May 23rd, 2007

So, this is me starting another blog. I will probably write in it like twice and then forget about it, but oh well. I can hope.

At the moment, I am uber excited about WriDay on Saturday. I think I might have a premise for my crazy and pointless novel. It might start out being about a weird old cat lady and her weird cats. I'll call it Cat Lady Insurance. Yeah, I'm in Personal Finance right now and have insurance on the brain. This is going to be interesting.

May 26th, 2007

One note to add: This blog might be weird, but I don't really know. I don't have experience with blogs, but I think most of them are organized in reverse chronological order (with the newest entry at the top), but that doesn't make sense to me. Mine is going to have newer entries at the bottom, older ones at the top. So the page doesn't get too long, I'll delete the entries and start anew every month.

Anyway, on to the actual writing portion! I've made some last-minute changes to my WriDay story. Firstly, the cat lady has a name! It's Kaori. Also, she is being reduced in age. I figure romance is a good filler (which I'll need plenty of if I'm going to reach 50k in 24 hours!) and that just isn't really in the cards for an older person. She's still a cat lady, though! I'm thinking that will come in in this way: a door-to-door insurance salesman comes calling and somehow they fall in love... Yeah. I'm not good at planning these kinds of things ahead of time.

Also, I downloaded the awesome free scriptwriting program Celtx to use for Script Frenzy. It has everything from character and script sheets to actor info and shooting locations, not to mention the script itself. It auto-formats everything for you - in movie or stage play form! It's certainly going to make June a lot easier for me. I recommend that anyone who wants to write a script try it - remember, it's completely free!!!

May 29th, 2007

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do WriDay on Saturday. Poo! I ended up staying up late, sleeping in, mowing, and then playing with Celtx for the rest of the day. I did get a good chunk done on the script I'm playing around with for Script Frenzy practice. To reiterate from last time, Celtx is the bomb! It is the most amazing free program I have ever used, and pretty much tops the list of paid for ones also. Congratulations to everyone who did do WriDay, and especially to those who finished all 50k. You guys rock!

June 4th, 2007

The script is going great. I'm on Scene Six and have just under 2,000 words. I'm about 400 words behind from not finishing my quota yesterday, but I'll catch up today. My plot's gonna need some work. I'm pretty much through the plotted beginning and now have to work out what's gonna happen next. MC Annabelle has been thrown overboard, smacked on the head with a barrel to induce amnesia, and rescued by the pirates. Right now she's on her way to the galley to help Grub make lunch. They're all just gonna have to hang out for a while until something exciting happens.

June 5th, 2007

Ugh. I'm horribly behind on my script and starting to hate it. Quite a change from yesterday. *grumbles* Is it week two already? No! It's only day five. Must push on... Maybe something interesting will happen today. I can dream, right?

Hey, what's all this negativity??? I CAN do it! (I hope...)

June 6th, 2007

Wheee! I love my script again. I got a TON of new ideas last night when taking a shower. Hopefully I can make it long enough, though. Right now I don't think it'll reach 20k, but maybe if I add some more stuff. Anyway, yay!!! Captain Chip's life is about to be ruined, but oh well. I may fix it towards the end.

June 7th, 2007

Week two doesn't start till tomorrow, but I'm feeling it today. I have some ideas, but nowhere near enough to fill 20,000 words. However, I am about a tenth of the way there, though I didn't write at all yesterday. Baby steps, baby steps.

On the happy, happy side I keep getting attacked by random ideas. I have two so far that are so awesome I'm afraid to write any more on them. One is about life after death (tentatively titled Purgatory) and the other is a group of folks who's memories have been wiped and are trying to find out / remember who they are.

June 12th, 2007

Script Frenzy is going great! I'm already a fourth of the way done (5k, people!) and ideas just keep coming. No Week 2 blues for me! I should definitely be able to make 20k by the end of the month. At least I hope. I've plotted everything expect the very end, so hopefully that will be enough. Well, if it's not I can always add more character/setting description as filler! :-D

There is one thing that just sort of happened that I wasn't prepared for. Currently-eight-year-old MC Annabelle wants to fall in love with thirty-something captain chip. I was thinking about doing one of those "five years later" type things, but then decided against it. I do really like this new idea though, so I think someday when I have time I'll just go back to the beginning and do some tinkering to change her age to, say, sixteen or so. This sort of age different wasn't as highly frowned up in the 1700's as it is today, was it? I think/hope so...

June 13th, 2007

I'm pretty happy with myself right now, because I've just finished making posters for my script and next month's novel using The Sims 2. I used to play it for hours on end, but now that's all I seem to use it for. Oh, well, it works.

The script's going okay, though I'm still a bit behind. I haven't worked on it yet today, but I hit 6k yesterday! I have decided to adjust Annabelle's age for a romance with Captain Chip, but I won't due that editing until after the month is out or I have reached my goal, whichever comes first.

I'm starting to get some ideas for JulNo already! The title just sort of came to me a few days ago - A Requiem for Sanity. It's going to be something about a college-aged girl who has anxiety/depression issues and feels like she is loosing her mind. I'm looking forward to working with it, though thats all I have for now.

June 17th, 2007

My script is going awesomely! Though two days behind, I'll be reaching 10,000 words today (the halfway point!), which is awesome. I wrote over two thousand words last night and planted the first seeds of the mutiny while watching the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie and half of the second.

I also made two (very simple) icons to add to my gallery, one for SF and one for JulNo.

June 19th, 2007

I reached halfway on my script yesterday, and later today my pirates might actually do something pirate-like! They're going to be attacking and plundering a merchant ship. Yup. And shortly after that there will be a mutiny. Yup. And the captain will be shot. Yup. And now I'm rambling. Yup.

Anyway, I'm uber excited because the plot is plotted all the way to the end. Winner's bar, here I come!

June 24th, 2007

I love Script Frenzy! I'm 76% percent done at the morning, and that'll be even higher by tonight. I finally staged an attack on a merchant ship yesterday, and Chip and Izzy's subtle romance is progressing nicely.

What's on the docket for today? Angst! Love! Blood! What more could you ask for?

Also, today I'm adding a new subsection for SF to the site to showcase my funniest typos (okay, and the not so funny ones, too). Check it out!

June 29th, 2007

WAAAAAAAAA-HOOOOOOOO! I've done it! I hit 21,206 words on my script today and also finished it. Chip and Izzy fell in love and had their final scene kiss. The scene where she's all worried because he got stabbed through with a sword was PERFECT. It helped so much that I found the perfect song to go with it to write along to. The inaugural Script Frenzy is almost at its end and I will be one of the winners! To reiterate: WAHOO! I will definitely be there again next year!

July 3rd, 2007

I've started JulNoWriMo and am so far staying on track. I found a wonderful system where you write down your word count from the pervious day and then what it should be by the end of today and every increment of three hundred words inbetween. When you can cross of the in-between goals it makes writing 2,000 words a day go a ton faster! I have to do this instead of the average 1,612 or so because of all the days I'll be busy and not able to write. (By the way, I changed the story I'm writing from psychological drama to werewolves. Go figure. See the full description on my JulNo page.)

And since I'm already making funny typoes in Wolf, I've added a subsection to the project page to showcase them for you. The ones I have so far are pretty funny, so be sure to check them out.