110 word novel, rock4ever95 barely wrote anything.

By pushing my buttons in just the right way, rock4ever95 talked me into doing it again last night. We haven't quite figured out what the loser will have to do, but I can assure you that it won't be me.

Rock4ever95? Bring it on.

And for those of you who missed last year's drama, here's a link -> http://shadespinner.blogspot.com/2009/10/national-novel-writing-month.html