So we come to it at last, November 30th 2004... And this blog will now be revived.
The month has been packed tighter than you can imagine. Jobs, homework, end-of-year exams - you name it.
So around a week and a half ago, having not written a single word for the preceding six continuous days, I decided to admit partial defeat and acknowledge that there was no way I was going to reach 50,000 words in November. Instead, I lowered my personal bar to 30,000 and have vowed to finish before December 10.
Happily, I have just managed to hit 30K despite cruel, cruel teachers who make me do extra projects for their personal enjoyment. (Plus, on Sunday, I wrote a Dumbledore-Filch fanfic, soon to appear on SQ. :D ) So I hopped over to the NaNo site and got meself my winner's icon, to be uploaded on this site if, and only if, I hit 50K by the 10th.
Having said that, I have a confession to make. Though I now have an invaluable set of experiences through writing 30K words, I hate my novel right now. It sucks, and I really, really don't want to finish it because I know that my story just gets suckier from now on... but I have no choice, so I will.
Whew. Feels good to get it out into the open.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Author! Author!
Archived at the Sugar Quill at last!
Got a shiny new beta reader who managed to return my story to me in about 5 days and still managed to pick out about a zillion grammar issues.
Anyway. Now run along and leave me a review!
PS: This blog will be back in just a few days' time. And my NaNo project has been officially chucked - I've lowered my sights to 30k words because of impending final exams and other unavoidable matters.
NaNo word count: 23,150 / 50,000.
Got a shiny new beta reader who managed to return my story to me in about 5 days and still managed to pick out about a zillion grammar issues.
Anyway. Now run along and leave me a review!
PS: This blog will be back in just a few days' time. And my NaNo project has been officially chucked - I've lowered my sights to 30k words because of impending final exams and other unavoidable matters.
NaNo word count: 23,150 / 50,000.
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Yo
How're you people doing? Me - not so good. I've never been this busy before in my LIFE.
Updates:
NaNoWriMo Word Count: 15,000/50,000 (which is AEONS behind).
Mood: Pissed off about my SQ Beta who refuses to return my story to me - it's been 6 weeks!
And finally, I've updated the Fanfic Recommendations section to include Elsha's marvellous works.
Bye for now...
Updates:
NaNoWriMo Word Count: 15,000/50,000 (which is AEONS behind).
Mood: Pissed off about my SQ Beta who refuses to return my story to me - it's been 6 weeks!
And finally, I've updated the Fanfic Recommendations section to include Elsha's marvellous works.
Bye for now...
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
"Acting Kerry" Challenges Vote
PART I
11/03/2004 1:12pm Eastern Hemispheric Galactic Porn Time, In the Year of Our Phglark
Lawyers representing Lawyers for the Betterment of Lawyers in America filed suit in every single courtroom in the United States against John Kerry at 12:21 Central Pacific Daylight Aluminum Clamidia Time.
The suit claims, in part, that Kerry's failure to dispute the election in Ohio, and 143 other states to be announced at a later date, irreperably and irritably harms their inalienable right to another really fancy tail chasing sports car.
The Class Action requests that the court issue an immediate injunction, preferably with prejudicial gassy discharge, preventing Kerry from making any speeches of concession, or even ordering take-out, for that matter. It asks that Mr. Lucifer Mephistopheles be appointed "Acting Kerry" until such time as Kerry assumes a willingness to dispute this election, which everyone knows is the absolute most important election in the history of carbon based life. It further requests that Mr. Kerry apologize for this childish joke, and give every lawyer in America a persimmon.
Francois Buttsniff, spokesperson for the fun-loving giant fungus that secretly controls the governments of the world and has sponsored the Cher Farewell Tour since 1982, filed an amicus brief as a friend of the court which stated, simply, "booger".
Dave Barry could not be reached for comment. He is not involved in this dispute, but he would have had comments to make about it.
PART II
"Acting Kerry" Lucifer Mephistopheles announced his plans for his first 100 days as Damn Near President at a Denny's near Cleveland, Ohio.
"After we clear up this little misunderstanding concerning that vote thingy yesterday, I plan to provide healthcare for whichever poor, underprivileged babies escape abortion by selling the souls of whichever Republicans whose souls I did not already sell to fund my private joys which are very expensive and none of your business. Then I'm gonna take Canada's drugs and give them to America's geezers, because, let's face it, what the hell is Canada fixin' to do about it?
"Finally, I will cook and eat every sum'bich who can not prove he voted for me, or the me I'm acting for, or, well you know. I'll also eat his dog, and the friends of his dog, and pretty much I'm going to be one fat mofo by June, you dig? After that, I'll take the afternoon off, then kill some terrorists and whoop up a batch of peace in the middle east, probably stop off to work out those Africa problems on the way."
When asked what he would do if the "vote thingy" could not be worked out, Acting Kerry indicated that in that case America could go hump its goat and that his back up plan would be to form a band with Al Gore and hook up with Cher's Farewell Tour.
While this reporter did not actually witness or hear any of this first hand, as he was still attempting to reach Dave Barry for comment on whatever Dave wanted to comment about, really, I did overhear another reporter talking about it in the bathroom.
11/03/2004 1:12pm Eastern Hemispheric Galactic Porn Time, In the Year of Our Phglark
Lawyers representing Lawyers for the Betterment of Lawyers in America filed suit in every single courtroom in the United States against John Kerry at 12:21 Central Pacific Daylight Aluminum Clamidia Time.
The suit claims, in part, that Kerry's failure to dispute the election in Ohio, and 143 other states to be announced at a later date, irreperably and irritably harms their inalienable right to another really fancy tail chasing sports car.
The Class Action requests that the court issue an immediate injunction, preferably with prejudicial gassy discharge, preventing Kerry from making any speeches of concession, or even ordering take-out, for that matter. It asks that Mr. Lucifer Mephistopheles be appointed "Acting Kerry" until such time as Kerry assumes a willingness to dispute this election, which everyone knows is the absolute most important election in the history of carbon based life. It further requests that Mr. Kerry apologize for this childish joke, and give every lawyer in America a persimmon.
Francois Buttsniff, spokesperson for the fun-loving giant fungus that secretly controls the governments of the world and has sponsored the Cher Farewell Tour since 1982, filed an amicus brief as a friend of the court which stated, simply, "booger".
Dave Barry could not be reached for comment. He is not involved in this dispute, but he would have had comments to make about it.
PART II
"Acting Kerry" Lucifer Mephistopheles announced his plans for his first 100 days as Damn Near President at a Denny's near Cleveland, Ohio.
"After we clear up this little misunderstanding concerning that vote thingy yesterday, I plan to provide healthcare for whichever poor, underprivileged babies escape abortion by selling the souls of whichever Republicans whose souls I did not already sell to fund my private joys which are very expensive and none of your business. Then I'm gonna take Canada's drugs and give them to America's geezers, because, let's face it, what the hell is Canada fixin' to do about it?
"Finally, I will cook and eat every sum'bich who can not prove he voted for me, or the me I'm acting for, or, well you know. I'll also eat his dog, and the friends of his dog, and pretty much I'm going to be one fat mofo by June, you dig? After that, I'll take the afternoon off, then kill some terrorists and whoop up a batch of peace in the middle east, probably stop off to work out those Africa problems on the way."
When asked what he would do if the "vote thingy" could not be worked out, Acting Kerry indicated that in that case America could go hump its goat and that his back up plan would be to form a band with Al Gore and hook up with Cher's Farewell Tour.
While this reporter did not actually witness or hear any of this first hand, as he was still attempting to reach Dave Barry for comment on whatever Dave wanted to comment about, really, I did overhear another reporter talking about it in the bathroom.
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