Manifest!

 

So, we ended up going to Manifest after all! We went on the Friday so we could enter the FRUiTS competition... and we won! Best hair and makeup! The judges were impressed that we used our own hair (which is suitably crazy for Visual Kei) and Billy, my partner-in-crime, had very impressive body paint. If only I had taken some photos!

There were lots of Lolitas in the competition and they were all so cute! The lady who won Best Outfit was so lovely, she had put together her outfit very nicely - she was a Punk/Goth Loli. Ah, she was a sweetie. The lady who won Best Overall had a really impressive techno-angel costume; it looked like something from an anime or manga, or a display piece at a really awesome rave.

While there, we bought some manga - of course. Billy got Aphorism and we went halves in a new manga we found called Karneval. It's pretty good so far, so check it out if you can! I also got volume three of Koisuru Boukan (The Tyrant Falls in Love). I wanted to get volumes one and two at least as well, but I couldn't find them. It's one of my favourite BL manga ^^.

It was so much fun! I wish I could go again, and more, but I had work today and a uni Open Day on Sunday (probably, if I can figure out how to get there...). Thanks again, Manifest staff, for another great day!

This is Shi, about to read volume three of Tyrant despite not having volumes one or two... ^^

Novel Revising...?

Okay, so I'm considering re-revising my NaNo novel from last year. I started revising twice previously, but have stopped. I really want to get the damn novel decent though! It desperately needs revision...

Of course, life is never straight forward. Firstly, I haven't finished my Camp NaNo novel. I mean, I wrote the 50,000 words, but I didn't finish the story. And I think I've touched it twice since the end of July. It needs finishing! But without NaNo as an excuse for crappy writing, my inner editor is tormenting me. Also, I should be studying. Damn school! I've been forced to miss some days because of illness, and now I feel really, really behind. But I don't want to not write either, I think I should be able to do writing and school, right? I mean, other people play sports and have hobbies and socialise.Why shouldn't I be able to manage it?

And yes, I'm still sulking about Manifest. For a while, I got over it, but just recently I had a hopeful bout of "maybe I could manage it if I just rearrange this and this and this...". And to the blues that my band played at the school talent competition thing on Friday and... well, I don't wanna say sucked, but it was... not good. As I said, I'd been sick, so we had one 30 minute practice before school on Friday and that was it. I should have organised more rehearsals, sick or not. If I had, it would have been better. Erk, I feel so awful about that. My last year and I can't even pull off an awesome, hell even decent, peformance.


Yes, so, back to the crux of the matter. What should I do: start revising my NaNo novel, or finish my Camp NaNo novel? What would you do? Advice is always welcome <3

Manifest 2011

Manifest is in 2 weeks. I really wanna go! But I can't, because of family committments.

Not the version we were planning, but awesome picture.
Miku's hair is slightly green here, but I love the butterflies.

If I had have gone, myself and my sister would have been in cosplay. (Yes, I love cosplay. I love costuming. I love wigs. I love makeup. I love dressing up. I love acting. I love photography. Mostly, I just love the way things can really come together and be awesome.) If we were going, she would be Miku and I would be KAITO, the Vocaloids. I wanted to be Gakupo, but I'm too short, *laugh*. We were planning on doing the Magnet versions, simply because in Year 12 I don't have heaps of time to sew.

I guess its a good thing we aren't going. You know, because of the time and effort that I don't have right now.

Still, it kinda makes me sad. I was looking foward to it all year.

August, too?

Okay, I know this is gonna sound crazy, BUT


I want to Camp NaNo in August too.

*cries*

I just write so much better under the pressure, with the graph and the forums and all... But I have so much school work. What do I do? What do I do?

Someone help me.

Camp NaNo - The end!

Write. Right, so I discarded the blog-every-day part of my schedule in favour of adding those precious words to my wordcount. Let me summarise my last days of NaNo in pictures.... (you know, 'cause they are worth 1000 words an' all...)

My word count was low...

...very low...

Such was the state of my page...

And my inspiration/muse looked like this...

Then there was this...

and this..

and this too...

And all that coffee led to this... (scary, right? Yeah, I thought so too...)

Ta-daaaa!!! It was done!!

So it says there that my wordcount was 51,000-ish, which was great on my word doc, but the Camp NaNo site said it was only 50,069 (which was also great ;})... I wanted to get a screen cap of that, but... alas... *tears*... it had been taken down for the beginning of the August session...


 In any case, the most important picture of all:

Oh yeah. I celebrated with a well-deserved milkshake.



PS. I'm considering doing August too...