The only parts I've watched have been the very beginning with Lady Gaga and Elton John and then the performance of "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum. Had the first thing not been happening I would not have watched at all. As a general rule I don't watch award shows. I'm actually pretty ignorant of them. I didn't even know the AMAs existed until Adam Lambert brought them to my attention.
But enough about that.
The rewrite is...I suppose I could say that it is going mediocre, but only because of the past few days. I haven't written a thing. Mainly because, typically speaking, no one write very well when they're dead asleep, which is what I've been for the better part of the last seventy-two hours.
I haven't any idea why I decided to turn into sleeping beauty, but I did. I feel kind of sick. And I'm still very tired. Then there's school tomorrow and I have a group project that I have to work on. Group work is the very bane of my existence, not to sound dramatic or anything. Mainly because there's collaboration and then there's research.
I'm supposed to research 1/3 of the paper and write 1/3 of it as well. I'm trying hard not to sound like a diva and say, "I don't co-write" but regardless of what I say there will still be undertones of that. I've co-written before, but not only was that fiction it was with someone whose writing no only complemented mine but blended well. Plus, I knew them.
But I'm going to do some research before I fall asleep again and I'll probably be up and writing again by Tuesday at the very latest. I've gotten to that weird point of rewriting where you know everything that's supposed to happen, but you want to make it happen in a different way so half the time I'm mumbling to myself about technical things like weather patterns and dates. It makes me look super sane. Seriously, I appear to be the perfect picture of mental health.
Pretty soon I'm going to need to find some betas though. I should probably start looking...
31 January 2010
27 January 2010
This Is Going To Be
Short, and very much so. I have to leave in less than ten minutes for that dread creature known only as Class. Class and I have been in a battle as of late, with my trying to vanquish it and it still appearing every week without fail. I mean, sometimes it doesn't show up after we've fought for maybe two months straight, but it's back after a few weeks of recuperation.
Anyway. It it the very early morning hours for me. I did not sleep last night. I have a test today and am eating my cereal as I type. I know that the moment I get home I won't feel like writing this and/or I'll be passed out asleep.
Speaking of sleep, I've only got seven or so minutes and I need to make tea. I have to have caffeine. That stuff can steep in the car, right?
Not the point.
Bottom line: The rewrite is going well. I cranked out over 3k today so far. I'd say it's maybe one third done.
Anyway. It it the very early morning hours for me. I did not sleep last night. I have a test today and am eating my cereal as I type. I know that the moment I get home I won't feel like writing this and/or I'll be passed out asleep.
Speaking of sleep, I've only got seven or so minutes and I need to make tea. I have to have caffeine. That stuff can steep in the car, right?
Not the point.
Bottom line: The rewrite is going well. I cranked out over 3k today so far. I'd say it's maybe one third done.
21 January 2010
Rewrite
Rewrite
I'm doing a major rewrite. The funny thing that I find is that now, when I have way more time on my hands, I've been writing less. It's kind of terrible. Back when I was fourteen, I wrote a book that was 133k words long. It was pretty decent, but the point is that I wrote a lot.
I remember writing eleven pages a day and regardless of word count that's huge compared to what I'm doing these days. I have all the time in the world for writing, but I use it on other things, like movies, practicing, video games, and making references/movie quotes of Tim Burton movies on twitter. Damn those Final Fantasy games, damn them straight to hell.
-Ahem- Back to the point. I need to get back into the swing of things. It's been so long since I've written anything substantial. That's what I'm going to do, not in February, not in March, but when I wake up and am not threatening to fall asleep at the screen.
So, it's time for a rewrite, and rather than doing it the old way where I'd just go through and edit, I'm scrapping the whole story and starting with a blank page. It'll be...fun.
I'm doing a major rewrite. The funny thing that I find is that now, when I have way more time on my hands, I've been writing less. It's kind of terrible. Back when I was fourteen, I wrote a book that was 133k words long. It was pretty decent, but the point is that I wrote a lot.
I remember writing eleven pages a day and regardless of word count that's huge compared to what I'm doing these days. I have all the time in the world for writing, but I use it on other things, like movies, practicing, video games, and making references/movie quotes of Tim Burton movies on twitter. Damn those Final Fantasy games, damn them straight to hell.
-Ahem- Back to the point. I need to get back into the swing of things. It's been so long since I've written anything substantial. That's what I'm going to do, not in February, not in March, but when I wake up and am not threatening to fall asleep at the screen.
So, it's time for a rewrite, and rather than doing it the old way where I'd just go through and edit, I'm scrapping the whole story and starting with a blank page. It'll be...fun.
17 January 2010
Week In Review
Week In Review
Right now I'm getting over a sort of sickness. I'll just leave it at that it kind of sucks to be hungry when all you can handle is ginger ale. It sucks really bad.
Anyway, I'm going to recount the high and low points of the last week and half. That does make the title of this post a little misleading, but in my concept of time, it's been a week, so bear with me.
[Side note: basically none of this has to do with writing.]
So, in pluses and minuses, I shall recount the previous week or so:
+Books-A-Million was having a pretty awesome sale, and it was literally one dollar for three whole book carts, a lot of which were hardcover. I was so unbelievably happy that it bordered on ridiculous. I only went there for a magazine and came back with a miniature library.
-Stevie left the 5AGs, which I kind of saw coming, but still didn't want to happen.
+American Idol is back! Bad singers and all.
+Books-A-Million was also having a DVD sale.
+I got new video games, including one I lost in the move for GameBoy SP.
+I got a calendar for 2010.
+I got a case.
+Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are getting hitched!
-I'm sick.
On the up and up, because that last minus is really kind of bumming me out at the moment, I don't have class tomorrow. So this week or so was a good week. Oh, and I totally forgot that Taboo has a season premiere, so that's definitely another plus. I'm going to go get some more ginger ale.
Right now I'm getting over a sort of sickness. I'll just leave it at that it kind of sucks to be hungry when all you can handle is ginger ale. It sucks really bad.
Anyway, I'm going to recount the high and low points of the last week and half. That does make the title of this post a little misleading, but in my concept of time, it's been a week, so bear with me.
[Side note: basically none of this has to do with writing.]
So, in pluses and minuses, I shall recount the previous week or so:
+Books-A-Million was having a pretty awesome sale, and it was literally one dollar for three whole book carts, a lot of which were hardcover. I was so unbelievably happy that it bordered on ridiculous. I only went there for a magazine and came back with a miniature library.
-Stevie left the 5AGs, which I kind of saw coming, but still didn't want to happen.
+American Idol is back! Bad singers and all.
+Books-A-Million was also having a DVD sale.
+I got new video games, including one I lost in the move for GameBoy SP.
+I got a calendar for 2010.
+I got a case.
+Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are getting hitched!
-I'm sick.
On the up and up, because that last minus is really kind of bumming me out at the moment, I don't have class tomorrow. So this week or so was a good week. Oh, and I totally forgot that Taboo has a season premiere, so that's definitely another plus. I'm going to go get some more ginger ale.
12 January 2010
The Quest
The Quest
So, it's Tuesday and in a few hours it'll be Wednesday. The holidays are officially over, school has started again, and the premiere of American Idol was tonight.
As of late I've developed the unfortunate habit of slacking off, mainly by watching Cartoon Network and playing all the "new" video games I've bought recently ["new" because they're used and were first released in the early 2000s]. So, I say, no more!
So I started this thing last year where I'm going to write a certain amount of fiction [or memoir, you know, whatevs] by the end of the year. In other words, a writer's New Year's resolution. Now, I'm not going to put that number here to save myself the humiliation should I fail miserably, but it will prove to be challenging.
I haven't exactly been meeting my daily goals, but whatever, you know. I'm sure I'll catch up when I have a boring weekend and haven't the urge to fritter away time on things such as video games. Or at least I hope so.
Anyway, about the title. Yeah, I was watching Teen Titans and that was the title of the episode. It's the one where Robin goes in search of the "true master" for some extensive martial arts training. He has to climb this huge mountain in order for him to be taught so he ends up asking if there is an easier way up. So, the master ends up saying, "There is an easy way and a right way."
You can draw the parallels between that situation and novel writing if you want, but I won't [at least not here]. Mainly because the cheese factor of this post has already climbed uncomfortably high. So, I'll end it here.
So, it's Tuesday and in a few hours it'll be Wednesday. The holidays are officially over, school has started again, and the premiere of American Idol was tonight.
As of late I've developed the unfortunate habit of slacking off, mainly by watching Cartoon Network and playing all the "new" video games I've bought recently ["new" because they're used and were first released in the early 2000s]. So, I say, no more!
So I started this thing last year where I'm going to write a certain amount of fiction [or memoir, you know, whatevs] by the end of the year. In other words, a writer's New Year's resolution. Now, I'm not going to put that number here to save myself the humiliation should I fail miserably, but it will prove to be challenging.
I haven't exactly been meeting my daily goals, but whatever, you know. I'm sure I'll catch up when I have a boring weekend and haven't the urge to fritter away time on things such as video games. Or at least I hope so.
Anyway, about the title. Yeah, I was watching Teen Titans and that was the title of the episode. It's the one where Robin goes in search of the "true master" for some extensive martial arts training. He has to climb this huge mountain in order for him to be taught so he ends up asking if there is an easier way up. So, the master ends up saying, "There is an easy way and a right way."
You can draw the parallels between that situation and novel writing if you want, but I won't [at least not here]. Mainly because the cheese factor of this post has already climbed uncomfortably high. So, I'll end it here.
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