unexpected in november

i've been feeling apathetic towards the whole thing and made a big mistake and skipped yesterday. so now i'm behind. i need to go to a write-in soon to help recharge my batteries, but being sick has killed my "weekend" and my illness makes me not want to travel on the bus at all.

i almost just said "fuck it" today and just quit entirely, but instead i kept with it and i'm glad i did.

hit a snag yesterday due to illness (a virus in my eustacian tube) and only wrote about 200 words. so today was catchup, but now i'm right on track.

good day today. hit a bit of a snag when i wasn't quite sure the outcome of a situation, but with the help of friends i've worked this out.

i also suffered a bit of a handicap today as i sliced through my first and middle left fingers pretty generously while chopping salad yesterday (yeah stupid me) and those fingers are covered in medical tape.

i promise i'll post chapters when i reach a good point to end the first chapter.

great day today! someone completely unexpected ended up showing up right off, though i think it will really work.

script frenzy was a bust. then again, i attempted nano 2 years in a row before making a success of it, and this july was a ridiculously difficult time of my life.

it doesn't seem like nearly a year has passed since i dusted off this journal and began my monthly ascent into groupmadness. i have literally gained and lost a lifetime, it has been profoundly painful, but i have learned. learning is what you do when you are my age. i did not do this learning in college. i did this learning through the school of the hell of other people. profound, right?

torreybird and tatterdamelion, for whatever silly reason i never did add you to my "IRL" journal. it's alienchrist and i'm doing that now.

nostalgia is sort of gutting me right now. this place naturally will be filled with writing in the future.

ps. oh right, i was going to say something about my story. it's called the golden land, and i'm very excited.

2,049 / 20,000 (10.2%)

i'm so behind. i worked really hard these last few days and had no time for work. today i just felt sluggish, but at least i put a dent in this thing.

i'm starting to wonder if i have enough ideas to even make this work...

832 / 20,000 (4.2%)

it has begun!

writing a script is hard. i knew it would be, but i didn't think it would be this hard. i can't wait until i'm a few days in and a little more used to it, because i'm really excited about my story.

the script is called "Family." since it's kind of a dark comedy with strange gender themes, the previous titles i'd thought of ("The Boy Who Was A Girl" and "My Sister Jake") didn't quite fit. this is nice and vague and should confuse the hell out of people.

i have a major factor working against me for the first few days. having broken up with my girlfriend and moved out of our north seattle apartment and back home with my parents quite suddenly, i'm left with a 2 hour bus ride to my shitty job for the next two weeks, and with 8 hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday, i'll basically be leaving in the morning and getting home around ten or eleven at night, where i likely will be too tired to write. however, i've been taken off as many shifts as my boss could get me covered, and will have a lot of free time in the ensuing weeks, and i will be taking off the rest of the month.

i'm really bummed about not living in Seattle anymore, and hope i can still make out to a few write-ins or at least the TGIO party, should there be one. maybe if it runs late i can crash with someone...

i need a more summery icon for Script Frenzy. hmm.

http://scriptfrenzy.org

doing this. who's with me?

http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/user/40602

profile!

i'm considering revamping my novel from last year, or even the year before. would that be cheating?

looks like they want only original scripts. hmm.

i'd almost do what i intended for november but i think that honestly will be better as a book.

x posted to alienchrist

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i won!!!

today i completely realized this would work better as a screenplay or a graphic novel, but, at least i have something to work from when i start making this into a script.  insanitykun suggested i kidnap Sofia Coppola at gunpiont and make her direct it.  because my story of gay, crossdressing, underaged foreigners in Japan is definitely what the audiences of the world are waiting for.

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i'm really bummed because i missed my usual write-in at the Wayward Cafe due to the buses running badly in the huuuge amount of snow we've suddenly got. :/ torreybird, i'll be sure to give you your powercord back at the TGIO party or the karaoke party, ok?

i went to the Starbuck's down the street instead, and had my own mini write-in with George, my plush duck. i'm really happy with the book again, too bad the middle kind of sucks.

the snow is going to be a great inspiration too. Raven, who's from Seattle, will definitely be thrilled by the snowfall in Tokyo or Muroran, wherever he ends up. :D

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i actually wrote all of the passages of this wordcount out of order.  it was surprisingly effective and fun.

40,017 / 50,000 (80.0%)

so, as you can see, i haven't written for the last few days.  preparing for Thanksgiving beat the hell out of me, then i worked Thanksgiving and after eating and doing dishes felt inclined to do nothing more but sleep, then the next day i went downtown right after work, braving the crowds of Black Friday and the Westlake Tree-Lighting to go see Black Label Society at the Moore with my roommate.  didn't get back until after one, so there went that day.  i also feel pretty sore and crappy after all of that, but i forced out the correct amount of words, and have even stopped utterly hating my novel again.  now if i just write 2k a day i'll be set.

37,625 / 50,000 (75.3%)

went to the write-in at Cupcake Royale in Ballard.  it was pretty fun, but in general i think my crew and the setting at Wayward is far more where i am at.  take that, Ballard. D:

i did win the two word wars, which is where everyone types for 10 minutes straight and competes, whoever writes the most wins.  i got 580 the first time and 540 the second.  my prize?  a miniature plot ninja.

today was very stormy.  there was thunder and hail.  word on the street is Seattle's on its way towards breaking the record of most consecutive days of rain in a row-- again.

Chapter 11 is absolute shit,  by the way.  i'd tell everyone not to read it, unfortunately it furthers the plot.

34,587 / 50,000 (69.2%)

Mondays are always excellent for me because i go to the Wayward Cafe write-in and it's great fun.  it also makes me convinced i am at Exactly The Right Age-- moved out of parents, financially responsible, but not worried about children or retirement (though, um, fuck, i should have a plan i suppose?)  i'm going to miss getting together.  also, venti eggnog lattes with no milk are almost sickeningly rich, yet they are made of win.

Chapter 11 is utter shit so far.  you know now, you've been warned.

i'm going to pretend i'm Dorrie now:

just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing writing writing!  what do we do?  we write!

/Finding Nemo

i kind of regret taking a few days off, now i'm no longer egregriously ahead.

my socks are wet, i should change them.

32,503 / 50,000 (65.0%)

took a short break over the weekend to visit my aunt on Whidbey Island.  back on track now, though.

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it's been storming awfully today, and i had to go out and pick up a friend from the train station today.  sometimes being metro-bound really sucks.

27,009 / 50,000 (54.0%)

oh dear lord writing today was next to impossible.  i wrote less than 1k.  i hate myself.