Well, Lynn did it. At 2 AM Sunday moring, 30th of November, she passed the 50,000 word mark of NaNoWriMo.
And then promptly rewarded myself with cookie dough and sleep. I intend to get another thousand or so today, to make it looke good, but I'm just glad I finished. To all those NaNo-ers out there who have finished or will by midnight tonight, congrats. Not many can do what we do!
Now I have the biggest urge to go back to plotting, character development, and making trailers and what not for See It through. I've written some of the major scenes, after I gave up on writing the story in chronological order. So far I have from the beginning up until the crew lands on the first planet and Ian, Rei, and Silver go around ordering supplies for the rest of the trip. Then the story skips to the longboat ride the three take together and continues through Mr. Arrow's death, and the tender scene between Ian and Rei when Ian is blamed for the First Mate's fate. THen comes a small snippet of Ian describing the glories of his older brother to Rei, and then it switches to when Rei gets sick after the doctor, captain and the two teens crash land on the disappearing planet, and goes through until the point where Ian begs Rei to not die and to "see it through" after meeting Ben and finding a place to hide.
And that's where the story leaves off. In the next month, I plan to add in the rest, anbd hopefully get to write the epic ending that I'm so anxious to write.
The only thing I'm dreading is what my English teacher will say. I get extra credit for completing NaNo, but only if she gets to read my work. And anyone who knows me can testify that letting others read my work is the the I hate the most. Especially when my writing is in a bunch of shattered incoherant pieces like it is now.
But meh, I think that's all i have to say for now. I'll check in later.
Bye bye for now,
~Lynn
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Monday Blues, NaNo Progress, and a Stalker
Hey there, Lynn's back again. I'm really proud of myself for posting this much on a blog in such a short time period. Well, the NaNoing goes well, I guess. Right now i have around 6,000 words, which is fine if my goal were the usual 50,000. But my goal this year is a tentative 100,000, which means I should have 10,000 by now [3,333 words a day]. I'm hoping I can at least reach 7,000 or 8,000 by the end of tonight, but the whole 'Monday sucks' feeling is just zapped my willpower to do anything. I seriously had to stop myself from watching Mulan 2 instead of writing. Even now I am sitting here procrastinating on this stupid blog. Oh well, I know it's a lame excuse, but I have all of tomorrow off, due to elections taking place at my school. Seems like nowadays, politics is only good for getting me out of school.
In other news, Lynn has a stalker. My friend Sam has been telling me about him for the past month now, but since he's sort of her friend, she's promised him not to tell me who he is. I found out though. I was at a school pep rally/bonfire thing last thursday night, since the band had to play for it, and by bff stephen leans over to me in between songs and says "That guy over there just took a picture of you with his phone" Knowing full well I had a stalker, I looked over, and there was a guy standing there with his phone out. Slightly skeptic, I merely kept my eye on him. He was easy to pick out from the crowd, he had on bright red gloves. Something just told me it was him, and then the band had to move to be able to see our music and our drum major. I saw him a couple times that night at the bonfire, and I think we made eye contact once or twice. He was always the first to look away.
So then after the stupid bonfire, we all walked back to the school to put our instruments away, and I was only of the last to leave. I had just left the band room when he came in the school's entrance doors. I looked up imediately, but it was too quick for me to show any sort of reaction. The kid had just come in the door, and as soon as he saw me, he did a one-eighty and casually walked back out the doors. Slightly surprised, I went back into the band room and hung around for a few minutes, since a few of my friends were still there.
And then Satdurday rolled around, which meant football playoffs and another halftime show. The game went really well, and we won 20-11, so we were all happy. The band marched down to the main stands to play post game [we sit in the end zone, rather than in the fan stands] and lined up in concert position ready to play. And guess who was on the other side of the fence watching us? Yup, him. Stephen actually noticed him before I did. He's just like "OH MY GOD your stalker's back!"
Stephen is actually more freaked out about my stalker than I am. As weird as it sounds, I'm kind of enjoying the attention. Certainly not him taking pictures of me and posting them in his room, as I'm told, but him coming to games and watching us, namely, me, perform. My parents don't come to the games, so it feels like I have my own personal fan. And then Saturday I found out that my other friend, Jessica is friends with him. She was on tech crew with him last year, and he seems like a pretty ok guy. I know his name now, and I'm not really bothered by it all that much. It'd be nice if he could just talk to me if he wanted to know me, but meh, to each his own. As long as he doesn't get violent or anything, I'll let it go for now.
In other news, Lynn has a stalker. My friend Sam has been telling me about him for the past month now, but since he's sort of her friend, she's promised him not to tell me who he is. I found out though. I was at a school pep rally/bonfire thing last thursday night, since the band had to play for it, and by bff stephen leans over to me in between songs and says "That guy over there just took a picture of you with his phone" Knowing full well I had a stalker, I looked over, and there was a guy standing there with his phone out. Slightly skeptic, I merely kept my eye on him. He was easy to pick out from the crowd, he had on bright red gloves. Something just told me it was him, and then the band had to move to be able to see our music and our drum major. I saw him a couple times that night at the bonfire, and I think we made eye contact once or twice. He was always the first to look away.
So then after the stupid bonfire, we all walked back to the school to put our instruments away, and I was only of the last to leave. I had just left the band room when he came in the school's entrance doors. I looked up imediately, but it was too quick for me to show any sort of reaction. The kid had just come in the door, and as soon as he saw me, he did a one-eighty and casually walked back out the doors. Slightly surprised, I went back into the band room and hung around for a few minutes, since a few of my friends were still there.
And then Satdurday rolled around, which meant football playoffs and another halftime show. The game went really well, and we won 20-11, so we were all happy. The band marched down to the main stands to play post game [we sit in the end zone, rather than in the fan stands] and lined up in concert position ready to play. And guess who was on the other side of the fence watching us? Yup, him. Stephen actually noticed him before I did. He's just like "OH MY GOD your stalker's back!"
Stephen is actually more freaked out about my stalker than I am. As weird as it sounds, I'm kind of enjoying the attention. Certainly not him taking pictures of me and posting them in his room, as I'm told, but him coming to games and watching us, namely, me, perform. My parents don't come to the games, so it feels like I have my own personal fan. And then Saturday I found out that my other friend, Jessica is friends with him. She was on tech crew with him last year, and he seems like a pretty ok guy. I know his name now, and I'm not really bothered by it all that much. It'd be nice if he could just talk to me if he wanted to know me, but meh, to each his own. As long as he doesn't get violent or anything, I'll let it go for now.
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