Word count: 22843 (Nearly half way!)
I didn't do as much writing as I wanted to today, because that awful thing called homework happened to need some doing. I can't imagine what the pile would look like if I left it to the last day of holidays, but I imagine it would be bad. Very bad. My teachers are going to get a stern talking-to when I return. 70+ questions for each subject as well as various other little pieces are NOT funny. Not in the least, and especially not from all my teachers.
Anyway, on a more Camp NaNo related note, I just killed a character. I'm having a break from the dramatic death scene. Phew, it was a hard one. Hope the drama comes cross in the reading!
This is Shi, listening to depressing character-death music.
Monday, 11 July 2011
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Camp NaNo: Day 9
Eeek, I forgot to do this!
Let's see, wordcount: 19275
I didn't do much writing today. I checked my school email inbox and found that I have mountains of homework. Seeing that and knowing I should be writing as well forced me to procrastinate. I watched lots of Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet- videos, which was great because I love the music (especially the guitarwork) but awful in that I didn't do much else for a couple of hours. BAD ME!
I did cook a roast, however, a roast lamb with potatoes, beans, honey carrots and zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli. It was delicious! I just wish we had a microwave so I could heat some up from breakfast.
Anyway, off to drink my tea and then get to work.
This is Shi, determined to get lots done today!
Let's see, wordcount: 19275
I didn't do much writing today. I checked my school email inbox and found that I have mountains of homework. Seeing that and knowing I should be writing as well forced me to procrastinate. I watched lots of Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet- videos, which was great because I love the music (especially the guitarwork) but awful in that I didn't do much else for a couple of hours. BAD ME!
I did cook a roast, however, a roast lamb with potatoes, beans, honey carrots and zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli. It was delicious! I just wish we had a microwave so I could heat some up from breakfast.
Anyway, off to drink my tea and then get to work.
This is Shi, determined to get lots done today!
Friday, 8 July 2011
Camp NaNo: Day 8
Word Count: 18839
I'm calling it an early night. It's been a long few days and I want to try to get back into my normal sleep routine - at least a little - so that I'm not super tired when school starts again.
Tomorrow I'm going to do another few word sprints, and then get some holiday homework done. I've been pretty slack over the first week of Camp NaNo! I've only been focusing on my story! Now I need to focus a little bit of time on my studies.
Anyway, I'm heading off to bed. Goodnight, all!
This is Shi, beating her sister into bed!
I'm calling it an early night. It's been a long few days and I want to try to get back into my normal sleep routine - at least a little - so that I'm not super tired when school starts again.
Tomorrow I'm going to do another few word sprints, and then get some holiday homework done. I've been pretty slack over the first week of Camp NaNo! I've only been focusing on my story! Now I need to focus a little bit of time on my studies.
Anyway, I'm heading off to bed. Goodnight, all!
This is Shi, beating her sister into bed!
Camp NaNo: Day 7
Word count: 14536
Okay guys, this is gonna be short one! I've just discovered the greatest writing tool called Write or Die - this basically is a website where you add your word count goal and your time limit. It then takes you to a plain screen with a square box where you strive to fulfil said goal in said time. Down the bottom of the box is the time counting down and a word count that hopefully goes up. If that weren't enough for edge-of-your-seat writing, the screen also flashes red if you take too long to continue.
It's terrifying. It's wonderful.
I'm doing 1000 words sprints in 30 minutes and it's going so well. Maybe the quality is a little low, but I'm working on it after the time is up. It's just a great tool for getting it out there.
With this, I think I can easily write the 1612 words for NaNo a day!
This is Shi, off to edit the hour of writing I've just done into something relatively lovely (and boost my word count at the same time!)
Okay guys, this is gonna be short one! I've just discovered the greatest writing tool called Write or Die - this basically is a website where you add your word count goal and your time limit. It then takes you to a plain screen with a square box where you strive to fulfil said goal in said time. Down the bottom of the box is the time counting down and a word count that hopefully goes up. If that weren't enough for edge-of-your-seat writing, the screen also flashes red if you take too long to continue.
It's terrifying. It's wonderful.
I'm doing 1000 words sprints in 30 minutes and it's going so well. Maybe the quality is a little low, but I'm working on it after the time is up. It's just a great tool for getting it out there.
With this, I think I can easily write the 1612 words for NaNo a day!
This is Shi, off to edit the hour of writing I've just done into something relatively lovely (and boost my word count at the same time!)
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Camp NaNo: Day 6
THE PARTY CONTINUES!
Word count: 12040
That'swrite right, the Camp NaNo party continued on 'til about 5:30pm! Without any sleep in my case, or an hour or two in others', we continued writing. I want to give them shoutouts (with their usernames, of course) for being so aboslutely, wonderfully awesome! - but I don't know if they'd like that. So, if you guys read this, know just how awesome you are!
I reached double-digits in the thousands! *dances*
We watched another movie, Airheads (starring Brenden Fraser, Adamn Sandler and Steve Buscemi), which about a rock'n'roll band desperate to make it holding up a radio in order to get airplay. It's a silly comedy, but was great to have a break to and laugh along with.
We continued writing all night, feeling as though time had been slowed in the small space of our lounge room. There was more reading each others' work, encouraging, laughing and fun as we continued. It was really cool to see everyone's different styles - some were descriptive, some were fast-paced, some were hilarious. I love reading humour in books because I have such trouble writing it. The cheese and chocolates were polished off at some point too.
We breakfasted on hot coffee and tea with toast, and kept writing all day. When everyone left at 5:30pm, I went to bed and slept 'til 9pm. I got up to get a drink, and then when back to bed (so I didn't update on the 6th).
In any case, my story is really moving along now. I have some idea of the plot now, much more than previously and my characters are taking shape. One of the girls said I had great dialogue, which made me so happy because sometimes I feel that I really struggle with dialogue. I'm always wondering "Would [character] really say that? Would anyone really say that?" and so on... But I'm pleased it's coming across well!
This is Shi, heading back to Camp!
Word count: 12040
That's
I reached double-digits in the thousands! *dances*
We continued writing all night, feeling as though time had been slowed in the small space of our lounge room. There was more reading each others' work, encouraging, laughing and fun as we continued. It was really cool to see everyone's different styles - some were descriptive, some were fast-paced, some were hilarious. I love reading humour in books because I have such trouble writing it. The cheese and chocolates were polished off at some point too.
We breakfasted on hot coffee and tea with toast, and kept writing all day. When everyone left at 5:30pm, I went to bed and slept 'til 9pm. I got up to get a drink, and then when back to bed (so I didn't update on the 6th).
In any case, my story is really moving along now. I have some idea of the plot now, much more than previously and my characters are taking shape. One of the girls said I had great dialogue, which made me so happy because sometimes I feel that I really struggle with dialogue. I'm always wondering "Would [character] really say that? Would anyone really say that?" and so on... But I'm pleased it's coming across well!
This is Shi, heading back to Camp!
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Camp NaNo: Day 5
Also known as: THE AWESOME PARTY WRITING SESSION!
Word count: 9405
So, as I mentioned, I was having some friends over for a Camp NaNo camp out in the lounge room with laptops, dedicated to writing. Well, we started at 8:30pm and now it's 3:30pm and we're still rocking it! This is the most fun I've ever had working with people, and it's going really well!
I'm so proud of everyone. One other attendee and I started write at the beginning of Camp NaNo, but the others were late comers. Some had started writing a little, from a couple hundred words to 3,000, but one had not even started, thought of a plot or anything! Now, we're all merrily skipping our way to the 50K, enjoying life and food and the craziness of the intermittent conversation between the frantic tapping of keys.
We had a break to watch Horseland - the greatest show ever - and eat cheese and chocolate. We only allowed ourselves to do so after writing at least one thousand words, and so far it's been great motivation.
It's also been really nice to have a large company when writing. We've been reading each other's stories and giving feedback, chatting about ideas and characters, and generally encouaging each other to the next 1,000 word goal.
It's fantastic - I highly recommend NaNo parties to all!
This is Shi, off to write more! (and more and more, hooray!)
Word count: 9405
So, as I mentioned, I was having some friends over for a Camp NaNo camp out in the lounge room with laptops, dedicated to writing. Well, we started at 8:30pm and now it's 3:30pm and we're still rocking it! This is the most fun I've ever had working with people, and it's going really well!
I'm so proud of everyone. One other attendee and I started write at the beginning of Camp NaNo, but the others were late comers. Some had started writing a little, from a couple hundred words to 3,000, but one had not even started, thought of a plot or anything! Now, we're all merrily skipping our way to the 50K, enjoying life and food and the craziness of the intermittent conversation between the frantic tapping of keys.
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| Horseland is awesome (and we're all about 18 years old!) |
We had a break to watch Horseland - the greatest show ever - and eat cheese and chocolate. We only allowed ourselves to do so after writing at least one thousand words, and so far it's been great motivation.
It's also been really nice to have a large company when writing. We've been reading each other's stories and giving feedback, chatting about ideas and characters, and generally encouaging each other to the next 1,000 word goal.
It's fantastic - I highly recommend NaNo parties to all!
This is Shi, off to write more! (and more and more, hooray!)
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Camp NaNo: Day 4
Okay, so I kinda forgot to post yesterday because I went to bed early-ish. So this is what happened:
Word count: 5401
We're on school break for 2 weeks, which is awesome for writing/Camp NaNo, but also means that I wanted to dye my hair. We have rules about colours at school, so on holidays I go crazy to make up for it. Anyway, being out of lift and peroxide, my sister and I headed to the local shopping centre via public transport to pick some up. The buses and trains make it quite a long trip, I must say, but we successfully returned with all products.
We did a little bit of writing, fuelled by the lollies we also bought, and then we dyed our hairs. This took significantly longer than expected - I decided to do my roots as well, which I hadn't been planning on (good thing we got more of the stuff).
And after that, my sister was in need of some cheering up, so we watched some Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi, which is a great romantic comedy anime based on the manga of the same name by the author of Junjou Romantica (which is also a great romantic comedy). The main story follows the editors and artists of the shoujo manga department of Marukawa Publishing, and their romances. It's set in the same world Junjou, and Usagi-san even gets a cameo, which is awesome. I've always loved having characters from other series come in and out occasionally if possible. If I ever decided to write a story in the same universe as previously, that's what I'd do too.
But by the time we finished that, it was late so we went to bed. And now I'm behind on my wordcount! I've gotta get my arse into gear and just write more.
And more and more, dammit.
This is Shi, going off to write more (and more and more).
Word count: 5401
We're on school break for 2 weeks, which is awesome for writing/Camp NaNo, but also means that I wanted to dye my hair. We have rules about colours at school, so on holidays I go crazy to make up for it. Anyway, being out of lift and peroxide, my sister and I headed to the local shopping centre via public transport to pick some up. The buses and trains make it quite a long trip, I must say, but we successfully returned with all products.
We did a little bit of writing, fuelled by the lollies we also bought, and then we dyed our hairs. This took significantly longer than expected - I decided to do my roots as well, which I hadn't been planning on (good thing we got more of the stuff).
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| Main characters of Sekai-Ichi: Onodera Ritsu and Takano Masamune |
But by the time we finished that, it was late so we went to bed. And now I'm behind on my wordcount! I've gotta get my arse into gear and just write more.
And more and more, dammit.
This is Shi, going off to write more (and more and more).
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