tinpra

first, I must thank lieueitak for the inspirational puppy.

Second I must admit to be suck with the writing. My word count (just what I'm adding) is officially:

Lord love me....11023 words. Half thanks to Katya and her 10800+ words at the start of our chat. fanfiction really is the bane of my writing life. *shakes fist*

Tomorrow, darnit, tomorrow I catch up. And mayhap on Sun I can pull ahead? Oh, and I owe my nano-music cd's. I just got my first one this week.

Oh. And I'm considering signing up for Yuletide again this year. They're not due until mid Dec.

2301 / 50000 words. 5% done!

No extreme pain to report yet. But it's only the first day. And a Sunday. Wait until Tues when I can't write b/c I'm out on a date (!!!). I have a feeling relationships should not be started in November...

Anywho, w/Tues in mind, the goal for today is actually 4k. I'm off to do non-writerly things for a moment or several, then hopefully back to the writing. I have no idea where I'm going w/this story so I don't know if it's not just gonna stall out on me in the middle.

And in case you were wondering, yes all my icons are now nano-inspired. How I love November! There's a quote that would work for this fantastically. Something from LOTR that Gimli says. *ponders hard, trying to remember*

1106/50,000

mind you, this is all transcribed stuff. no new content. only about...2.5 - 3 pages worth of work when i should be doing 5 per night.

So here's the official official notice of my win.



Except for the beer, that Mr. Potato-Head is spot-on with the joy and balloons and immense amount of paper. Okay, it's actually not that much paper since this year I only made it to 83 pages...of course last year it was a mere 75 pages.

But that's not important! What's important are the people, and there are so many of you, who pushed me, prodded me and kicked my butt all the way across the finish line. Between you guys you kept me awake, you kept me inspired, you cheered me on, you told me not to give up, you told me I wasn't alone, you brought out that competitive streak buried deep within, you believed in me. lieueitak, orsinosmistress, shaxberd, jaguarx13, halcyondayz, ashesofwrimo, she_who_dares and anyone i may have forgotten to name b/c my brain is still a wee mushy...you guys rock the casbah!!!!

So it's later...early afternoon to be exact, and I've finished my word count for today. Ugh! I am so sick of this thing. Talk about piece of stinking crap. Maybe I wouldn't feel so bad if I didn't know this was going to be part of my larger novel. It's so bad! So incredibly bad. I almost gave up last night b/c I couldn't see why I was still doing this. I know in the Neil Gaimen pep talk he said his agent said all writers get to this point, but, y'know, they've got an agent. I've just got my ego. And my ego? She is hiding herself from the stinking pile of poo that is this novel. Why the heaven would anyone read this thing? It's only barely a vampire novel. Oy. Ugh and oy. i still plan on breaking through 40k by tomorrow, and 45k by the weekend.

Anyway, I have a rant about a stem cell article I saw on MSN a couple of days ago, but I don't think I have the strength to really get into in the well thought out manner it deserves. I mean if I end up getting reamed for my views, I'd like to have a good foundation to back myself up with. Minor detail, I know.

Was also gonna work on that alt!Kitty bio of doom that I was ranting about a few weeks ago. So not. I've actually closed Word for the first time in weeks. I can't be so bothered with the program right now. All I can deal with is email, fic, and spider solitaire.

So orsinosmistress is love. Somehow my beloved height-twin always manages to send me just the perfect thing. This year for me b'day, along with the prettiest pearl earrings this side of a clam shell (yes I know they come from oysters) she sent me a cd chock full of music. And when I say chock full, I mean about 10 albums worth of music. Anywho, among the many things on the disc-of-joy is the soundtrack to one of my randomly fave movies, Chocolat. Which I had been looking for an I-don't-want-to-pay-Amazon.com-prices-for copy of just recently! I tried my library, which has all kinds of random things, but they didn't have. I was gonna download next but wasn't really keen on that since I've still got dial-up. And then qL sends me this! Squee! I think I finally got around to checking out the CD on....Sunday. I only sorta kinda barely checked out the rest of the CD b/c I promised a friend I'd copy all my nano-cds for him when he comes back for Thanksgiving vacation.

So, in case you didn't know it, Best Beloved, you rock the casbah!

( in nano related news... )

So me and heroicblogger have been "going at it" about whether or not Bush can be wholly blamed for our financial woes as a nation. His stance is yes, my stance is that it sounds stupid to say that the entire economy of a three-headed gov't hinges on the like- or dislikeability of one man whether it's true or not. Like I said, me and he have been debating and, I think, we've been pretty level-headed about it.

Tonight some idiot posted an anonymous reply to my comment. At least I think they meant to post to my comment since it's actually a reply to heroicblogger. So assuming they meant to post to me, they started out with the current title of this entry: "Your an idiot." I'm sorry, I don't have any idiots just lying about, let alone one in particular. I keep reading the comment waiting or wanting to be offended...but I can't work up the steam. Between the bad title, not actually replying to me, the exclamation points, the not actually answering of my question of "doesn't it seem a wee unreasonable to blame one person for such a multifaceted problem?" I can't really take him seriously. I want to. I feel the beginnings of offendedness in there - but it just won't come.

Go fig.

( in other news... )

sure i'm keeping up w/me and lieueitak's 2k a day quota, but it is like pulling freakin' teeth. did i complain this much last year?

i'm doing this from work and don't feel up to finding a cute widget to update:

10,136/50,000 as of 11pm last night. after that i checked out. waaaaaaay to tired to stay up and find out that lieueitak had soundly trounced me once again