Another Day...

Well, another day has flown by with absolutely no words typed... When I came back from New York, I sat down to play WoW (World of Warcraft) for an hour, and stayed on all night, and all of that fun stuff. My goal right now is to reach level 55, which I am close to, so that once December rolls around and I can finally buy the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack, I will be able to create a Death Knight. My main character, Furuyahitomi (Furu or Tomi for short), is my highest level character, only at 54, and I've been playing the game for nearly 3 years... Kind of sad if you ask me... But, a group of us are planning to run an instance this afternoon, so hopefully I'll be able to get Furu's level up to 55 tonight. That would be wonderful, and it would mean I could DEFINITELY put off playing WoW until December! Of course, that's not likely to happen...

So, Talathieloffered a sort of Word War in a comment to my last blog post, and, I gladly accept! It will help make me focus on my writing, and will give me that extra push to write more words! So, what's say, tomorrow morning, soon as we wake up (Or midnight if we're up at that time tonight) we start the Word War, and go until, umn, 7 or 8 Sunday night, that was we won't be pushing the envelope on not getting enough sleep. How does that sound? And if anyone else reads this, which I doubt, but that's okay, if you want to participate too, that would be awesome! Of course, I'm prolly just talking to myself about anyone else joining in on the Word War, but, hey, a girl can dream!

So, I'm off to go get ready for my instance, and then it's time to sell stuff on ebay to try to get some money for the New England Fan Experience Convention going on over in Cambridge, MA next weekend. Yay for NEFE! Check ya later! Happy Writing!

~Pen
Too Lazy To Check Her Word Count...

So Far Behind...

So, I'm back to Mass after a 4-day break to visit family and friends back in NY, and I'm behind in my word count like you wouldn't believe... And I feel terrible that I wasn't able to ever get a hold of Talathiel to help her out... But I'm back, and I'm hoping to get right back into the game! So, now I'm off to get back to writing. And, if people need me, my AIM is PegasusDagger, MSN Messenger is Pen3Inch@hotmail.com, and Yahoo is Jeagan7. Happy writing. ^_^

~Pen
7691 Words... Still...

Nerdcore Rising

So, once again I'm a ways behind on my word count. But I'm still not giving up! Actually, I'm rather inspired right now to write, but I wanted to get this Nercore Rising thing out of my head and somewhere where I could look back on it.

So, what is Nerdcore, you may ask? Well, it's more well known as Nerdcore Hip Hop. Yes, that's right. Hip Hop. That means Rap. Rapping about nerdy things. It's awesome! Now, I'll admit, Rap is not one of my favorite kinds of music. And I do not mean to sound racist in this statement, because believe me, I'm in no way racist, but a bunch of black people say words really fast about sex, drugs, violence, and the ocasional 'I miss you'? It's not exactly my cup of tea. But plug in a couple of 30+ year old white guys, turn the lyrics into things like 'Ralph Macchio' (That guy that played Daniel in The Karate Kid), and just totally rock out, that's the sweet nectar of life, baby! Okay, well, maybe not, but it's still pretty flipping awesome! It was my first Nerdcore experience, and I think I might actually really get into the music. Actually, I'm going to contact one of the artists, MC Lars or YT Cracker, and see if I might be able to put a few of his lyrics into my novel. Just a few, like someone could be singing a line or three out loud or something. Good way to boost word count!

So, the artists had been Worm Quartet, YT Cracker, MC Lars, and MC Frontalot. I recomend, even if you don't like rap, to go check them out. Worm Quartet isn't really rap I don't think, but he is flipping hillarious!

Okay, so I had better get back to writing... I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to get done this weekend, as I'm going back to New York, again, tomorrow and staying till Tuesday, and will prolly be spending time with friends instead of writing, as I usually only get to see them once a month. Hope everyone else has a wonderful day and keeps up well with their word count!

~Pen
7,691 Words.

Another Wasted Day...

So, yesterday I wrote about 800 words, instead of the 1,667 it is required to keep up with the daily word count... Hopefully today I'll be able to get some more done, and catch up a bit. I sure hope so... Honestly, this is the farthest I've ever gotten in NaNo, and I don't want to give up now! Even if I don't finish the novel, which I highly doubt I will anyways, I want to reach the 50,000 words! I mean, I'm the kind of person who has said time and time again that when I grow up, I want to be an author, and I've never actually written a book! I mean, yeah, the one or two page little short stories for school, that's no problem. But this is different. I want to make an impact in the world!

So, after I post this, until about 4:00pm, I'm not doing anything but writing! I'd go till 4:30, when I have to leave to pick up my boyfriend, but I have to make dinner for us first to eat in the car because we're going to a concert in Albany featuring Worm Quartet, MC Lars, MC Frontalot, and YT Cracker. I'm only going for Worm Quartet, but I guess my boyfriend likes them all. I've only ever head Worm Quartet. Anyways! So yeah, nothing but working on the novel till 4!

I hope those who read this that are participating in NaNoWriMo are doing well on their writing! Best of luck to everyone!

~Pen
6,201 Words

Close of Day Three.

So, I'm making this one quick cause I'm tired and my neck and shoulders hurt... Just got back from a Write-In, which was fun. Hope everyone enjoyed their third day.

~Pen
5319 Word.

Partially into the Third Day.

So, after my post earlier this morning, I sat down and decided to get some more writing done. And, since then, I've written about 2,200 words. I'd say that's pretty darn good, considering I have problems with focusing on things. Of course, I'm supposed to have about 5,000 words down by the end of the night... Who knows, maybe this write-in tonight in Hadley will help. I hope so.

Oh, and sorry about bitching earlier. I was really upset. Nothing has been going good for me lately it seems. But this weekend I'm going to NY, and will probably go cash in those bonds I have saved up, so I'll have some spare cash. I know that sounds really stupid, but I still don't have a job, and am completely broke, and need to find some way to keep living. I think I might maybe have about 1K in bonds, so that should hopefully last me through the rest of the month. Here's hoping.

~Pen
3,008 Words

Reconsidering...

Well, yesterday was Hell in a Hand Basket... I thought trying to participate in NaNoWriMo was tough in past years, what with School and Work and having to deal with Family. But no. This year I'm stuck with a guild who decides to eat me alive the second I decide to finally fucking stand up and speak out, and a boyfriend who has to do what he wants to do when he wants to do it. If he wants to watch Doctor Who, we both have to be in the living room, right that second, both watching it. To fucking hell if I've just gotten the best freaking idea for my book known to man! And if he wants to use the computer, I have to drop everything and get up and go somewhere else. Nevermind the fact that my laptop is on the fritz and doesn't like to charge correctly, so I have maybe an hour's worth of battery time on it. I'm starting to think it was a bad idea to sign up for NaNo... I mean, I got prolly less that 100 words written yesterday! I was supposed to have 3,331 words by last night! I'm so screwed...

~Pen
737 Words...

All Up Hill From Here.

So, here we are, just after the close of Day One of National Novel Writing Month (Or NaNoWriMo, but you get more words for spelling it out.) and I'm already about, oh, a thousand words behind... Yep... But, I'm not all to worried. I think my main problem today was that I was to meet up with some people out in Amherst, and that's about, oh, 40 minutes away from me, and I had never been there, so I was really nervous and really anxious, and kept looking at the clock to count down the time to leave to go to the little "Kick Off Party" and yeah... But I got a few paragraphs done, and I know some people haven't even started yet. I'm still trying to talk my boyfriend into participating.

I'm not going to make this a long post, as it's after midnight and I don't enjoy having my boyfriend go to bed without me. so it's off to lay my head down, and hopefully get some inspiration or vague ideas from my dreams. Good luck to everyone else out there in NaNo-Land!

~Pen