Day 19: Sexy Things Are Happenin'

It's been pretty hard to keep up with a blog along with all the other stupid stuff in life, but mostly I had trouble getting back on track. Well, I'm not back on track yet, but maybe today... it's a WriDay! Crazy! My goal was 20k, but now it's 15k b/c I have a job orientation today and I don't wanna lose the job, ya know.

So I'm pretty psyched at the sexy curve (yellow one) on my spreadsheet. And that slope going up for my daily wc (blue, I think), makes me remember that insano high I got from yesterday's double shot. Man, did I beat my word warring scores. And I was talking a mile a minute, probably annoying the hell out of everyone, but that's OK, I warned them before hand. The only thing I still don't understand is that I didn't notice when it really kicked in. First, I didn't feel a thing. Then the next thing I know I was thinking so clearly, I was scaring myself, and I was going 250 wpm, no kidding. So as a result, a lot of SEXY things are in that doc. I just don't know what they are since I have no clue what I wrote about. You just watch! Caffeine is going to be outlawed/restricted soon, and I'll be one of those swanky druggies prancing around with the withdrawed face, liking my lips.

I think I need to change the yellow curve to a purple one to make it sexier.

Anyway, I'm pretty much done with this post since I need to start writing now, but I just wanted to clarify one thing... Saj + Cade? They never made out, OK? Kiss, maybe. Made out? NO. That was bothering the heck out of me. Saj has no guts to be hot like that.

Well, I need to write at least 1k an hour today and I'm still sleep deprived. I couldn't sleep past 6 since SOMEONE was singing and banging on doors and walls. I also stayed up almost till 12, and only went to bed b/c I was crashing. I was trying to beat the Full Moon Madness challenge, but only got 4196/5000 b/c I got blocked. Plus I was waiting for SOMEONE to call. Of course, I never expect people to let me down and that's why my life sucks.

*cracks whip at Muse* *cackles*

ps: Creativity doesn't just turn on, supposedly, right? Well with a 2x shot it sure does. I just wait 30 seconds and my mind churns out something wild and awesome.

Day 14: Smooth Ride? Fuhgetabboutit

Excuses, excuses. Exhausted, exhausted! Time, time. Tired, tired!

That's my life right now. I got my lappie on Friday and didn't really use it use it until a couple days later. Lemme tell you. Nothing has more distractions on it. Except for the Internet. Except it doesn't have Internet on it, so you'd think it'd be the most productive tool on Earth, right? WRONG. Too wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong. I have a feeling that I'd be more productive if it had Internet, with the word wars and all.

But I think I've dug myself out today by writing during history class and doing a couple of word wars. I can't write during class usually b/c I feel like crap and I'm afraid of getting the corporate read-aloud punishment for getting caught. I think he already noticed though. It's how annoying I make it that counts.

It's a huge margin I need to make up before I have to hit 15k on the 16th. That's right, I'm not even going 30 day pace anymore, I'm letting myself slack off b/c there's an extra day. Ah, this always happens. I get really ahead, then really behind. Well I learned one thing. The whole thing about people saying to write every day? It's true. Too true. Believe it or not. Writing every day naturally keeps your interest at a peak and your story simmering in the back of your head. Coming back to it after 3 days is like sniffing old mac n cheese. phewww..

*sighs and gives Muse pillow*

Day Nine: Smooth Ride

Yesterday: 2400 words written (caught me up and put me ahead). Today: 2072 words written (felt like I didn't write at all). I'm not sure why, but my writing's been very smooth for the past two days. I know tomorrow will be harder, since I don't have much of my plot flash idea left to use, but I have plenty of slack just in case. I love seeing how my Projected curve is slowly curving to meet the Ideal curve. My morale levels have also been up the whole time. Now I don't wanna jinx myself, but this is the best morale range I've had so far for a contest. Usually it does the whole (on a 1-10 scale) 9-5-8-2-7 thing, but I've already had quite a few tens this month, and I really meant those tens! I've also beat my records for the 15 and 20 min word wars, but I think the excedrin I took was somehow involved. But I had a great reason to take it and it toko so long to act, I think I deserved those easy word wars.

*Skips away with Muse*

Day Seven - The End of Week One

Tomorrow I will fall into the huge, deep hole of Week 2! Oh noes!

Naah.

Since I already fell into a couple of ditches in Week One, I think I deserve a moderately spotless Week 2. Well, I wish anyway. But I already know what my characters are doing. (Kind of). And I have a sketchy idea of what lies beyond the horizon. Even though, I'm scared of what lies there, I'll do my best to try to communicate my invaluable ideas with my crappy writing. See, I'm not all that pessimistic. My ideas are good. My writing. Not. :D

I'm already concerned with my storyline though (Don't read past this point until you read past chapter 4!). I always have this thing where I have one girl character and one guy character. It doesn't change a lot and it's bothering me. I can't have every single novel have two major characters: boy and girl. Weird and repetitive. And another thing is that I like the atmosphere I created with the office building "slaveshop". But my characters all want to run away from it. I jsut can't force them to stay. I mean, sure it's not a great place to be in, but I spent time thinking about this setting and its social structure and I'm not just going to have a measley 5000 words in it. Since my main pov character is Cade, I can't do any thing about it, and it's driving me nuts! All she wants to do it to stay out of there. But all I want to do is put her back in there and though what she experienced all over again. *sigh*

(you can start reading again) I finished On Writing. I think I'm going to have to scan some passages out of it for future reference until I maybe buy the book (maybe b/c I usually don't buy books). Honestly, I think the end got too personal and a bit sloppy, but the rest was very good.

Yesterday I was quite prolific, writing 3409 words (versus 1030 on the day before). I was trying to win the weekend challenge of writing 5000 over the weekend... but failed by just 600 words. So sad, I know. Someone came home early and cut off another half hour I could've had to write. But I did learn one thing from this ... don't try to write late at night... I'm great at about 7pm (about now - can't wait to go word war) , but dead at 10pm. Now that I think about it, I was always terrible at writing my essays late in the evening. But I did write major ones in the very early morning before. Maybe I should try that? Wake up at 4am? O_o

I'll probably write again in a few hours, about the end of today's writing.

*skips off with Muse*

Day Five: Inspiration and Hangover

OK, whatever that was this morning, wasn't just cranky. I think I was a homicidal maniac for a couple of hours. I attempted to write for those hours, but it was literally impossible b/c my brain wouldn't work (homicidal maniac zombie?) and my soreness made me want to stand up every two minutes to stretch. Finally, when my mom came home, I gave up and went back to bed. Slept about 2-2.5 hours. Woke. Felt half-OK - still Blah. Did I mention that I slept at least 8 hours last night? I hope I'm not turning into a vampire.

So today and yesterday combined, I wrote about 1800 words. More today than yesterday (very busy yesterday & tired in the evening... stupid fireworks). I'm at a total of 6721 words, but I don't think it would've been humanely possible to get more. I hope nothing like this happens again.

You'd think I'm all energized from my nap, but I've been Zombie all day. I finished my Chapter 3, though, which accounts for half my novel atm. I don't think I've written a longer chapter before lol. I might split it into two parts to email, or make you guys wait very long.. not sure yet.

On the other hand, I continued reading King's On Writing today and discovered, to my delight, that he's pretty much the same way about plots as I am. (Sometimes they work, most times they don't, ones that you well make, are also the ones that you well hate). So I'm using his suggestion, to make an "What if ___?" statement and just go from there, not worrying about the ending. I made the What if statement and so far, every time I got stuck, I reread it, and I was right back on track again. I'm so glad I got that book!

*pokes Muse*
*runs away screaming from the snapping, snarking Demonic Muse*

Day Three: Already Need Coffee

Sorry for not posting yesterday. To be honest, I didn't feel like it.

Yesterday was crappy. I got to 2913 words, meaning I wrote just over a thousand words. I'm trying to figure everything out, deal with me here. My wrists hurt if I type for more than 3 hours straight, and not even straight out typing, even IMing. I know this because I tried word wars yesterday and it's basically 15 min war, 15 min break, 15 min war, etc. I had to get off b/c I couldn't type. Not good...

And word wars are fun once in a while, but they don't really get you a great wds/hr rate at all. You'd think that you recharge in the breaks, but you're really just losing time. If I have one crappy word was with only 180 words, the next one might only be 250 words, and for an hour, that's really crappy. Although I do remember last year, getting 300s in 15 min word wars and 500s in 20 min word wars... I was pretty addicted. I love winning ^^

So you see, with that and the fact that certain people in the household don't like me on the computer and with all the hw I keep getting (although it's going to be july4th weekend, so no complaining about today) it's really hard to get a set time when I can bolt the door, strap myself into the chair, focus, and write something coherent.

I think I might post again later today.

*shakes Muse awake and leads her my her leash* Yes, *sigh*, she already has a leash. It's awful. It's not even week 2. It's day 3. *sobs* I want coffee!




I did pretty good: got back on track by doing 1919 words, putting me at a total of 4832 words. I swear I really tried to type over what I'm supposed to have, but the hunger for words vanished.. or rather, I had a caffeine crash. I hope that eventually, I can get on a pace of 2000 words per day.

The First day

For the first time in a long time, I've actually been excited about my writing. I've been interested before, but not completely life-or-death emersed. I'm tired now, but it was sure fun when it lasted. My Muse was going insane - she put drugs into my drink! She thinks it's funny. I also thought it was funny, but that's b/c I was high.

I got just 1876 words done today, but it's not bad. I would've done more if a certain someone would get OFF the computer and let the Muse run free. But no. Tomorrow I plan to do better at stealing time. I'm thinking of writing mostly in the mornings and late evenings so I can avoid stray eyes and arguments.

*covers Muse with blanket and drags herself to do school work*