NaNoWriMo Begins and I Talk About Stuff
The blog layout has been updated, and I really like this background. I may actually keep it permanently... but I doubt it. Changing it is just too much fun, and I'm a bit schizophrenic when it comes to what I like. Oh, and I technically did post yesterday -- I did an "About Me" page (if you have any interest, you can check it out by clicking the "About" button at the top of the page). I know you don't care, but I rather enjoy being able to say I blog every day.
It is NaNoWriMo! The word count goal for day 2 is 3,334. I've written 3,517, which puts me just ahead of schedule. This is such an exciting way to write -- just spitting the words out. I feel like I'm accessing ideas I wouldn't have tapped into if I hadn't been writing a thousand words per hour (that's wph). So far, I have no idea what's happening. There was an elfish prophecy thing about a Darkness entering the estate. I know that Algie's going to go missing because of this "Darkness," but I have no idea why or how or even what this Darkness is. I wish elves would be more specific.
Algie is a total sweetie! It's strange, because my heroes are usually bounty hunters, gamblers, even assassins -- and now I have the nicest guy in the history of ever. He does make me rather happy. And, luckily, I do have Verena as my heroine -- she is, as I said before, a con artist. There are plenty of skeletons for me to pull out of her closet. Oh, and I realized that she is not Algie's love interest -- she has someone else. I'm not even sure Algie gets a love interest, but I am working on it. Then I have Chadwick. He's annoying -- that's all I have to say about him right now.
My Halloween costume was pretty much amazing -- but we did not get any good pictures. I am going to get all dressed up again probably sometime this week so I will have pictures to post. It's time to swap my blog picture.
I did wear my costume to the Young Women's Halloween party, but then I only stayed for a few minutes (I did get there an hour late because of Drama... and I don't think the party went very well...).
SOLAB!A's party was somewhat unexciting -- but in a nice sort of way. We all wore our costumes, and just hung out, ate pizza, and watched Watcher in the Woods -- and, of course, screamed all the way through the movie. The best is that the thing that made us scream the most was in a totally not scary part of the movie -- it was a pan view of a graveyard, and there was a WEEPING ANGEL STATUE!! It was truly horrifying.
Speaking of scary movies: my uncle and I watched The Blob. It was quite possibly the most boring scary movie in the history of ever. Thoroughly anti-climactic.
I also got addicted to the show Sherlock, which so far only has three episodes (mind, they are 80 minute episodes). The show is a modernization of Sherlock Holmes, and it is completely brilliant. No one -- not even Robert Downey, Jr., captured the character of Holmes as well as this show. And Watson is properly wonderful, which has never before been done in a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. I am a complete fangirl when it comes to the books, and I think this show does them credit.
I really should start wrapping this up -- I'm supposed to go take the GED tomorrow (which means waking up around 6:30 X_x). I slept through it last week, and therefore still have three tests to take. I think I may try taking all three tomorrow. Which does not sound delicious, but I've got to get them done.
I'm going to try and take this week slow. My plan is to start organizing my room -- in little pieces. Tomorrow is laundry day... which means now I have to post a video:
SOLAB!A this week is going to be really mellow as well. I think I'm done planning epic activities -- we never do what I plan anyways. So I'm going to try just chilling, and refocusing on why I started this group in the first place.
Mostly, this week is dedicated to NaNoWriMo. I'm going to win this year!
Writing, Movies, Geekdom, more Writing
I’m just going to pretend it’s Monday. Yay! Happy Monday!I should really stop expecting myself to blog every day.
I did my best to be exciting this week. Saturday at 9 o’ clock (p.m., of course – nothing but sleep happens at 9 a.m.) my friend Angel asked me to go to a carnival with her. Usually, I don’t do anything on Saturdays, but I hadn’t seen Angel in forever, so I went. We rode a “rollercoaster” that was just a big loop, and it would spin you around and around and around, and then stop you, hanging up-side-down. The entire time, Angel was screaming: “I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!” It was kind of hilarious. What was less hilarious is that I got really sick, having eaten nothing but nachos for dinner (not my brightest move, but I hadn’t known I was going to a carnival – it was a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing). We also ran into Brek (well, technically, Brek ran into me – it hurt), my old pirate crew’s navigator. It was great to see her – made me miss sixth grade.
On Sunday we went to my grandma’s, where I got my fellow-Whovian cousin addicted to DDO (just one more step in making him as much of a geek as I am!). I am officially calling him “Drkbeast,” which is his screen name, mostly because I think it’s funny. Drkbeast, my uncle, and I played DDO a ton while I was there – it was awesome! I LOVE that game ^_^ My name’s Karrinia, and I play in Argonessen – you should join me sometime ^_^
One of the nights, we all met up to go to a movie. Everyone else went to Despicable Me, but Ta, Né, and I went to Inception. It was brilliant – though the ambiguous ending kind of bothers me. In my mind, there was only one way it could end... Well, only one way it should end. The annoying thing is, I can see it both ways, and I tend to lean towards the one I don’t like. I just realized that this is all very cryptic if you haven’t seen Inception. I don't want to give anything away, but I will say that it was great high-action (lots of explosions, my favorite ^_^), and a dizzying story that keeps you thinking 'till the end (and long after you've left the theater). I would highly recommend it – indeed, I want to see it again.
Wow – Sunday is August! Seriously, where has all the time gone? It’s ridiculous! Heh... I was thinking the other day about all my past First Days of School. This one’s going to be interesting. I plan on writing all day without talking to anyone. Maybe I’ll stay in my pyjamas, or maybe I’ll go out to lunch at two in the afternoon. I really do think I’ll spend the day writing, though, I have A LOT of writing to do this August.
SOLAB!A is doing our own version of NaNoWriMo, I’m calling it SoNoWriMo. 50,000 words in August – since they’ll all be in school in November. I have a very, VERY vague idea about my story... something to do with a locket, a key, a magic portal, and a dude who’s stranded on a barren island. Maybe. I went through my giant box of ideas yesterday, but I’m still not sure what I’m going to write. Ah well – that’s why I’m a Discovery writer.
Kendra and I are coming up with a story together. I am WAY excited. There is a band of female thieves – led by a one-handed thief named Tatiana (one-handed because she got caught. Once.) They have captured the crown prince, but they don’t know it, they just think he’s some rich guy. The prince (named Collin, but going by Kevin), is having a bad week all together. Before he was captured, he and his family were chased from the castle, and now, for all he knows, the rest of his family could be dead. And he’s learning that none of the people would care, since his parents were pretty rubbish as leaders. There’s also this ♥AWESOME♥ thief named ♥Bertram♥ bopping around, pestering them when the mood strikes, but we don’t know a lot about him yet. We just kind of love him.
Ugh, I hate having to wait until I can see Kendra to work on our stories. It is very frustrating. Forget flying cars, we need to figure out teleports!
Anyway, I’m off to try to come up with something brilliant for SoNoWriMo! Cheerio!
The Hot Girl in the Comic Shop
Hey, where's Perry?
I'm going to skip the bit where I pretend to apologize for not logging in a billion years but just end up justifying my actions. You all know I'm a failure, I don't have to pretend otherwise.
I've had a pretty nonproductive couple of days... few weeks... ok, summer. But it's been nice. I'm trying to get myself to be ok with doing nothing. Then perhaps my stress levels will go down and I will actually WANT to do something. Yes. Behold my clever plan.
Started another book. I was working on Vandagriff Stones, but I got bored. Bored does NOT equal good writing. So I'm writing this one, because it's fun. There's this awesome witch who was betrayed and trapped in a castle for 80 years, and when she escapes she is intent on getting revenge... with help from a personified version of Death, a group of thieves, a band of pirates, a bounty-hunter fairy, and some talking frog that I haven't actually introduced yet. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
On Saturday, I went to see Sorcerer's Apprentice. It was highly entertaining -- I LOVE Nicholas Cage, he makes me happy, and I was impressed with his character. The MC was a bit too much of a nerd (versus being a geek, which is awesome), but I still liked him. My biggest problem with the whole movie was that the villain used to be a goodguy, but he betrayed them because he was in love with this chick and she chose the other guy. I mean, c'mon! Can't we think of anything more original? AND there was this whole epic build-up about how evil and scary the main villain was, and then she was defeated by a sissy apprentice in the course of a three-minute duel. Really? She defeated Merlin, but a 20 year old kid kills her with "a bit of science"?
Sorry -- I'm such a writer when I critique. I did still totally LOVE the movie -- except the dog. Dogs just shouldn't be allowed.
I've been thinking (♫"A dangerous pass-time." "I know."♪♫) what the literary world needs more of us high-action fantasy. Sorcerer's guilds and quests and all those seemingly-cliché things that we really don't see enough of. The problem is: I can't write what I most love. I don't know why. I can't seem to get passed interplanetary travel and rebellion groups (I do love a good rebellion). I suppose I will keep working towards the perfect fantasy -- it's what I'm trying for NaNoWriMo.
(I do recommend Gail Carson Levine's The Two Princesses of Bamarre -- that's the sort of thing.)
Doctor Who Season 5 finale was BRILLIANT! Fantastic! Molto bene! Fezzes are cool. Omigoodness, I love this show! Season 6 premiere isn't until December :( Luckily, I have Leverage to carry me until then. "I'm having these weird, weird feelings for... pretzels." I love Parker ^_^ And Nate and Sophie are just being all sorts of good fun this season. "Are we ever going to talk about that kiss?" "Kiss? I don't remember a kiss. I remember a slap. You're still working off the slap." And tonight's episode was just brilliant! I was glad to get a good Elliot episode. This season's been pretty awesome -- what with the group being blackmailed and Sophie refusing to tell us her real name (ok, that's getting pretty frustrating). Good times ^_^
I'm going to be really exciting this week, so I have something epic to write about next week. Until then: