The Dragon Within

So lets see, nothing really going on right now except for the fact I should be working on my English paper but instead totally writing this. Oh, and doing laundry. Because laundry is amazing and all that. So what's been going on? School. School. More school. Thanksgiving. And me giving up on NaNo about 20k in because school just took top priority and therefore, couldn't really get the time to plot like I usually do. Plus, work's been kinda skitish to say the least. However, I am going to end up writing more of it, because I do love the universe that it's set in, even if I found like, 4 plot holes already in the prequel that need to be tied up, but that's okay.

Speaking of writing, I've been looking over some of my other series. Like Angel of Oblivion and fell back in love with Senna, and Kaggren, and all the dragons of both Heaven and Hell. I need to finish the rewrite of the first one and keep going with the second, because I was kinda surprised on how good the second one was turning out to be and my rewrite of AOB (Yes, I know that the actual acroynim is supposed to be AOO, but AOB just rolls off the tongue so much better!) I isn't as bad as the first draft. That everyone seemed to love on fictionpress. I still don't get it and I guess that I never will.

Thanksgiving was fun. Walked to mom's because for one, she moved closer and I wanted to see how close she is now. About an hour of walking, which isn't bad. She has a really nice place though. It's one of those duplex things where it's like having half of a house. It's a real nice set up and they're right next door to my Uncle Adam and Uncle Phil so if they need help with anything, family is like, right there. In fact, all of us were back and forth the entire day, which was pretty cool I have to admit. And it's going to make visiting a lot easier, which I'm happy for. I miss not being able to see my mommy at the drop of a hat.

Sooo...that's really about it. I really should get back to my paper. Hopefully I can churn out more of a sentance. Then I have that stupid 7 page research paper to get on. I have all the research, and the notes, all nice and in the notebook. It's just trying to get them into coherrent senetences that's going to be the "fun" part. I can't wait!

Peace,

shouldn't be this awake psycho

It's totally almost crunch time for school, which I'm hoping I can surivive a bit unscathed. Hopefully. We'll see. :\ I have a 10 page paper due on the 17, final on the 1st, and two 7 page papers due on the 3rd. Not to mention that i need to fix up some of my pieces for art, which I'm sure won't be too hard, seeing as I am me and totally have the attention span of a gnat and like to flit between subjects.

However, here's a good thing: I've been able to get a nice word cushion for NaNo! My total word count right now is 12, 330 which hopefully means that when I sit down and get all this studying/writing done that I'll be able to get my 50k in. Or over 50k at the rate I'm going, although I doubt it. I always have a few days of NaNo where I don't write a lick and instead sit and stare at my keyboard and will it to write itself. Mostly the thrid week, which doesn't help that I have a ton of projects due that week. So the thrid week is going to be a tad harder than it has been over the past few years. :\ But I will make it!

That's about it, just wanted to show off and complain. One of these days I'll actually break out the scanner and scan the few things that I can and post them on my deviantart since for one, most are way too big for my scanner and two, I just have been lazy in getting the drive to do it. :P

Peace,

should be doing homework but is instead writing this entry psycho

Posting it at my creative community thedragonwithin. So far, so good.

NaNo profile

That is all. :D

Peace,

off to write psycho

For NaNo! Not really excited about Halloween this year, mostly because I have to work and I'm not at Youmacon at the dance. With the rest of the otaku and all that jazz that goes on at anime conventions and deal with Crystal Gardens. I hate those people. Because they always seem to think that they're the cream of the crop and therefore, can treat you like crap. Making me wish they'd run out of gas or something trivial and upsetting on the way home.

Anyway, totally not what this post is about. It's about NaNo which starts at midnight! And once again, I have something to do at the strike of midnight when it starts. Not that I should be complaining. The one year I didn't have anything to do, I "lost" so I guess that I should have expected this. It sucks that I can't just bring my laptop to work and sit in the office and write. Like my store manager who's going to be there all flippin' night is. I hate working end of the month.

Either way, totally downloaded the 'write or die' desktop edition for this year, mostly because at school, I'm lucky to get online at all so it's the best I can do. Not that I could really afford the 10 bucks, but whatever. It's mine now! ALL MINE.

So, that's pretty much it. Will be posting it to the usual sites like I do every year.

Peace,

needs to get character descriptions, plot outlines, and all the pre-nano stuff done psycho

I feel sorry for anyone who had me on anything other than one friending place. Because really, I've been posting everywhere that I reached 50, 581 words today, therefore 'winning' NaNo, although my novel is nowhere near finished yet, as that seems to be the case every year. However, in that tradition, I give you all Craptacular stats!

Title: Still my placeholder of Yet Another Cracky Ass Story
Chapters: 19, although technically I'm still working on it.
Inspiration?: Write or Die was a huge help and got me writing somewhere in the ballpark of 3500 words an hour. And of course, lots of anime, but mostly Prince of Tennis which I have picked back up again. It's just one of those series I can do that. Oh, and Kuroshitsuji. The closest any of us will get to a Godchild anime. ;__;
Body count?: Still in the making, as the war has yet to come. *sigh* Not even halfway done with this monster!
Subplots?: One unexpected one. I so didn't see the marriage coming. Nor the parallel dimension thing. And I still have the other one to do when they get to the other world!
Playlist?: Lots of techno. Dancing as I was typin'.
Anything else?: Not really. Consumed by weight in pixie sticks, nerds, blow pops, and sweet tarts. Oh, and lots and lots of orange juice. Mm orange juice.

So, I guess that's it. Work sucks and can blow up for all I care.

Peace,

off to catch up on everything I've missed this month psycho

I finally hit 25,000 words! So, some cracktacular stats. Oh cracktacular and how I used to use you all the time. I miss you, word of awesomeness!

Title?: Still my place-holder of Yet Another Cracky Ass Story
Summary? (Subject to change) Clyde is a demon trapped on a plane where the magic he has grown accustomed to is forbidden, and is trying to find a way back to his home plane to kill the one who sent him here. However, without the astral magic, he can't return home. With the technological advances of this new world, the continent that was once out of reach became within grasp and ripe for colonization. Here, there are tribes of people that may have a way around the Priest and Priestess, those who created this world and it's order so he can return home. This isn't without it's problems, as Fairfax, a demon from Clyde's home world, was sent with Clyde to make sure the other didn't return home. And with Isabelle, an elven noble who is opposed to slavery trying to abolish the seemingly only means Clyde has to the source of knowledge about the loophole to his own world, things only seem to get harder and harder the closer he gets to home.
Body Count?: Totally not there yet. Getting there though.
Actual word Count? 25040. Yah, love me.
Anything else?: My characters haven't rebelled yet! Although Rowan is really thinkin' about it. Little bastard.

I guess that's it. XD

Peace,

wanting a nap before work, but knows won't get one psycho

Well, I've been working and writing. And just trying to get my insomnia back to a controlable level. Not sure if that's gonna happen, but I'm sure if I try hard enough and maybe actually take something for it. Eventually that I'll be fine. I need to find a way to de-stress from work, which is when it really kicks up. I go from 5-8 hours down to 3-4 if I'm lucky. Yay for insomnia!

Otherwise, finally remembered that I have a twitter that I may or may not use whenever. I'm sure I'll end up spamming it whenever. What can I say? If it's not in my bookmarks, I tend to forget about it. Even if it is in my bookmarks, I usually forget about it. Speaking of which, I need to organize those...

So, that was my lame update. Oh, and some shameless advertising. I'm posting this year's totally unedited (except for spelling when I catch it) and hot off the press every two chapters on my writing journal thedragonwithin, although that means yet another journal to friend because I locked it down. It's bad enough people from my family found this journal. All I need for them is to read what I write and hear all about how much I'm wrong for writing it/why don't I write something relevant to life/why am I wasting my life on something that will not turn into a full time career?

Me? Have issues with the way my family views my outlets?

Never. :D

Peace,

off to write (hopefully) at least 5,000 more words

Last night was 'fun' for a number of reasons. Mostly because I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing as shift manager, as well as all the crap that happened at system shut down. -_-; At least now I know how to count drawers down now, which I knew was going to be my big issue. I only screwed up once! Which isn't bad seeing as I've never done anything like that before. I'm sure that it'll happen again, but whatever. I even learned how to fix my mistakes! Now I just need to remember how to do it...

Then, when we went into backup, there seems to be a lot more computer work than I though there was. Two hours. What most managers can do in 45 minutes, it took me two hours! Doesn't help that I'm completely new to this manager thing, but this was the only day that my trainer has an extra person on the schedule to actually sit back there and help me. :\ I hope the notes I took help, I really do. Well, that and I don't screw up the money again. Hopefully I can remember everything. Ug. Next week is going to be 'fun' too.

Mainly because of the servsafe class thing at 7 in the morning. =___________= Monday and Tuesday. Then managing shift on Wednesday. Doesn't that sound like loads of infinite fun!

And tomorrow is my youngest brother's birthday. I really hope I can find someway to get over there and see everyone. -________________________- Some how, some way.

Lets see...what else... finally found my Hellsing soundtrack CD's, although 'Raid' was a little scratched up so I didn't rip all the songs. I'm sure I can find Alucard's theme song somewhere around the internet. That's the only one that refuses to play anyway. The rest are alright, thankfully. :D Also have Distrubed back, and Linkin Park's Hybrid theory which I used to listen to all the time. No wonder my mom hates that band. XD I used to listen to it constantly and now my brothers adore the later albums, which suck in my opinion. Well...Meteora wasn't that bad. This new one makes me want to slit their wrists for them it's so emo. Angst I can deal with. Emo I cannot.

I'm pretty sure that's about all I'm ranting about, for now anyway. Oh, and if anyone has a plausable plot for a NaNo they feel like telling me, ideas will be greatly appreciated. I really need to start planning for NaNo in July instead of September, especially since for the first two to three days, nothing's going to be getting done. ...this set up seems oddly familiar... NaNo '06 anyone? :P

Peace,

on the hunt for a plot psycho

Well, finally made it to 40K. Now it's 10K in the next two days. I can do that...I hope. X3

In the meantime, have a quiz. Stolen from hcolleen



Peace,

on the way to 50K psycho

Yes, the psycho has proven that she can write 50,000 words in a month. BOW TO ME MUWHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

So the story's not even halfway done...I wrote flippin a ton of words in 30 days! It'll get finished...eventually...

Have some sats, because I'm bored. :D


STORY STATS:

Current Word Count: 50,182 words
Working Title: Craptacular: Cracktular but that much better.
Body Count: 0 as of yet.
Number of Friends that Haven't talked to me at all this month: 3
Crack pairngs: 2
Crack pairngs muse would like: 4 more.
People most likely tired of my bitching about my muse: 5 or 6
Number of people who care: ....me? Do I count?
Number of my rps that hate me: 6 or 7 :(
Number of times villian has made an appearnce: 2
Current number of chapters: 14
Number of anime watched for inspiration: 6


Cracktacular Stats:

Number of times used name generator: 6
Favorite Names: Renob the talking sword, Tisshit the villian's main body guard
Things learned: Never put a 9 year old kid in a story, don't let muse get ahold of a plot idea, ...don't trust muse period.
Things realized: I can't write comedy worth crap.


Yah, can't wait until next year. Now my beta wants me to finish the novel in December. I laugh at him. Now if you excuse me, Angel of Oblivion II needs to be worked on. I need to get Chapter three off the ground.

Peace,

I want a cookie psycho