Exclusive Insanity

V, you're here today, right? RIGHT? That means we have to hang out tonight! Give me a call? Or drop me an email, either one works.

In other news, the postal system and I are friends again.

Well, I'm up to 19K as of last night... I think I'm slowing down! I must fix that immediately.

Right now, I'm totally just writing garbage. I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I just went with the first thing that really came into my head. I think I'll play with the romance now, just for the hell of it.

Yes, I have a detailed story plan. I just... want to delay a bit, because I'm not sure if I have enough to cover 50,000 words. There's a certain point that I don't want to get to until I'm over halfway there, and so I'm doing a bit of playing around for now.

Anyway. Finished my networking assignment and sent in the results. Excellent. I was given my essay topics - those are due near the end of the month. I also have to get my journal finished up - I'm way, WAY behind on that.

There'll be another short writing assignment due next week, but those don't take long.

Other than that, I watched one of the episodes I'd missed of Gundam Seed. Um... okay. When I started the episode, I was surprised - the narrator at the beginning was Hawkeye! And then the opening theme started, and I was surprised again. What the hell did YTV do to the opening? They - they BUTCHERED it! I thought that puny little thirty seconds of Invoke with some random mobile suit fighting scenes was IT. Damn.

I wonder why they did that. The original opening sequence was really neat.

I did much better with NaNo yesterday - I'm up to 13,500 words or so. Only 1500 to write today, and I'll have reached my goal for the week.

Excellent.

In other news, I started listening to one of my CDs yesterday, and the theme for Gundam Seed came on... it made me suddenly realize, "Crap! Gundam Seed!" I forgot to watch it *again* on Friday. Damn. And I was looking forward to this week's episode.

So I decided, fuck it. I went and downloaded some episodes. I'll watch them some time later.

I came across a list - I can't remember where, I just know insaneneko linked it on her journal - of someone's top ten hated things in yaoi fanfiction. I just kind of mentally nodded at numbers ten through two, the usual sort of things, and then kind of stopped and did a double take at number one.

Goth Gundam boys.

Goth. Gundam boys.

I would say *who*? Who the hell writes this? The fact that it's on her list means that more than a few have done this, enough to aggravate her. The HELL? Goth Gundam boys?

V, we should've put this in our Mother of All Badfics. Or does that count under vampire? We should've included it somehow, though... If only because the idea of Quatre in black eyeliner with a spiked collar is about to give me fits. Good lord, the things people come up with...

Work this morning. Bleh. I wish I had more time to sleep. I'm going to be writing and then heading to Sarah's birthday party tonight, too.

Ah well.

Stole this one from girl_starfish.

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else. This is merely to wet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).


Threads of Fate (my NaNo story):

Somehow, Patrick decided hours later, standing by the side of the road a mile or so outside of Derry with his thumb held up for outgoing traffic, his vacation had turned out extremely weird.


Blurring the Line - from part five:

Brian was aware of Omen watching him with interest from the bed - of Cet staring at him as if he'd announced that he was going to strip naked, paint his body black, and do a line dance.


Game Over (my baby) - from part one:

"Great. Wonderful." I threw my hands in the air. "It's my life's dream. No thank you. I don't want to play a game that involves midget ghost guides and weird computer CDs that know your name and disappear from your CD-ROM drive."

(That was more than one sentence... Oh well, what can you do?)

I downloaded a program to find and get rid of the Adware on our computer. It seems to work pretty good, so I guess that's a good thing. Problem is, hotmail's not working for me now - it hasn't been since I ran the thing - and I wonder if they're related.

Anyone else had this problem, ever? It's very annoying. I can't check my email.

Meh. Anyway. I'm at 8800 words, which means I didn't write as much as I would've liked yesterday. I think I might be slowing down already, and that's not good.

Hopefully I'll get back into it... Problem is, I've got an assignment that I want to work on today (it's due Monday, but it's a hassle to leave it because we always get a new assignment during lab) and then belly dancing tonight, too. I don't know if I'll as get much writing done as I want to.

I guess we'll see.

Yesterday was insanely busy, as I predicted. I managed to get a thousand words written before I went to school - the prologue for the story - but after my morning classes, I realized I had to fix up my Article Summary, so I spent my break on that instead. Then I had my afternoon class and then work right away, so no time to play with the story until after nine.

I was so tired... damn. What a long day.

But worth it! 3045 words! That's not a bad start at all.

I'm hoping for about 15000 for the week. Is that ambitious?

I'm going to try anyway.

Oh, for those interested, I'm posting the story on Walking in Twilight. I have two posts up so far, one right after the other. If you decide to read, let me know what you think.

Off to finish up bits of schoolwork and then write some more.

Happy Halloween!

Actually, I'm spending my Halloween in. I'll probably give out candy to kids - that's always fun - but I don't have a costume or anything. I'll probably just work on some homework. I need to do some reading and journal writing, and work on my program.

And writing, most likely. I actually need to do a bit more research before NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow.

We'll see how that goes.

Clocks were set back today. My sister almost went in to work an hour early - I caught her before she actually did. I still have to set my watch back, but the computer clock is correct.

Oh yes - the third and final part of Going Under is up now at ff.net here, and at mm.org here, and the forum. It'll also be up on my site as soon as I put it up there. Hope you guys enjoyed it!

That is also actually not all... For those who are following my original stuff, Game Over part four is up now at FictionPress, and you can find it here if you're interested.

I'll be working on part five today, but it'll be at least a month until I can work on it again after this. Assuming all goes well with NaNo.

So I did get a new assignment in lab yesterday - WAY too much to hope for that I'd get another week off. Anyway, though, it doesn't seem too bad... I suppose I shouldn't say that until I get a chance to test it.

The system's down right now. I've finished writing the program, but I can't test it. Damn...

I'm going to have to work on the Article Summary that's due next Friday instead. My goal is to get both things finished over the weekend, so that I can start NaNo on Monday without having to worry about the schoolwork I'm neglecting too much. The program and the summary are the two things that I have due *soon*.

I'm both nervous and excited about NaNo starting on Monday. This is my first time attempting it, so... yeah. Not sure what to expect just yet.

Hopefully I can get off to a strong start.

Uh... hehehe... I got nothing done yesterday. Well, maybe I - no. No, nothing got done. It was my day off, and nothing got done. I have a short assignment due today that I will have to spend my lunch break on, because I was too lazy yesterday to do anything.

Eh, this is normal. When things are all due, I fly into a panic and try to finish everything at once. But when I actually have *time*, I don't work on anything.

Part four of Game Over needs work, just like I thought. The last scene is the only thing that really needs to be saved... I must just be bad at writing those illusions. Bah. Anyway, I'm cheating you guys with how much of Shane's impressions and feelings I'm providing, so I need to add more.

Really should've at least done THAT yesterday. But I didn't.

I also have to tweak part three of Going Under, but that won't take long and I'd rather work on Game Over first, since it's going to be a little tougher.

Oh yeah. So instead of doing all this stuff I should've been doing yesterday, guess what I did do? I watched Chrono (Chrno?) Crusade. Episodes one and two. Actually, I watched episode on Monday and just forgot to mention it, but still.

And then I downloaded the soundtrack. Heh.

Back to school... Not that big a deal at the moment. I don't have anything due immediately. Wednesday, now... but I won't speak of that right now, since it's only Monday.

I didn't accomplish a whole lot over the weekend. There might've been more if I'd been able to go on the computer after work instead of having to wait while my sister was on and just watch TV. But no big deal.

We had a nice dinner for my dad's birthday. Today is when he actually turns 60, but yesterday was when we celebrated. It was kind of fun. Although, like all family dinners, it turned into a big loud discussion where everyone interrupts everyone else whenever they want to talk.

In my family, it tends to be the loudest person who gets heard.

Almost forgot... The Hikaru no ghost story, Going Under, is up. You can find it at ff.net here, at mm.org here or on my site. I'm still debating about the forum, but maybe I'll post it there in between classes. We'll see.