Oh my good gracious but the dust that has piled up on this blog.
I miss blogging, I really do. But it's just not in the cards for me right now. But I am always happy when I think about the blogs and people that I met here.
Here are some things I have been doing instead of blogging:
1. Reading like 300 pages of articles a week for my library classes. Werd. And I thought that being an English major was bad.
2. Teaching and grading and molding freshmen minds mwa hahahahaha
3. Learning how to live on about 4 hours of sleep a night without dying.
4. Eating brownies. Occasionally.
5. Working at a bookstore helping crazy people find books.
6. Having a mental break down over writing a grant proposal, but then figuring it all out and doing well on the assignment.
7. Watching a little too much tv.
8. Reading some stuff that I want to read. Even if it's just a page at a time.
9. Listening to as many audiobooks as I can during my commute.
10. Being a crazy geek with other crazy geeks and loving it.
So what have you been up to?
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Sunday, November 27, 2011
I Shall Prevail! Or NaNo Day 26
Word Count: 44,122 CAUGHT UP!
Mood: FEELING FANTASTIC! Did 1k in half an hour on a challenge from a fellow WriMo and then a 2K hour a little later, which got me majorly caught up. I'm also hitting the climax of the story, so it's all actiony and things are happening and this weird guy named Ulrrick just showed up and I snicker every time I type his name. This is where I'm pretty solid with what is happening and what is going to happen, though the details, of course, are coming as I write. But it's a good place to hit at this point in the month, because I'm really feeling like it won't be a problem to actually win this year! I've been holding steady at various levels of being behind all month, but never let myself get to the point where I was ready to despair. I think 4 days behind was the worst that it got and 2 days of burst writing got me back into the game.
The absolute best thing is that I'm kind of in love with this WIP even though the middle is SO rough and I've been writing out of order and I think I have people alive when they should be dead and dead when they should be alive, but I don't care, because the scenes are getting written and after November is over I can go back and outline and rewrite and figure out what the hay bale is missing and I am SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT. More than I've ever ever been before.
How is your NaNo journey? Are you despairing? Excited? Already done?! (you overachiever you)
Mood: FEELING FANTASTIC! Did 1k in half an hour on a challenge from a fellow WriMo and then a 2K hour a little later, which got me majorly caught up. I'm also hitting the climax of the story, so it's all actiony and things are happening and this weird guy named Ulrrick just showed up and I snicker every time I type his name. This is where I'm pretty solid with what is happening and what is going to happen, though the details, of course, are coming as I write. But it's a good place to hit at this point in the month, because I'm really feeling like it won't be a problem to actually win this year! I've been holding steady at various levels of being behind all month, but never let myself get to the point where I was ready to despair. I think 4 days behind was the worst that it got and 2 days of burst writing got me back into the game.
The absolute best thing is that I'm kind of in love with this WIP even though the middle is SO rough and I've been writing out of order and I think I have people alive when they should be dead and dead when they should be alive, but I don't care, because the scenes are getting written and after November is over I can go back and outline and rewrite and figure out what the hay bale is missing and I am SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT. More than I've ever ever been before.
How is your NaNo journey? Are you despairing? Excited? Already done?! (you overachiever you)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Insanity has begun aka NaNoWriMo or WHAT ON EARTH WAS I THINKING
Day: 2
Word Count so far: 3545! Woot!
Mood: Optimistic. Off to a good start. So glad I don't have morning classes on Tuesday so I was able to stay up until midnight Monday night and get my first day's word count done before I even went to bed. Couldn't do that last night, having to get up at 4:30ish, but allowed myself an hour before crashing. Which of course turned into an hour and 20 minutes, but I got myself on track for today, so even if I don't get back today (since this is my insanely long school day) I will not be behind tomorrow! Also, the story is flowing so well right now. The characters are popping out of everywhere, the story is unfolding and I'm starting to get some interesting glimpses of my MC's personality. Can't wait to see where it goes!
Surprises: Oh boy. Don't even get me started! I am writing a fantasy YA novel. I was going to write it in third person limited with flashbacks that would weave into the present to help unfold the mystery. Exciting right? Yeah. So when I sat down and started writing it came out in first person. It was working really well, so I just went with it. But THEN about 1,000 words in, I suddenly realised that I had randomly switched to PRESENT TENSE. Oh. My. Werd. I'd written a couple of paragraphs, but could see where I had switched. So I went back to fix it. It didn't work. I literally COULD NOT change it back and the story, the voice, the rawness of Evva's situation was perfect in present tense.
But how do you do flashbacks in present tense?! Well, it turns into a sort of stream of consciousness thing where the flashbacks are ending up woven into her thoughts about the present. It has such potential for disaster, but so far, I think it's really working.
So I'm doing the one thing I have always told myself I would never ever do: writing in first person present tense. AND writing stream of consciousness. Another giant no-no for me. What?
How about you? Are you doing NaNo? Any crazy surprises for you yet? Anything like that happen to you in the past? Am I crazy? Wait. Don't answer that :)
Word Count so far: 3545! Woot!
Mood: Optimistic. Off to a good start. So glad I don't have morning classes on Tuesday so I was able to stay up until midnight Monday night and get my first day's word count done before I even went to bed. Couldn't do that last night, having to get up at 4:30ish, but allowed myself an hour before crashing. Which of course turned into an hour and 20 minutes, but I got myself on track for today, so even if I don't get back today (since this is my insanely long school day) I will not be behind tomorrow! Also, the story is flowing so well right now. The characters are popping out of everywhere, the story is unfolding and I'm starting to get some interesting glimpses of my MC's personality. Can't wait to see where it goes!
Surprises: Oh boy. Don't even get me started! I am writing a fantasy YA novel. I was going to write it in third person limited with flashbacks that would weave into the present to help unfold the mystery. Exciting right? Yeah. So when I sat down and started writing it came out in first person. It was working really well, so I just went with it. But THEN about 1,000 words in, I suddenly realised that I had randomly switched to PRESENT TENSE. Oh. My. Werd. I'd written a couple of paragraphs, but could see where I had switched. So I went back to fix it. It didn't work. I literally COULD NOT change it back and the story, the voice, the rawness of Evva's situation was perfect in present tense.
But how do you do flashbacks in present tense?! Well, it turns into a sort of stream of consciousness thing where the flashbacks are ending up woven into her thoughts about the present. It has such potential for disaster, but so far, I think it's really working.
So I'm doing the one thing I have always told myself I would never ever do: writing in first person present tense. AND writing stream of consciousness. Another giant no-no for me. What?
How about you? Are you doing NaNo? Any crazy surprises for you yet? Anything like that happen to you in the past? Am I crazy? Wait. Don't answer that :)
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Flash Fiction Challenge
As if I wasn't already doing enough, I decided to join in Regan Leigh's flash fiction challenge. We got a prompt at midnight and had 90 minutes to write and post something. I worked my toe off in NaNo today - nearly catching up - almost to 42,000 - and it was really invigorating to write something that was totally outside of my novel.
The prompt was: DETOUR
So I just started writing and this is what happened - un-edited and done in about 75 minutes. Enjoy! And run over HERE to check out the other people that joined in on the challenge so you can read what they've written!
Update: I removed this for a couple of reasons, so if you happen to be stopping by a post this far back, well, go check out the other entries!
The prompt was: DETOUR
So I just started writing and this is what happened - un-edited and done in about 75 minutes. Enjoy! And run over HERE to check out the other people that joined in on the challenge so you can read what they've written!
Update: I removed this for a couple of reasons, so if you happen to be stopping by a post this far back, well, go check out the other entries!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Happy Birthday, Naomi! And other obtuse consequences to having a blogging buddy sister
Today is August 3rd...
*runs to double check calendar*
Yup, August 3rd.
Which means that my baby sister is now fully legal and officially OLD.
She will not be celebrating with a drink (at least as far as I know) but she is going out to the after show cabaret at the theatre where she works and so will not see this until it is far too late for her to kill me.
I've said before that I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers and I love them all dearly and they all have a special place in my heart.
But Naomi and I are soul mates as well as sisters and I honestly don't know what in the hay bale I would do without her.
She's the cheese to my cracker
The chocolate to my chip
The crazy to my cake
The blueberry to my muffin (mmm... bluffins!)
The peanut to my butter
The bread to my jam
The Tonto to my Ranger
(had to throw Tonto in there, Naomi :)
sorry, private joke
The squash picker to my pumpkin harvester
(Yeah, yeah, another private joke)
So Happy Birthday, NAOMI!
(If you want to pop over and wish her a happy birthday on her blog, clickity HERE). She'll be glad to see you. And while you're there, go ahead and follow (she's pretty hilarious) and then you'll be all set for our Super Sister Celebration, which we will be (finally) posting on Thursday.
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