Inspirational Dreams -- NaNoWriMo 2008

Happy Be-Earlied Birthday, Creamy! <3

2008-12-15T04:02:00.000-08:00

Yeah, since I'm leaving soon [see leaving thread in intro board for details - I know, intro board, wtf?] and don't know exactly when I'll be able to get on the computer to give her this - I'm not taking the risk of getting it to her late by giving it to her weeks and weeks early! 8D

See here or here to read it. And if you do, please comment! ^^

I loves you, Creamsquish. <3

STOP YELLING. I HATE IT.

2008-12-14T06:48:00.000-08:00

-fumes-

My dad was yelling at my mom last night...So I wrote a poem about it. Either go here for the thread with the poem and a rant explaining it underneath....or here for just the poem. Or here if you prefer deviantART.

Thanks to everyone who read my She Falls Asleep piece. =3

She Falls Asleep

2008-12-13T05:31:00.001-08:00

Whoa, I've finally started writing again. This time - I've been inspired by a song: "She Falls Asleep" by McFly. It's about a girl committing suicide.

Either go here or here to view it. ^^

Note - I am not suicidal. Any emotions and actions in here do not correspond to my feelings whatsoever. So, don't get your head all in a tizzy.

Where do I go now?

2008-11-29T12:14:00.000-08:00

At this point, I have finished my whole entire first draft at 55,553 words. This month has passed so quickly, and I thank NaNoWriMo a lot for that.

Because last November, Force left for Thailand, and I went through a pretty unhappy period of time. With NaNo's help this year, I got through my unhappy phase quite quickly when Force went to Thailand, and my views were put more in perspective as I wrote of my characters' problems.

Before I continue on, I'd like to address a ton of thanks to everyone that has helped me through this event or has made this event possible.

I thank Chris Baty for developing this wonderful idea, I thank all who have donated to NaNoWriMo to keep it running, I thank all the other participants (past or present) that have helped keep this event alive, and I thank anyone who helps/helped in organizing and establishing this event.

But also, I thank Ww for introducing the event to me, and really showing myself - I can be a writer, and I can like writing. I have always liked writing and have been pretty good at it, but I never really adored it or enjoyed it like I do now. I disliked writing class with a passion (I guess mostly cause we were writing essays, but no matter) and I would have never even thought of ever joining anything that has to do with writing.

I started doing NaNo last year, but could not continue. But this year, I sailed right through it. I have grown to love writing so much and the joy it brings. I am in Writing Club, and a proud member of it. I love Composition Seminar (a writing class) and dread the day when we will have to move on to Computers (not that I hate computers, I love it [even if I know everything already], but I would hate to leave the CompSem class).

But most of all, I thank my friends for supporting me and not thinking me crazy (and even if they did, they kept it to themselves). They agreed to read my novel, and one best friend, Force, has even agreed to editing it. To have such a great writer help edit my novel is truly a great honor for me. I thank him for being my number one supporter, as well as Creamy who supported me a whole lot as well - also Windy, Bookie, Silvee, Squirrel, Allaire and so many others on Ww. Thank you Bookie for being my number one blog-follower, and for putting that idea in my mind from the start! You've been a great friend, and I'm glad NaNoWriMo has brought us closer. I thank my frineds a great deal for encouraging me, or I may never have finished.

Now - where do I go from here? What will I do with my writing, and will I continue even though NaNoWriMo is over (we still have 2 more days, but since I've finished, it's pretty much over for me)?

First off, I will be uploading my novel up on nanowrimo.org for print (which is why I am hurriedly editing right now, so that my printed will be some good work - I hope we get at least a week or more for that though). And I will be giving my work to my friends to read and so on.

But will I continue? I believe I will. I think, after editing my novel and such - I will try on another novel. I will not write as feverishly and try to get it all done in one month (with 50,000 words or more to boot) but I will continue writing. I will edit my current novel throughout December, and once that is finished, I will work on developing a new idea. I wrote medieval fantasy last time, I might try a fanfiction next, or a realistic fiction, or a science fiction - who knows? Only time will tell. But I can certainly say - I will continue writing.

My parents have told me not to do NaNoWriMo next year, that I need to focus more on my studies. BAH. I will most definitely do it anyway.

But what about from here 'til then? I think I will start off the New Year by writing another novel? I don't have any ideas in mind, but I know that will come to me in time. I might write short stories, but those aren't as fun as novels, I have found.

This blog will not be updated and revived until next year, though. Under this name, of course. Since I will be continuing to write, I will change the title at the end of the month into A Writer's Dreams, to flow with the root title - Inspirational Dreams. What do you all think of that title? =D

And I will continue to update this blog with information about how I'm doing with novels and writing, and such. So, please do not abandon it on December 1st, never to look at it again - I will most likely be updating. ^^ I believe I will host up a Freewebs site, sharing any short stories or poems I write, too. I will think on that one.

Thank you for watching my blog throughout this November (and I hope you all continue to do so)! And thank you for supporting me through NaNoWriMo!

For those people who have won - Go you! I congratulate you very much! And I hope you continue to write like I have decided as well!

For those people who haven't - Continue, continue, continue! Don't stop! And even if you're nowhere near 50,000 words and know you will not make it - still continue to write whenever you can. And I hope you will all continue writing it into December to finish it, for stopping in the middle would be such a shame.

For everyone - NaNo's been a pleasure, more so than a stress-enducer. I hope we come together again next year to write a novel again!

I will no longer just say "Happy NaNoing", I will say "Happy Writing"

So, Happy Writing everyone! =D

VICTORY IS MINEMINEMINE!

2008-11-24T14:40:00.000-08:00

I WIN I WIN I WIN

I feel like I just won the lottery. XD

Really. I HAVE 50,328 words!!!!

I WIN I WIN I WIN I WIN I WIN.

I just have a conclusion to write, which will take up a few thousand words, but I will most likely be adding a lot when I go back and edit. [ESPECIALLY having FORCE as my editor...GRAH. He pretty much added 1,500 words in comments to my 750-word prologue]

BUT. I'm just so happy that I WIN I WIN I WIN.

-does the Ripple happy dance that no one else can master- WAHOO!

I apologize for the craziness in this post. My next post tomorrow or something will probably be discussing what I will be doing next with writing. But today, I just want to celebrate. =3

HAPPY NANOING!

THE END IS NEAR.

2008-11-23T11:19:00.000-08:00

It is November 27th. We have one more week to write our NaNo novels.

WILL WE DO IT?

I bet I will.

I have 48,011 words! My goal right now is not to reach 50,000 words, but to completely finish my story - and with time to spare to read it all over and edit. [plus, Force is gonna be editing my NaNo (that means a month of editing, considering his skills as a beta]. I wonder how long we will have to upload our novels to get it printed, because if I have to upload it on Dec 1, the novel won't be that great, because it still needs a lot of editing. And I don't want it printed as an unedited version. -frown-

I don't have much left of my story to write, but I still have one big scene to write [the climax =o], and the little conclusion to wrap it all up. Hopefully, I will be able to do that. =3

...HAPPY NANOING! XD

Whoooohoooo!

2008-11-16T08:30:00.000-08:00

YEAH!

Yesterday, I didn't get to write much at all - at least for the first 3/4 of the day [actually, even more]. I had two Chinese tests back to back during Chinese school [so basically, my whole three hours spent there was tests, tests, tests x3], so I didn't get to work on my NaNo. And when I came back, I just wanted to have a good rest. XD So I wandered around making graphics, talking to people, etc.

But just last night, from around 10:30/11:00 to 12:00, I wrote, wrote, wrote after I got to my mom's house. My mom doesn't have a router, so I could only use a LAN connection if I wanted to go on the internet. And she didn't let me. She said I could write my novel, but I couldn't go on the 'net. At first I was kinda POed, but I thank her now. I got 3,020 words done that night. That's the fastest I've ever written!

And that ended my total of that night with - 38,127 words!

At this point, I am at a total of 39,543 words. I need to eat lunch now, but because my mom is awesome, I will be eating while I write, and I will hopefully be able to get a lot more done before I have to go back home. [and once I get back there, I really need to finish up my poster and my LAR HW XD]

Again - Happy NaNoing, and I hope that everyone has passed the halfway mark! <3

Crappy Day Outside...

2008-11-13T13:01:00.001-08:00

It is a very crappy day outside here. It has been dark and gloomy since noon. And even before that, it was quite cloudy. Bad day.

But I just had four pieces of candy at Writing Club. So I think I'm good to go.

Yesterday, a dear friend of mine left to go to a country on the other side of the world until early May. I will still be able to talk to said friend, but the distance just saddens me. Plus, that friend will be having a hard time over there because of...some things. I don't think they should be revealed though, since they might be a little bit more personal to my friend.

So, I was really...gloomy the first half of the week, especially Monday and Wednesday. But then, Schemes cheered me up in an interesting "pep talk" session. One minute I wanted to say, "Go away and leave me alone, b****." The next, we're laughing with each other, and I was actually happy.

Now, let's get back on topic. o.o;

I have surpassed 31,000 words already! I don't know how much exactly, because I have some to type up, and I will be writing more later when I switch over to the word processing computer. [Yes, I'm at the library again]. But first, I have to do stupid Math Reflections. Seriously, it's MATH, we're not supposed to be writing paragraphs upon paragraphs explaining things. ;___; I don't like the curriculum at my new school, and the teacher I despise even more.

Happy NaNoing! 8D

Wow...

2008-11-10T14:56:00.000-08:00

I feel so awesome. It's hilarious. Especially cause I'm having a really bad day, and I'm supposed to be all depressed, but right now, I feel weirdly awesome. But still sad. Does that make much sense?

Anyway, I reached 25K last night, at the very last minute. My goal was to reach 25K as of last night, and I got really distracted, so I was in no mood at all for writing. So, at 9:30, my dad called, telling me to get off the computer and get ready to go to sleep. I had about 24,300 at that point. So I stalled, and typed frantically, finally getting 25,096 by the time I turned off the computer. I don't know what time it was then, probably something like 9:40 or 9:45.

Then, today, at school, I wrote a couple hundred words...And here I am, in the library. I was just as the word processing computer, and I finished the other half of chapter fifteen [gosh, that was quite a chapter, I wonder what the word count of it is], and I typed up a whole 'nother chapter sixteen [which is kinda short, but whatever].

You're probably dying to know the total, right right right? Of course you are. ;D

My total as of now, the 10th day is, 27,538 words! I feel so accomplished, knowing I'm more than half of the way there, only on the 10th day. Yet I'm still sad, from what happened yesterday. It's an odd mix of feelings, but I accept it. -shrug-

And I end again with my motto for the month [except now, it might be "Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be" <-- Abraham Lincoln] - Happy NaNoing!

Ahhh, two days of falling behind doesn't feel good

2008-11-06T06:57:00.000-08:00

No, it doesn't. I wrote 1,185 words on Tues and 1,418 words on Wed. ;_; Mostly because I had a lot to type into the computer from Mon...

But fortunately, I have no school until next Monday! That means a lot of time to catch up on my NaNo!

And now I am going to randomly tell you about my almost-sleepless night!

Last night, my family and I were watching this.....Well, it's hard to explain. In China, we have movies, but we usually like watching this...It's almost like a TV series, but it's actually one loooong movie, broken into 20-30 (sometimes 10+ or 40+) segments of about 35-50 minutes long. We watched from 9:45 or so to 2 AM in the morning. XD

And then, I stayed up until 3:40 reading. I might've stayed up the whole night (or maybe at least 4, which is what I made myself believe, even though I had told myself 3:00 when it was 2:30) if it weren't for the noises I thought I heard outside. I thought I heard someone walking around, maybe my great-aunt going to the bathroom, so I quickly closed the lights and went to bed. It turned out it was the wind and the leaves rustling up against the house, but I decided that I should probably go to bed.

And then I woke up around 7...and yet I did not feel much tired at all. (I got woken up by my mom ringing the doorbell, and I got up and answered the door. Funny thing was, she was all, "...Why aren't you going to school? Why are you still in your pajamas at 7 (I think it was more like 7:30) in the morning?") And now it is 10:02, and still, not tired at all. I think that you can see that I am obviously a night person. =D

After eating breakfast, I rustled up another 1,000+ words or so, I don't know yet, because I didn't count. It's chapter eleven, but I'm not quite finished yet. It was interesting writing this chapter....there was a makeout scene. -laughs- No, nothing that bad. Get your heads out of the gutter! 8D

It was weird, cause Laurynne's usually such a cold (not mean, just...unfeeling), emotionless person. Then writing her making out...But I knew I had to do it sooner or later, so I decided to get the first time over with, so it would be easier from then on. XD And no, my action-filled story will not turn into a stupid romance. Of course there will be heartache and drama in that direction, but I haven't started to touch on the second part of this story yet, and I assure you, that's a lot more suspenseful. Though...a romance isn't that bad, is it? D=

So, I ended last night with 16,374 words, and as I have said before, I have another 1,000+ words to add in, and a chapter to finish. I must go do other things right now, but upon Bookie's request, I decided to finally get this blog updated. ^^

Oh, and that reminds me! Bookie has renovated The Evening Hoot with a new layout (which is beautiful, by the way, and very appropriate for the season) and a lot of new things! There's a shoutbox (basically used for chatting), and an email subscription! That way, every time there is a new post, you will be informed in your email (and if I remember correctly...you will receive a copy of the blog entry in your email, as you? <-- Bookie, will you verify?) I'm sure there are a lot more things, but I definitely can't remember them all.

So I suggest you all check it out! =D

Well, um....maybe not anymore?

2008-11-03T16:42:00.000-08:00

I'm definitely not angry anymore. XD I finally went over there and told him to hurry up (politely, of course -is an angel-), and he hurried up all right. I stole the computer the moment he left, and I typed up one whole chapter (chapter eight!), and have part of chapter nine typed out. Right now I'm in the process of typing up chapter seven from my notebook, then typing up eight, and the part of nine I had already written. I don't even know if I'll be able to finish typing these chapters in, but I'm in a good place anyway.

Right now, my total is 13,771 words, and my NaNo report card says I am 27.5% of the way there! It says I'd be estimated to finish on November 13th, but I doubt that. My word count total for the day has been declining, but it'll probably pick back up on Thurs and Fri (when I have no school off due to the NJEA convention! Yes, you may come and stalk me now), and on the weekends. ^^

Happy NaNoing!

Someone is VERY angry

2008-11-03T14:02:00.000-08:00

Yes, that someone would be me. I'm at a library comptuer, desperate to work on my NaNoWriMo, right? The word processing computer is being hogged by this IDIOT, that keeps on stopping and coming to talk to his friend. I heard him say he's halfway done, and at the rate he's going, it'll take about an hour. And by that time, I'll probably be leaving. I have 11,168 words thus far, with some words typed on the word processing computer at the library, saved.

And can you believe that the computer doesn't have a USB port? So I'm forced to print it out, and then retype it into my computer back at home. Argh.

I got little time to write during the school today, but surprisingly, I got 1,000 words. Most of that was done this morning though. I woke up at 5 AM, and wrote from 6 to 7, with a lot of interruption in between. x3 I had to lie to my great-aunt and say that I forgot to turn my own clock back, so I thought it was 6 (which is a complete lie, because I very well knew it was 5).

I think I'm going to have to be more sneaky about it though, write from 5 to 6:15, then go and eat breakfast, then come back and write some more until 7, when I have to start getting my stuff and heading out the door (I must be out of the house by 7:05 or 7:10).

So, today isn't going to be very productive. And what I would really like to do right now is go over there and kick the kid's butt and tell him to get a move on. Or I could just ask politely for him to hurry up, but I doubt he'd listen to me. I am very ticked. 8D Plus, I want to be able to have time to at least print out what I had typed a little bit on the computer before I had to go do something else.

HE JUST CAME OVER AGAIN. Okay, excuse me, I'm going to go give him a good lecture now.

The Rush of Day Two Comes to an End?

2008-11-02T17:35:00.000-08:00

Is it over? I don't wish it to be. However, my aunt-ish (grandma's sister's daughter) from China IMed me, and I promised her I would talk to her later (once I had completed 10,000 words).

Now I have 10,037 (-happyhappy-) words, and I must go talk to her now...Which will probably be drawing Day Two to a close. I might be able to sneak in a few hundred more words, but that might not be possible.

However, waking up at 5 AM tomorrow seems like a very likely possibility, as I ruin my health this wonderful month of November. 8D

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Oh wait! My great-aunt is talking with her on the phone now, so I don't need to IM her anymore! >D

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I have prologue to chapter six completely finished...I'm going to start tomorrow morning with an exciting chapter -- a battle! (dun dun dun dun...)

Excerpt...anyone?

2008-11-02T12:59:00.000-08:00

Okay, maybe asking you to read my whole novel (in the making...) is too much. So I'm going to bang an excerpt into your heads! I tried to find my favorite part of the novel so far, and so I'll post it right here (warning: it's kind of misleading, in many ways, not just the most obvious);

But by now, I was not fighting anymore for my survival. Rather, I was just satisfied that I had actually tried. I had tried pursuing my dream, even if I would now perish. Death seemed to follow right behind me, only a step behind me, and if I went astray just a bit, it would pull me into its grasp, and lead me into eternal darkness. And now, only a small bit of me did not welcome it. It would be better than this blinding sunlight, this burning heat, it seemed. Cold darkness would be better than this forsaken place. And as I trekked the sizzling landscape, my heart was cold and dark. Only one small part of it still burned, still reminded me of my purpose.

Then, one day, the Angel of Death completely took over me. Nothing left in me wanted to go on, and I succumbed to the angel’s demands. I sat down, casting my packs on the ground, far from my reach. I curled up in a ball, and lay there. I was extremely hungry, and my throat was the driest it had ever been. My skin burned, but I myself was frozen. I thought of nothing; my mind was blank. Nothing could draw on my thoughts now, as death lingered ever so near, just a few inches away.

Good, bad, suspenseful, boring?

Day Two -- The day where we sit and think if we should stop

2008-11-02T07:17:00.000-08:00

For a lot of people, the NaNo rush has ended by day two, and most of us have thought to ourselves, Umm....what do I write now?, or Crap, my plot doesn't work at all, so now I have to change it!

But I'm not one of them! I originally wanted to wake up at 6 this morning, but my mom was lurking around the room, so I had to go back to sleep. Then, I woke up around 7:30. I grabbed my notebook from the side of my bed, and continued writing chapter three of my NaNo. I had stopped writing the night before around 1 AM, when I had became too tired to continue. Thus, I carried on feverishly!

By the time my rush had paused, I had the other half of chapter three completed, and about 1/3 of chapter four. Then, completely ignoring my mom, I unplugged her laptop, plugged in mine and started typing what I had written in my notebook into my laptop. Then, I completed chapter four.

Now, my grand total is 7,169 words. And I still got a lot of writing time ahead of me!

Unfortunately, I have homework to finish, and a project to complete, so that might take up a lot of my afternoon. I have a quiz on Monday and another one on Wednesday, but who really cares about studying? ;D

But the moment I am finished with all that, I will type/write and type/write and type/write!

If you would like to read my story, just go over to the side of the blog, and click on: "My NaNoWriMo". It will lead you to a link on Warrior's Wish, where all of my chapters have been posted.

And while you're at it, check out Bookie's blog! Not only does he host a wonderful site about Guardians of Ga'Hoole (which I have unfortunately only read the first book of, so I need to stay away from those sections for the time being), but he also has a wonderful section about his NaNoWriMo. His blog posts are detailed and humorous, and I highly suggest you check it out!

Happy NaNoing! Hats off to whoever's trying, and hats off to whoever is just there to give support to their friends!

Ahhh, the sweet smell of novel writing!

2008-11-01T13:11:00.001-07:00

Ah, the madness has begun! Finally, the day writers around the world has finally come, November 1st! Not only is it the start of November (a durrr), it announces the start of NaNoWriMo. I am only one among many that is participating in this insane event.

This morning, I woke up at 6:30 because I could not stay up until midnight last night to write my first word at the strike of 12. Yes, you heard me right, 6:30. I wrote from 6:50 until 7:54, finished with a prologue, with a total of 745 words.

Then, I had to get ready for Chinese school, but after the art class, I paid almost no attention to the teacher during LA, and just wrote almost the whole time between 10:20 to 12:20. I finished one more chapter, bringing the grand total to 1795. I plan to write more this afternoon and tonight, my goal is 3,000-4,000.

.EDIT Whoopity doo dah! -jumps for joy- I slaved away over Chapter Two, and I came up with a grand total of 5,072 words! Whoopity dee!

You can read my novel here --- .all i've ever known