You may remember me saying I would be crying by today. Well, I was right, but it's more because of the intense heat, high pollen levels, and large amount of open windows than any issues with Camp.
However, that brings me to one of the points that I don't like as much about writing a novel in a month -- the lack of feels other than 'I have to get this done'. I mean, giving myself a deadline is extremely necessary (I take years to finish novels when I don't have one), but I like meandering my way through a story line. I like taking a minute or a day or a week, whatever I feel like, to soak up the feels of a scene. I like to take time to plan my chacters' next move (by which I mean to let them plan it themselves).
But that's irrelevant, because working like that won't get anything wrote, and I can always catch up on feels while I'm reading it for editing purposes. It can just feel a little bit empty sometimes.
Other than my winging, though, it's going okay. I didn't hit my daily word count yesterday because it was absolutely boiling and I had to play at a concert (an annual one which was the first one in three years to A: be warm and B: be inside with hot stage-lights trained on the players), but I have been writing five per cent or so over most days anyway so I didn't go under the word count I was supposed to be at.
Hurray!
I can't think of anything else, I'm too busy watching the Tennis to think properly. I promise a better round up on the tenth.
WriMo out!
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Umm, guys... guys... GUYS!
YOU NEED TO VOTE FOR NOAH AGAIN! HE'S UP AGAINST DAEMON FROM OBSIDIAN AND ONYX AND ALL THOSE BOOKS!
I know, right? This is gonna be a tough one.
Thankfully, Noah is hot, considerate, dreamy, sexy, funny, and British, while Daemon is just a sorta-people-shaped light alien.
You know who else were glowy and sorta-people-shaped once?
Yeah, the Cybermen, right before they ripped their way into our world.
Now, I'm not saying Daemon's a Cyberman... but he's certainly not as feels-full as Noah. Daemon and Kitten's relationship is hot enough for sparks and broken laptops, I suppose, but Noah? Mr Shaw can make fires even on his own -- and I'm not just talking about his love of cigarettes, ladies. He is hot.
So what are you going to do, ladies and gentlemen, lovers of Noah all? Well, you're going to vote for Noah Shaw, of course!
Charlie out (to go vote)!
I know, right? This is gonna be a tough one.
You know who else were glowy and sorta-people-shaped once?
Yeah, the Cybermen, right before they ripped their way into our world.
Now, I'm not saying Daemon's a Cyberman... but he's certainly not as feels-full as Noah. Daemon and Kitten's relationship is hot enough for sparks and broken laptops, I suppose, but Noah? Mr Shaw can make fires even on his own -- and I'm not just talking about his love of cigarettes, ladies. He is hot.
So what are you going to do, ladies and gentlemen, lovers of Noah all? Well, you're going to vote for Noah Shaw, of course!
Charlie out (to go vote)!
CampNaNoWriMo: Day 4
It's only four days since I started out on my quest, friends. Can you believe it? No, I can't either.
I apoologise for the following post. All the stuff I have to get done has made me brain-dead.
You may be aware of my propensity for procrastinating. You may also be aware of all the stuff out there on the Internet to stop people like me from doing what it is in our nature to do.
I downloaded one of these things. It's called Q10. It makes your entire screen go black, and anything you type comes up in tiny orange type.
Shall we do pros and cons? Yes, let's do pros and cons.
The pros:
I also feel like writing my lovely Hamlet re-telling is helping me to crawl out of the writer's block cave! Huzzah! I'm still having to toil, but today I kind of enjoyed the work -- I went 8% over my goal because of the feels! YAY!
Just wait til Day 7. I will be crying into the Internet's shoulder.
Wrimo out!
I apoologise for the following post. All the stuff I have to get done has made me brain-dead.
You may be aware of my propensity for procrastinating. You may also be aware of all the stuff out there on the Internet to stop people like me from doing what it is in our nature to do.
I downloaded one of these things. It's called Q10. It makes your entire screen go black, and anything you type comes up in tiny orange type.
Shall we do pros and cons? Yes, let's do pros and cons.
The pros:
- You can't go on anything else (ie the net) without saving and exiting. It might not seem like that big a deal, but dudes: I'm lazy as owt. It really works.
- You can set a word count goal! Hurray!
- You can't really see what you're writing
- There's no spell-check
- It saves as a .txt file, which will mean a lot of fiddling about later on
- It has that thing where it skips a line when you press enter, like this:
- See?
- You can't format (centre, left, italics, etc)
I also feel like writing my lovely Hamlet re-telling is helping me to crawl out of the writer's block cave! Huzzah! I'm still having to toil, but today I kind of enjoyed the work -- I went 8% over my goal because of the feels! YAY!
Just wait til Day 7. I will be crying into the Internet's shoulder.
Wrimo out!
Monday, 1 July 2013
CampNaNo Starts, With a Promise that My Novel Won't Sell
Indeed.
My novel, as some of you may know, is a re-telling of Hamlet.
...
Well, darn.
However, it won't keep me down. This re-telling is going to be so awesomesauce that those ones that were planned will be thrown out in favour of mine.
Gulp.
Wrimo out!
My novel, as some of you may know, is a re-telling of Hamlet.
...
Well, darn.
However, it won't keep me down. This re-telling is going to be so awesomesauce that those ones that were planned will be thrown out in favour of mine.
Gulp.
Wrimo out!
YA Crush Tourney Round Two
Yes, it is that time again; time to vote for Noah Shaw in the YA Sisterhood's Crush Tourney! For anyone who has forgotten why Noah Shaw from the Mara Dyer books is worthy of your votes, here's a quick recap:
- He's an animal lover
- He's from England (the place to be, I'll have you know)
- He has a 'panty-dropping smile'
- He's a book-worm
- He is almost constantly dishevelled
- He's brilliant at innuendos
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| By Anabelle at Mara Dyer Phillipines |
You really need to know more? Head on over to The Page Sage's blog to find out more.
And then vote, minions, vote!
Charlie out!
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