Month: November 2006

good thanksgiving, busy fun, exhausting weekend. good food, good drinks, some gastrointestinal adventure, some role-playing adventure, and a severe lack of sleep. the giants broke my heart.

i just broke 35k for NaNo. even if i miss the mark, i’ve done some really neat work, built a world, and i get to keep that, regardless if i break 50k or not.
the scary thing is that i was anticipating 60-75k for this story, and i don’t see it working out that way. went to dig up the rock poking out of the front yard of my brain, and unearthed the tip of a boulder.

in other news, i am getting a new computer, and a screaming video card, as a result of a dell deals raffle thing that i won quite unexpectedly on friday. my new processor has more cache than the first pc i ever used had on its hard drive. the world is quite a tangle.

i am out of town thursday-sunday. i plan on polishing and outlining past the kernel of what was born via NaNo.

i have a lot to do.

collegehumor.com has a really funny series they started recently about the washed up gang from street fighter. highly recommend it if you haven’t already seen it.

i just busted 20k for NaNo. i know that seems like i am way behind, but i have several dedicated writing days in the near future, and i finished the hard third of my story. now i get down to some real writing, with dialouge and shit ::shudder::

i seem to average about 4k on a decent day. only need 7-8 of those to be gold. that, or i need a couple of fucking stellar days. i am beginning to think i might be able to do this!

what i cannot fathom is this:
alcohol is supposed to be a germ-killing substance.
if you are sick, you are clearly full of germs, which are ailing your immune system.
if you drink a lot of alcohol, the germs should all die, freeing up your immune system to do important things, like watch the price is right or something.
i’m about 50/50 with this theory thus far.
must be the goddamn ginger ale ruining the process. isin’t that supposed to be something you drink when you are sick too? wtf?!

good weekend. la casa de , , and is warmed. i need pictures of the luchadore trifecta asap. i’m about 4k behind on NaNo from where i wanted to be at this point, but i think i can make it up. also, family guy/american dad were totally amusing last night. can anyone peg what movie they were ripping off in american dad when francene and steve were “breaking up”? i immediately recognized it was lifted from somewhere else visually, but can’t place it! the stewie/airplane antics were pretty chuckalarious. it was good to see kool-aid man back in action.

enough from me. hope everyone has as short a week as i do, which is to say, i have to figure out how to shoe-horn 40 hours into three days.

emergen-c, take me away!

I broke 10k for NaNo last night. I am way out ahead of where I was when I did this two years ago. That being said, I am muy disheartened.
When I was trying to describe my displeasure last night, I put it this way:
I sat down to write the The Hobbit, and am, instead, writing the Silmarion Silmarillion (thanks Bria).

Because I don’t have proprietary authorship rights to the world in which the story I had planned to tell takes place, I have to put it in my own world. No problem, says me – until I start writing. Then I realize that unless I make some pale rip-off world, nothing will make sense. So, I bring the story back down to bones, and start at the beginning – where does it take place? From there, I set to building a world, which led to writing a history, and figuring out a divinity somewhere along the way. Now I am 10k+ into a fairy-tale genesis, and I’ve just gotten to the close of the second age! I need another age under my belt, for sure, to set things up.

This is frustrating mostly because it is some of the best hook-writing I’ve done in years. The way my little scribbled notes have become full-blown worlds is really enervating, and the story I will have to re-work what I am writing – I think, and either abandon what I have written thus far, or find ways to work it into the book in snippets. My main story is still mostly unwritten, and I have no way of getting at it yet, until I finish up what I am working towards. Also, this world, as I am writing it, is becoming its own thing. It steals from plots and storied I have used in the past, or planed out and never used, but as they are being blended together, it is becoming a new thing.

Basically, I think I was right when I said that there was no way this story was happening in less than 70k, with 20k of that probably being just padding and back story that I can cut – or not.

Argh.

My point is, I haven’t played with enough Lego lately. I did some of that Saturday night. I wish I had taken a picture of it.

  • Saw The Departed last night, was blown away by the performance. I still think the Hong Kong version was way tighter, but I think Scorsese did an admirable job of translating a Hong Kong gangster flick to a very believable Boston setting.
  • Just under 5k on NaNo. My brain thinks this is 10%, but my story seems to agree with my initial estimates that 50k is not going to get the job done.
  • Got NWN2 installed and patched. I am impressed with it. I can’t wait to play the game a little, and then dive into the toolset.
  • Been working too much, playing too little. not going upstate this weekend.
  • My goal is to be halfway or better by the end of the week next week. We’ll see how that holds.

Since I’ve been content searching for ptfonline.org, and the weather is finally turning Novemberish, so y’all are getting a cold queez today.

so i was up until 2:30 working on my mom’s laptop, after watching nightmare before xmas 3d, and wandering around creation downtown in search of pie that was never had.

what a way to start NaNoWriMo. my ambition to available energy ratio is not looking so hot. scary.