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NaNoWriMo Update #3
Productive week this week. Turns out what I need to do is wake up early (just a little after 4 a.m.), write for an hour or so before I have to start waking DH or Frick (Frack sleeps in until after 7), and watch the words pile up. I am way ahead of my pace from two years ago–the year I won–29K now compared to 20K then. Plus, we have all week off from school next week, so I won’t have a chunk of eight-plus hours taken out of every day where I can’t write.I’m reasonably confident I can win this year. I can write the...
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Slow week. Lots of thinking about the story, but not much typing on the story (as you can see from the wordmeter). It’s interesting what kinds of things pop up, though, when you haven’t done a whole lot of planning. Like Lucy hitting a highway patrolwoman because she hasn’t been paying attention. Or having to dress in scary 80s fashion for a reunion party. Or ending up doing the horizontal mambo on the Oriental rug in her long-lost love’s parlor–several times–and getting rug burns as a result (how college...
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Things going fairly well this NaNo season, if not for the ennui and the self-sabotage and whatnot. I am about a thousand words ahead of where I was a couple of years ago. Which is okay, but not great. I’d really rather not have to write so much at the very end in order to win. Unfortunately, I managed to kill the stats from last year’s attempt, so I have no idea where I am in relation to a year ago.But no matter. Things are progressing. I’m exploring more–which I guess you have to do when you start with only a couple...
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One of our Canadian friends sent me a link to a touching children’s book, so of course I had to visit. True to form, Mr. Sarcasm had directed me to an online version of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an abecedarium only a Goth could love. It’s also one of my sister’s favorite books–she’s an Eeyore anyway, so I’d bought her a copy for Christmas one year. (mimi couldn’t even begin to explain her family’s sense of humor)Gorey, of course, is not sentimental at all, so Gashlycrumb...
read moreYes, We Did
They’re calling the Presidental race for Barack Obama now that the West coast polling has ended. As a country, we haven’t figured everything out, but this year (except for the robocalling and the mudslinging) did us proud. Clinton’s 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling–a great start–and now a biracial man in the Oval Office. Good for us.The job ahead? Learning to get along and work together. The country belongs to all of us, red and blue states, and it’s high time we learned to mix purple. I for one am...
read moreOn Your Mark…
NaNoWriMo starts today! Something about this web badge really appeals to me:Love the Viking helmet. Very Brünnhilde/shieldmaiden. Although typing in one of those metal corsets would be really uncomfortable, the idea of going after a new project like a Valkyrie has its own appeal.This year’s project: Belle on Wheels. Here’s the tag: Lucy Nugent is driving hell-bent through life in a car with no rear-view mirror. She probably oughta look back. Something–make that someone–is gaining on her.You can check my progress in the...
read moreFantastic Beasts, Not So Fantastic Effects
One of the Harry Potter series bonus books is a slim volume called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander. This small book, written and illustrated by J.K. Rowling, describes the creatures of her magical world. All the profits were donated to Comic Relief UK. I was scanning it this morning–Frick had dropped it on the floor by his bed, and since it had text, well, I had to pick it up–and came across this interesting description:RUNESPOOR…A three-headed serpent, the Runespoor commonly reaches a length of six...
read moreTen Favorite Horror Movies
The OthersHalloweenThe TerminatorSignsThe ShiningAlienAliensThe Silence of the LambsThe HowlingThe Blair Witch Project (this one only works if you have a great imagination)Really, though, anything with the Olson twins in it
read moreWhat Kind of Halloween Candy Are You?
Um, yeah. Scary, but yeah.What Your Love of Nerds Says About YouNo doubt about it, you’re a bit of a geek.You’re a bit offbeat in an appearance, but you’re still real cute.You don’t care much about what other people think. You’re too busy doing your own thing!You’re definitely one of a kind – and in your case, that’s a very good thing.What Does Your Favorite Candy Say About You?
read moreWhassssssup!! 2008 Edition
No matter which way you plan to vote, you have to admit this is brills:
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