I was saving Daphne editing for NaNoEdMo. But guess what happened? I gave into the compulsion to start editing NOW NOW NOW. I'm finding that the parts I haven't really edited seriously for 11 years (yes, I started this novel at the age of 19, which happens to be my protagonist's age too, and only finished it at the beginning of 2009, when I was 28. ( Read more... )

I wrote journals while I travelled around the world with my dad in 1998, and again when I travelled solo on a 15-stop ticket in 2004. One year for NaNo I tried to write out my 1998 trip in 'book' form, and gave up after about 25k. I guess I got bored, even though I think I've got some great stories to tell. Homeless shelter at age 17 in San ( Read more... )

Mum and I are leaving this coming Tuesday for the U.S./Canada. Can't wait!!!

Meanwhile, time is dragging something fiiiieeerce.....

I am such a liar. I told someone the other day that I hadn't posted in here for about a year. Guess it just FELT like a year ( Read more... )

Go to your calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2005. Post the first line (or bit) of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review ( Read more... )

I wish I had been at D*con this year, though I guess I wouldn't have seen much of one of my dearest friends, Jafael, if I had been ;) She most definitely had better things to focus on *g ( Read more... )

Stolen from kartos. You take your LJ friends list and bold the names of people you have met in person:

aereidnas_rose, aju16, aka_mariabella, alaerien, alarwyn, alvyarin, amalthea82, annemieke_, aurelie, avalonshroud, ayachi, become_the_dove, blingblingsedai, celestia18, cerenashauna, chaineddove, charisalaslan, cleopatra_sedai, deespace, demiblonde, ( Read more... )

This one is a bit different in that it shows how many countries you would LIKE to visit:

( The mappage )

If you count Vienna, of which I saw little more than the airport and what I caught from the plane windows ;p And it isn't counting places I went as a baby, as I don't remember them and would have to ask mum which ones I went to. *g*

( Check out where I've been in Europe )

Haha, Katrinya posted some of these on her LJ, and I gave it a go too. This is my favourite out of the, erm, 3 that I saw:

everybody has asked why I'm leaving the goth community but the answer is simple: Some of you know who you are and why I'm leaving FOREVAR.

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*g*

Also...

( 'Merican Cities that fit me best! )