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Nov. 3rd, 2006 11:03 pmWell I finally managed to hit the first 1,000 words of my NaNo novel and bits of the plot are *finally* beginning to emerge (and I'm already being a bitch to my favourite character. I love me.) It's already not looking promising for me to hit the 50,000 words but hey, I'd be happy with 30,000 at this point. *More* than happy; ecstatic no less. Now if the site would just stop running so slow... I'm 'Clo' over there by the way (surprise surprise).
Mmmm. Think this demands some coffee.
edit: I actually reached (and surpassed by a bit) the target for a day! Pleased with myself for keeping at it. Okay so I'm well aware I'm already almost 3,000 words behind but that's beatable. If I was over 5,000 words behind, maybe then I'd worry but right now I'm riding the wave of accomplishment.

(word counter snagged from Writertopia).
Now I just have to do it all over again tomorrow. Mm. Maybe I'd better go to bed. :-/
Mmmm. Think this demands some coffee.
edit: I actually reached (and surpassed by a bit) the target for a day! Pleased with myself for keeping at it. Okay so I'm well aware I'm already almost 3,000 words behind but that's beatable. If I was over 5,000 words behind, maybe then I'd worry but right now I'm riding the wave of accomplishment.
(word counter snagged from Writertopia).
Now I just have to do it all over again tomorrow. Mm. Maybe I'd better go to bed. :-/
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Nov. 3rd, 2006 05:37 pmFirstly, why is this not being released until a good six months after I've finished my dissertation and secondly, can someone assure me that no, it isn't a huge piss-take even though the words "Angelina Jolie as 'Grendel's Mother'" should never be written seriously, not ever?
Other news; if you mention NaNo to me right now, I may have to make you shorter by a head. Just, you know. Friendly warning. ;)
edit: Just cleaning out the fish again -- I need a new filter, god do I need a new filter -- and Kermit the loach promptly uprooted the plastic plant I'd spent five minutes carefully weighing down with gravel. Amidst much cursing, stuck my hand in the water to weight it down again -- and Rizzo bit my finger. Okay so he's a fish and has no teeth for it to hurt but he was damn well trying. If he'd so much as had a couple of teeth, I'd be missing a chunk of finger right now.
I told him his mother must have been a malformed toad to teach him such manners. He's looking suitably ashamed, though I suspect Kermit is still eyeing that damn plant.
Really. I try and try and still this is the thanks I get...
Other news; if you mention NaNo to me right now, I may have to make you shorter by a head. Just, you know. Friendly warning. ;)
edit: Just cleaning out the fish again -- I need a new filter, god do I need a new filter -- and Kermit the loach promptly uprooted the plastic plant I'd spent five minutes carefully weighing down with gravel. Amidst much cursing, stuck my hand in the water to weight it down again -- and Rizzo bit my finger. Okay so he's a fish and has no teeth for it to hurt but he was damn well trying. If he'd so much as had a couple of teeth, I'd be missing a chunk of finger right now.
I told him his mother must have been a malformed toad to teach him such manners. He's looking suitably ashamed, though I suspect Kermit is still eyeing that damn plant.
Really. I try and try and still this is the thanks I get...
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Oct. 31st, 2006 02:05 pmOh god, I have to start NaNo tomorrow. Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg. At least I've got a ballpark idea of what to write but still. Hello crazy!November.
( Rewatching Robin Hood 01x04... )
Sure there are more things but I need to get ready for my lecture and mourn over how little work I've done so far today, alas. Torchwood thoughts when I get a chance to rewatch it but I'm still not totally enamoured with it as a show. Mmmm.
( Rewatching Robin Hood 01x04... )
Sure there are more things but I need to get ready for my lecture and mourn over how little work I've done so far today, alas. Torchwood thoughts when I get a chance to rewatch it but I'm still not totally enamoured with it as a show. Mmmm.