Day 5

Mehh. Yesterday was pathetic. I didn't get home until 11:30, stayed up until 1:30 and probably only got 300 words written. *headdesk* Today's not looking much better. I'm going to go jump in bed and write because at least then I can fall asleep. XD

Working on the proposal scene and not enjoying it. I've never proposed before, how am I supposed to know what to say?! Ugh, I can't wait until this part in the plot is over... I need to get them living normally again so I can stop time and add a few silly scenes in for extra word count. XD

Annnnddd yeah. Not looking too good is all I can say. Hope my fellow writer's are doing better than I am!

God Bless!
Shae

Bring It

Wow, okay. LOL, I posted this with only the title *whistle* Anyways...

NANOWRIMO HAS BEGUN!!!!!!!!! w00t!

And as of last night, I'm over 7,300 words. *high fives herself* I'm doing pretty well, over 2,000 each day so far. I had a very busy weekend though. *sighs*

I've got my plot moving along pretty well. I introduced 4, possibly 5 of my main charries already (out of 7, so far). Adel has met both Gabe and Caleb now and Renee is waiting at the restaurant for Cody... Ooh! And Brenna finished her drum lesson to find a fainting boy with a big black eye. XD

Trying to straighten all the relationships out. They're messed up already <_<

Yes, I'm writing a little romance. Shoot me.

It's only because it's Nano though. I generally stay away from anything past Peter Pan and Wendy (lol), but for Nano it's kinda necessary. All the twists and sub plots make up about a third of our 50,000 words. =P So, yeah... :/ I am so not good at this either...

Plot dares are much appreciated!! If you don't know what that is, here are some examples I made up (but am not using):

An elephant interrupts a dinner party by smashing into someone's garage.
Have your characters conduct a whip cream fight.
One of your characters only speaks in rhyme.
A pirate shows up in class wearing a clothes hanger.

XD

I like those. ANYONE can come up with one, trust me. Pllleeeaaaasssee comment with a few. There's no guarantee I'll use it, but I love silly ones, so...=P I probably will.

Today is a very busy day, so I probably won't get much written until I come home, which'll be about 8-9-10 I dunno. XD I'm going to two orchastras tonight. O.o

God Bless, and happy Nanoing! :D
~Shae

20 Minutes?

O.o

I have 20 minutes left to live. Seriously.

I am going TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I'm also going to live to tell you about it.

I'm being all wacky right now, so I apologize for this weird post, but I'm debating over staying up 20 more minutes to start on my NaNo. I don't know how I could not! I did last year, and though the result wasn't my best writing, it's a nice head-start. Tomorrow will not be a good writing day. Homework + cleaning the house + packing for the party. And sleepover. Not good.

Oh well. Sunday shall be fun! More homework and hopefully time for NaNo. Prayer, guys. Lots of prayer.

I wish luck to all my fellow NaNoers!! This'll be super fun and I can't wait to try and do word wars with you all! XD (not sure how I can though, since I'll be doing most of my writing on my no-internet lappy) :(

Happy... trails to you?! XD I'm really out of it right now. so BYE!

God Bless!
~Shae

Did You Say NaNoWriMo?

WHAT? Nanowrimo's here already! Jeepers, it seems like yesterday I was staying up until 2 am typing away at my lappy. Time flies when you're ... doing school? XD

I believe it does. But it flies better when you have friends. :)

But anyway, I have 3 days left, and only little fragmented pieces of information on my novel. Can you say EEK?!?!?!

I'm not a planner. Especially when it comes to novels. You don't have to plan to be good, but... it would help. SO. Anyone who has any plot dares, I'd love to see them. But I'd better tell you the gist of my novel.

Contemporary fiction. NO MORE historical fiction! That was such a mistake... *headdesk* So this also means no research. YAY!

It's basically about normal teenagers (insert unknown subplot here) who find out they're the only ones who are frozen in time (when time freezes). LOL sorry if this is not making sense... I'm running low on time here. Anyways... time freezes and eventually they get transported into another world through a mirror. XD

So yeah. Go ahead and laugh. But let me tell you this, this novel will be the craziest, most insane novel you've ever seen. I am so not going to try and be serious this year. It's harder for me. =P

And just to let you know, these ideas have been in my head for YEARS and slowly they've been stolen by published authors, so I've had to compromise a bit. Bear with me.

Orchastra in... 10 minutes! *headdddesk* Spanish was cancelled, but mom decided to take me on her errands, so I really didn't gain any time at all.

Must go! God Bless!
~Shae

I Won!

Please don't scold me for not posting in so long! Not that you would...but...I was very busy writing. But before I tell you the good news I might as well speak of Indiana. All we did was shop, play videogames (Super Smash Brothers Melee! W00t!), watch movies (Master and Commander [W000000000t!] and My Fair Lady), and I wrote and I read. After buying Oliver Twist, I tried to finish that by this last Tuesday, but to no avail. It's a really good book, though.

I wrote mostly at night, when older cousins or parents weren't looking over my shoulder or bugging me(which usually was around 12pm-1am, after which Dad made me go to bed). I also had to work on my audition monologues, so that took time...but after days and days of researching, plot searching, and idea searching...I finally WON! With a final word count of 50,036 words on Tuesday, November 27, at 1am. I HAD to finish that day, for twas the day of auditions, but that's a whole 'nother story [check out my other blog ;)].

I wrote a few more words yesterday, bring my word count up to 50,155 to submit it to the NaNoWriMo website. Just to let you all know, though...My novel is nowhere NEAR being finished. In fact, it's probably only halfway written, not to mention all the editing I have to do. But now I can finally slow down and think! Wo0t!

So! My conclusion: The novel probably won't be touched in December, other than reading and a teensy- weensy bit of editing, for I'm fed up with it at the moment and still need waaaay more research.

Historical fiction was definately hard to do for NaNo, but I did it! And on my first attempt, too. This is my 2nd historical fiction novel. The other was also a thiller/fantasy that I co-authored with DuelDragon on DioM...It was short, and kind of...different, but fun to write with her. Anyways, I've decided I'll be writing fantasy for next year's novel and that is final! Or so I say now...Lol...;)

~A very exhausted Shadow

Day 20: Here in Indiana

Greetings from IN! We had a very long day in the car yesterday from 10:30am to 12pm our time. It's an hour later here. The bummer is that I wrote about 2,000 words in the car yesterday, once earlier in the day, and then another time at about 6. We stopped at a rest stop, so I saved, and shut off the laptop, but without selecting shut down or anything. Came back to write when we got to our relatives house and my story was completely gone. Good thing I have one of those..chip things. I forget what they're called. So at least 1,000 words that I was proud of got deleted. I recovered them, but I don't think they're as good.

I've written more and more about Josie's brothers in the Union army, but I need more research, as I have no idea where they're going at the moment. To get me in the mood though, I'm reading Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi about...heh, well, you can imagine what about.

I've finally planned a little, for tonight. I'm hoping to reach 35k before bed. Anyways, I'm excited to get writing, my laptop doesn't have internet. Wish me luck!

Moving Along...

The past two days have come through with two meager zeros. Thursday was South Heights and such, Friday was Chemistry, the PLAN test (yes, I did survive), and my orchastra concert. So, after coming home exhausted after all of that, Mom rented The Prestige for me to watch to get a good idea of a Cockney accent. (Christian Bale's role has an amazing British/Cockney one) I really liked it, though it was good in an eerie and confusing sort of way. I've never seen a movie like it, I can tell you that. I might watch it again tonight on the computer, if we don't get Amazing Grace. (Movie-watcher, aren't I? =D)

Ooh! I went to the library and got The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King soundtracks, along with the Titanic soundtrack. They're all amazing! Especially the Titanic since I've never heard most of the music before. I listen to them all the time now while writing, along with....

Amazing Grace the soundtrack! Mom and I went to Northwestern bookstore yesterday and bought it, even though we haven't seen the movie yet. It's amazing! I know I always say that, but it's true! I adore soundtracks. I almost like them better than music with lyrics, for writing especially.

So far today I've written a little more than 1,769 words. Ach, gotta go. Josh and Justin are over and they want to color...

Day Number Fourteen

I'm running out of title ideas lol.

Today I did all (most) of my school and then went to church tonight for the Thanksgiving dinner before writing. In fact, I planned on doing no writing today, just research, but I'm feeling behind! :oops:

So, a half an hour ago, I forced myself to write 750 words. I'm going to add 250, then call it a day. I need to go to sleep before midnight for once his week!

Why do I always begin my paragraphs with the word SO. I hate it! LOL

I'm going to go read the Last Sin-Eater before bed. G'night.

A Hectic, Tiring Day, But 25K!

((Hehe, that rhymes XD)) Boy, have I had a strange one. I'm just about ready to collapse, so I'll make it as brief as possible.

First, I went to Acting 2 at eleven. We played a game for the first time in weeks. Now, it was one of those games where you had to sit in chairs in a circle (only, for us, half the chairs were on the stage, half the chairs were three steps down on the floor), and say one thing that people would have in common. Ex: If you're wearing blue, stand up and switch chairs. Heh, yeah, you probably can see where this is going.

So anyways, Jesse and I are making a run for it down the stairs to the last empty chair. Well, since he's smaller and probably faster (:P), he reaches it first and I go plunging past - right smack- dab, headfirst into one of the wooden church pews, then sort of rolled on the floor. Everyone was completely shocked and were freaking out. I bet it was amusing to watch...LOL!

Carla thought I had a concussion and was asking how many fingers she was holding up and everyone else was either laughing or staring. Jesse got up and was like 'I'm sorry! You can have the chair!' I felt fine except for the pain on my head and was laughing and didn't think I needed ice. So we ended the game after one more turn and I was ready to start practicing our showcase when I reach up and feel the golfball size knot on the side of my head. :oops:

So....Jane got me ice and told me to quick lay down if I felt funny (without knocking my head on the pew, she said) and say 'something' to get her attention. I was fine, however, except my hand was cold from the ice. But we practiced our lines anyway while sitting there and I was okay for the rest of class.

And that was all before lunch! Lol...

After was flute lesson, which I got through, and then home(yay), then school pictures(ugh), then orchastra practice(double ugh). But I survived and my dad says my pupils look fine. Lol. I wonder if I'll be able to sleep on my right side tonight....

Also, Dad and Moe went to a Kutless concert without me, because of orchastra.

HAHA talk about brief! LOL! I think I'm tired, by now ya'll know I type really fast when I'm tired....ACK!

So, you probably want to hear about NANO, eh? Well, I forced myself and did it! I've reached 25k and I'm SO happy! And ahead...

Words written today: 1,448
Word Count: 25,123
Words to go: 24,877

Introducing...Who?

Ok, so I'm not even at 25k yet! *gasp* I planned to be there around Saturday or Sunday, but alas, 'twil have to wait until tomorrow, at the earliest.

I resolved to finish my school before I started to write...But that turned out to be not such a good idea. I procastinated on schoolwork and played with the cat until it was late and I hadn't finished what I wanted to. Then Mom suddenly says that if I want to watch Gods and Generals, we have to leave right after supper to go watch it with Hannah. So, that's what I did instead of homework. I did get some important things done today though, excluding Geometry. Ach, I planned on doing that after supper....<_<

Gods and Generals was very, very long, but it was also good. It was a lot different than I imagined the overall movie to be, but I loved how Jackson was a Christian, and that there was so much praying, etc, in it, though the end was quite sad. We watching it for free on the internet through Netflix, so it was really choppy. <_< I had to teach myself to ignore it after the first hour...LOL!

Aha! I've finally introduced my antagonist in my NaNo. Took me quite a while, but I hadn't really had him developed until now. I think now is when the story gets really exciting. I can't wait to write more! I don't, however, have any idea what my main antagonist's name is. I know his accomplices, or at least part of it - Edward, but I don't know anything else. Lol. *head to desk* I really need to get more organized.

The other thing that's slowing my down is research and that I don't have enough. Ack, I think I'll work on that more tomorrow, along with my history, so I can hurry up and get to the Civil War chapter. =D

Heh, it's past midnight, so I guess technically it's Tuesday now. According to mom, we're getting our pictures taken before orchastra, and I wasn't told until today. *harumphs* With those two things, along with Acting class and a flute lesson, I won't get time to anything. Oh well, I shall try....

*panics* This may be random but the PLAN test and my orchastra concert are on Friday! Gaspers. I'm really dreading that day, I hate Fridays.